Affirming Quotes

Affirming Quote of the day

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 like lighting up a whole roomful of possibilities.

The world will persist in exhibiting before you what you persist in affirming the world is.

God is not in a hurry to fix us. Our behavior is not his first priority. We are his first priority. Loving us, knowing us, affirming us, protecting us. That is his top goal and his main concern.

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 primacy of "spirit" over matter.

I have always believed that there is a need for life-affirming films.

The most incredible beauty and the most satisfying way of life come from affirming your own uniqueness.

Watching birds has become part of my daily meditation affirming my connection to the earth body.

To create something beautiful about despair or out of a feeling of despair is for me the most hopeful life affirming thing a person can do

The wreckage of stars - I built a world from this wreckage.

Action eradicates fear. No matter what you fear,--- positive, self-affirming action can diminish or completely cancel that which you are fearful of.

The power of our beliefs can work in either direction to become life affirming or life denying.

A government cannot be truly just without affirming the intrinsic value of human life.

All power that anyone can possibly use is within, waiting to be made visible, first by recognizing it, then affirming it as ours.

When we shift from negatively complaining to positively affirming, conditions change. Then complaining is no longer the operative law in our life-freedom is.

Goddess is the deep Source of creating integrity and the Self-affirming be-ing of women.

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 very much about doing what it takes.

Because of the interconnectedness of all minds, affirming a positive vision may be about the most sophisticated action any one of us can take.

Knowing who you really are and dressing the part -- with an air of amused recklessness -- is life affirming for you and life enhancing for other people.

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 world.

Most higher education is devoted to affirming the traditions and origins of an existing elite and transmitting them to new members.

Ribbons a-flutter and orchids a-tremble, Yearly the vigilant Daughters assemble, Affirming in fervid and firm resolutions Their permanent veto on all revolutions.

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 in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.

Never ever discount the idea of marriage. Sure, someone might tell you that marriage is just a piece of paper. Well, so is money, and what's more life-affirming than cold, hard cash?

Make yourself your role model, because people who do not have qualities depend on the qualities of others to shape their own qualities.

Every thought you think and every word you speak is affirming something.

The essence of sin is a shift from God centeredness to a self-centeredness. The essence of salvation is a denial of self, not an affirming of self.

I can always look up at the cosmos and marvel, no matter what happens. And when I look up at it, I feel as though my problems are small. I don't know why, but it always makes me feel better.

Constantly reemphasize to yourself the great fact that God built potential strength into your nature. By affirming it and practicing it, this basic strength will toughen up as muscles do.

Movies that are consciously life-affirming are to be consciously avoided.

Where a generation ago people felt entitled to a chance at education, they now feel entitled to the credential affirming that they have completed a course of study regardless of their actual mastery.

Many couples have never learned the tremendous power of verbally affirming each other.

Role models are only of limited use. For no-one is as important, potentially powerful and as key in your life and world as you.

A glorious failure can sometimes be more life affirming than a cautious win.

You can make yourself enthusiastic by affirming enthusiasm and by thinking, talking, acting enthusiastic.

The sexual conquest is huge with men in terms of affirming themselves and their feelings of masculinity. That's a misguided kind of affirmation. That is not helpful, but that stuff happens.

Art is a way to get strength from something that is life-affirming. It can be quite violent and still be life-affirming.

Hearing the record and seeing the response is affirming that it was the right time and right choice.

When I first came to London, I loved hanging around in cafes, smoking, scribbling, dreaming. It was life-affirming and fun.

There is always money to kill people. There is never enough money for life affirming ends.

The first fact about the celebration of a birthday is that it is a way of affirming defiantly, and even flamboyantly, that it is a good thing to be alive.

I am affirming that the casting couch for men exists in the modeling world

I love my life, my family and my friends, and I'm drawn to 'relationship' novels because of their affirming focus on the power of love to heal wounds and transform lives.

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 real lives.

Often girls feel deeply cared about as small children but then find as we develop willpower and independent thought that the world stops affirming us, that we are seen as unlovable.

When we affirm that philosophy begins with wonder , we are affirming in effect that sentiment is prior to reason .

I grew up in church and it's always been important to me. I've always had a sense of calling to do life and faith-affirming media.

I think the film [Dream of Life] is life-affirming.

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 like it when you don't lead the bad guy off in cuffs.

A healthy society is life-affirming. Homosexuality is the metaphysical negation of life. Incapable of reproduction (giving life), it can replenish its numbers only by seduction.

One of the greatest gifts that 'Homeland' has given me is it's affirming on a daily basis.