Top 100 Affirm Quotes

#1. Happiness and depression cannot blossom on the same vine. Some people affirm their woes and beg for sympathy. Others, unfortunately, cast gloom wherever they go. These poor souls were born sick and tired.

Louis Sullivan

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#2. But if you search further, you find in yourself nothing similar to God, but rather you affirm that God stands above all this as cause, origin, and the light of life of your intellective soul.

Nicholas Of Cusa

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#3. The inerrancy of Scripture means that scripture in the original manuscripts does not affirm anything that is contrary to fact.

Wayne Grudem

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#4. Most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge.

Plato

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#5. Affirm your life's destiny & purpose to ensure - both are graciously fulfilled.

Eleesha

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#6. To affirm is not to bear, carry, or harness oneself to that which exists, but on the contrary to unburden, unharness, and set free that which lives.

Gilles Deleuze

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#7. Read the Scripture to renew your mind.
Mediate on the Scripture to nourish your soul.
Affirm the Scripture to revive your spirit

Lailah Gifty Akita

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#8. Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy?

Bell Hooks

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#9. Affirm: I place no limits and no restrictions on all that I intend to accomplish and become from here on in.

Wayne W. Dyer

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#10. Conflicts are not a sign you've married the wrong person. They simply affirm you are human.

Gary Chapman

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#11. We are here to affirm, not to deny ... when we affirm all that is God, all that is not God is automatically denied.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

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#12. You will come across people who always affirm by everything you say, but at the hour of need, they simply disappear! Stay away from such people or simply don't fall for their promises.

K. Hari Kumar

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#13. The way to get rid of darkness is with light; the way to overcome cold is with heat; the way to overcome the negative thought is to substitute the good thought. Affirm the good, and the bad will vanish.
- The power of your subconcious mind

Joseph Murphy

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#14. It is possible, it seems, to affirm everything the creed says - especially Jesus's "divine" status and his bodily resurrection - but to know nothing of what the gospel writers were trying to say. Something is seriously wrong here.

N. T. Wright

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#15. That's why I believe that we must never fail to affirm that we are indeed one nation under God.

Lee Greenwood

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#16. We will have to stand up for and promote the power and promise of free markets and free peoples, and affirm that American preeminence safeguards rather than impedes global progress.

Condoleezza Rice

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#17. You don't give people dignity. You affirm it.

John M. Perkins

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#18. Our enemies send other people's children on missions of suicide and murder. They embrace tyranny and death as a cause and a creed. We stand for a different choice - made long ago, on the day of our founding. We affirm it again today. We choose freedom and the dignity of every life.

George W. Bush

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#19. The sobering anwer is yes - the white community is so entitled because ... it is the advanced race ... it is more important ... to affirm and live by civilized standards ... than to bow to the demands of the numerical majority.

William F. Buckley Jr.

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#20. Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.

Plato

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#21. AFFIRM TO YOURSELF
'I am enthusiastic and eager to change myself, to move ahead and build a new future.

Sirshree

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#22. Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.

George W. Bush

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#23. I realized at that instant just how surely the affirmation of demons or the summoning of Satan somehow can affirm the reality of their mystic antithesis - the God of Abraham.

Dan Simmons

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#24. Don't surround yourself with people who just affirm you. Surround yourself with people who challenge you.

Tony Robbins

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#25. Wherever you find truth, wherever you discover something new, affirm it, embrace it, enjoy it.

Rob Bell

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#26. AFFIRM TO YOURSELF
I believe in the way life works. That which takes care of everything, even the creatures at the bottom of the sea, will take care of me too.

Sirshree

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#27. Keep strong and affirm the Scriptures daily.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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#28. We may believe in the state's responsibility to alleviate the crushing poverty that afflicts 40 percent of Latin America's population, but most of us also affirm that there is no better cure for that poverty than a stronger, more globally integrated economy.

Oscar Arias

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#29. I believe unconditionally in the ability of people to respond when they are told the truth. We need to be taught to study rather than believe, to inquire rather than to affirm.

Septima Poinsette Clark

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#30. We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective.

Irving Babbitt

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#31. This type of gathering is unprecedented. The time has come for Christians to publicly affirm our Jewish roots, distinctions and oneness in Jesus Christ.

Bill McCartney

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#32. I think the failure of The American church to affirm the goodness of civilizational life is our greatest failing today.

Greg Forster

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#33. When you feel the need to have the right person show up in your life, affirm: 'I know the right person is arriving in divine order at precisely the perfect time.'

Wayne Dyer

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#34. Coming up in the African-American culture, we were taught that we belonged to the universe and society was wrong in the way it dealt with us. We had to learn to express and affirm values not from the winning position.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

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#35. I don't deny or affirm anything. I'm not very personal.

Gore Vidal

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#36. The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.

Jorge Luis Borges

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#37. Today I do affirm that I am Divinely guided ... There is that within which knows what to do and how to do it, and it compels me to act on what it knows.

