Quotes with life-affirming

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  • William Shakespeare After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can touch him further.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • George Macdonald Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.
    George Macdonald
    Scottish writer (1824 - 1905)
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  • Edwin Markham Ah, great it is to believe the dream as we stand in youth by the starry stream; but a greater thing is to fight life through and say at the end, the dream is true!
    Edwin Markham
    American poet and editor (1852 - 1940)
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  • Susanna Moodie Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of to-day, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.
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  • Bill Watterson Ah, the life of a newspaper cartoonist -- how I miss the groupies, drugs and trashed hotel rooms!
    Weirdos from Another Planet
    Bill Watterson
    American cartoonist (1958 - )
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  • George Meredith Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!
    George Meredith
    British Author (1828 - 1909)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Ahimas is the attribute of the soul, and therefore, to be practiced by everybody in all affairs of life. If it cannot be practiced in all departments, it has no practical value.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Gail Sheehy All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!
    Gail Sheehy
    American author, journalist, and lecturer (1936 - 2020)
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  • Anatole France All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Boris Pasternak All customs and traditions, all our way of life, everything to do with home and order, has crumbled into dust in the general upheaval and reorganization of society. The whole human way of life has been destroyed and ruined. All that's left is the naked human soul stripped to the last shred, for which nothing has changed because it was always cold and shivering and reaching out to its nearest neighbor, as cold and lonely as itself.
    Doctor Zhivago (1958) Ch. 13
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Robert Southey All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.
    Robert Southey
    British writer (1774 - 1843)
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  • Rebecca West All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death when we ought to choose life.
    Rebecca West
    British author (1892 - 1983)
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  • Khaled Hosseini All good things in life are fragile and easily lost.
    And the Mountains Echoed
    Khaled Hosseini
    Afghan-born American novelist and physician (1965 - )
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  • Brandon Lee All I can tell you is that you cannot make choices in your own career, either career choices or choices when you're actually working as an actor, based on trying to downplay or live up to a comparison with somebody else. You just can't do that. You have to do your own work based on your own gut, your own instincts, and your own life.
    Brandon Lee
    American actor (1965 - 1993)
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  • Bart Stupak All I'm asking for is the law that's been on the books for the last 33 years, no public funding for abortion. We are both saying the same thing, pro-life, pro-choice. Let's find the language that works for both of us so we can pass health care.
    Bart Stupak
    American politician (1952 - )
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  • Bobby Hull All I've done all my life is just tried to better the game for our players and for those people watching.
    Bobby Hull
    Canadian ice hockey player (1939 - )
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  • Ralph Ransom All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.
    Ralph Ransom
    American art painter
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  • Ezra Pound All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing, yes, I knew nothing. And so words became void of meaning. I have arrived too late at ultimate uncertainty.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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