Quotes with life-affirming

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  • Simone Weil Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our life.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Simone Weil Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Albert Einstein Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Vladimir Nabokov Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.
    Vladimir Nabokov
    American writer and poet (1899 - 1977)
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  • John Lennon Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
    John Lennon
    British musician (1940 - 1980)
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  • Heraclitus Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life.
    Heraclitus
    Greek philosopher (540 - 480)
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  • Brandon Lee Immortality is to live your life doing good things, and leaving your mark behind.
    Brandon Lee
    American actor (1965 - 1993)
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  • Caleb Deschanel In 'Tree of Life,' the cinematography records a small story, a celebration of the courage of everyday life. But it does it so up close and so effortlessly that it has the effect of elevating the intimacy of the story to a grand scale.
    Caleb Deschanel
    American cinematographer and director (1944 - )
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  • Bunker Roy In 1965, I went to what was called the worst Bihar famine in India, and I saw starvation, death, people dying of hunger, for the first time. It changed my life. I came back home, told my mother, 'I'd like to live and work in a village.' Mother went into a coma.
    Bunker Roy
    Indian social activist and educator (1945 - )
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot In a different era, I would have called myself a natural philosopher. All my life, I have enjoyed the reputation of being someone who disrupted prevailing ideas. Now that I'm in my 80th year, I can play on my age and provoke people even more.
    New Scientist interview
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • S. I. Hayakawa In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
    S. I. Hayakawa
    Canada-American Senator (1902 - 1992)
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  • Oscar Wilde In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • John Naisbitt In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.
    John Naisbitt
    American author and public speaker (1929 - )
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  • Friedrich von Schlegel In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.
    Friedrich von Schlegel
    German man of letters and art critic (1772 - 1829)
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  • Aldous Huxley In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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  • A. W. Tozer In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.
    A. W. Tozer
    American Christian pastor, preacher and author
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  • Bruno Tonioli In America they like my spicy TV alter ego, probably because there were a lot of Italians and Hispanics in the country, but the real L.A. life is a hard-working one.
    Bruno Tonioli
    Italian choreographer and dancer (1955 - )
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  • Adam Weishaupt In another situation, and in an active station in life, I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.
    Adam Weishaupt
    German philosopher (1748 - 1830)
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