Quotes with life-affirming

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  • Quentin Crisp If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • Carrie Fisher If my life wasn't funny, it would just be true, and that's unacceptable.
    Carrie Fisher
    American actress, writer and comedienne (1956 - 2016)
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  • Henry David Thoreau If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Eugène Delacroix If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.
    Eugène Delacroix
    French artist (1798 - 1863)
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  • Alan Thicke If one tends to be a humorous person and you have a sense of humor the rest of your life then you can certainly lighten the load, I think, by bringing that to your trials and tribulations. It's easy to have a sense of humor when everything is going well.
    Alan Thicke
    Canadian actor and songwriter (1947 - 2016)
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  • Alan Thicke If one tends to be a humorous person and you have a sense of humor the rest of your life then you can certainly lighten the load, I think, by bringing that to your trials and tribulations. It's easy to have a sense of humor when everything is going well.
    Alan Thicke
    Canadian actor, songwriter, comedian, writer and television host (1947 - 2016)
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  • Angela Thirkell If only life were one long crisis, everyone would be perfect.
    The Headmistress (1945)
    Angela Thirkell
    English writer (1890 - 1961)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Doug Larson If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.
    Doug Larson
    American columnist and editor (1926 - 2017)
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  • Anna Freud If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life.
    Anna Freud
    Austrian-British psychoanalyst (1895 - 1982)
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  • Norman Cousins If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.
    Anatomy of an Illness (1979)
    Norman Cousins
    American Editor, Humanitarian, Author (1915 - 1990)
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  • Alfred P. Sloan If the government decides to put your life under a microscope, do you think it won't find something? I suspect there's not an adult in the country who would walk away totally unscathed if every aspect of his or her life were investigated the way Stewart's ImClone trading was.
    Alfred P. Sloan
    American businessman (1875 - 1966)
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  • Benjamin N. Cardozo If the nature of a thing is such that it is reasonably certain to place life and limb in peril when negligently made, it is then a thing of danger. Its nature gives warning of the consequences to be expected. If to the element of danger there is added knowledge that the thing will be used by persons other than the purchaser, and used without new tests, then, irrespective of contract, the manufacturer of this thing of danger is under a duty to make it carefully.
    MacPherson v. Buick Motor Co.
    Benjamin N. Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Karl Kraus If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Dave Thomas If there are things you don't like in the world you grew up in, make your own life different.
    Dave Thomas
    American businessman and philanthropist (1917 - 1991)
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  • Pythagoras If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death.
    Pythagoras
    Greek philosopher (580 - 504)
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  • Caroline Wozniacki If there is a camera or someone making a picture or - just do the things you always want to do, because if you start thinking about everything, then you start changing the things you would do. And that's not the life you want to live.
    Caroline Wozniacki
    Danish tennis player (1990 - )
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  • Albert Camus If there is sin against life, it consists… in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Jeremy Taylor If these little sparks of holy fire which I have thus heaped up together do not give life to your prepared and already enkindled spirit, yet they will sometimes help to entertain a thought, to actuate a passion, to employ and hallow a fancy.
    Jeremy Taylor
    British churchman and writer (1613 - 1667)
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  • William James If this life be not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained... it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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