Quotes with life-affirming

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  • Pablo Picasso It is your work in life that is your ultimate seduction.
    Pablo Picasso
    Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor (1881 - 1973)
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  • Barbara Ward Jews were the first to believe that history itself has meaning and that progress, not repetition, is the law of life.
    Barbara Ward
    British economist
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  • Albert Schweitzer Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Simone Weil Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Andre Breton Leave everything. Leave Dada. Leave your wife. Leave your mistress. Leave your hopes and fears. Leave your children in the woods. Leave the substance for the shadow. Leave your easy life, leave what you are given for the future. Set off on the roads.
    Andre Breton
    French writer (1896 - 1966)
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  • Albert Schweitzer Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Simone Weil Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupery Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward in the same direction.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupery
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Helen Keller Life is an exciting business and most exciting when it is lived for others.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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  • Helen Keller Life is either a great adventure or nothing.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Buddy Guy Listen to the lyrics - we're singing about everyday life: rich people trying to keep money, poor people tying to get it, and everyone having trouble with their husband or wife!
    Buddy Guy
    American blues guitarist and singer (1936 - )
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  • Edgar Allan Poe Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
    Edgar Allan Poe
    American poet, writer and critic (1809 - 1849)
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  • Robert F. Kennedy Martin Luther King dedicated his life to love and to justice between fellow human beings.
    Robert F. Kennedy
    American Senator (1925 - 1968)
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  • Wallace Stevens Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good.
    Wallace Stevens
    American poet (1879 - 1955)
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  • Anita Diamant My six handbooks to Jewish life and lifecycle events mostly followed the trajectory of my adult Jewish life.
    Anita Diamant
    American author (1951 - )
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Andre Breton No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.
    Andre Breton
    French writer (1896 - 1966)
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  • Andre Breton No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.
    Andre Breton
    French writer (1896 - 1966)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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