Quotes with life-affirming

Quotes 3301 till 3320 of 4242.

  • Norman Cousins The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.
    Norman Cousins
    American Editor, Humanitarian, Author (1915 - 1990)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Heywood Brown The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
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  • Benjamin E. Mays The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities.
    Benjamin E. Mays
    American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1894 - 1984)
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  • Dhammapada The traveler has reached the end of the journey! In the freedom of the infinite he is free from all sorrows, the fetters that bound him are thrown away, and the burning fever of life is no more.
    Dhammapada
    collection of sayings of the Buddha in verse form
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  • Gerard De Nerval The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.
    Gerard De Nerval
    French writer, poet (1808 - 1855)
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  • Philip K. Dick The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and when you are finished what you know is that you would have benefited more by going into banking.
    Philip K. Dick
    American science fiction writer (1928 - 1982)
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  • John Barrymore The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
    John Barrymore
    American actor (1882 - 1942)
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  • Iain Banks The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't.
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    Iain Banks
    Scottish author (1954 - 2013)
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  • Alice Meynell The true color of life is the color of the body, the color of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the living heart and the pulses. It is the modest color of the unpublished blood.
    Alice Meynell
    British poet, writer (1847 - 1922)
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  • Don DeLillo The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever.
    Point Omega (2010) 17
    Don DeLillo
    American Author (1936 - )
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  • John Lyly The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.
    John Lyly
    English writer, poet, dramatist, and courtier (1553 - 1606)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Anthony Trollope The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Smiley Blanton The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.
    Smiley Blanton
    American psychoanalyst (1882 - 1966)
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  • Vance Palmer The truth is that literature, particularly fiction, is not the pure medium we sometimes assume it to be. Response to it is affected by things other than its own intrinsic quality; by a curiosity or lack of it about the people it deals with, their outlook, their way of life.
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  • Arthur C. Brooks The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others.
    Arthur C. Brooks
    American social scientist and musician (1964 - )
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  • Carly Fiorina The truth is, I'm proud of the life I've lived so far, and although I've made my share of mistakes, I have no regrets.
    Carly Fiorina
    American businesswoman and political (1954 - )
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  • Carly Fiorina The truth is, I'm proud of the life I've lived so far, and though I've made my share of mistakes, I have no regrets.
    Carly Fiorina
    American businesswoman and political (1954 - )
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  • Brooke Burke The truth is, if anyone saw my home life, I'm pretty sure it would look like other families' around the world. There's a lot of juggling to be done.
    Brooke Burke
    American actress, dancer, model (1971 - )
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