Quotes with life-affirming

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  • Walt Disney There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates loot on Treasure Island and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.
    Walt Disney
    American producer (1901 - 1966)
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  • Thomas Hobbes There is no action of man in this life which is not the beginning of so long a chain of consequences, as that no human providence is high enough to give us a prospect to the end.
    Leviathan ch. 31
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne There is no course of life so weak and Scottish as that which is ordered by orders, method, and discipline.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • George Santayana There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome -to be got over.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Ben Carson There is no fulfillment in things whatsoever. And I think one of the reasons that depression reigns supreme amongst the rich and famous is some of them thought that maybe those things would bring them happiness. But what, in fact, does is having a cause, having a passion. And that's really what gives life's true meaning.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Don G. Mitchell There is no genius in life like the genius of energy and industry.
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  • Mark Twain There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought - a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • W. M. Thackeray There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • Henri-Louis Bergson There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
    Henri-Louis Bergson
    French philosopher and Nobel Prize winner in Literature (1927) (1859 - 1941)
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  • Aldous Huxley There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a vicious life is a life of uninterrupted pleasure.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Peter Ackroyd There is no humiliation worse than the consciousness of a wasted life. It stains the spirit, forestalls hope, and destroys any motive for action or change.
    Peter Ackroyd
    English biographer, novelist and critic (1949 - )
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  • William Allen White There is no insanity so devastating in man's life as utter sanity.
    William Allen White
    American editor, writer (1868 - 1944)
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  • Billie Jean King There is no life for girls in team sports past Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this, and because I thought golf would be too slow for me, and I was too scared to swim.
    Billie Jean
    Billie Jean King
    American tennis player (1943 - )
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  • Bell Hooks There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Erich Fromm There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by unfolding of his powers.
    Erich Fromm
    German - American philosopher and psychologist (1900 - 1980)
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  • Henry David Thoreau There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Jiddu Krishnamurti There is no need to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.
    Jiddu Krishnamurti
    Indian theosophist (1895 - 1986)
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  • Charles De Montesquieu There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
    Charles De Montesquieu
    French philosopher (1689 - 1755)
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