Quotes with life-affirming

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  • Benjamin Franklin Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • John Howe What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.
    John Howe
    Canadian-French illustrator
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  • Bertolt Brecht What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough.
    Jungle of Cities
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Lord George Byron What a strange thing is the propagation of life! A bubble of seed which may be spilt in a whore's lap, or in the orgasm of a voluptuous dream, might (for aught we know) have formed a Caesar or a Bonaparte - there is nothing remarkable recorded of their sires, that I know of.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Sidonie Gabrielle Colette What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
    Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
    French writer (1873 - 1954)
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  • Barbara de Angelis What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning
    Barbara de Angelis
    American relationship consultant, lecturer and author (1951 - )
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  • John Masefield What am I, Life? A thing of watery salt held in cohesion by unresting cells. Which work they know not why, which never halt, myself unwitting where their Master dwells?
    John Masefield
    English poet and writer (1878 - 1967)
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  • Elizabeth Stuart Phelps What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.
    Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
    American author, feminist and intellectual (1844 - 1911)
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  • Elizabeth Bishop What childishness is it that while there's breath of life in our bodies, we are determined to rush to see the sun the other way around?
    Elizabeth Bishop
    American poet and short-story writer (1911 - 1979)
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  • Nelson Mandela What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.
    Speech 18 may 2002
    Nelson Mandela
    South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader (1918 - 2013)
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  • George Eliot What do we live for; if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Joseph Campbell What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.
    Joseph Campbell
    American mythologist (1904 - 1987)
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  • William Somerset Maugham What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Audre Lorde What I leave behind has a life of its own.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Bruce Eric Kaplan What I like about graduation speeches is that they're an opportunity for someone to make sense of their life and to impart that wisdom to someone else. It's like a sanctioned self-help moment.
    Bruce Eric Kaplan
    American cartoonist
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  • Bernard Cornwell What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness.
    Bernard Cornwell
    British author of historical novels (1944 - )
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  • Bonnie Blair What I've learned from my own journey, and from my family's experience with cancer, is how important it is to stay positive and move forward. Not every day is going to be perfect; that's life. But staying positive is going to get you to the next day.
    Bonnie Blair
    American athlete and speed skater (1964 - )
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  • Joseph Conrad What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow-men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of imagined life clearer than reality and whose accumulated verisimilitude of selected episodes puts to shame the pride of documentary history?
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning What is art but life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung What is essential in a work of art is that it should rise far above the realm of personal life and speak to the spirit and heart of the poet as man to the spirit and heart of mankind.
    Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1933)
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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