Quotes with life-affirming

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  • Bill Shankly Some people believe that football is a matter of life and death. I'm very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much more important than that.
    Bill Shankly
    Scottish football player and manager (1913 - )
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  • Olive Schreiner Some people dare not feel fully, all life must be a long self-repression.
    Olive Schreiner
    South African author and anti-war campaigner (1855 - 1920)
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  • Barbara Bush Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life's blood... but everyone has something to give.
    Barbara Bush
    American First Lady (1925 - 2018)
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  • Bode Miller Some people say I make mistakes, I just say that in fact this is the secret of enjoying life. I hate monotony. Why don't they leave me freedom of choice? People want to impose choices which aren't necessarily mine. That's the mistake people make.
    Interview with Gazzetta dello Sport, 16 Feb. 2006 [1]
    Bode Miller
    American former World Cup alpine ski racer (1977 - )
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  • Burning Spear Some people see life as many steps up and try to forget where they are coming from, you understand? A little step in life on a commercial or a material level is a good step, but a big step does not mean a strong step - you tend to lose your roots - and if you don't be careful, you can fall.
    Burning Spear
    Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter, vocalist and musician (1945 - )
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  • Bill Shankly Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that.
    In Sunday Times (UK) Oct. 4 1981
    Bill Shankly
    Scottish football player and manager (1913 - )
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  • Bill Flores Someday, somehow, the leadership of Planned Parenthood will have to answer for their callous disregard of the sanctity of human life. In the meantime, I am relieved that the Bryan abortion facility has gone out of business.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Bella Freud Somehow, stars have a lot of class if they are done right; they never have a shelf life.
    Bella Freud
    British fashion designer (1961 - )
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  • Plutarch Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, ''There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.''
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Bruno Mars Someone told me something that stuck with me: 'You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.' I've been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I'm just backtracking and trying to get back up there.
    Bruno Mars
    American singer, songwriter, record producer and dancer (1985 - )
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  • William Feather Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.
    William Feather
    American writer, businessman (1889 - 1981)
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  • Salman Rushdie Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet...Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Carmen Busquets Sometimes I make it to parties and sometimes I don't. Social life is always something you can go back to.
    Carmen Busquets
    Venezuelan entrepreneur, philanthropist and investor (1965 - )
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  • Ben Harper Sometimes I may be totally arrogant, sometimes I may totally be the most humble guy you've ever met, sometimes I may be in between. But that's life. Who isn't like that? What's the big deal if I had an arrogant moment.
    Ben Harper
    American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1969 - )
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  • Brenda Ueland Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two.
    Brenda Ueland
    American journalist, editor, and teacher
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  • Vaclav Havel Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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  • Carl Honore Sometimes it takes a wake-up call, doesn't it, to alert us to the fact that we're hurrying through our lives instead of actually living them; that we're living the fast life instead of the good life. And I think, for many people, that wake-up call takes the form of an illness.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Brooke Elliott Sometimes someone that is the 'villain' in your life, when you look deeper and you think of what their issues are and why they behave like that and where they came from - they become less of a villain and more of someone that you can understand.
    Brooke Elliott
    American actress and singer (1974 - )
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  • James Dillet Freeman Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.
    James Dillet Freeman
    American poet and preacher (1912 - 2003)
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  • Adam Duritz Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.
    Adam Duritz
    American musician and record producer (1964 - )
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