Quotes About Affirmation

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 mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

In her rare moments of desperation, she wanted a man to look at her like she meant the world to him, and failing that, she would settle for someone who thought she was beautiful and told her

Every woman should be told she's attractive. Men are seduced by their eyes, women by their ears. I would tell you every night and every morning." He

To fully and authentically affirm life, we must affirm all of life, including dying, death, and grief.

Nostalgic longing is always for an elsewhere. Remembrance is the affirmation of what brought us here.

And Elvex said, I was the man. - In Robot dreams (Short story)

Prométeme que siempre te vas a querer a ti misma como te quiero yo, Maya

Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is no affirmation of a deity.

Most people like praise . . . When it is really deserved, most people expand under it into richer and better selves.

To sing is to love and affirm, to fly and soar, to coast into the hearts of the people who listen, to tell them that life is to live, that love is there, that nothing is a promise, but that beauty exists, and must be hunted for and found.

Courage, in the final analysis, is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence.

It should be part of our private ritual to devote a quarter of an hour every day to the enumeration of the good qualities of our friends. When we are not active we fall back idly upon defects, even of those whom we most love.

To be told we are loved is not enough. We must feel loved.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Where there is no capacity to affirm another as a person in his own right, there is no love. There is only masked fear.

Humour is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

A friend of mine once earnestly said to his girlfriend, 'You look so pretty tonight,' and she replied, 'You're such a dork.' Her deflection was a total turn-off. It didn't make him feel attractive, nor did it encourage him to keep complimenting her.

I love to know that in all parts of the world, people want me. I need the attention.

When I approach a person, I feel a certain way. If I don't feel that way, I'm not going to approach that individual. "I see something in you" - I want the person to know that.

That's all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there.

People don't want novelty - they want the reassurance of familiarity. No-one wants to be challenged, no-one wants to have their minds blown. There is an insatiable appetite for affirmation.

When you choose to be angry you are affirming that you want greater anger in your life.

A great painting or symphony or play, doesn't diminish us, but enlarges us, and we, too, want to make our own cry of affirmation to the power of Creation behind the Universe.

And you look beautiful without it, but I want you to feel just as beautiful as I see you.