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Quotes About Affirmation

When I say I love you and you don't believe me, you're being a jerk. Basically what you're saying is I only love conditionally. You think you're being self-deprecating and funny, but you're really saying I'm not a good enough person to love you if you have a few flaws. It gets old.
~ Donald Miller
I think that's why so many couples fight, because they want their partners to validate them and affirm them, and if they don't get that, they feel as though they're going to die. And so they lash out. But it's a terrible thing to wake up and realize the person you just finished crucifying wasn't Jesus.
~ Donald Miller
Customers aren't looking for brands that are filled with doubt and want affirmation; they're looking for brands that have solutions to their problems.
~ Donald Miller
like a stray dog hungry for affection, I felt some profound shift in allegiance, blood-deep, a sudden, humiliating, eyewatering conviction of this place is good, this person is safe, I can trust him, nobody will hurt me here.
~ Donna Tartt
Bastard." "You love me." "Yes, I do. Now let me come.
~ Jaci Burton
What did it sound like...having someone call your name across a crowded school yard? How did it feel to turn to the sound of your name, to see some smiling face or waving hand and know it was for you and you alone?" —Staggerlee
~ Jacqueline Woodson
Keep telling yourself that, m'lady. Maybe you'll come to believe it.
~ Unknown
Do you really love me?" "Yes." "Do you promise?" "Yes." "Pinky swear?" "Pinky swear?" She chuckled. "Where on earth did you learn that?" "From TV. Now do it. Give me your pinky swear, hayati .
~ Unknown
I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.
~ James A. Baldwin
As I see it, only two types of men capture entirely the grandeur of the human being: the anarchist and the authentically religious man. By nature, man is relation to the infinite: on the one hand, the anarchist affirms himself to an infinite degree, while, on the other, the authentically religious man accepts the infinite as his meaning.
~ Unknown
A man must be able to affirm, I know for certain, that what I teach is the only Word of the high Majesty of God in heaven, his final conclusion and everlasting, unchangeable truth, and whatsoever concurs and agrees not with this doctrine, is altogether false, and spun by the devil.
~ Unknown
Any teaching that sets self-love as the highest good is false teaching, and we are susceptible to it because it appeals to that deep yearning for affirmation we feel at our very core. That's why it hooks us.
~ Unknown
Surround yourself with 'yay-sayers' not naysayers.
~ Lynn A. Robinson
Say me aye," he whispered against her mouth. "Say me aye." How could she say anything else?
~ Lynn Kurland
It's easy to live loved when I feel loved.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
We must embrace the boundaries of the healthy eating plan we choose. And we must affirm these boundaries as gifts from a God who cares about our health, not restrictive fences meant to keep us from enjoying life. Vulnerable, broken taste buds can't handle certain kinds of freedom. Boundaries keep us safe, not restricted.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
Because you're the reason. Swear it.
~ Madeline Miller
Todo hombre anhela que lo elogien y que encima de eso, le paguen bien.
~ John Eldredge
The father is to speak into his son's heart deep affirmation. Yes, you do. You have what it takes. He needs a hundred experiences that will help him get there, and he is wounded and emasculated when he is kept from those experiences, or left on his own to interpret them, or when no one is there to help him in his journey toward initiation.
~ John Eldredge
A man commonly makes the mistake of thinking that once he has met all of a woman's primary love needs, and she feels happy and secure, that she should know from then on that she is loved. This is not the case. To fulfill her sixth primary love need he must remember to reassure her again and again.
~ John Gray
I'm a very insecure and emotional person still looking to be loved by everyone else.
~ Richard Simmons
You dare your Yes - and experience a meaning...You repeat your Yes - and all things acquire a meaning...When everything has a meaning, how can you live anything but a YES.
~ Dag Hammarskjold
Our faith is really proven in the way we talk to ourselves. The loudest human voice you will listen to is your own. Choose your words wisely.
~ Christine Caine
Well, I affirm orthodox Christian faith. I affirm the Nicene Creed. I don't think I'm doing anything terribly new.
~ Rob Bell