Despite Quotes

• You have to find a way to laugh a little bit each day despite everything, or your heart will simply run out of the joy that makes it go.

  Daoud Hari

  Running, Heart, Laughing

  Daoud Hari (2008). “The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur”, p.90, Random House

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• One could be happy not only without love, but despite it.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Without Love

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• Despite rumor, Death isn't cruel--merely terribly, terribly good at his job.

  Terry Pratchett

  Jobs, Rumor, Discworld

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• We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.

  Lech Walesa

  Freedom, Liberty, Priceless

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• Despite everything, life is full of beauty and meaning.

  Etty Hillesum

  Life Is

  Etty Hillesum (1986). “Letters from Westerbork”, Pantheon

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• My chief occupation, despite appearances, has always been love.

  Albert Camus

  Love, Life, Occupation

  Albert Camus (1965). “Notebooks, 1942-1951”

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• Despite the successes, you remember the failures - rather lovingly.

  Harold Prince

  Remember

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• Despite being in showbiz, I have a very real approach to my life. It plays off with my social life.

  Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

  Real, Play, Social

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• I think of myself as being Jewish and Irish, despite the fact that I'm English.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Thinking, Facts

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• Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says.

  Doris Lessing

  Men, Conservative, Adventurous

  "The great contrarian". Interview with Lisa Allardice, www.theguardian.com. January 20, 2007.

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• Despite everything, no one can dictate who you are to other people.

  Prince

  People, Who You Are

  "Prince never apologized for who he was. For that, he was an inspiration" by Colby Itkowitz, www.washingtonpost.com. April 21, 2016.

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• Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.

  Anne Frank

  Inspirational, Hope, Believe

  "Voices Carry" by Alice Hoffman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 22, 2011.

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• Despite having seen a fair amount of the world, I still love travelling - I just have an insatiable curiosity and like looking out of a window.

  Michael Palin

  Curiosity, World, Window

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• History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Encouragement

  Twitter post from Jan 19, 2016

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• Defeat is for those who, despite their fears, live with enthusiasm and faith.

  Paulo Coelho

  Enthusiasm, Defeat

  Paulo Coelho (2013). “Manuscript Found in Accra”, p.19, HarperCollins UK

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• Despite the never ending play of conscious correction and instruction, the surrounding atmosphere and spirit is in the end the chief agent in forming manners.

  John Dewey

  Play, Atmosphere, Agents

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.23, Courier Corporation

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• The brave man is not the one without fear but the one who does what he must despite being afraid. To succeed, you must be willing to risk total failure; you must learn this.

  Raymond E. Feist

  Men, Brave, Risk

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• It would have been funny if I had been an observer and not a participant, an idea that gave me a disconcerting insight into gossip. As I walked beside the silent Tamara, I realized that despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt.

  Sherwood Smith

  Hurt, Ideas, Gossip

  "Crown Duel". Book by Sherwood Smith, 1997.

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• A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence.

  Richard Dawkins

  Believe, People, Delusion

  "The atheist". Interview with Gordy Slack, www.salon.com. April 30, 2005.

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• I think [G.W.] Bush has a very selfish, arrogant point of view. I think he is interested in power, I think he believes his truth is the only truth, and that he will do what he wants to do despite the people.

  Harry Belafonte

  Selfish, Believe, Thinking

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• Despite what I had acchieved, I don't for a moment think I am any braver or better than anyone else.  This is how I attempt to explain what gives me the stregnth to do what I do; when that thunderbolt of an idea first hit me and inspired me to row across oceans, it filled me with a sense of purpose so strong that it overcame my fears.  Even when boredom, frustration, fatigue or despair threatened to overwhelm me, it was that powerful sense of purpose that kept me going.

  Roz Savage

  Strong, Powerful, Ocean

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• It requires real strength to love Man. And to love him despite all invitations to do otherwise, all provocations and all reasons why one should not.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Real, Men, Reason Why

  L. Ron Hubbard (1976). “Scientology, a New Slant on Life”, p.183, Bridge Publications, Inc.

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• It is deeply shocking and incomprehensible to me that despite volumes of documentation and living witnesses who can attest to the horrors of the Holocaust, there are still those who would deny it.

  Mark Udall

  Holocaust, Documentation, Horror

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• Despite all philosophical differences, all major world religions have the same potential to create good human beings.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Philosophical, World Religions

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• There are two visions of America. One precedes our founding fathers and finds its roots in the harshness of our Puritan past. It is very suspicious of freedom, uncomfortable with diversity hostile to science, unfriendly to reason, contemptuous of personal autonomy. It sees America as a religious nation. It views patriotism as allegiance to God. It secretly adores coercion and conformity. Despite our constitution, despite the legacy of the Enlightenment, it appeals to millions of Americans and threatens our freedom.

  Sherwin Wine

  Religious, Father, Past

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