Affirming Quotes

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One of the greatest gifts that 'Homeland' has given me is it's affirming on a daily basis. — Mandy Patinkin
Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes… — Norman Vincent Peale
We live in times of high stress. Messages that are simple, messages that are inspiring, messages that are life-affirming, are a welcome break from our… — Simon Sinek
A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he… — Desmond Tutu
Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist… — Oliver Wendell Holmes
She looks at herself in the mirror. The idea is to look sexy again. And for whom exactly? Yourself, of course. Yes, well, that's all… — Joshua Ferris
A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the… — Susan Sontag
To struggle against censorship, whatever its nature, and whatever the power under which it exists, is my duty as a writer, as are calls for… — Mikhail Bulgakov
...and suddenly it occurred to him that the birds, whose twitters and repeated songs sounded so pretty and affirming of nature and the coming day,… — David Foster Wallace
A government cannot be truly just without affirming the intrinsic value of human life. — Charles Colson
I dared, for the first and last time in my life, to express a theological conclusion: "But how can a necessary being exist totally polluted… — Umberto Eco
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 whingeing self-pity of… — Richard Dawkins
Iâ€™ve always been a dreamer, have always believed in the power of love and art and loud, life-affirming rock and roll, but, for the first… — Pete Wentz
Change your thoughts, change your life. â€”LAO TZU When I was fighting depression, I remember hearing this expression and not understanding it at first. When… — Demi Lovato
Affirming words from moms and dads are like light switches. Speak a word of affirmation at the right moment in a child's life and it's… — Gary Smalley
Most higher education is devoted to affirming the traditions and origins of an existing elite and transmitting them to new members. — Mary Catherine Bateson
When I first came to London, I loved hanging around in cafes, smoking, scribbling, dreaming. It was life-affirming and fun. — Peter Capaldi
Affirming belief that America is an exceptional nation has become a test of patriotism in American politics. — Michael Ignatieff
We are affirming human rights for all women and girls, acknowledging the full range of diversity that exists, and detailing actions to prevent violence. — Bella Abzug
Undermining life-affirming social solidarities and any viable notion of the public good, right-wing politicians trade in forms of idiocy and superstition that mesmerize the illiterate… — Henry Giroux

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