Quotes with life-affirming

Quotes 3901 till 3920 of 4242.

  • Bethany Hamilton When I was about five, I gave my heart to Jesus Christ, and since then it's just been a stronghold in my life. Really, through the shark attack and all the hard times that my family and I went through, it gave us unity and perseverance to push through all this crazy stuff that we never knew was going to happen.
    Bethany Hamilton
    American professional surfer (1990 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Albert Claude When I went to the University, the medical school was the only place where one could hope to find the means to study life, its nature, its origins, and its ills.
    Albert Claude
    Belgian-American cell biologist and doctor (1899 - 1983)
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  • Barry McGuire When I wrote "Green, Green," it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.
    Barry McGuire
    American singer-songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Barry McGuire When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.
    Barry McGuire
    American singer-songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Agnetha Faltskog When I'm living in the world of luxury and celebrity, which is where I found myself for a large part of my life, it's a walk-on part. Not a vital necessity, like it is for so many people. I enjoy it but I can see right through it!.
    Agnetha Faltskog
    Swedish singer, songwriter and actress (1950 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Bono When John Lennon sings, Oh, my love/For the first time in my life/My eyes are wide open — these songs have an intimacy for me that's not just between people, I realize now, not just sexual intimacy. A spiritual intimacy.
    Rolling Stone interview (2005)
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Les Brown When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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  • John Galsworthy When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing - deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.
    John Galsworthy
    British writer, playwright (1867 - 1933)
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  • Edgar W. Howe When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.
    Edgar W. Howe
    American journalist and writer (1853 - 1937)
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  • Samuel Johnson When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Francois Cavanna When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
    Francois Cavanna
    French journalist and writer (1923 - 2014)
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  • Bernie S. Siegel When my body gets to the point where I can no longer function or feel gratitude, then I'll leave it and become grateful again. But until then, I will appreciate what I have and not whine about what I don't have. I will feel blessed by life and the opportunity to help others see that they are blessed, too.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Edward Dahlberg When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Lord George Byron When one subtracts from life infancy (which is vegetation), sleep, eating and swilling, buttoning and unbuttoning - how much remains of downright existence? The summer of a dormouse.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Ernest Renan When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it.
    Ernest Renan
    French writer and critic (1823 - 1892)
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  • George Bernard Shaw When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age, ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one, and do without change
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Shall Sinha When subjected to the rain of criticism, let’s not curse the rain. Let’s accept it as a part of life. Let’s remember that the more criticism we can successfully handle, the more zest we will experience in our lives.
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  • Martin Amis When success happens to an English writer, he acquires a new typewriter. When success happens to an American writer, he acquires a new life.
    Martin Amis
    British novelist (1949 - 2023)
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