Quotes with life-affirming

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  • Susan B. Anthony I have given my life and all I am to it, and now I want my last act to be to give it all I have, to the last cent.
    Susan B. Anthony
    American women's rights activist (1820 - 1906)
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  • Gerald R. Ford I have had a lot of adversaries in my political life, but no enemies that I can remember.
    Gerald R. Ford
    American politician and 38th President of the United States (1913 - 2006)
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  • Lord George Byron I have had, and may have still, a thousand friends, as they are called, in life, who are like one's partners in the waltz of this world - not much remembered when the ball is over.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • William Shakespeare I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • T. S. Eliot I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Buzz Aldrin I have no intention of selling any more of the historical Apollo 11 items in my possession for the remainder of my life. I intend to pass a portion of these items on to my children and to loan the most important items for permanent display in suitable museums around the country.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don't be old. Don't be stale.
    The Zookeepers Wife (2008)
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Henry David Thoreau I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt I have spent many years of my life in opposition and I like the role.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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  • Bruce Springsteen I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.

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    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Tallulah Bankhead I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.
    Tallulah Bankhead
    American actress (1902 - 1968)
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  • Bryan Magee I have very strongly this feeling... that our everyday life is at one and the same time banal, overfamiliar, platitudinous and yet mysterious and extraordinary.
    Heidegger and Modern Existentialism (1977)
    Bryan Magee
    British philosopher, broadcaster, politician (1930 - 2019)
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  • A. Philip Randolph I have waited twenty-two years for this... I've waited all my life for this opportunity.
    A. Philip Randolph
    American labor unionist and civil rights activist (1889 - 1979)
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  • Sarah Bernhardt I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of other countries. I know them all now, and in any critical moment of my life, they all rise up in armed legions for or against me.
    Sarah Bernhardt
    French stage actress (0 - 1923)
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  • Terence I hold this as a rule of life: Too much of anything is bad.
    Terence
    Roman writer of comedies (190 - 159)
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  • Oscar Wilde I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Benjamin Tucker I insist that there is nothing sacred in the life of an invader, and there is no valid principle of human society that forbids the invaded to protect themselves in whatever way they can.
    Individual Liberty
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Tupac Shakur I just don't know how to deal with so many people giving me that much affection. I never had that in my life.
    Tupac Shakur
    American rapper and actor (1971 - 1996)
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  • Warren Mitchell I knew that I did not have to buy into society's notion that I had to be handsome and healthy to be happy. I was in charge of my ''spaceship'' and it was my up, my down. I could choose to see this situation as a setback or as a starting point. I chose to begin life again.
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