Quotes with life-affirming

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  • Douglas Murray Mcgregor TRUST: I know that you will not - deliberately or accidentally, consciously or unconsciously - take unfair advantage of me. I can put my situation at the moment, my status and self-esteem in this group, our relationship, my job, my career, even my life, in your hands with complete confidence.
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  • Pearl S. Buck Truth is always exciting. Speak it then. Life is dull without it.
    Pearl S. Buck
    American novelist (1892 - 1973)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and life.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • C. S. Lewis Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself.
    The Problem of Pain (1940)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Bryan Adams Trying to manage diabetes is hard because if you don't, there are consequences you'll have to deal with later in life.
    Bryan Adams
    Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer and guitarist (1959 - )
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  • Confucius Tsze-Kung asked, saying, is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life?'' The Master said, ''Is not Reciprocity such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Ramsay Clark Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
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  • Beilby Porteus Twas not enough By subtle fraud to snatch a single life; Puny impiety! whole kingdoms fell To sate the lust of power: more horrid still, The foulest stain and scandal of our nature, Became its boast. One murder made a villain; Millions a hero.
    Beilby Porteus
    English Bishop and reformer (1731 - 1809)
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  • Robert Frost Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Frederick W. Robertson Two thousand years ago there was One here on this earth who lived the grandest life that ever has been lived yet -a life that every thinking man, with deeper or shallower meaning, has agreed to call divine.
    Frederick W. Robertson
    English divine (1816 - 1853)
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  • Bill Mollison Type 1 Error: When we settle into wilderness, we are in conflict with so many life forms that we have to destroy them to exist. Keep out of the bush. It is already in good order.
    Permaculture: A Designers Manual chapter 3.10
    Bill Mollison
    Australian author, teacher and biologist (1928 - 2016)
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  • Alexander Herzen Unaware of the absurdity of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the economy of the universe for which the life of generations, peoples, of entire planets, has no importance in relation to the general development.
    Alexander Herzen
    Russian journalist and political thinker (1812 - 1870)
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  • William Congreve Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life.
    William Congreve
    British Dramatist (1670 - 1729)
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  • R. I. Fitzhenry Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.
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  • Henry James Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Ben Jonson Underneath this stone doth lie
    As much beauty as could die;
    Which in life did harbor give
    To more virtue than doth live.
    The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio CXXIV, Epitaph on Elizabeth, Lady H—, lines 3-6.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Bobby Vinton Unfortunately, a lot of people are stupid. They take drugs. They get drunk and do all the wrong things in life. I just played it straight.
    Bobby Vinton
    American singer and songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Unfortunately, there can be no doubt that man is, on the whole, less good than he imagines himself or wants to be. Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and darker it is. If an inferiority is conscious, one always has a chance to correct it. Furthermore, it is constantly in contact with other interests, so that it is continually subjected to modifications. But if it is repressed and isolated from consciousness, it never gets co
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Nicholson Baker Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you.
    Nicholson Baker
    American novelist and essayist (1957 - )
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  • L. Powys Use and want make all life a commonplace thing.
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