To create something beautiful about despair or out of a feeling of despair is for me the most hopeful life affirming thing… — Sarah Kane Copy Share Image
There is always money to kill people. There is never enough money for life affirming ends. — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
“When you chase anything in life, you are affirming its lack in your life.” — Ali Binazir Copy Share Image
The world will persist in exhibiting before you what you persist in affirming the world is. — Emma Curtis Hopkins Copy Share Image
All power that anyone can possibly use is within, waiting to be made visible, first by recognizing it, then affirming it as… — Charles F. Haanel Copy Share Image
Most higher education is devoted to affirming the traditions and origins of an existing elite and transmitting them to new members. — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
“When you blame others, you are affirming that you have no power, and your existence is only a reaction to the power… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Many couples have never learned the tremendous power of verbally affirming each other. — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
Philosophy isn't programmed into us, and a lot of the forces of our culture steadfastly work against it. Philosophy, for me, is… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
The first fact about the celebration of a birthday is that it is a way of affirming defiantly, and even flamboyantly, that… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
When we shift from negatively complaining to positively affirming, conditions change. Then complaining is no longer the operative law in our life-freedom… — Michael Beckwith Copy Share Image
Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end,… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr Copy Share Image
I may have to shop with them. But on Sunday I don't want to have to worship with them. I want to… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
Black Panther is a historic opportunity to be a part of something important and special, particularly at a time when African Americans… — Joe Robert Cole Copy Share Image
“Be mindful of the words in your mind and in your mouth. Choose to use an affirming and positive vocabulary because your… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
Where a generation ago people felt entitled to a chance at education, they now feel entitled to the credential affirming that they… — William A. Henry III Copy Share Image
If homosexuality is not caused by genetic factors...then that means it can be acquired... And if it can be acquired, shouldn't we… — Scott Lively Copy Share Image
To struggle against censorship, whatever its nature, and whatever the power under which it exists, is my duty as a writer, as… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
Can one have love? If we could, love would need to be a thing, a substance that one can have, own, possess.… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Most governments have been based, practically, on the denial of equal rights of menours began, by affirming those rights. They said, some… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Remind Youth: It is not necessary to look for confidence. It is there – potentially yours and never hidden; awaiting a commanding… — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
“Opening up space for ourselves is a life-affirming act, a sacred act. I believe we must all be allowed to affirm and… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I don't think that writing, real writing, has much to do with affirming belief--if anything it causes rifts and gaps in belief… — Brian Evenson Copy Share Image
The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
The most incredible beauty and the most satisfying way of life come from affirming your own uniqueness. — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
Every thought you think and every word you speak is affirming something. — Louise Hay Copy Share Image
I grew up in church and it's always been important to me. I've always had a sense of calling to do life… — Brian Bird Copy Share Image
“To be affirming and encouraging of others requires vulnerability on your part.” — Shandel Slaten Copy Share Image
Art is a way to get strength from something that is life-affirming. It can be quite violent and still be life-affirming. — Val Kilmer Copy Share Image
My son, who sees me almost every day of his life, will look at me and go, "I know that dude! I… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A healthy society is life-affirming. Homosexuality is the metaphysical negation of life. Incapable of reproduction (giving life), it can replenish its numbers… — Don Feder Copy Share Image
The wise legislator will only rarely initiate a new rule of behaviour; more usually he will confine himself to affirming in law… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
An affirmation is almost like a mantra. It does not really matter if what you are affirming is not totally true as… — Stuart Wilde Copy Share Image
The human need for language is not simply for the transmission of meaning, it is at the same time listening to and… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
Affirming others isn't 'flattering' them-it's when you genuinely and consistently acknowledge their efforts and accomplishments, both large and small. Make affirmation a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Music has touched me deeply, sometimes to tears. But at the same time it's been life-affirming, because I've been grateful for the… — Brian Molko Copy Share Image
Others are Ahead of me. I am continually Challenged. My focus is Forward. The atmosphere is Affirming. I am often out of… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Often girls feel deeply cared about as small children but then find as we develop willpower and independent thought that the world… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
