Affirming Quotes
84 quotes by 83 authors
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Knowing who you really are and dressing the part -- with an air of amused recklessness -- is life affirming for you and life enhancing…
— Simon Doonan
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Only by affirming the animateness of perceived things do we allow our words to emerge directly from the depths of our ongoing reciprocity with the…
— David Abram
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I sat there beside him till morning - and as I watched his face in the starlight, then the first ray of the sun on…
— Ayn Rand
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Marital faithfulness involves more than just sexual fidelity. Being faithful to your wife also means defending her and affirming her beauty, intelligence, and integrity at…
— Myles Munroe
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The foundation of our belief is a basis of fact - the fact of the birth, ministry, miracles, death, resurrection by the Evangelists as having…
— Simon Greenleaf
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I suppose I walk that line between comedy and cruelty because I think one illuminates the other. We're all cruel, aren't we? We are all…
— Martin McDonagh
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Utopian speculations ... must come back into fashion. They are a way of affirming faith in the possibility of solving problems that seem at the…
— Norman O. Brown
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Growth can also involve producing services instead of goods. In particular, a major expansion of public and caring services (like child care, education, elder care,…
— Jim Stanford
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The power of our beliefs can work in either direction to become life affirming or life denying.
— Gregg Braden
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A glorious failure can sometimes be more life affirming than a cautious win.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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We cannot survive as a free nation when some men decide that others are not fit to live and should be abandoned to abortion or…
— Ronald Reagan
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God, Most High, is the very one who Himself affirms His unity by the tongue of whatever of His creatures He wishes. If He Himself…
— Mansur Al-Hallaj
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In London, almost all Jewish shops in the Whitechapel district were displaying placards denying entry to German salesmen and affirming their anti-Nazi boycott. Teenagers patrolled…
— Edwin Black
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Coming out to gays is a way of affirming sanity and self-worth.
— George Weinberg
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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
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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 fact that I'm…
— Brian Molko
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The world will persist in exhibiting before you what you persist in affirming the world is.
— Emma Curtis Hopkins
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Can one have love? If we could, love would need to be a thing, a substance that one can have, own, possess. The truth is,…
— Erich Fromm
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All power that anyone can possibly use is within, waiting to be made visible, first by recognizing it, then affirming it as ours.
— Charles F. Haanel
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Tao is obscured when men understand only one pair of opposites, or concentrate only on a partial aspect of being. Then clear expression also becomes…
— Zhuangzi
Who Wrote These Affirming Quotes
83 authors contributed a total of 84 Affirming Quotes, led by these top contributors: