Monotonous Life Quotes

• The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

  Albert Einstein

  Being Alone, Creativity, Quiet Moments

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• ...there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

  Christopher McCandless

  Adventure, Adventurous Life, New Experiences

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• Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupation is exhilarating and life giving.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Nature, Law

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.76, Courier Corporation

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• So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future.

  Christopher McCandless

  Men, Reality, Adventurous Life

  Letter to Russell Fritz (as known as Ron Franz), April 1992.

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• But in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure.

  Christopher McCandless

  Adventure, Passion, Reality

  Letter to Russell Fritz (as known as Ron Franz), April 1992.

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• Where life is colorful and varied, religion can be austere or unimportant. Where life is appallingly monotonous, religion must be emotional, dramatic and intense. Without the curry, boiled rice can be very dull.

  C. Northcote Parkinson

  Life, Emotional, Religion

  C NORTHCOTE PARKINSON (1965). “EAST AND WEST”

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• So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon,for each day to have a new and different sun.

  Aron Ralston

  Passion, Adventure, Reality

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• The routines of tourism are even more monotonous than those of daily life.

  Mason Cooley

  Travel, Tourism, Daily Life

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• Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.

  B. C. Forbes

  Life, Golf, Hazards

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• So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation.

  Christopher McCandless

  Adventurous Life, New Experiences, People

  In a letter to Russell Fritz (as known as Ron Franz), April 1992.

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• The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

  Christopher McCandless

  Life, Motivational, Travel

  Letter to Russell Fritz, April 1992.

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• My life is very monotonous," the fox said. "I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And, in consequence, I am a little bored.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Men, Wheat Fields, Bored

  Antoine De Saint-Exupery (2015). “The Little Prince: "Illustrated Edition"”, p.86, eKitap Projesi

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• Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Truth

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2013). “The first and last freedom”, p.402, Rajpal & Sons

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• The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure.

  Christopher McCandless

  Adventure, Passion, Men

  In a letter to Russell Fritz (as known as Ron Franz), April 1992 in "Back to the Wild" by Chris McCandless and Mary Ellen Barnes, (2nd ed.), Twin Star Press, (pp. 135-137), 2013.

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• Time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart.

  Michael Ende

  Heart, Humans, Saving Time

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• Learn From Yesterday, Live for Today, hope for tomorrow.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Cute, Positive, Leadership

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• So that the monotonous fall of the waves on the beach, which for the most part beat a measured and soothing tattoo to her thoughts seemed consolingly to repeat over and over again.

  Virginia Woolf

  Tattoo, Beach, Ocean

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “To the Lighthouse”, p.15, Virginia Woolf

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• Learn from yesterday, live for today.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, New Year, Hope

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• People never seemed to notice that, by saving time, they were losing something else. No one cared to admit that life was becoming ever poorer, bleaker and more monotonous. The ones who felt this most keenly were the children, because no one had time for them any more. But time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart. And the more people saved, the less they had.

  Michael Ende

  Children, Heart, People

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• To be angry once in a while is really good fun, because it makes others so miserable. But to be angry morning, noon and night, as I am, grows monotonous and prevents my gaining any other pleasure in life.

  L. Frank Baum

  Morning, Fun, Night

  L. Frank Baum (2008). “7 Books in 1: L. Frank Baum's "Oz" Series, Volume 1 of 2. the Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the Marvelous Land of Oz, Ozma of Oz, Dorothy”, p.533, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• The truth of Zen, just a little bit of it, is what turns one's humdrum life, a life of monotonous, uninspiring commonplaceness, into one of art, full of genuine inner creativity.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Life, Art, Truth

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• I love the smell of Waffle House; it's the smell of freedom, being on the open road and knowing that ninety percent of the people eating around you are also on that road. Truck driver's, road-trippers, hangovers--those who don't live that monotonous life of society slavery.

  J.A. Redmerski

  Hangover, Smell, Knowing

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• The way not to lead a monotonous life is to live for others.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Live For Others, Way, Life Is

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• But the monotonous life led by invalids often makes them like children, inasmuch as thy have neither of them any sense of proportion in events, and seem each to believe that the walls and curtains which shut in their world, and shut out everything else, must of necessity be larger than anything hidden beyond.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Children, Wall, Believe

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2012). “Norte e Sul: North and South: Edição bilíngue português - inglês”, p.641, Editora Landmark LTDA

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• I was a stray acquaintance whom he had never seem before and would never see again, a wandered for a moment through his monotonous life, and some starved impulse left him to lay bare his soul. I have in this way learned more about men in a night than I could if I had known them for 10 years. If you are interested in human nature, it is one of the greatest pleasures of travel.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Life, Night, Men

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