Quotes About Affirmation

The new sensibility has become, by this very token, praxis: it emerges in the struggle against violence and exploitation where this struggle is waged for essentially new ways and forms of life: negation of the entire Establishment, its morality, culture; affirmation of the right to build a society in which the abolition of poverty and toil terminates in a universe where the sensuous, the playful, the calm, and the beautiful become forms of existence and thereby the Form of the society itself.

if the thing denied is the possibility of reducing Sociology to the form of an exact science; then the rejoinder is that the thing denied is a thing which no one has affirmed. . . But so far as there can be generalization, and so far as there can be interpretation based on it, so far there can be science.

Tereza's death hurt me so much, it was as if I had two heads smashing into each other. One was full of mown love, the other of hate. I wanted the love to grow back. It grew like grass and straw, all mixed up together, and turned into an icy affirmation on my brow. That was my damn stupid plant.

I promised myself I would do this, if I ever had the chance again. I promised I would do this the first moment I could. "I love you," I say

Was there anything better than to be wanted? Was that all anyone really needed?

both responded like thirsty plants to water when it came to parental approval.

She always said yes to whoever asked her out. It wouldn't have occurred to her to say no.

Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better. —The classic conscious auto-suggestion created by the famous French psychologist and pharmacist (the "father of auto hypnosis"), Émile Coué (1857–1926)

Yes I am the best even bobble heads tell me yes.

The only one," he murmured. His chin dipped a little bit. "You know that, Dru? You're the only person who's ever believed in me. You know what that'll do to a guy?" What?"I-" "It makes him want to live up to it.

When you get dressed each day, look in the mirror and say, "I look great!" It doesn't matter if you're wearing a baggy dress and worn shoes. Pretend! Imagine how you would talk to others, do your work, and raise your children if you truly felt great about yourself. Then live out of that internal picture, acting "as if" those things were true.

When a man and woman are successfully in love, their whole activity is energized and victorious. They walk better, their digestion improves, they think more clearly, their secret worries drop away, the world is fresh and interesting, and they can do more than they dreamed that they could do. In love of this kind sexual intimacy is not the dead end of desire as it is in romantic or promiscuous love, but periodic affirmation of the inward delight of desire pervading an active life.

Courage' isn't the kinds of word you use to describe yourself, Nick, even if we both know it's true. That only works if other people are saying it.

Courage' isn't the kind of word you use to describe yourself, Nick, even if we both know it's true. That only works if other people are saying it.

Zach said, "I love you, Lula, I love you so much," she didn't stop for even a second before replying that she loved him too. Because right then, for that moment in time, she really did.

Still, it's always nice to be around somebody who thinks I am wonderful. It confirms my low opinion of people.

With the focus on yourself, begin to recite the following phrases: May I be happy. May I be healed and healthy. May I be filled with peace and ease. May I be safe.

Say it," she said, and he said, "I love you. I'll always love you. Forever. It's a life sentence. Now put the damn ring on.

When somebody says or does something you like. Amen.

You're amazing,' he would say, and I would feel like a buttercream with a hazelnut heart

You are more capable of being loved than you understand. And—Celeste, this is important—you nurture and love and protect more than anyone I have known. Or could know. Don't take that away from me. From us.

Your words are so powerful and precious. Learn to harness them, guide them and let them work for you.

We just speaking stuff into existence, on God.

The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.