The world will persist in exhibiting before you what you…

Always believe in yourself and keep going. You don't have to have the most talent in the world. You don't have to be the…

— Dean Cain

Coming out to gays is a way of affirming sanity and self-worth.

— George Weinberg

Action eradicates fear. No matter what you fear,--- positive, self-affirming action can diminish or completely cancel that which you are fearful of.

— Mark Victor Hansen

The fact that you have a policy of such consequence directly affecting millions of people and you have a legal question of great consequence…

— Donald Verrilli Jr

To be honest, I am not theatre-trained and though I am confident in my skill set, to do theatre requires a better-tuned set of…

— Tamlyn Tomita

Despite two decisions, in 2008 and 2010, by the U.S. Supreme Court unequivocally affirming that the Second Amendment to the Constitution guarantees an individual…

— Bob Barr

I think we're in a new era where the advancing tide is towards human unity, where people all around the world want to come…

— Dennis Kucinich

It is so inspiring to see a new group coming together not to focus on a particular war or weapons system, but on all…

— Medea Benjamin

[F]or academic men to be happy, the universe would have to take shape. All of philosophy has no other goal: it is a matter…

— Georges Bataille

It feels intimate and life affirming to me when someone tweets things that appear to just be insane thoughts they had and typed out…

— Mira Gonzalez

“By affirming that all 'meaning,' every assertion about the significance of life and reality, must be judged by reference to a brief succession of…

— Rowan Williams

To create something beautiful about despair or out of a feeling of despair is for me the most hopeful life affirming thing a person…

— Sarah Kane

Where a generation ago people felt entitled to a chance at education, they now feel entitled to the credential affirming that they have completed…

— William A. Henry III

Change your thoughts, change your life. —LAO TZU When I was fighting depression, I remember hearing this expression and not understanding it at first.…

— Demi Lovato

I don't think that writing, real writing, has much to do with affirming belief--if anything it causes rifts and gaps in belief which make…

— Brian Evenson