"Affirmation of life is the spiritual act by which man ceases to live unreflectively and begins to devote himself to his life with reverence in order to raise it to its true value. To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the will."

-- Albert Schweitzer

#Life Quotes #Spiritual Quotes #Men Quotes

“Every citizen's vote should count in America, not just the votes of partisan insiders in the Electoral College. The Electoral College was necessary when communications were poor, literacy was low and voters lacked information about out-of-state figures, which is clearly no longer the case.”
“There is an apprenticeship system in jazz. You teach the young ones. So even if the musicians weren't personally that likable, they felt an obligation to help the younger musicians.”
“Holiness is nothing less than conformity to the character of God”
“The only law we broke was the Brezhnev doctrine that once a country is in the Soviet bloc it cannot be overthrown.”
“Marine Le Pen may want me dead, that's possible, but she must not count on my co-operation”
“And so you have a life that you are living only now, now and now and now, gone before you can speak of it, and you must be thankful for living day by day, moment by moment a life in the breath and pulse and living light of the present”
“Identify with excellence, put your name on your work, and both your work and name will stand the test of time.”
“One face to the world, another at home - makes for misery.”

Source : Amy Vanderbilt (1954). “Amy Vanderbilt's complete book of etiquette: a guide to gracious living”

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