Life Crisis Quotes

• In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Life, Writing

  Speech in Indianapolis, Indiana, April 12, 1959.

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• The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word "crisis." One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Writing, Positive Thinking, Opportunity

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• Sooner or later comes a crisis in our affairs, and how we meet it determines our future happiness and success. Since the beginning of time, every form of life has been called upon to meet such crisis.

  Robert Collier

  Challenges, Future Happiness, Happiness And Success

  Robert Collier (2013). “Riches Within Your Reach”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

  Aristotle

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

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• Close scrutiny will show that most of these everyday socalled “crisis situations” are not life-or-death matters at all, but opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Wrestling, Opportunity, Growth

  "Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life".

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• Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.

  Norman Cousins

  Inspirational, Change, Men

  Norman Cousins (1953). “Who Speaks for Man?”, New York : Macmillan

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• In times of life crisis, whether wild fires or smoldering stress, the first thing I do is go back to basics... am I eating right, am I getting enough sleep, am I getting some physical and mental exercise everyday.

  Edward Albert

  Stress, Sleep, Exercise

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• While it may come as a profound surprise to those of us who are in the throes of an emotional or life crisis, the fact remains that the answer to virtually all of our problems resides within us already. It exist in the form of a vast reservoir of free-flowing energy that, when channeled to our muscles, can give us great strength and, when channeled to our brain, can give us great insight and understanding.

  Bruce Lee

  Emotional, Giving, Profound

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• Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The young old. The quarter-life crisis.

  Jill Lepore

  Marketing, Quarters, Stage

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• From the time I was a kid, I had a wanderlust. I always wanted to travel, in any form - plane, train, boat, car, motorcycle. So I think that if I ever do have a mid-life crisis, I have all the toys to refer to quickly.

  John Travolta

  Kids, Thinking, Car

  "Wild Hogs - John Travolta interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• When women are at the height of their beauty power and exercise it, we call it marriage. When men are at the height of their success power and exercise it, we call it a mid-life crisis.

  Warren Farrell

  Exercise, Men, Height

  "Why Men Are the Way They Are". Book by Warren Farrell, 1986.

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• ...our life crises tell us that we need to break free of beliefs that no longer serve our personal development.
  These points at which we must choose to change or to stagnate are our greatest challenges.
  Every new crossroads means we enter into a new cycle of change - whether it be adopting a new health regimen or a new spiritual practice.
  And change inevitably means letting go of familiar people and places and moving on to another stage of life.

  Caroline Myss

  Letting Go, Spiritual, Moving

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• What turns a work crisis into a life crisis is the infusion of dread.

  Lynda Obst

  Work, Trouble, Infusion

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• I feel prematurely old. I'm actually having this major belated quarter-life crisis. I'm turning 30 in a couple of weeks. I've been thinking a lot about mortality. A lot about what I'm going to do with my life and how to enjoy it. One of the things I'm going to work on is being more spontaneous, letting go, embracing the beauty of come-what-may.

  Chris Pine

  Letting Go, Couple, Thinking

  "Chris Pine in Details: 'I think I'll be more like ... the George Clooney'" by Sophia Savage, www.indiewire.com. October 19, 2010.

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• It's not a mid-life crisis. It's a mid-life disaster. A mid-life crisis is when you wake up with everything and you go "I have everything but I'm still unhappy."

  Tom Hanks

  Unhappy, Wake Up, Disaster

  "Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts LARRY CROWNE". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. June 28, 2011.

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• I totally relate to Tom Cruise. He's not crazy, it's just the litany of the mid-life crisis.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Crazy, Madness, Cruise

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• I began drinking alcohol at the age of thirteen and gave it up in my fifty sixth year; it was like going straight from puberty to a mid-life crisis.

  George Montgomery

  Drinking, Years, Alcohol

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• Here comes 40. I'm feeling my age and I've ordered the Ferrari. I'm going to get the whole mid-life crisis package.

  Keanu Reeves

  Car, Feelings, Age

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The mid-life crisis hits men harder than women.

  Sonia Johnson

  Men, Crisis, Harder

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• I ran for Congress not because I was having a mid-life crisis. I left the private sector because I saw a looming financial crisis that was coming to this country. It's unsustainable.

  Steve Daines

  Country, Saws, Financial

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• If you look weird, you can blame the role, you know? So no one's going to tell me I'm having a mid-life crisis.

  Luke Evans

  Roles, Looks, Blame

  Source: www.elle.com

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• The mid-life crisis is just those times when you're not so into the things you were when you were younger.

  Jay Kay

  Times Of Crisis, Crisis, Mid Life Crisis

  "Jay Kay: ‘Getting an award on Top Gear is better than getting a Grammy’". Interview with Mirror, www.mirror.co.uk. October 31, 2010.

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• [Newlyweds,] these optimistic young bastards, promise to honor and cherish each other through hot flashes and mid-life crises and a cumulative 50-pound weight gain, until that far-off day when one of them is finally able to rest in peace. You know, because they can't hear the snoring anymore.

  Jenna McCarthy

  Rest In Peace, Motivation, Inspiration

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• I wouldn't go back on my old days, though; everybody needs to have their wild years. It's just a question of when and I'd rather have had them early than be doing it as a mid-life crisis type thing.

  Rob Lowe

  Years, Needs, Type

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