Quotes with life-affirming

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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow I venerate old age; and I love not the man who can look without emotion upon the sunset of life, when the dusk of evening begins to gather over the watery eye, and the shadows of twilight grow broader and deeper upon the understanding.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Berenice Bejo I'm okay. Nobody's bothering me. Everyone's very kind, and very polite. I don't feel like my whole life changed.
    Berenice Bejo
    French-Argentine actress (1976 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Rodney Dangerfield If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
    Rodney Dangerfield
    American comedian, actor (1921 - 2004)
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  • Meister Eckhart If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.
    Meister Eckhart
    German mystic (1260 - 1328)
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  • Lawana Blackwell If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.
    Lawana Blackwell
    English writer
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  • Kofi Annan If tolerance, respect and equity permeate family life, they will translate into values that shape societies, nations and the world.
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Joseph Addison If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Robert Anthony If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
    Robert Anthony
    American psychologist and self-help writer
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.
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  • Joseph Addison If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Carol Gilligan Implicitly adopting the male life as the norm, they have tried to fashion women out of a masculine cloth. It all goes back to Adam and Eve a story which shows... that if you make a woman out of man, you are bound to get into trouble.
    Carol Gilligan
    American feminist, ethicist and psychologist (1936 - )
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  • Dag Hammarskjöld In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.
    Dag Hammarskjöld
    Swedish diplomat (1905 - 1961)
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  • Robert Frost In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • B. R. Ambedkar Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • George Orwell It is a corrupting thing to live one's real life in secret. One should live with the stream of life, not against it.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Seneca It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • George Orwell It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Russell Wayne Baker It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic.
    Russell Wayne Baker
    American writer (1925 - 2019)
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  • Buddha Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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