Quotes with life-affirming

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  • Federico Fellini Making movies is my vacation. All the rest - the traveling about to premiers, the social life, the endless arguments with producers who don't understand me - that is the work.
    Federico Fellini
    Italian film director (1920 - 1993)
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  • Nicolas Chamfort Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • William James Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Aristotle Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Aldous Huxley Man is an amphibian who lives simultaneously in two worlds-the given and the home-made, the world of matter, life and consciousness and the world of symbols.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Cat Stevens Man is created to be God's deputy on earth and it is important to realize the obligation to rid ourselves of all illusions and to make our lives a preparation for the next life.
    Cat Stevens
    British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1948 - )
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  • Eric Hoffer Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a search for a plot and a pattern in the development of his life story - a story that is basically without meaning or pattern.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt Man is more disposed to domination than freedom; and a structure of dominion not only gladdens the eye of the master who rears and protects it, but even its servants are uplifted by the thought that they are members of a whole, which rises high above the life and strength of single generations.
    Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
    German statesman (1767 - 1835)
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  • Menander of Athens Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.
    Menander of Athens
    Greek dramati poet (342 - 291)
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  • Antoine Rivarol Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.
    Antoine Rivarol
    French journalist (1753 - 1801)
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  • Eric Hoffer Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved by his appetites, whispered to by fears, beckoned by hopes. Small wonder that what he craves most is self-forgetting.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Baltasar Gracian Man's life is a warfare against the malice of men.
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Bishop Joseph Henshaw Man's life is like unto a winter's day, Some break their fast and so depart away, Others stay dinner then depart full fed; The longest age but sups and goes to bed. Oh, reader, then behold and see, As we are now so must you be.
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  • Lord George Byron Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Erich Fromm Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.
    Erich Fromm
    German - American philosopher and psychologist (1900 - 1980)
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  • Lord George Byron Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Maurice Maeterlinck Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.
    Maurice Maeterlinck
    Belgian poet, playwright and Nobel Prize winner (1911) (1862 - 1949)
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  • Bruce Barton Many a man who pays rent all his life owns his own home; and many a family has successfully saved for a home only to find itself at last with nothing but a house.
    Bruce Barton
    American Author, Advertising Executive (1886 - 1967)
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  • Ben Bernanke Many foreclosed homes are neglected or abandoned, as legal proceedings or other factors delay their resale. Deteriorating or vacant properties can, in turn, directly affect the quality of life in a neighborhood, for example, by leading to increases in vandalism or crime.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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