Top 189 Affirming Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated on April 14, 2025.
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.
When we affirm that philosophy begins with wonder , we are affirming in effect that sentiment is prior to reason .
We are affirming human rights for all women and girls, acknowledging the full range of diversity that exists, and detailing actions to prevent violence.
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.
I have always believed that there is a need for life-affirming films.
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.
A glorious failure can sometimes be more life affirming than a cautious win.
Movies that are consciously life-affirming are to be consciously avoided.
What a writer's message is is totally unimportant. Either he is agreeing with life by affirming, or he is saying life is just a bowl of wormwood.
Every thought you think and every word you speak is affirming something.
Goddess is the deep Source of creating integrity and the Self-affirming be-ing of women.
There is no African, myself included, who does not appreciate the help of the wider world, but we do question whether aid is genuine or given in the spirit of affirming one's cultural superiority.
Clearly, we must denounce militaristic approaches to global unrest and find life-affirming ways to end repressive cycles of violence rooted in discrimination, humiliation, and despair.
I think the film [Dream of Life] is life-affirming.
Wearing your hair natural is a positive statement about who you are. It's not a protest to somebody else. It's affirming you.
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!
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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.
By appeasing the anti-racism lobby and affirming its culture of grievance, public institutions and business leaders are not making Britain a fairer place. In fact they are harming the very people they aspire to help.
Watching birds has become part of my daily meditation affirming my connection to the earth body.
Ribbons a-flutter and orchids a-tremble, Yearly the vigilant Daughters assemble, Affirming in fervid and firm resolutions Their permanent veto on all revolutions.
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.
One of the greatest gifts that 'Homeland' has given me is it's affirming on a daily basis.
Coming out to gays is a way of affirming sanity and self-worth.
I am affirming that the casting couch for men exists in the modeling world
Life affirming doesn't mean good things happen.
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.
Fellowshipping really is about loving all people of like mind, affirming your faith in that relationship.
Many couples have never learned the tremendous power of verbally affirming each other.
Recognition of the modes of existence of technical objects must be the result of philosophic consideration; what philosophy has to achieve in this respect is analogous to what the abolition of slavery achieved in affirming the worth of the individual human being.
One of the things I think I can do in my lifetime is stop to remind myself that - and keep affirming that - women can sell movies.
Most higher education is devoted to affirming the traditions and origins of an existing elite and transmitting them to new members.
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.
Because of the interconnectedness of all minds, affirming a positive vision may be about the most sophisticated action any one of us can take.
All power that anyone can possibly use is within, waiting to be made visible, first by recognizing it, then affirming it as ours.
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.
You can make yourself enthusiastic by affirming enthusiasm and by thinking, talking, acting enthusiastic.
There is always money to kill people. There is never enough money for life affirming ends.
When we shift from negatively complaining to positively affirming, conditions change. Then complaining is no longer the operative law in our life-freedom is.
The power of our beliefs can work in either direction to become life affirming or life denying.
I do not believe I am exaggerating in affirming that the empire of Russia is a country whose inhabitants are the most miserable on earth, because they suffer at one and the same time the evils of barbarism and of civilization.
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.
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.
Sobriety has been the most life-affirming path for me.
When you choose to be angry you are affirming that you want greater anger in your life.
Going to meetings for Time's Up has been deeply affirming for me.
It was quite life-affirming, for me, that I felt hat kind of pity for [Margaret Thatcher], because I didn't think I ever would.
The most incredible beauty and the most satisfying way of life come from affirming your own uniqueness.
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.
Affirming belief that America is an exceptional nation has become a test of patriotism in American politics.
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
I think a lot of people see fashion as a feminine art form and use that as an excuse to dismiss it. Highlighting it can be a way of affirming that women's interests are of value.
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.
As a black person of non-gender-conforming experience, my first existentially reciprocal and affirming experiences were in the New York ballrooms.
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.
Art is a way to get strength from something that is life-affirming. It can be quite violent and still be life-affirming.
A government cannot be truly just without affirming the intrinsic value of human life.
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.
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.
There once was this powerful, both capital and political, class who cared about supporting and affirming a solid middle class in this country.
