Quotes with life-affirming

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  • George Orwell One of the effects of a safe and civilized life is an immense oversensitiveness which makes all the primary emotions somewhat disgusting. Generosity is as painful as meanness, gratitude as hateful as ingratitude.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Abraham H. Maslow One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
    Motivation and Personality (1954) p. 255.
    Abraham H. Maslow
    American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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  • Bob Richards One of the great lessons I've learned in athletics is that you've got to discipline your life. No matter how good you may be, you've got to be willing to cut out of your life those things that keep you from going to the top.
    Bob Richards
    American athlete (1926 - )
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  • Ziad K. Abdelnour One of the hardest decisions you'll ever face in life is choosing whether to walk away or try harder.
    Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
    Ziad K. Abdelnour
    American banker (1960 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Agatha Christie One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • George Herbert Allen One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.
    George Herbert Allen
    American football coach (1918 - 1990)
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  • Bryant H. McGill One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single thing you are taught.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • L. van der Post One of the most moving aspects of life is how long the deepest memories stay with us.
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  • Maxwell Maltz One of the reasons it has seemed so difficult for a person to change his habits, his personality, or his way of life, has been that heretofore nearly all efforts at change have been directed to the circumference of the self, so to speak, rather than to the center.
    Maxwell Maltz
    American surgeon and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Robert A. Heinlein One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
    Robert A. Heinlein
    American science fiction writer (1907 - 1988)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • William Lyon Phelps One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.
    William Lyon Phelps
    American author, critic and scholar (1865 - 1943)
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  • Finley Peter Dunne One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.
    Finley Peter Dunne
    American Journalist, Humorist (1867 - 1936)
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  • Albert Einstein One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Malcolm Muggeridge One of the stupidest theories of Western life.
    Malcolm Muggeridge
    British Broadcaster (1903 - 1990)
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  • Bill Ford One of the things I've had the advantage of, growing up and being close to the top management of this company and other companies for most of my life, is seeing how CEOs start to believe in their own infallibility. And that really scares me.
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  • Danny Mcgoorty One of the worst things that can happen to you in life is to win a bet on a horse at an early age.
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  • Anthony Robbins One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley One seventh of your life is spent on Monday.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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