Quotes About Affirmation

I cannot face you if you think I look at you and see anything less than the man you are. I am not settling for you, I am reaching for you, and there is a difference, and you are that man.'

You're so beautiful," he murmured. "So beautiful. You're kind and smart and the best lover I will ever have. And I love you. And you probably don't believe that and think I'm too young, but I've believed I was in love a thousand times, and this is the first time it made me better. Made me stronger. Made me someone who can really love and not someone who is constantly begging for what the world won't give me. You did that.

He told himself, "good-dog" but it wasn't the same.

A good lover will do that, see something worthwhile in you that you never knew was there. And when there's something you don't like to see in yourself a good lover won't see it either.

Avant de te connaître, j'avais rencontré le malheur, le désespoir. Avant de te connaître, allons donc, ces mots n'ont pas de sens. Tu sais bien qu'en te voyant la première fois, c'est sans la moindre hésitation que je t'ai reconnue.

People go into politics because they want the affirmation, and they want the applause.

For me, books were my source of affirmation. Alice Walker, Audrey Lord - it was these authors who wrote about their experiences. It was this weird thing where I was censored in terms of what I could watch but not in terms of what I could read.

I love positivity. I'm always saying, 'Well done' - maybe too often, in fact.

It always feels good when you hear another guy in your industry give you praise.

My father would tell me my defects but never praise me to my face. The good things about me he would only tell others when I wasn't around.

No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.

I declare that I am a bachelor.

If you've written something that you believe is true, and if you can afford to defend it, then you've got to defend it.

I can't deny the fact that you like me! You like me!

You have to learn to believe you deserve love. And I'm getting there. I'm starting to believe it.

We are all deserving of love.

If you're desperate enough for attention, any attention will make you feel better.

I have never been a member of a Tea Party.

Would you feel better inside if someone said to you that they really "need" you, or if they said, "I really love you and I want to be with you?

I passionately believe now that the best thing you can do for your children is make them feel loved and make them feel special. To live the first five years of your life feeling that you are valuable is a wonderful thing and, if you don't have it, then you spend the rest of your life trying to find it. I think my mother realised this and tried to compensate for my father's extreme preoccupation with himself.

Well, I affirm orthodox Christian faith. I affirm the Nicene Creed. I don't think I'm doing anything terribly new.

No, you're not like me. You're better. A better person, a better goddamn everything. Now, eat your breakfast. And if you open your mouth to say you aren't everything I know you are, I'll stuff that bagel in it. Plain. Without cream cheese. Healthy food--the ultimate threat.

Art does not deny that evil is real, but it places evil in a context that implies an affirmation; the structure of the picture, which is a metaphor for the structure of the Creation, suggests that evil is not final.

in deciding whether a possibility is correct, people typically look for hits rather than misses; for confirmations of the idea rather than for disconfirmations.