Ernest Holmes

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#38. He was happy because, after such a long study, experimentation, and struggle, he could at last affirm the ultimate truth: there never were and never would be any madmen in Itaguai or anywhere else.

Machado De Assis

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#39. Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit. We should not listen to those who like to affirm that the voice of the people is the voice of God, for the tumult of the masses is truly close to madness.

Alcuin

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#40. I submit, on the other hand, most respectfully, that the Constitution not merely does not affirm that principle, but, on the contrary, altogether excludes it.

William H. Seward

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#41. I hope, by God's grace, that I am truly a Christian, not deviating from the faith, and that I would rather suffer the penalty of a terrible death than wish to affirm anything outside of the faith or transgress the commandments of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Jan Hus

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#42. Who is he who will affirm that there must be a web of flesh and bone to hold the shape of love?

William Faulkner

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#43. Even after so many decades of Independence there are 18,500 villages in India which do not have electricity. We affirm our commitment to provide electricity to all those villages that do not have electricity.

Narendra Modi

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#44. Be it caste or communal violence, they stall the growth of the nation. Let us affirm that we will be free from these tensions.

Narendra Modi

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#45. Despite the difficulties of my story, despite discomforts, doubts, despairs, despite impulses to be done with it, I unceasingly affirm love, within myself, as a value.

Roland Barthes

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#46. By lighting a candle, you affirm that you are opening a sacred space.

Robert Moss

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#47. Summoning gratitude is a sure way to get our life back on track. Opening our eyes to affirm gratitude grows the garden of our inner abundance, just as standing close to a fire eventually warms our heart.

Alexandra Katehakis

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#48. I affirm myself to be a Lacanian, for fear of being convienced by others that I am not a Lacanian

Slavoj Zizek

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#49. To affirm that men and women are persons and as persons should be free, and yet to do nothing tangible to make this affirmation a reality, is a farce.

Paulo Freire

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#50. Positive thinkers always affirm blessings on themselves and see themselves as legitimate heirs.

Israelmore Ayivor

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#51. So we have to be ready, willing, and able to really transform ourselves, and each other in the world, not just say it and affirm it, "Oh, I want to change". Intention is important, but so is action.

Surya Das

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#52. The people are the source of governmental power. Along with many religious people, Latter-day Saints affirm that God gave the power to the people, and the people consented to a constitution that delegated certain powers to the government ... The sovereign power is in the people.

Dallin H. Oaks

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#53. To choose this or that is to affirm at the same time the value of what we choose, because we can never choose evil. We always choose the good, and nothing can be good for us without being
good for all.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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#54. May all you affirm and believe be given the opportunity to manifest - day by day.

Eleesha

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#55. Whenever we do something for someone else, we affirm that we are not simply in it for ourselves, that our self is someone else, is everyone else.

Frederick Lenz

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#56. Beauty is something we can affirm and intend to have more of.

James Redfield

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#57. Self-affirm - build yourself up with honest and genuine praise.

Lorii Myers

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#58. For my own part, without breach of truth or modesty, I may affirm that my life has been, on the whole, the life of a philosopher: from my birth I was made an intellectual creature, and intellectual in the highest sense my pursuits and pleasures have been, even from my schoolboy days.

Thomas De Quincey

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#59. Despite history, despite English, despite the noteworthies, and a little bit also despite ourselves, alas!, the Quebecois people have stayed French. I had violently returned. This people had no need of directives to affirm its French pride in the face of the whole world

Pierre Bourgault

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#60. Both President Obama and I shared the conviction that territorial and maritime disputes in the Asia Pacific region should be settled peacefully based on international law. We affirm that arbitration is an open, friendly and peaceful approach to seeking a just and durable solution.

Benigno Aquino III

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#61. It's one thing to affirm that God is free to do as God wills in this
world. The real crunch comes in allowing God the freedom and
trust to act in one's own life. John Indermark

Lynelle Clark

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#62. As to Caesar, when he was called upon, he gave no testimony against Clodius, nor did he affirm that he was certain of any injury done to his bed. He only said, He had divorced Pompeia because the wife of Caesar ought not only to be clear of such a crime, but of the very suspicion of it.

Plutarch

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#63. Feminist thinking teaches us all, especially, how to love justice and freedom in ways that foster and affirm life.

Bell Hooks

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#64. Our intention is to affirm this life, not to bring order out of chaos, nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply to wake up to the very life we're living, which is so excellent once one gets one's mind and desires out of its way and lets it act of it's own accord.

John Cage

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#65. To be sensitive, as ideologically defined, requires that one not merely accept but "affirm" other people's way of life or even "celebrate" diversity in general. Like other demands for "sensitivity," this demand offers no reason - unless fear of being disapproved, denounced, or harassed is a reason.

Thomas Sowell

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#66. Affirm the body, beautiful and whole,The earth-expression of immortal soul.Affirm the mind, the messenger of the hour,To speed between thee and the source of power.Affirm the spirit, the Eternal I -Of this great trinity no part deny.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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#67. The critique of the highest values hitherto does not simply refute them or declare them invalid. It is rather a matter of displaying their origins as impositions which must affirm precisely what ought to be negated by the values established.

