He was too tough to experience disappointments and resentments - negative affections. In this nihilist fin de siècle, he was affirmation. Right… — Jean-Francois Lyotard Copy Share Image
I think there's a weird self-affirmation thing that happens in popular music in general. It seems like every song I hear on… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
Story is the umbilical cord that connects us to the past, present, and future. Family. Story is a relationship between the teller… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Rebellion, in man, is the refusal to be treated as an object and to be reduced to simple historical terms. It is… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Enter every moment as if it’s already a success. It’s already done. Your affirmation isn’t trying to get anything; rather it’s an… — Derek Rydall Copy Share Image
Abuse and neglect negate love. Care and affirmation, the opposite of abuse and humiliation, are the foundation of love. No one can… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Black Lives Matter is really an affirmation for our people. It's a love note for our people, but it's also a demand.… — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
Some young ladies are so starved for male approval that what should be a normal attraction to men is accelerated into an… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“AFFIRMATION CREED OF THE ARRIVIST: I am God, and all other gods are my imagery. I gave birth to myself. I am… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In a man like Friedrich von Schlegel the courage to be as an individual self produced complete neglect of participation, but it… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated."Mark McCormack, Author and sports entrepreneur"Psychologists tell us that money is… — John Baldoni Copy Share Image
Few things build a person up like affirmation. According to Webster’s New World Dictionary, Third College Edition (Simon and Schuster, 1991), the… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
When you learn to embrace your self with a sense of appreciation and affection, you begin to glimpse the goodness and light… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
I do not deny God, because that word conveys to me no idea, and I cannot deny that which presents to me… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
Theology recognizes the contingency of human existence only to derive it from a necessary being, that is, to remove it. Theology makes… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
To make every little thing special is to grant a magical quality to your life. Once your life becomes charmed in such… — Stuart Wilde Copy Share Image
Real greatness is often hidden, humble, simple, and unobtrusive. It is not easy to trust ourselves and our actions without public affirmation.… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
People don't want novelty - they want the reassurance of familiarity. No-one wants to be challenged, no-one wants to have their minds… — Lauren Beukes Copy Share Image
“An affirmation is a phrase that we can repeat constantly, and this repetition is meant to reprogram our mind; for example, we… — Nathaniel Copy Share Image
A great painting or symphony or play, doesn't diminish us, but enlarges us, and we, too, want to make our own cry… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
A prayer, it seems to me, implies a promise as well as a request; at the highest level, prayer not only is… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
When the words ‘like a girl’ are used to mean something bad, it is profoundly disempowering. I am proud to partner with… — Lauren Greenfield Copy Share Image
“A leader must lead. Where others see obstacles, he must see opportunities. When others see problems, he must see possibilities ... Civilization… — David J. Vaughan Copy Share Image
“I realized at that instant just how surely the affirmation of demons or the summoning of Satan somehow can affirm the reality… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
I was a horrible student! It just sort of evolved as I started playing. I guess I became a master of it… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
... as we age we have not only to readdress earlier developmental crises but also somehow to find the way to three… — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
Only by seeking to discover the nature of ruthlessness can we find the many ways people can triumph over it, and only… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Individualism is the self-affirmation of the individual self as individual self without regard to its participation in its world. As such it… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
“Polishing the gold in others will not only make them feel better about themselves, but it will also elevate you in their… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
I have to do the work of self-love and affirmation, and say, "I am a woman, I am a person of color,… — Kerry Washington Copy Share Image
Absolute faith is not the place of self-affirmation, but the place of self-negation. Life of faith is not limited to our spiritual… — Sun Myung Moon Copy Share Image
A lot of the themes that I write about are an affirmation of our existence on earth and making people feel like… — Grace Potter Copy Share Image
Now let me say that the next thing we must be concerned about if we are to have peace on earth and… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Earthly love… is temporal and slight so that is has to be given again and again in order for us to feel… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Rebuilding us. Isn't that what the spirit requires, when we climb over the wreckage of our lives, sometimes, we go on to… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
The single most influential force that controls your attitudes, beliefs, capabilities and emotions is repetition - the words you silently use, over… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Bloomberg weighed three hundred pounds. This itself was historical. I revered his weight. It was an affirmation of humanity's reckless potential; it… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Because I have confidence in the power of truth and in the spirit, I believe in the future of mankind. Affirmation of… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
But our trip was different. It was a classic affirmation of everything right and true and decent in the national character. It… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“The word 'yes' is just a sound. It's nothing without context. It can signal the end of a life, an exultation after… — Josh Hanagarne Copy Share Image
