Quotes with life-affirming

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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • Albert Bandura In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life.
    Albert Bandura
    Canadian-American psychologist (1925 - )
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  • Martin Luther In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible.
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  • Heinrich Heine In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.
    Heinrich Heine
    German poet (1797 - 1856)
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  • George Earle Buckle In practical life the wisest and soundest people avoid speculation.
    George Earle Buckle
    English editor and biographer (1854 - 1935)
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  • Ben Hecht In pre-movie days, the business of peddling lies about life was spotty and unorganized. It was carried on by the cheaper magazines, dime novels, the hinterland preachers and whooping politicians.
    Ben Hecht
    American writer, playwright (1894 - 1964)
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  • Thomas Carlyle In private life I never knew anyone interfere with other people's disputes but he heartily repented of it.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Billy Bush In radio I had one, maybe two people who cared about getting it done. I'd really be a loser if I forgot where I came from. So I show them the love. And how hard is it really to be interested in someone's life?
    Billy Bush
    American radio and television host (1971 - )
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  • Anne Tyler In real life I avoid all parties altogether, but on paper I can mingle with the best of them.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • George Orwell In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Aldous Huxley In real life there is no such thing as the average man.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Anita Brookner In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game.
    Anita Brookner
    British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Anita Brookner In real life, of course, it is the hare that wins. Every time. Look around you.
    Anita Brookner
    British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Beverley Mitchell In real life, one of my friends was killed in a car accident during our sophomore year.
    Beverley Mitchell
    American actress and singer (1981 - )
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  • George R. R. Martin In real life, the hardest aspect of the battle between good and evil is determining which is which.
    Infinity plus interview (2001) Sunsets of High Renown
    George R. R. Martin
    American writer and television producer (1948 - )
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  • Hubert Humphrey In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Bil Keane In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration.
    Bil Keane
    American cartoonist (1922 - 2011)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn't developed space travel were mere prehistory - horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene - and something of the humiliation of being stuck on a provincial planet in a galactic backwater has stayed with me ever since.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Armstrong Williams In short, we cannot grow, we cannot achieve authentic discovery, and our eyes cannot be cleansed to the truly beautiful possibilities of life, if we simply live a neutral existence.
    Armstrong Williams
    American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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  • Ben Jonson In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
    Memoirs of Jonson And Every Man in His Humour: The Works of Ben Jonson
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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