Bears Quote by Gilles Deleuze

“The most powerful affirmation doesn’t come from the conscious mind but from your Soul, an affirmation in which you are not trying to convince…

— Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D

“Affirmations basically mean that you talk to yourself about yourself in a positive manner.”

— Rahul Badami

“Self-affirm—build yourself up with honest and genuine praise.”

— Lorii Myers

“Love must correct. Lloyd John Ogilvie writes, "Affirmation of people does not have to mean advocacy for their wrongful lifestyle or behavior." Affirmation labors…

— Sam Crabtree

Let us often think of our own infirmities, and we shall become indulgent toward those of others.

— Francois Fenelon

“Freedom, privileges, options, must constantly be exercised, even at the risk of inconvenience. Otherwise they fall into desuetude and become unfashionable, unorthodox—finally irregulationary.”

— Jack Vance

“No doubt our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be.”

— John Fowles

“To be completely free, compelled by none to do as they wished”

— John Harrison

If we must accept fate we are not less compelled to affirm liberty, the significance of the individual, the grandeur of duty, the power…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Any scripture that demands irrefutable obedience must be discarded at once.”

— Abhijit Naskar

[R]est assured that, when you remain thus in the state in which obedience has placed you, the merit of this same obedience extends over…

— Vincent de Paul

“I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I…

— James Joyce