Quotes with life-affirming

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  • Molière We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.
    Molière
    French playwright (ps. by J. B. Poquelin) (1622 - 1673)
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  • Stephen Hawking We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet.
    Into The Universe with Stephen Hawking (2010) Over contact met buitenaardsen
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Bernie S. Siegel We participate and are responsible for a lot of the things that happen to us. If you hate your job, you are much more likely to get sick and die at a younger age than someone who's happy at work and has a nice family life and is mentally well adjusted.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Bernard Lown We physicians who shepherd human life from birth to death have a moral imperative to resist with all our being the drift toward the brink. The threatened inhabitants on this fragile planet must speak out for those yet unborn, for posterity has no lobby with politicians.
    Nobel Peace Prize acceptance
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  • Oscar Wilde We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim - objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • David Mamet We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dream life.
    David Mamet
    American Playwright (1947 - )
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  • Bill Cosby We see a successful, elegant man now, but as a child, an adolescent, his life was not a done deal. Sidney respected his mistakes. When failure came, he never said, This is too difficult, too hard, he had the resiliency to try again. His life is somewhere between astounding and unbelievable.
    Comment on Sidney Poitier, as quoted in a press release at AARP (24 July 2008)
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Barbara Demick We see North Koreans as automatons, goose-steeping at parades, doing mass gymnastics with fixed smiles on their faces - but beneath all that, real life goes on with the same complexity of human emotion as anywhere else.
    Barbara Demick
    American journalist
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  • Marlin Finch Lupus We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to help us through the never-ending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to comfort us along the way.
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Ahmet Necdet Sezner We shouldn't waste any more time in making sure that democracy is properly rooted in our political life and the supremacy of the law becomes an integral part of our state's structure.
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  • Henry Ward Beecher We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Arthur Capper We spend more than a million dollars a year on our colleges and university, and it is money well spent; but we must have education that fits not the few but the many for the business of life.
    Arthur Capper
    American politician (1865 - 1951)
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  • Jules Renard We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.
    Jules Renard
    French writer (1864 - 1910)
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  • Bob Rae We spend the vast bulk of money in the health, welfare, and education systems in the later years of life. Yet it is in the earliest years that life chances are moulded and set.
    The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998) Ch. Six, The Second Question: Health, Education, a
    Bob Rae
    Canadian diplomat, lawyer and negotiator (1948 - )
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung We think of our efficient teachers with a sense of recognition, but those who touched our humanity we remember with gratitude. Learning is the essential mineral, but warmth is the life-element for the child's soul, no less than for the growing plant.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Mohsin Hamid We think of the romance novel as a lesser form of literature, but I don't think that's true. Love is a very important aspect of human life and worth exploring.
    Mohsin Hamid
    British Pakistani novelist, writer (1971 - )
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  • Bonnie Tyler We were brought up Protestant, and I went to church three times a day on a Sunday. My parents weren't Bible-bashers, but we all have a strong belief in God and a strong faith. We had a huge garden; our house was a bit like a scene from 'The Good Life.' I think Mam and Dad had it really hard, bringing up a big family on very little.
    Bonnie Tyler
    Welsh singer (1951 - )
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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