I have always believed that there is a need for life-affirming films. — Anthony Minghella Copy Share Image
“Know that the same spark of life that is within you, is within all of our animal friends, the desire to live… — Rai Aren Copy Share Image
It was quite life-affirming, for me, that I felt hat kind of pity for [Margaret Thatcher], because I didn't think I ever… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
A glorious failure can sometimes be more life affirming than a cautious win. — Elizabeth Gilbert 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
Movies that are consciously life-affirming are to be consciously avoided. — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
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
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
What I'm certain I don't want is to find myself someday in a new century, an old bitter woman looking back, wishing… — Charles Frazier 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
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
Most people cherish their very existence and try their best to live a life worth living. In spite of the seemingly insurmountable… — Richard Belzer Copy Share Image
The surest sign that you're working with the life-affirming kind of discipline, rather than the spirit-depressing kind, is that you don't complain… — Danielle LaPorte Copy Share Image
Alan Alda and his wife Arlene are two of the most life-affirming people I've ever met. He espoused equal rights for women… — Sanjeev Bhaskar 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
Knowing how you actually want to feel is the most potent form of clarity that you can have. Generating those feelings is… — Danielle LaPorte 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
“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
“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one… — W.H. Murray 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
“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
“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
“Preparatory men. I welcome all signs that a more manly, a warlike, age is about to begin, an age which, above all,… — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
“If you have no more happiness to give me, / Well then! you still have your pain.” — Lou Salome Copy Share Image