Quotes with life-affirming

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  • Buddy Wakefield This poem may have meant nothing to you but I am confident that tonight my taking the time to actually write out my anger instead of acting on it has saved the life of at least eleven people in parking enforcement.
    Poetry Flare Guns and Earthquakes
    Buddy Wakefield
    American poet and actor (1974 - )
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  • Virginia Woolf This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Matthew Arnold This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims.
    Matthew Arnold
    British critic and poet (1822 - 1888)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Those are dead even for this life who hope for no other.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Abbe Pierre Those seven years in the cloister were the key to my life.
    Abbe Pierre
    French Catholic priest (born Henri Grous) (1912 - 2007)
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  • Bob Geldof Those songs are about getting out; they're not about getting out of family. It wasn't about how family life was curtailing because I didn't know family life.
    Bob Geldof
    Irish singer-songwriter, author, political activist (1951 - )
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  • St. Thomas Aquinas Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.
    St. Thomas Aquinas
    Italian philosopher and theologian (1225 - 1274)
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  • Samuel Johnson Those who attain to any excellence commonly spend life in some single pursuit, for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Anais Nin Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Rachel Carson Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.
    Rachel Carson
    American marine biologist, author, and conservationist (1907 - 1964)
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  • Billy Joel Those who have expressed doubts and misgivings about their ability to live this kind of life shouldn't try, because being a musician is not something you chose to be, it is something you are.
    Billy Joel
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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  • Samuel Butler Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • E. M. Forster Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Bernard Malamud Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
    Bernard Malamud
    American novelist (1914 - 1986)
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  • Marcus Aurelius Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Sir Thomas Browne Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.
    Sir Thomas Browne
    British author, physician and philosopher (1605 - 1682)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville Though it is very important for man as an individual that his religion should be true, that is not the case for society. Society has nothing to fear or hope from another life; what is most important for it is not that all citizens profess the true religion but that they should profess religion.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Amos Bronson Alcott Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.
    Amos Bronson Alcott
    American educator and social reformer (1799 - 1888)
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  • Buddha Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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