Quotes with life-affirming

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  • Billy Graham Scripture is filled with examples of men and women whom God used late in life, often with great impact - men and women who refused to use old age as an excuse to ignore what God wanted them to do.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Adelaide Anne Procter Seated one day at the organ, I was weary and ill at ease, and my fingers wandered idly over the noisy keys. It seemed the harmonious echo from our discordant life.
    Adelaide Anne Procter
    English poet and philanthropist (1825 - 1864)
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  • Germaine Greer Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Henry Ward Beecher See that each hour's feelings, and thoughts and actions are pure and true; then your life will be also.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Anne Cassidy Seeing to it that a youngster grows up believing not just in the here and now but also in the grand maybes of life guarantees that some small yet crucial part of him remains forever a child.
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  • Alexander Maclaren Seek to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.
    Alexander Maclaren
    British preacher (1826 - 1910)
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  • Kahlil Gibran Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Florence King Self-help books are making life downright unsafe. Women desperate to catch a man practice all the ploys recommended by these authors. Bump into him, trip over him, knock him down, spill something on him, scald him, but meet him.
    Florence King
    American Author, Critic (1936 - 2016)
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  • Charles Lamb Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.
    Charles Lamb
    English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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  • Bill Frist September 11 impressed upon us that life is a precious gift. Every life has a purpose. And I think we all have a duty to devote at least a small portion of our daily lives to ensuring that neither America nor the world ever forgets September 11.
    Bill Frist
    American physician, businessman and politician (1952 - )
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  • Bryan Greenberg Seriously, my music really does help my acting, and, like, getting in and out of a character from a different lifestyle and writing a song about it. Likewise, my acting inspires the music because I can write a theme that I wouldn't necessarily approach at all in life.
    Bryan Greenberg
    American actor and singer (1978 - )
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  • Marian Wright Edelman Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.
    Marian Wright Edelman
    American activist for children's rights (1939 - )
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  • Leonard Cohen Seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled that we slowly lose the gift of speech with animals, that birds no longer visit our windowsills to converse. As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
    Leonard Cohen
    Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer (1934 - 2016)
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  • Gore Vidal Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Alex Trebek Sex? Unfortunately, as you get older - and I shouldn't admit this - there are other things that become more important in your daily life.
    Alex Trebek
    Canadian-American television personality and actor (1940 - )
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  • Bjornstjerne Bjornson Shakespeare's plays were a great Teutonic Valhalla with brilliant sunshine at times and violent tempests at others. The world to him was a battlefield, but his sense of poetic justice, his sublime faith in life and its infinite resources, guided the battles.
    Bjornstjerne Bjornson
    Norwegian writer (1832 - 1910)
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  • Sir James Matthew Barrie Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.
    Sir James Matthew Barrie
    British playwright (1860 - 1937)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Bruce Springsteen She went away, she cut me like a knife
    Hello beautiful thing, maybe you could save my life
    In just a glance, down here on magic street
    Loves a fool's dance
    And I ain't got much sense, but I still got my feet.
    Magic (2007) Girls in Their Summer Clothes
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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