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
It feels intimate and life affirming to me when someone tweets things that appear to just be insane thoughts they had and… — Mira Gonzalez Copy Share Image
It is so inspiring to see a new group coming together not to focus on a particular war or weapons system, but… — Medea Benjamin Copy Share Image
“Because cooks love the social aspect of food, cooking for one is intrinsically interesting. A good meal is like a present, and… — Jenni Ferrari-Adler Copy Share Image
“The empowerment triangle turns drama upside-down, transforming the persecutor (or scapegoat) into a challenger, the rescuer into a coach, and the victim… — Mukara Meredith Copy Share Image
I suppose I walk that line between comedy and cruelty because I think one illuminates the other. We're all cruel, aren't we?… — Martin McDonagh Copy Share Image
Growth can also involve producing services instead of goods. In particular, a major expansion of public and caring services (like child care,… — Jim Stanford Copy Share Image
Casting a spell, in self-defense or in self-interest is not selfish, but positive, life-affirming. You have been given powers, the very same… — Zsuzsanna Budapest Copy Share Image
Knowing who you really are and dressing the part -- with an air of amused recklessness -- is life affirming for you… — Simon Doonan 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
“Religions, creeds, drama, poetry, games, folklore, folk tales, mythology, moral and aesthetic codes' elements of the political and juridical life affirming a… — Alija Izetbegović Copy Share Image
A glorious failure can sometimes be more life affirming than a cautious win. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Many social justice or social activist movements have been rooted in a position. A position is usually against something. Any position will… — Lynne Twist Copy Share Image
You don't go to a town to present the play and have applause at the end of it, but that's benign conquest.… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
“When you react, you are not in a state of love. When you can love without expectation, you are in a state… — Judith Hanson Lasater Copy Share Image
Journey through the Power of the Rainbow represents a condensed compendium of literary efforts from a life dedicated to transforming the themes… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Awards movies are normally sort of... life-affirming and noble. It's probably too much of an intellectual conceit and, you know, people don't… — David Fincher Copy Share Image
The atheist view is correspondingly life-affirming and life-enhancing, while at the same time never being tainted with self-delusion, wishful thinking, or the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I love to make music that makes people feel mood-enhancing, life-affirming brilliance but I just make whatever comes out at the time… — Eliza Doolittle Copy Share Image
The film [Dream of Life], in the end, is life-affirming, and I think it's always useful for people to be reminded that… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I have always believed that there is a need for life-affirming films. — Anthony Minghella Copy Share Image
“If you have no more happiness to give me, / Well then! you still have your pain.” — Lou Salome Copy Share Image
There is always money to kill people. There is never enough money for life affirming ends. — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
The power of our beliefs can work in either direction to become life affirming or life denying. — Gregg Braden Copy Share Image
Unlike most heritages, Western civilization is not primarily a geographical place or a genetic bloodline. It is a state of mind. No… — Terri Runnels Copy Share Image