Quotes About Affirmation

What you think repeatedly will happen almost certainly.

A little praise is good for a shy temper; it teaches it to rely on the kindness of others.

Praise is sometimes a good thing for the diffident and the despondent. It teaches them properly to rely on the kindness of others.

To love someone is to show to them their beauty, their worth and their importance.

Today is Father's Day. Until my stroke, we had felt no need to fit this made-up holiday into our emotional calendar. But today we spend the whole of the symbolic day together, affirming that even a rough sketch, a shadow, a tiny fragment of a dad is still a dad.

He was too tough to experience disappointments and resentments — negative affections. In this nihilist fin de siècle, he was affirmation. Right through to illness and death. Why did I speak of him in the past? He laughed, he is laughing, he is here. It's your sadness, idiot, he'd say.

Say you are well, or all is well with you, and God shall hear your words and make them come true. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Giving your mother a good night kiss is totally punk rock, and don't you forget it!)

Her compulsive striving becomes the mode and mantra that she lives by, a trap that frequently becomes a lifelong pattern. The child, unable to remain grounded in the positive nature of her being, now becomes mesmerized by the conditional realities that she has learned will elicit affirmation.

Well, you just don't seem very...proud of me. He started to say that he was, but she interrupted him, saying, Don't. It's like my saying you never say you love me, and your saying it then. It doesn't matter, then. It doesn't count.

This proclamation of intent and entitlement is not something you can do just once and then expect miracles; it's something you must do daily, forever.

Opening up space for ourselves is a life-affirming act, a sacred act. I believe we must all be allowed to affirm and open our own lives, in celebration of the miracle of our existence. I do not believe we were put here on Earth to feel sick and weary and sad forever. I do not believe we were put here to grow old when we are still young. This

Every time a diminishing thought arises, I repeat the vow I will not harbor unhealthy thoughts anymore.

But if you're working on your craft every day on your own, with steady discipline and love, then you are already for real as a creator, and you don't need to pay anybody to affirm that for you.

My father was right: you could make anybody amazing just by insisting they were.

The approval of a cat cannot but flatter the recipient.

What fun it had been, having an admirer even for that little while. No wonder people liked admirers. They seemed, in some strange way, to make one come alive.

Think of it as affirmative brainwashing. The more you articulate your child's strengths and gifts, the more both of you grow to believe it.

I'm signaling to others that I'm good.

In seasons of hiddenness our sense of value is disrupted, stripped of what "others" affirmed us to be. In this season God intends to give us an unshakable identity in Him, that no amount of adoration nor rejection can alter.

I smiled sweetly and pushed up on my tiptoes, kissing him softly on his too-chapped lips, and agreed. "Yes, to us.

Parents need to fill a child's bucket of self-esteem so high that the rest of the world can't oke enough holes to drain it dry.

So it's a yes, then?" To blue-corn pancakes or being your girlfriend?

La estupidez consiste en querer concluir», escribió Flaubert. Pocas veces se confirmaba esa afirmación como en las disputas, donde se identificaba al imbécil por su obsesión por querer tener la última palabra.