Affirmation Quotes - Page 17

• Affirmation of the world, which means affirmation of the will-to-live that manifests itself around me, is only possible if I devote myself to other life.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Mean, World, Ifs

  Albert Schweitzer (1929). “Civilization and Ethics”

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• What the activity of this disposition of ours means in the evolution of the world, we do not know. Nor can we regulate this activity from outside; we must leave entirely to each individual
  its shaping and its extension. From every point of view, then, world- and life-affirmation and ethics are non-rational, and we must have the courage to admit it.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Mean, Views, World

  Albert Schweitzer (1929). “Civilization and Ethics”

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• A painting of any quality is always going to have nerdy energy, an affirmation behind it. It's gonna be like a kid playing a video game.

  John Currin

  Kids, Games, Quality

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Having expressed the rage against the laws and conditions that oppressed them - maybe even excess anger in the beginning was directed at men they came in contact with, because it had been pent up too long - women now come from a new position of easier, more comfortable self-affirmation and empowerment. Women are given to tolerance and are more able to love. I hope it happens also to men.

  Betty Friedan

  Men, Law, Self

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• It's enough for a small betrayal, a distancing, an affirmation of independence to provoke wrath, fear and also hatred from the adult. How many husbands and boyfriends kill the woman they say they love because she has decided to leave. It's in the news every day.

  Dacia Maraini

  Husband, Betrayal, Love Is

  "A ‘special’ writer. Dacia Maraini in interview". Interview with Vincenza Fanizza, www.threemonkeysonline.com.

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• Production of identity is a resistance element, an aggressive element. Both a refusal and an affirmation and an assertion, and certainly, we in Jamaica were talking about black art. And the idea that there is a role for art in the civil rights revolution and in the successor to the civil rights revolution.

  Mark McMorris

  Art, Ideas, Rights

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• When we have sold our identity to the judges of this world, we are bound to become restless, because of a growing need for affirmation and praise.

  Henri Nouwen

  Inspirational, Religious, Judging

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• The truth which has made us free will in the end make us glad also. Every outcry against the oppression of some people by other people, or against what is morally hideous is the affirmation of the principle that a human being as such is not to be violated. A human being is not to be handled as a tool but is to be respected and revered.

  Felix Adler

  Respect, People, Tolerance

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• Mind is all that counts. You can be whatever you make up your mind to be.

  Robert Collier

  Determination, Attitude, Mind

  Robert Collier (2012). “The Secret of the Ages”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• Every breath is a sacrament, an affirmation of our connection with all other living things, a renewal of our link with our ancestors and a contribution to generations yet to come. Our breath is a part of life's breath, the ocean of air that envelopes the earth.

  David Suzuki

  Ocean, Air, Earth

  David Suzuki (2007). “The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering Our Place in Nature, Updated and Expanded”, p.63, Greystone Books Ltd

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• Travel is the discovery of truth; an affirmation of the promise that human kind is far more beautiful than it is flawed. With each trip comes a new optimism that where there is despair and hardship, there are ideas and people just waiting to be energized, to be empowered, to make a difference for good.

  Dan Thompson

  Beautiful, Discovery, Ideas

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• We can help a person to be himself by our own willingness to steep ourselves temporarily in his world, in his private feelings and experiences. By our affirmation of the person as he is, we give him support and strength to take the next step in his own growth.

  Clark Moustakas

  Change, Strength, Being Yourself

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• Fear is an affirmation of your growth.

  Rhonda Britten

  Growth

  Rhonda Britten (2002). “Fearless Living: Live Without Excuses and Love Without Regret”, p.64, Penguin

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• You are not responsible for the programming you picked up in childhood. However, as an adult, you are one hundred percent responsible for fixing it.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Responsibility, Childhood, Fixing

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• More consequences for thought and action follow the affirmation or denial of God than from answering any other basic question.

  Mortimer Adler

  Denial, Action, Consequence

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• I don't want to escape via intellectual ruses – I want affirmations via passionate embraces & you can't have life unless you live it.

  Marsden Hartley

  Intellectual, Passionate, Want

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• Come home to the affirmation that we have a dream. Come home to the conviction that we can move our country forward. Come home to the belief that we can seek a newer world. And let us be joyful in the homecoming.

  George McGovern

  Inspirational, Dream, Country

  George McGovern (2004). “The Essential America: Our Founders and the Liberal Tradition”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

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• When affirmation and negation came into being, Tao faded. After Tao faded, then came one-sided attachments.

  Zhuangzi

  Attachment, Tao, Negation

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• For everyone, whatever his state--single, married, widowed, or priest-chastity is a triumphant affirmation of love.

  Josemaria Escriva

  Catholic, Married, States

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• The Duke and Swing represent affirmation in the face of adversity.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Adversity, Swings, Faces

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• Invite good things into your life. When you confess good things based on what God is saying, you'll begin to see more favor!

  Joel Osteen

  Favors, Good Things, Favor Of God

  Twitter post from Jan 20, 2012

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• Everything you do and every word you say can become a ministering seed. You can be a blessing to everyone with whom you come in contact.

  Kenneth Copeland

  Blessing, Words You Say, Contact

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• Every loss recapitulates earlier losses, but every affirmation of identity echoes earlier moments of clarity.

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  Loss, Echoes, Identity

  Mary Catherine Bateson (2007). “Composing a Life”, p.180, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I would say that deconstruction is affirmation rather than questioning, in a sense which is not positive: I would distinguish between the positive, or positions, and affirmations. I think that deconstruction is affirmative rather than questioning: this affirmation goes through some radical questioning, but it is not questioning in the field of analysis.

  Jacques Derrida

  Thinking, Analysis, Fields

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• I was a horrible student! It just sort of evolved as I started playing. I guess I became a master of it when I declared myself a wordsmith or a... word-play guy. As soon as I declared it and started that affirmation, I just became it.

  Jason Mraz

  Play, Guy, Students

  Interview with Lexi Shapiro, theywillrockyou.com. April 23, 2008.

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