Quotes with life-affirming

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  • John Steinbeck We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say - and to feel - ''Yes, that's the way it is, or at least that's the way I feel it. You're not as alone as you thought.''
    John Steinbeck
    American author (1902 - 1968)
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  • Billy Childish We are not actually in charge of life, yet behave as if we are the masters of our own destiny. The realization of this fact is quite a hard one. The ridiculousness of our pomposity and presumption can only result in anger or humor.
    Billy Childish
    English painter, author, poet and photographer (1959 - )
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  • Alain de Botton We are properly ready for marriage when we are strong enough to embrace a life of frustration.
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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  • William Shakespeare We are such stuff
    As dreams are made off, and our little life
    Is rounded with a sleep.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • William Shakespeare We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life, is rounded with a sleep.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Buddy Wakefield We are the fed up grass roots movement of goose flesh, hell bent on living this one life by the way we feel our spines, saying what we mean, refusing to allow the few to preach to the many when it is the many who need to be hearing eachother.
    On Spoken Word Introduction (Some They Cant Contain)
    Buddy Wakefield
    American poet and actor (1974 - )
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  • Arthur Peacocke We are the first generation of human beings to have substantial insights into the origin of our cosmos and of human life in it.
    Arthur Peacocke
    English Anglican theologian and biochemist (1924 - 2006)
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  • George Farquhar We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.
    George Farquhar
    Irish playwright (1677 - 1707)
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  • Ray Bradbury We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.
    Ray Bradbury
    American science-fiction writer (1920 - 2012)
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  • Arthur Middleton We are to introduce our people into the life of the Church, which is salvation, that they may grasp its meaning, its contents and purpose, to taste and see how good the Lord is.
    Arthur Middleton
    American politician (1742 - 1787)
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  • William Butler Yeats We begin to live when we have conceived life as tragedy.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Thomas Carlyle We call it a Society; and go about professing openly the totalest separation, isolation. Our life is not a mutual helpfulness; but rather, cloaked under due laws-of-war, named ''fair competition'' and so forth, it is a mutual hostility.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Plato We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Oscar Wilde We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • David Sarnoff We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.
    David Sarnoff
    American Entrepreneur (1891 - 1971)
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  • James Baldwin We cannot discuss the state of our minorities until we first have a sense of what we are, who we are, what our goals are, and what we take life to be.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • A. J. Muste We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.
    A. J. Muste
    Dutch-born American clergyman and political activist
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  • Joseph Fort Newton We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us - how we can take it, what we do with it - and that is what really counts in the end. How to take the raw stuff of life and make it a thing of worth and beauty - that is the test of living.
    Joseph Fort Newton
    American Baptist minister (1876 - 1950)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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