Quotes with life-affirming

Quotes 2961 till 2980 of 4242.

  • Pliny the Elder The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
    Pliny the Elder
    Roman author, naturalist and natural (23 - 79)
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  • Denis Waitley The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Georges Bataille The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.
    Georges Bataille
    French writer and critic (1897 - 1962)
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  • Karl Kraus The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Ben Shapiro The European style of living is seductive: fewer hours worked, more hours at the cafe, less concern over self-betterment. But that style of living does not produce a purposeful life.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Joseph A. Schumpeter The evolution of the capitalist style of life could be easily - and perhaps most tellingly - described in terms of the genesis of the modern Lounge Suit.
    Joseph A. Schumpeter
    Austrian-American economist (1883 - 1950)
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  • Confucius The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Samuel Smiles The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Anita Hill The experience of testifying and the aftermath have changed my life.
    Anita Hill
    American lawyer and academic (1956 - )
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  • E. M. Cioran The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Joan Didion The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers.
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Kabbalah The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.
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  • Kurt Vonnegut The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: ''he wasn't going to compose Beethoven's Fifth.''
    Kurt Vonnegut
    American writer (1922 - 2007)
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  • Oscar Wilde The first duty of life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one as yet discovered.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Mark Twain The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Clarence Darrow The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
    Clarence Darrow
    American Lawyer (1857 - 1938)
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  • Ken Blanchard The first principle of ethical power is Purpose. By purpose, I don't mean your objective or intention-something toward which you are always striving. Purpose is something bigger. It is the picture you have of yourself-the kind of person you want to be or the kind of life you want to lead.
    Ken Blanchard
    American writer
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  • Pablo Casals The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.
    Pablo Casals
    Spanish-Catalan composer and conductor (1876 - 1973)
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  • Margaret Oliphant The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.
    Margaret Oliphant
    British writer, historian (1828 - 1897)
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