Quotes with life-affirming

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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Leo Tolstoy Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
    Leo Tolstoy
    Russian writer (1828 - 1910)
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  • Rollo May Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.
    Rollo May
    American psychologist
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Desiderius Erasmus Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason - you could reckon the ration as twenty-four to one. Moreover, he confined reason to a cramped corner of the head and left all the rest of the body to the passions.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Buddha Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Leonardo Da Vinci Just as courage imperils life; fear protects it.
    Leonardo Da Vinci
    Italian painter, engineer and musician (1452 - 1519)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Buzz Aldrin Just as Mars - a desert planet - gives us insights into global climate change on Earth, the promise awaits for bringing back to life portions of the Red Planet through the application of Earth Science to its similar chemistry, possibly reawakening its life-bearing potential.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Regis McKenna Just as one year in a dog's life is equivalent to seven years in a human life, one year in the high-technology business is like seven years in any other industry.
    Regis McKenna
    American marketing expert (1939 - )
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  • Vaclav Havel Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy.
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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  • Benny Green Just to have that sense of family, it gives you something that you know you need to take care of for the rest of your life. People gave it to him, and he passed it on to us.
    Benny Green
    American musician
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  • Hugh Prather Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes and I am left the same. The more things change the more I am the same. I am what I started with, and when it is all over I will be all that is left of me.
    Hugh Prather
    American self-help author (1938 - 2010)
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  • Oscar Wilde Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • John McCain Keep moving if you love life, and keep your troubles well behind you.
    Worth the Fighting For (2002)
    John McCain
    American politician (1936 - 2018)
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  • Emanuel Swedenborg Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.
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  • Isaac Bashevis Singer Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.
    Isaac Bashevis Singer
    Polish Yiddish writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1978) (1902 - 1991)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.
    Wit and Wisdom
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • William James Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Bhagat Singh L. Ram Saran Das was sentenced to death in 1915, and the sentence was later commuted to life transportation. Today myself, sitting in the condemned cell, I can let the readers know as authoritatively that the life-imprisonment is comparatively a far harder lot than that of death.
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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