Quotes with life-affirming

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  • Philip Roth I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you - it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Anthony Robbins I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Umberto Eco I consider always the adult life to be the continuous retrieval of childhood.
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Samuel Butler I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Robert Browning I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • Stephen Leacock I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.
    Stephen Leacock
    Canadian humorist and economist (1869 - 1944)
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  • Dudley Nichols I devoutly believe it is the writer who has matured the film medium more than anyone else in Hollywood. Even when he knew nothing about his work, he brought at least knowledge of life and a more grown-up mind, a maturer feeling about the human being.
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  • Javan I didn't ask for it to be over. But then again I didn't ask for it to begin. For that's the way it is with life, as some of the most beautiful days come completely by chance. But even the most beautiful days eventually have their sunset
    Javan
     
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  • Bryan Batt I didn't have any role models. I really thought I was doomed to this loveless, lonely life. I didn't know any gay people until I began doing theater.
    Bryan Batt
    American actor (1963 - )
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  • Jeanette Winterson I do not accept that life has an ordinary shape, or that there is anything ordinary about life at all. We make it ordinary, but it is not.
    Jeanette Winterson
    English writer (1959 - )
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  • Adelaide Anne Procter I do not ask, O Lord, that life may be a pleasant road.
    Adelaide Anne Procter
    English poet and philanthropist (1825 - 1864)
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  • Marcus Valerius Martial I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
    Marcus Valerius Martial
    Latin poet and epigrammatist (40 - 104)
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  • Rosa Parks I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day.
    Rosa Parks
    American activist in the civil rights movement (1913 - 2005)
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  • Woody Allen I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Isaac Asimov I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
    Isaac Asimov
    American writer (1920 - 1992)
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  • T. S. Eliot I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Al Pacino I don't ever give my opinion. Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
    Al Pacino
    American actor and filmmaker (1940 - )
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  • Brooke Burke I don't have any regrets in my life actually. I think that's a pretty good policy.
    Brooke Burke
    American actress, dancer, model (1971 - )
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard I don't know how many roles I can ask my dad to play in my life, but so far, father, best friend, role model, mentor and grandfather to my children are working out quite well.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • David Gemmell I don't know yet whether I fully believe in fate, but certain things do happen in a man's life that he cannot explain.
    Legend (2011)
    David Gemmell
    British author of heroic fantasy (1948 - 2006)
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