Quotes with life-affirming

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  • Bell Hooks ...there is an element of Play that is almost ritualistic in Black folk life. It serves to mediate the tensions, stress, and pain of constant exploitation and oppression.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Francis Bacon A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Henry Miller A book is a part of life, a manifestation of life, just as much as a tree or a horse or a star. It obeys its own rhythms, its own laws, whether it be a novel, a play, or a diary. The deep, hidden rhythm of life is always there - that of the pulse, the heart beat.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Carter Burwell A carefree quality is a whole aspect of life that I will never understand. I don't think I have ever been carefree and can't see the pleasure of it.
    Carter Burwell
    American composer of film scores (1954 - )
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  • Bernard Berenson A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the not-self that there is no self left to die.
    Bernard Berenson
    American art historian (1865 - 1959)
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein A confession has to be part of your new life.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • Kofi Annan A developed country is one that allows all its citizens to enjoy a free and healthy life in a safe environment.
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.
    The Complete Sherlock Holmes (2013) 1117
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Albert Einstein A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Erasmus Darwin A fool... is a man who never tried an experiment in his life.
    Letter (1792)
    Erasmus Darwin
    English physician, grandfather of Charles Darwin (1731 - 1802)
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  • Samuel Butler A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer of any kind.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • John Milton A good book is the precious life-blood of the master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Ann Plato A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be.
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  • Christopher Hampton A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate
    Christopher Hampton
    British playwright (1946 - )
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  • Walter Bagehot A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Bertrand Russell A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.
    The Conquest of Happiness
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Andrew Matthews A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.
    Andrew Matthews
    Australian speaker and author of self-help books (1957 - )
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  • Joseph Campbell A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
    Joseph Campbell
    American mythologist (1904 - 1987)
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  • Bill Moyers A journalist is basically a chronicler, not an interpreter of events. Where else in society do you have the license to eavesdrop on so many different conversations as you have in journalism? Where else can you delve into the life of our times?
    Bill Moyers
    American journalist (1934 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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