Quotes with life-affirming

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  • Robert Herrick The person lives twice who lives the first life well.
    Robert Herrick
    English lyric poet and cleric (1591 - 1674)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Charles M. Schwab The person who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor to find much fun in life.
    Charles M. Schwab
    American industrialist (1862 - 1939)
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  • Anais Nin The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller The physical is inherently entropic, giving off energy in ever more disorderly ways. The metaphysical is antientropic, methodically marshalling energy. Life is antientropic. It is spontaneously inquisitive. It sorts out and endeavors to understand.
    Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Dame Edith Sitwell The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
    Dame Edith Sitwell
    British poet (1887 - 1964)
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  • Al Franken The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life.
    Al Franken
    American comedian, politician and author (1951 - )
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  • Barbara Deming The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now.
    Barbara Deming
    American feminist and advocate (0 - 1984)
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  • Lord George Byron The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Jean-Paul Sartre The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    French writer, philosopher and Nobel laureate in literature (1964) (1905 - 1980)
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  • Agatha Christie The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • Carlos Fuentes The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative life of the 21st century.
    Carlos Fuentes
    Mexican novelist and essayist (1928 - 2012)
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  • C. J. Mahaney The presence of any humility in my life is purely and completely an evidence of God's grace. From my perspective, I am not a humble man. I am a proud man pursuing humility by the grace of God.
    C. J. Mahaney
    American Christian minister (1953 - )
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  • J. Clare The present is the funeral of the past, and man the living sepulchre of life.
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  • Arthur Middleton The priest is Christ's slave, and Christ himself took the form of a slave and became obedient to death. So the priest in serving human needs lives a Godward life, possessed by God and witnessing that only when lives are utterly possessed by God do they find their true freedom.
    Arthur Middleton
    American politician (1742 - 1787)
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  • Anthony Holden The Princess's so-called 'time and space speech' at the end of '93 about a year after the formal separation, looking back on it it's called her retirement from public life but we've seen in fact it's nothing of the kind.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Bayard Rustin The principal factors which influenced my life are 1) nonviolent tactics; 2) constitutional means; 3) democratic procedures; 4) respect for human personality; 5) a belief that all people are one.
    Bayard Rustin
    American activist (1912 - 1987)
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  • Barry Cornwall The progress from infancy to boyhood is imperceptible. In that long dawn of the mind we take but little heed. The years pass by us, one by one, little distinguishable from each other. But when the intellectual sun of our life is risen, we take due note of joy and sorrow.
    Barry Cornwall
    English poet (pen name of Bryan Procter) (1787 - 1874)
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  • Arthur Koestler The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life.
    Arthur Koestler
    Hungarian Born British Writer (1905 - 1983)
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  • Kenneth Hare The puritan through life's sweet garden goes to pluck the thorn and cast away the rose.
    Kenneth Hare
    Canadian scientist and naturalist (1919 - 2002)
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