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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. -- Gary Smalley
Coming out to gays is a way of affirming sanity and self-worth. -- George Weinberg
Watching birds has become part of my daily meditation affirming my connection to the earth body. -- Carol P. Christ
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 and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful. -- Norman Vincent Peale
It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
The very purpose of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution is to protect minority rights against majority voters. Every court decision that strikes down discriminatory legislation, including past Supreme Court decisions, affirming the fundamental rights to marry the person you love, overrules a majority decision. -- David Boies
I have always believed that there is a need for life-affirming films. -- Anthony Minghella
A glorious failure can sometimes be more life affirming than a cautious win. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
A government cannot be truly just without affirming the intrinsic value of human life. -- Charles Colson
The world will persist in exhibiting before you what you persist in affirming the world is. -- Emma Curtis Hopkins
The power of our beliefs can work in either direction to become life affirming or life denying. -- Gregg Braden
Affirming belief that America is an exceptional nation has become a test of patriotism in American politics. -- Michael Ignatieff
Ribbons a-flutter and orchids a-tremble, Yearly the vigilant Daughters assemble, Affirming in fervid and firm resolutions Their permanent veto on all revolutions. -- Marya Mannes
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
When we shift from negatively complaining to positively affirming, conditions change. Then complaining is no longer the operative law in our life-freedom is. -- Michael Beckwith
Affirming others isn't 'flattering' them-it's when you genuinely and consistently acknowledge their efforts and accomplishments, both large and small. Make affirmation a habit and watch what happens! -- Leon F. "Lee" Ellis
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. -- Simon Doonan
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. -- Susan Sontag
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? -- Dennis Miller
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 alive and human and capable of being so moved. -- Brian Molko
Envy is one of the great enemies of active spirituality. It keeps us from loving our neighbours, from functioning with others in community, and from affirming people's unique worth. It also steals contentment from the heart. Is there anything or anyone you are envious of? -- Charles R. Swindoll
When I read War and Peace in Norway, really far away from humanity for a long time, it was such an amazing, affirming blast of "humanity" in all forms. It totally cracked my mind-nut open and rainbows shot out. I loved humanity and being alive, rather than wanting to bury my head in the snow. -- Phil Elvrum
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 infanticide...t here is no cause more important for preserving that freedom than affirming the transcendent right to life of all human beings, the right without which no other rights have any meaning. -- Ronald Reagan
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 or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed. -- Desmond Tutu
One of the greatest gifts that 'Homeland' has given me is it's affirming on a daily basis. -- Mandy Patinkin
By affirming your own gifts and accomplishments, you build your confidence and increase your ability to build a brighter future. -- Debbie Ford
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
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. -- Susan Wiggs
Jesus was not denying the legitimacy of biblical law. On the contrary, He was affirming biblical law. We love God first; God commands us to keep His word; therefore, we must enforce the law on ourselves. -- Gary North
Very curious, at the age of about 13 years, Oswald began to study Marxism and he kept on in his writing, affirming that he was a Marxist. Probably he did want to show himself as a great, supreme Marxist. -- John Sherman Cooper
My parents were just constantly affirming me in everything that I did. Late at night, I'd wake up and hear my mother talking over my bed, saying, 'You're going to do great on this test. You can do anything you want.' -- Stephen Covey
Americans are a lot more open, of course. There's something more declamatory in the way you express emotions. It's a stereotype but it's true. British people can appear repressed in expressing emotions. Not very good at self-evaluating, or affirming situations, touching, anything like that. -- Emily Blunt
Despite two decisions, in 2008 and 2010, by the U.S. Supreme Court unequivocally affirming that the Second Amendment to the Constitution guarantees an individual right to keep and bear arms against infringement by the government, state legislatures continue to do just that - enact laws that significantly infringe this fundamental human right. -- Bob Barr
The thing that I think is the most important is taking moments to express your appreciation to your partner. A thank you or a quick kiss can go a long way toward affirming your relationship and commitment to each other. That's not hard to do even when you're juggling insane careers and three kids. -- Michael Ian Black
Life affirming doesn't mean good things happen. -- James Gray
I think the film [Dream of Life] is life-affirming. -- Patti Smith
Movies that are consciously life-affirming are to be consciously avoided ... -- Pauline Kael
Every thought you think and every word you speak is affirming something. -- Louise Hay
Many couples have never learned the tremendous power of verbally affirming each other. -- Gary Chapman
You can make yourself enthusiastic by affirming enthusiasm and by thinking, talking, acting enthusiastic. -- Norman Vincent Peale
I am affirming that the casting couch for men exists in the modeling world -- Arjun Rampal
Goddess is the deep Source of creating integrity and the Self-affirming be-ing of women. -- Mary Daly
There is always money to kill people. There is never enough money for life affirming ends. -- Derrick Jensen
The most incredible beauty and the most satisfying way of life come from affirming your own uniqueness. -- Jane Fonda
When you choose to be angry you are affirming that you want greater anger in your life. -- Louise Hay
Hearing the record and seeing the response is affirming that it was the right time and right choice. -- Balthazar Getty
When we affirm that philosophy begins with wonder , we are affirming in effect that sentiment is prior to reason . -- Richard M. Weaver
When I first came to London, I loved hanging around in cafes, smoking, scribbling, dreaming. It was life-affirming and fun. -- Peter Capaldi
Most higher education is devoted to affirming the traditions and origins of an existing elite and transmitting them to new members. -- Mary Catherine Bateson
Art is a way to get strength from something that is life-affirming. It can be quite violent and still be life-affirming. -- Val Kilmer
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
When you blame others, you are affirming that you have no power, and your existence is only a reaction to the power of others. -- Bryant McGill
Because of the interconnectedness of all minds, affirming a positive vision may be about the most sophisticated action any one of us can take. -- Willis Harman
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. -- Brian Bird
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. -- Don Feder
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. -- David Abram
The memoirs that have come out of Africa are sometimes startlingly beautiful, often urgent, and essentially life-affirming, but they are all performances of courage and honesty. -- Alexandra Fuller
The human need for language is not simply for the transmission of meaning, it is at the same time listening to and affirming a person's existence. -- Gao Xingjian
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 -- Sarah Kane
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. -- Henry Blackaby
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. -- Simon Sinek
My son, who sees me almost every day of his life, will look at me and go, "I know that dude! I like that dude!" It's incredibly affirming. -- John Darnielle
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. -- Danielle LaPorte
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. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
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. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Research highlights a striking link between between encouraging child-raising and class. Half of working-class parents' interactions with their 12-18 month-olds were affirming, versus 80% among the affluent and 20% among those in poverty. -- Betty Hart
Her [Jurdge Sandra Day O'Connor] judgment has also been critical in protecting our environmental rights. She joined in 5-4 majorities affirming reproductive freedom and religious freedom and the Voting Rights Act. -- Patrick Leahy
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. -- Donald Miller
The wise legislator will only rarely initiate a new rule of behaviour; more usually he will confine himself to affirming in law what has already become the custom of the people. -- Gregory Bateson
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. -- bell hooks
I've just finished reading a book about the brilliant Margaret Rutherford. She wasn't a beauty, but inside she was absolutely blazing and passionate about her work. She's one of those life-affirming characters. -- Sophie Thompson
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 and render the thoughtful cynical and disengaged. -- Henry Giroux
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. -- William A. Henry III
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 those who feel that life owes them something. -- Richard Dawkins
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. -- David Fincher
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 the streets distributing handbills asking shoppers to boycott German goods..... -- Edwin Black

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