Quotes with life-affirming

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  • Clark Gable The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great - and they know I know it.
    Clark Gable
    American actor (1901 - 1960)
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  • Milan Kundera The only relationship that can make both partners happy is one in which sentimentality has no place and neither partner makes any claim on the life and freedom of the other.
    De ondraaglijke lichtheid van het bestaan (1984)
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Thomas Mann The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.
    Thomas Mann
    German author, critic and Nobel laureate in literature (1929) (1875 - 1955)
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  • Bryce Courtenay The only thing I can say that is wonderful about my mother is she forced me to learn three verses of the Bible every day of my life, and I've read the Bible now five times and it taught me the English language.
    Bryce Courtenay
    South African-Australian advertising director and novelist (1933 - 2012)
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  • Richard M. DeVos The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
    Richard M. DeVos
    American businessman, co-founder of Amway Corp. (1926 - 2018)
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  • Ansel Adams The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.
    Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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  • Stephen Vizinczey The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he comes to life in our imaginations, he passes the test.
    Stephen Vizinczey
    Hungarian writer and critic (1933 - 2021)
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  • Henry David Thoreau The only wealth is life.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Elie Wiesel The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Peter Ackroyd The ordinary routines of life are never chronicled by the historian, but they make up almost the whole of experience.
    Foundation: The History of England (2011) 47
    Peter Ackroyd
    English biographer, novelist and critic (1949 - )
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  • Abraham Cahan The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life.
    Abraham Cahan
    Belarusian-born Jewish American socialist newspaper editor, novelist, and politician
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  • Benjamin N. Cardozo The outstanding truths of life, the great and unquestioned phenomena of society, are not to be argued away as myths and vagaries when they do not fit within our little moulds. If necessary, we must remake the moulds.
    Benjamin N. Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Javan The pain we feel When someone leaves our life is in direct proportion to the joy they bring while a part of our life for a few moments. In my life you made me feel as if I truly meant something to someone
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  • Jackson Pollock The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.
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  • Søren Kierkegaard The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Bruce Springsteen The past is never the past. It is always present. And you better reckon with it in your life and in your daily experience, or it will get you. It will get you really bad.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Billy Ray Cyrus The people at the record company had asked me if I could write a song about my life, my relationship with God, and where I'm from. Well, I can't write a song on purpose, my songs come in a moment of inspiration or desperation.
    Billy Ray Cyrus
    American singer-songwriter and actor (1961 - )
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  • Epictetus The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Bruce Dern The people I worked with were bigger than life. Once you put them on the screen, they were huge.
    Bruce Dern
    American actor (1936 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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