Quotes with life-affirming

Quotes 1841 till 1860 of 4242.

• Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

  Bernard Berenson
  American art historian (1865 - 1959)
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• Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

  Alexander Herzen
  Russian journalist and political thinker (1812 - 1870)
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• Life has this in common with prizefighting: if you've received a belly blow, it's likely to be followed by a right to the jaw.

  Carolyn Heilbrun
  American academic and author (1926 - 2003)
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• Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

  Henry Miller
  American writer (1891 - 1980)
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• Life in abundance comes only through great love.

  Elbert Hubbard
  American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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• Life in LA is not lying in the sun for months. It is having a 4pm meeting and leaving at noon to sit in traffic for four hours. It's not glam.

  Billy Boyd
  Scottish actor and musician (1968 - )
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• Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

  Margaret Mead
  American cultural anthropologist (1901 - 1978)
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• Life inside successful Web startups - especially the really successful ones - can be nasty, brutish, and short. As companies grow exponentially, egos clash, investors jockey for control, and business complexities rapidly exceed the managerial abilities of the founders.

  Brad Stone
  American journalist (1971 - )
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• Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it.

  Irving Berlin
  American composer and lyricist (1888 - 1989)
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• Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

  Reinhold Niebuhr
  American theologist, historian (1892 - 1971)
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• Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

  Don Piatt
   
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• Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

  Robert Thibodeau
   
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• Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

  Horace Walpole
  British writer (1717 - 1797)
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• Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.
  

  Henry Louis Mencken
  American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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• Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life.

  Saul Alinsky
  American community organizer and writer (1909 - 1972)
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• Life is a dead-end street.
  

  Henry Louis Mencken
  American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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• Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person. And to retain this right, you will have to be willing to take the social or external risks involved in ignoring pressures to do things the way others say they should be done.

  Wings of Fire

  Abdul Kalam
  11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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• Life is a disease; and the only difference between on man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.
  

  George Bernard Shaw
  Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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• Life is a festival only to the wise.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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• Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

  Victor Hugo
  French writer (1802 - 1885)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• prizefighting
• exponentially
• complexities
• oscillation
• sustenance
• destroying

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