Quotes with life-affirming

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  • Primo Levi The aims of life are the best defense against death.
    Primo Levi
    Italian chemist, author (1919 - 1987)
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  • Oscar Wilde The American father is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once a month by means of a telegram in cipher.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Albert Einstein The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • C. L. R. James The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.
    C. L. R. James
    Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist (1901 - 1989)
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  • Bruce Lee The aphorism as a man thinketh in his heart so is he contains the secret of life.
    Striking Thoughts (2000) p. 4; Lee here quotes Proverbs 23:7 As he thinketh
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Wyndham Lewis The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish use of superlatives, that no standard of value whatever is intact.
    Wyndham Lewis
    British painter and author (1882 - 1957)
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  • Gloria Steinem The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Thomas Jefferson The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Paul Klee The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.
    Paul Klee
    Swiss artist (1879 - 1940)
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  • W. Edward Brown The artist has one function - to affirm and glorify life.
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  • Henry Miller The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe; he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Anatole France The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Calvin Trillin The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - they have preservatives.
    Calvin Trillin
    American journalist, humorist, food writer and poet (1935 - )
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  • Buzz Osborne The band that changed my life was The Who. It's hard to pick just one album, but if I had to pick the one that really showed me how things could be done, it's 'The Who Sell Out.' They really went to town on that, doing something that no one had ever done before.
    Buzz Osborne
    American guitarist, vocalist and songwriter (1964 - )
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  • Samuel Smiles The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • George Harrison The Beatles exist apart from my Self. I am not really Beatle George. Beatle George is like a suit or shirt that I once wore on occasion and until the end of my life people may see that shirt and mistake it for me.
    George Harrison
    English musician, singer and songwriter (1943 - 2001)
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  • George Eliot The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • William James The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Bob Moawad The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours - it is an amazing journey - and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.
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  • Carl Lewis The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.
    Carl Lewis
    American athlete (1961 - )
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