Quotes with life-affirming

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• The best mistake I ever made was believing that I was stupid. It was a childhood thing, but it played out big-time as an adult. It scorned me the rest of my life - in a good way.

  Barbara Corcoran
  American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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• The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

  Thornton Wilder
  American writer and playwright (1897 - 1975)
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• The best path through life is the highway.

  Henri-Frédéric Amiel
  Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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• The best portion of a good man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

  William Wordsworth
  English poet (1770 - 1850)
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• The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.

  Jeremy Taylor
  British churchman and writer (1613 - 1667)
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• The best thing in life aren't things.

  John Ruskin
  English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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• The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.

  Dorothy Day
   
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• The best things in life aren't things.

  Art Buchwald
  American humorist (1925 - 2007)
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• The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.

  Albert Ellis
  American psychologist (1913 - 2007)
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• The bigger the real-life problems, the greater the tendency for the discipline to retreat into a reassuring fantasy-land of abstract theory and technical manipulation.

  Tom Naylor
   
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• The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.
  

  Oprah Winfrey
  American TV host, Actress (1954 - )
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• The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

  Malcolm Forbes
  American businessman and publisher (Forbes Magazine) (1919 - 1990)
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• The biggest problem I see among people who want to excel in chess – and in business and in life in general – is not trusting their instincts enough.

  How Life Imitates Chess (2007) 96

  Garry Kasparov
  Russian chess grandmaster (1963 - )
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• The biggest thing we get out of it is seeing the kids smile. And hopefully we will also see that the lessons we're teaching - not only the fundamentals of hockey, but also the life values - are sinking in.

  Bobby Orr
  Canadian ice hockey player (1948 - )
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• The blind willingness to sacrifice people to truth, however, has always been the danger of an ethics abstracted from life.

  Carol Gilligan
  American feminist, ethicist and psychologist (1936 - )
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• The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.

  Richard Bach
  American author (1936 - )
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• The book really comes to life in the rewriting.

  Philip Roth
  American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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• The business of life is to enjoy oneself; everything else is a mockery.

  Norman Douglas
  British Author (1868 - 1952)
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• The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life - to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.

  Archibald Macleish
  American poet (1892 - 1982)
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• The cadence of life is slower in North Korea.

  Barbara Demick
  American journalist
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Subjects in these quotes:

• unremembered
• fantasy-land
• manipulation
• fundamentals
• willingness
• possibility

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