Quotes with life-affirming

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  • Charles M. Schwab The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life.
    Charles M. Schwab
    American industrialist (1862 - 1939)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Virginia Woolf The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Oscar Wilde The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Cyril Northcote Parkinson The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.
    Cyril Northcote Parkinson
    British naval historian (1909 - 1993)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Carolyn Heilbrun The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.
    Carolyn Heilbrun
    American academic and author (1926 - 2003)
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  • C. Wright Mills The mass production of distraction is now as much a part of the American way of life as the mass production of automobiles.
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Carlos Gershenson The meaning of life does not depend on where one is standing, but on towards where one is heading.
    Original: El sentido de la vida depende no de donde se encuentre uno sino de adonde se dirija.
    Zire Notes May 2004 December 2006
    Carlos Gershenson
    Mexican author and academic (1978 - )
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  • Bruce Lee The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a pattern of systems.
    Striking Thoughts (2000)
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Corrie Ten Boom The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.
    Corrie Ten Boom
    Dutch-American resistance fighter and autobiographical writer (1892 - 1983)
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  • Charles Kingsley The men whom I have seen succeed best in life always have been cheerful and hopeful men; who went about their business with a smile on their faces; and took the changes and chances of this mortal life like men; facing rough and smooth alike as it came.
    Charles Kingsley
    British writer (1819 - 1875)
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  • William Bolitho The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.
    William Bolitho
    South African journalist, writer and biographer
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  • Elbert Hubbard The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Barbara de Angelis The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.
    Barbara de Angelis
    American relationship consultant, lecturer and author (1951 - )
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  • Haniel Long The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.
    Haniel Long
    American writer, poet, journalist (1888 - 1956)
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  • Albert Einstein The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Buddy DeSylva The moon belongs to everyone;
    The best things in life are free.
    The stars belong to everyone;
    They gleam there for you and me.
    Song: The Best Things in Life are Free
    Buddy DeSylva
    American songwriter and film producer (1895 - 1950)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo, the more he can remember the more divine his life becomes.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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