Quotes About Affirmation

We all need affirmation, but accepting accolades in an undisciplined way can lead to grandiosity, an inflated view of yourself and your cause. People may invest you with magic, and you can begin to think you have it. The higher the level of distress, the greater are people's hopes and expectations that you can provide deliverance. They may put too much faith in you.

We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.

Even the cry from the depths is an affirmation: Why cry if there is no hint of hope of hearing?

Much of our lives involves the word 'no.' In school we are mostly told, 'Don't do it this way. Do it that way.' But art is the big yes. In art, you get a chance to make something where there was nothing.

My mother's love for me was so great I have worked hard to justify it.

I want to be in a relationship where you telling me you love me is just a ceremonious validation of what you already show me.

I love you takes 3 seconds to say, 3 hours to explain, and a lifetime to prove.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.

The secret of loving is living loved.

Children desperately need to know - and to hear in ways they understand and remember - that they're loved and valued by mom and dad

It takes a moment to tell someone you love them, but it takes a lifetime to prove it

It is not only necessary to love, it is necessary to say so.

Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.

Wife: I love you. Husband: I love you too. Wife: Prove it, scream it to world. Husband:*whispers in ear* I love you. Wife: Why'd you whisper it to me? Husband: Because you are my world.

But you're everything I want. Remember that. I love you, Lia. Not a title. And not because a piece of paper says I should. Because I do.

Doubt was a poison I couldn't afford to sip.

Am I beautiful? It is for you alone. Say that you love me, for without you I cannot live.

So rare that we are told that we are doing just great, and good enough. So if you are doing all you can, I want you to know I'm proud of you! And I wanted to pass that along. And I hope you feel it, and that you know you're doing ok, 'cause you know. Despite what everyone else is saying, you'll know, and I hope you do!

I didn't enter into this to get any kind of affirmation or confirmation. I entered into this to see what I could do for other people to give them my sincerity, to give them my love and my care, to take a load off, to have a smile, to have a memory or two.

Buddhist wisdom implies the affirmation or recognition of everything and everyone in their distinctiveness or in their suchness.

Secular humanism finds that human life is meaningful and worthy, for no better reason than we judge life to be meaningful and worthy. Needing to be told by a higher authority how life is meaningful only deprives our lives of their intrinsic worth. Dignity and autonomy cannot depend on someone else, not even a god, who decides that you are worthy—one must affirm one's own right to live for oneself.

All a woman actually wants is to feel special.