Quotes with life-affirming

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  • Marilyn French One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.
    Marilyn French
    American radical feminist author (1929 - 2009)
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  • Sophocles One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.
    Sophocles
    Greek poet (496 - 406)
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  • Thomas Arnold One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful.
    Thomas Arnold
    English educator and historian (1795 - 1842)
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  • Simone de Beauvoir One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
    Simone de Beauvoir
    French writer and philosopher (1908 - 1986)
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  • Muriel Spark One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. You must then live it to the full.
    Muriel Spark
    British writer (1918 - 2006)
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  • Oscar Wilde One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bo Bennett One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing.
    Year to Success
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Carl von Clausewitz Only a fraction of book learning will seep into practical life anyhow; and the more foolish the theory, the less of it.
    On War (1832) Ch. 23
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Albert Einstein Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Jean Paul Only action gives life strength, only moderation gives it charm.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Novalis Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
    Novalis
    German poet and writer (ps. van Georg van Hardenberg) (1772 - 1801)
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  • Novalis Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
    Novalis
    German poet and writer (ps. van Georg van Hardenberg) (1772 - 1801)
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  • E. M. Forster Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is life to either, will die.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Carol Burnett Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
    Carol Burnett
    American actress, comedian, singer, and writer (1933 - )
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  • Joseph Conrad Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • E. M. Cioran Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimism. You become a pessimist - a demonic, elemental, bestial pessimist - only when life has been defeated many times in its fight against depression.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Alberto Giacometti Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.
    Alberto Giacometti
    Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker (1901 - 1966)
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  • Anthony Robbins Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • George Eliot Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Aeschylus Only when a man's life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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