My dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement.
I never want to lose touch with reality. I won't push $100 candles just because. I realized that I could create a hub of positivity and affirmation.
I don't set out to win awards. I don't think any musician does, but when you receive an award, it's an affirmation: it means that people appreciate what you do.
Self-affirmation cannot be found in love; it is a prior condition of genuine love.
I share Einstein's affirmation that anyone who is not lost in rapturous awe at the power and glory of the mind behind the universe "is as good as a burnt out candle."
I know what it's like to feel that fear and the need of affirmation and appreciation. To build confidence in yourself is the toughest thing.
The miracle of the seed and the soil is not available by affirmation; it is only available by labor.
Narcissists - people with an inflated self-concept and a strong sense of uniqueness and superiority - seek attention and affirmation on Facebook.
Affirmation literally means to validate or confirm. So when we think a thought over and over again, we are validating or confirming it as the truth.
Every thought we think and every word we speak is an affirmation of what we believe about life and it's the same with magnetism.
One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only when one has accepted death, not as contrary to life, but as an aspect of it.
There is nothing more profoundly serious than real comedy, which is an affirmation of human communion, redemption and grace.
The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.
I believe the approach of the artist and the approach of the environmentalist are fairly close in that both are, to a rather impressive degree, concerned with the affirmation of life.
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.
The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen.
Life is our greatest possession and love its greatest affirmation.
Rebellion, in man, is the refusal to be treated as an object and to be reduced to simple historical terms. It is the affirmation of a nature common to all men, which eludes the world of power.
Being an actor somehow can be a perverse extension of that feeling we generally all have as children, that feeling of wanting to please. Of course you're looking for affirmation, encouragement.
I see in the act of throwing the dice and of risking the affirmation of some intuitively felt truth, however uncertain, my whole reason for living.
Have you thought that your willingness to forgive is really your affirmation of the power of God to do you good?
As a Westerner, the child of civil rights and anti-war activists, I embraced Islam not in abandonment of my core values, drawn almost entirely from the progressive tradition, but as an affirmation of them.
Art, if it is successful in the task of questioning reality, if it is good painting and not merely a performance of dexterity, will be an affirmation of God.
Now in these troubled times, even more than ever, we need an affirmation that there is goodness and beauty in the world.
Judgment is affirmation with the intention to thereby affirm competently enough, and indeed aptly. That distinguishes judgments from mere guesses.
Affirmation statements are going beyond the reality of the present into the creation of the future through the words you use in the now.
Art for me...is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside of all the rules and all the demands of society.
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.
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.
Atheism in its negation of gods is at the same time the strongest affirmation of man, and through man, the eternal yea to life, purpose, and beauty.
Food sovereignty is an affirmation of who we are as indigenous peoples and a way, one of the most surefooted ways, to restore our relationship with the world around us.
Islam united all heresies persecuted in Byzantine Empire and synthesised them well into a conseffion that later became a symbol of Arab self-affirmation.
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!
Being 'one flesh' in marriage means that the relationship is not the source of security, affirmation, control, or value. Those issues of identity need to be rooted in Christ.
We rich people have been falsely persuaded by our schooling and the affirmation of society, and have convinced ourselves, that we are the main job creators. It's simply not true.
Atheism is a very positive affirmation of man's ability to think for himself, to do for himself, to find answers to his own problems.
There is more to joy than looking only for affirmation; refusing to be challenged is the only bigotry.
Everything comes out in blues music: joy , pain , struggle . Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance.
If you want your dream more than you have to have people's affirmation, that's how you break through your border bullies.
I'm not the type to demand affirmation or to worry that I'll be forgotten. I'm more the type to dare the world to forget me.
I'm good enough; I'm smart enough. Self-affirmation is where people list their core values. These are things that really make them who they are.
In order to qualify as a judgment, an affirmation must aim at getting it right aptly, through competence, and not just through a lucky guess.
We are always boosting or trying to prop up the ego by fulfilling some desire or other, and always craving affirmation from the outside.
For everyone, whatever his state--single, married, widowed, or priest-chastity is a triumphant affirmation of love.
You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which 'clicks.'
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.
Even the cry from the depths is an affirmation: Why cry if there is no hint of hope of hearing?
The Bishop goes on to the human eye, asking rhetorically, and with the implication that there is no answer, 'How could an organ so complex evolve?' This is not an argument, it is simply an affirmation of incredulity.
Real confidence comes from knowing and accepting yourself- your strengths and your limitations -in contrast to depending on affirmation from others.
Donald's need for affirmation is so great that he doesn't seem to notice that the largest group of his supporters are people he wouldn't condescend to be seen with outside of a rally.
The Buddhist message is a message not of the negation of life, but one of affirmation.
I know not what you mean by God; the word God is to me a sound conveying no clear or distinct affirmation.
People go into politics because they want the affirmation, and they want the applause.
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.
What has to be given up is not the I, but that drive for self-affirmation which impels man to flee from the unreliable, unsolid, unlasting, unpredictable, dangerous world of relation into the having of things.
The press and the public like certainty and affirmation of popular biases. But real science thrives on the capacity for doubt.
More consequences for thought and action follow the affirmation or denial of God than from answering any other basic question.
Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow line often separates affirmation from negation, sense from nonsense, and one sex from the other
What we need are poems that interrogate the world of pronouns, open up possibilities of language and life; forms of politics that support and encourage self-affirmation.
To affirm that men and women are persons and as persons should be free, and yet to do nothing tangible to make this affirmation a reality, is a farce.
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