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• Farewell is said by the living, in life, every day. It is said with love and friendship, with the affirmation that the memories are lasting if the flesh is not.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Memories, Farewell, Bereavement

  R.A. Salvatore (2009). “The Legacy: The Legend of Drizzt”, p.237, Wizards of the Coast

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• Beloved community is formed not by the eradication of difference but by its affirmation, by each of us claiming the identities and cultural legacies that shape who we are and how we live in the world.

  Bell Hooks

  Beloved Community, Differences, Identity

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• This isn't romance. This isn't a declaration of love or affirmation of friendship. This is something more.

  Melina Marchetta

  Romance, Declaration, Declarations Of Love

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• Few things build a person up like affirmation. According to Webster’s New World Dictionary, Third College Edition (Simon and Schuster, 1991), the word affirm comes from ad firmare, which means “to make firm.” So when you affirm people, you make firm within them the things you see about them. Do that often enough, and the belief that solidifies within them will become stronger than the doubts they have about themselves.

  John C. Maxwell

  Mean, College, People

  John C. Maxwell (2011). “The 360 Degree Leader: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization”, p.115, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Isn't it grand, isn't it good, that language has only one word for everything we associate with love - from utter sanctity to the most fleshly lust? The result is perfect clarity in ambiguity, for love cannot be disembodied even in its most sanctified forms, nor is it without sanctity even at its most fleshly. Love is always simply itself, both as a subtle affirmation of life and as the highest passion; love is our sympathy with organic life.

  Thomas Mann

  Love, Passion, Perfect

  Thomas Mann (1995). “The magic mountain: a novel”, Random House, Inc.

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• Abuse and neglect negate love. Care and affirmation, the opposite of abuse and humiliation, are the foundation of love. No one can rightfully claim to be loving when behaving abusively.

  Bell Hooks

  Opposites, Abuse, Foundation

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• Constant repetition carries conviction.

  Robert Collier

  Positive, Mma, Conviction

  Robert Collier (2010). “The Life Magnet”, p.265, Penguin

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• Now let me say that the next thing we must be concerned about if we are to have peace on earth and good will toward men is the nonviolent affirmation of the sacredness of all human life. Every man is somebody because he is a child of God.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Children, Men, Inspire

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• It's a career that's enticing because you go on stage, for example, and people clap. You get that affirmation, but you can't go into acting for that because it's really your own self-belief that's going to get you through.

  Miranda Otto

  Self, Careers, People

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• The correct prayer is therefore never a prayer of supplication, but a prayer of gratitude. When you thank God in advance for that which you choose to experience in your reality, you in effect, acknowledge that it is there...in effect. Thankfulness is thus the most powerful statement to God - an affirmation that even before you ask, I have answered. Therefore never supplicate... Appreciate.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Spiritual, Gratitude, Prayer

  Neale Donald Walsch (1996). “Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.19, Penguin

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• All life is sacred. Since life is an affirmation of the Creator, I shall live on, even when I am gone. In trailing clouds of glory shall I return to my Creator only to find that I had never really left. I shall walk among the lilies of the field and leave my trail in stardust in the sky.

  John Harricharan

  Grieving, Clouds, Sky

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• The minute you say "I can't", it is another wrong affirmation to your subconscious that you choose to lose.

  Tsem Tulku

  Buddhist, Inspiration, Minutes

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• Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Powerful, Philosophical, Thinking

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• There is more to joy than looking only for affirmation; refusing to be challenged is the only bigotry.

  Criss Jami

  Joy, Challenges, Bigotry

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.101, Criss Jami

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• Be very careful what you say to yourself because someone very important is listening . . . YOU!

  John Assaraf

  Inspirational, Positive, Growth

  FaceBook post by John Assaraf from Dec 07, 2014

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• If you're depressed and called Morgan spend the first half of the day in Germany for some positive affirmation.

  Milton Jones

  Half, Firsts, Germany

  Twitter post from May 07, 2013

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• I started with the belief that every person who came to the laboratory was free to accept or to reject the dictates of authority. This view sustains a conception of human dignity insofar as it sees in each man a capacity for choosing his own behavior. And as it turned out, many subjects did, indeed, choose to reject the experimenter's commands, providing a powerful affirmation of human ideals.

  Stanley Milgram

  Powerful, Men, Views

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• Reading is actually plunging into one's own identity and, one hopes, emerging stronger than before. You see, unconsciously, we are seeking to find an affirmation to our own world perception and set of values.

  Amalia Kahana-Carmon

  Book, Reading, Perception

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• An atheist, like a Christian, holds that we can know whether or not there is a God. The Christian holds that we can know there is a God; the atheist, that we can know there is not. The Agnostic suspends judgment, saying that there are not sufficient grounds either for affirmation or for denial. At the same time, an Agnostic may hold that the existence of God, though not impossible, is very improbable; he may even hold it so improbable that it is not worth considering in practice. In that case, he is not far removed from atheism.

  Bertrand Russell

  Christian, Atheist, Practice

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.557, Routledge

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• The Mayor, Aldermen and Councilors of the City of Nauvoo, IL, before entering upon the duties of their office, shall take and subscribe an oath or affirmation that they will support the Constitution of the United States, and of this State and that they will well and truly perform the duties of their offices to the best of their skill and abilities.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Freedom, Cities, America

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• Tao is obscured when men understand only one pair of opposites, or concentrate only on a partial aspect of being. Then clear expression also becomes muddled by mere wordplay, affirming this one aspect and denying all the rest. The pivot of Tao passes through the center where all affirmations and denials converge. He who grasps the pivot is at the still-point from which all movements and oppositions can be seen in their right relationship... Abandoning all thought of imposing a limit or taking sides, he rests in direct intuition.

  Zhuangzi

  Men, Expression, Opposites

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• The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated."Mark McCormack, Author and sports entrepreneur"Psychologists tell us that money is a satisfier, not a motivator... Recognition is. That's why we do what we do... Recognition is critical to self-esteem. Without it, we feel undervalued, even insignificant. Money is nice, sure. But once you establish a basis of monetary rewards, without the accompanying verbal and social affirmation, the employee will quickly become disgruntled and ask for more. Eventually, more will never be enough.

  John Baldoni

  Inspiring, Sports, Nice

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• Some young ladies are so starved for male approval that what should be a normal attraction to men is accelerated into an obsessive need for male affirmation. Tragically, these dear ladies allow themselves to be devoured in the arms of men who have neither regard not respect for them as people.

  T. D. Jakes

  Men, People, Males

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• Faith is a state of mind which may be induced, or created, by affirmation or repeated instructions to the subconscious mind, through the principle of auto-suggestion .

  Napoleon Hill

  Mind, Principles, Suggestions

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.43, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• The force of what was called Panther rhetoric or word mongering resided not in elegant discourse but in strength of affirmation (or denial), in anger of tone and timbre. When the anger led to action there was no turgidity or over-emphasis. Anyone who has witnessed political rows among the Whites will have to admit that the Whites aren't overburdened with poetic imagination.

  Jean Genet

  Imagination, Political, Denial

  Jean Genet (2003). “Prisoner of Love”, New York Review of Books

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