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Quotes About Affirming

Váyase a casa, Montang. Váyase a la cama, ¿Por qué desperdiciar sus horas finales, dando vueltas en su jaula y afirmando que no es una ardilla?
~ Ray Bradbury
The first is that all effort to negate self only succeeds in affirming it. The second is that self is not a thing but a reference position.
~ Ray Grigg
We have to start making sure that churches start to talk about... black queerness in a way that's affirming. Because a lot of young black men are in the church, and that's where they start to learn this self-hate behavior.
~ Karamo Brown
There once was this powerful, both capital and political, class who cared about supporting and affirming a solid middle class in this country.
~ Ethan Canin
Moms being moms, they're very supportive, and they're always talking very highly of you.
~ Charlotte Dujardin
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
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
The power of our beliefs can work in either direction to become life affirming or life denying.
~ Gregg Braden
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
My family was loving... they were very supportive and very affectionate, and basically I could do what I wanted, and basically it wasn't anything dangerous, thank God.
~ Bob Balaban
Gong is the only instrument that can create the vibration of affirming. Life becomes yes to you and the word no is eliminated from your dictionary.
~ Yogi Bhajan
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.
~ Lisa Hanawalt
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
Movies that are consciously life-affirming are to be consciously avoided.
~ Pauline Kael
When I first came to London, I loved hanging around in cafes, smoking, scribbling, dreaming. It was life-affirming and fun.
~ Peter Capaldi
I think the film [Dream of Life] is life-affirming.
~ Patti Smith
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
If Scripture teaches the imputation of sin, we should not stumble when we find it affirming the imputation of righteousness.
~ Arthur W. Pink
It is the mistaken idea that if I reward mediocrity, I will curtail the person's aspirations to be better. That is a commonly held myth that keeps some parents from verbally affirming children. Of course, it's untrue.
~ Gary D Chapman
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.
~ Irvine Welsh
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
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
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
I've had surprises on the campaign trail that have both been just absolutely inspiring and affirming of the great values of the people of this country, and I've had some experiences that are disappointing and troubling.
~ Katie McGinty