Quotes with life-affirming

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  • Carine Roitfeld People might think I'm very hard, what with my black make-up, my hair over my eyes, etc. My innocence didn't always help me, but it did preserve something in me that maybe others don't have anymore. I'm inside my bubble, you could say, and thankfully so, because I don't think daily life is always great. It protects me.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Caroline B. Cooney People nearly always believe, and are willing to back it up with weapons and cruelty, that their religion and way of life is better than the other person's.
    Caroline B. Cooney
    American author
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  • Andy Warhol People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly
    Andy Warhol
    American artist (1928 - 1987)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Bill Murray People only talk about what a joyous experience it is, but there is terror: Your life, as you know it, is over. It's over the day that child is born. It's over, and something completely new starts.
    Bill Murray
    American actor, comedian, and writer (1950 - )
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  • Logan Pearsall Smith People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Johann Gottfried Seume People should always have something which they prefer to life.
    Johann Gottfried Seume
    German writer (1763 - 1810)
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  • Andy Warhol People sometimes say that the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal. The movies make emotions look so strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it's like watching television - you don't feel anything.
    Andy Warhol
    American artist (1928 - 1987)
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  • Ben Foster People tell me I look angry. I thought my dad was mad at me his whole life, but it turns out that was just his mug - and I inherited it.
    Ben Foster
    American actor (1980 - )
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  • Carrie-Anne Moss People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.
    Carrie-Anne Moss
    Canadian actress (1967 - )
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  • Alice Walker People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Bobby Bowden People that are brilliant and successful, we think they've just always been that way. That's not the case. Most of them have had some tough adversity in their life. It's prepared them. I've never felt like you could develop character without adversity.
    Bobby Bowden
    American football coach (1929 - )
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  • Amy Tan People think it's a terrible tragedy when somebody has Alzheimer's. But in my mother's case, it's different. My mother has been unhappy all her life. For the first time in her life, she's happy.
    Amy Tan
    American author (1952 - )
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  • Ann Druyan People think that if you are a scientist you have to give up that joy of discovery, that passion, that sense of the great romance of life. I say that's completely opposite of the truth.
    Ann Druyan
    American writer (1949 - )
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  • Bo Bennett People who come from dysfunctional families are not destined for a dysfunctional life.
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    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Ben Elton People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.
    Ben Elton
    British-Australian comedian, author, playwright, actor and director (1959 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde People who love only once in their lives are shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Maxwell Maltz People who say that life is not worthwhile are really saying that they themselves have no personal goals which are worthwhile. Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project. Always have something ahead of you to ''look forward to'' - to work for and hope for.
    Maxwell Maltz
    American surgeon and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Raoul Vaneigem People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.
    Raoul Vaneigem
    Belgian philosopher (1934 - )
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