Martin Heidegger

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#68. The peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history, yet common in our country. With a simple oath, we affirm old traditions and make new beginnings.

George W. Bush

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#69. I affirm that any sort of photograph is superior to any sort of painting aiming at the same result.

Alvin Langdon Coburn

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#70. We are freed to free others.
We are affirmed to affirm others.
We are loved to love others.

Ann Weems

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#71. Can you also, Lucullus, affirm that there is any power united with wisdom and prudence which has made, or, to use your own expression, manufactured man? What sort of a manufacture is that? Where is it exercised? when? why? how?

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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#72. Many of us who affirm and practice spiritual gifts would feel more comfortable among anticharismatics who are at least grounded in Scripture than among such flaky charismatics.

Craig S. Keener

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#73. Take risks, fall, get hurt and then take more risks. Stay away from those who affirm truths, who criticise those who do not think like them, people who have never once taken a step unless they were sure they would be respected

Paulo Coelho

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#74. Affirm it, visualize it, believe it and it will actualize itself.

Norman Vincent Peale

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#75. As Christians we are here to affirm the supreme value of direct sharing, of immediate encounter -not machine to machine, but person to person, face to face.

Kallistos Ware

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#76. I am firmly convinced that there is life after death, not in a primitive sense but as the entry of my completely finite person into God's infinity, as a transition into another reality beyond the dimension of space and time that pure reason can neither affirm nor deny.

Hans Kung

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#77. Contextualized gospel ministry should affirm the beliefs of the culture wherever it can be done with integrity.

Timothy Keller

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#78. Our culture tells us that you must look inside to discover your deepest desires and dreams and to express them. You must do this yourself, and must not rely on anyone outside to affirm and tell you who you are.

Timothy J. Keller

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#79. It's been a continuity right from the beginning - that longing to weave together perceptions, to affirm the richness of us as human beings both as performers and audience members.

Meredith Monk

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#80. Business by no means forbids pleasures; on the contrary, they reciprocally season each other; and I will venture to affirm that noman enjoys either in perfection that does not join both.

Lord Chesterfield

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#81. We call on the Senate to reject any judicial nominee who does not affirm fundamental civil rights, including a woman's right [to obtain an abortion on demand]. The threat an [pro-life] judiciary poses to women's lives demands nothing less.

Susana Martinez

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#82. Speak the truth. Affirm your desire. Declare your intentions. Recall your successes. Your psyche will believe you. Your body will feel you. Your Soul will thank you for the straight-up communication.

Danielle LaPorte

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#83. I will say nothing against the course of my existence. But at bottom it has been nothing but pain and burden, and I can affirm that during the whole of my 75 years, I have not had four weeks of genuine well-being. It is but the perpetual rolling of a rock that must be raised up again forever.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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#84. When you affirm big, believe big and pray big, big things happen.

Norman Vincent Peale

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#85. He does kiss like a pirate though, I was able to re-affirm that.

Lora Leigh

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#86. Deny that lack has any place or reality in your
thought or your affairs and affirm plenty as the only
appearance. Praise what you have, be it ever so little,
and insist that it is constantly growing larger.

Charles Fillmore

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#87. It is easier for most of us to affirm positive behavior than to deal with negative behavior in a positive way.

H. Norman Wright

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#88. He had remained steadfast in agnosticism and therefore, as Mabel took comfort in remarking, 'he never denied God.' Neither did he affirm God.

Robert V. Bruce

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#89. To affirm is to make firm.

Peter McWilliams

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#90. One must always rebel against fear and hate and affirm life.

Marty Rubin

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#91. All who affirm the use of violence admit it is only a means to achieve justice and peace. But peace and justice are nonviolence ... the final end of history. Those who abandon nonviolence have no sense of history. Rathy they are bypassing history, freezing history, betraying history.

Andre Trocme

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#92. If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.

Irving Babbitt

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#93. a God-centered view of truth demands that we affirm that all truth is God's truth. That which is true is true because God said it, created it, or decreed it.

Keith A. Mathison

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#94. Be encouraged to Soulfully affirm all that is duty bound to unfold in your life.

Eleesha

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#95. It is the mysterious touch of the ideal that animates and sustains the real, and through it alone we can discover and affirm the ideal.

Muhammad Iqbal

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

Rob Bell

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#97. We live in a world where we have friends, neighbors, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, people we journey with for years who are gay. And we need to love, affirm and all of us together work on the real problems that we have in the world.

Rob Bell

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#98. I cannot affirm God if I fail to affirm man. Therefore, I affirm both. Without a belief in human unity I am hungry and incomplete. Human unity is the fulfillment of diversity. It is the harmony of opposites. It is a many-stranded texture, with color and depth.

Norman Cousins

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#99. It is not necessary to deny another's reality in order to affirm your own.

Anne Wilson Schaef

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#100. The deeper you love yourself, the more the universe will affirm your worth.

Alan Cohen

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