Quotes with life-affirming

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  • Calvin Trillin The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
    Calvin Trillin
    American journalist, humorist, food writer and poet (1935 - )
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  • Juvenal The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.
    Juvenal
    Roman poet
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  • William Bolitho The shortest way out of Manchester is notoriously a bottle of Gordon's gin; out of any businessman's life there is the mirage of Paris; out of Paris, or mediocrity of talent and imagination, there are all the drugs, from subtle, all-conquering opium to cheating, cozening cocaine.
    William Bolitho
    South African journalist, writer and biographer
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  • Barry Ritholtz The simple reality of life is that everyone is wrong on a regular basis. By confronting these inevitable errors, you allow yourself to make corrections before it is too late.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Ernest Renan The simplest school boy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
    Ernest Renan
    French writer and critic (1823 - 1892)
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  • Peace Pilgrim The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.
    Peace Pilgrim
    American activist, mystic and pacifist
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  • Iris Murdoch The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Buzz Aldrin The society of life on Mars, or the challenge of making Mars more livable, will have significant benefits on our attempts to modify and change in some ways the environment here on Earth.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence The source of all life and knowledge is in man and woman, and the source of all living is in the interchange and the meeting and mingling of these two: man-life and woman-life, man-knowledge and woman-knowledge, man-being and woman-being.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Harold Clurman The stage is life, music, beautiful girls, legs, breasts, not talk or intellectualism or dried-up academics.
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  • Oscar Wilde The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Aravind Adiga The story of a poor man's life is written on his body, in a sharp pen.
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    Aravind Adiga
    Indo-Australian writer and journalist (1974 - )
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  • Abe Fortas The story of man is the history, first, of the acceptance and imposition of restraints necessary to permit communal life; and second, of the emancipation of the individual within that system of necessary restraints.
    Abe Fortas
    American lawyer and jurist (1910 - 1982)
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  • Aung San Suu Kyi The struggle for democracy and human rights in Burma is a struggle for life and dignity. It is a struggle that encompasses our political, social and economic aspirations.
    Aung San Suu Kyi
    Burmese politician (1945 - )
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  • Alice James The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.
    Alice James
    American diarist (1848 - 1892)
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  • Ben Stein The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Harriet Martineau The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.
    Harriet Martineau
    British writer, social criticus (1802 - 1876)
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  • Arthur Rimbaud The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
    Arthur Rimbaud
    French poet (1854 - 1891)
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