Top 42 Quotes About Affirming Others

#1. Alan Alda and his wife Arlene are two of the most life-affirming people I've ever met. He espoused equal rights for women while producing, writing, acting in and directing 'M*A*S*H'; he used to commute between the set and home because he didn't want to disrupt his kids' schooling.

Sanjeev Bhaskar

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#2. Is the basic teaching of Buddhism - on ignorance, deliverance and enlightenment - really life-denying, or is it rather the same kind of life-affirming liberation that we find in the Good News of Redemption, the Gift of the Spirit, and the New Creation?

Thomas Merton

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#3. The time and intelligence that our ancestors spent on understanding the sovereignty revealed in Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are directed by our contemporaries in affirming and validating the sovereignty of our needs, wants, and feelings.

Eugene H. Peterson

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#4. I do not believe I am exaggerating in affirming that the empire of Russia is a country whose inhabitants are the most miserable on earth, because they suffer at one and the same time the evils of barbarism and of civilization.

Marquis De Custine

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#5. Laughter can be the most affirming and uniquely human sound,and also the most sinister and animalistic one.

Christopher Hitchens

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#6. By affirming your own gifts and accomplishments, you build your confidence and increase your ability to build a brighter future.

Debbie Ford

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#7. Positive, affirming relationships bring great pleasure while poor relationship brings great pain. Greatest happiness found in good relationships, greatest pain found in bad relationships

Gary Chapman

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#8. A cake can be very life-affirming.

Faye Kellerman

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#9. In the first place, all books that get fairly into the vital air of the world were written by the successful class, by the affirming and advancing class, who utter what tens of thousands feel though they cannot say.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#10. The sexual conquest is huge with men in terms of affirming themselves and their feelings of masculinity. That's a misguided kind of affirmation. That is not helpful, but that stuff happens.

Donald Miller

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#11. A biblically based worldview is capable of affirming the best insights of secular philosophies without ever falling into reductionism.

Nancy Pearcey

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#12. Faith is not limited to affirming the existence of God. No, faith tells us that God loves us and demands a loving response. This response is given through love for human beings, and that is what we mean by a commitment to God and to our neighbor.

Gustavo Gutierrez

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#13. Whereas orthodox Christianity answers Jesus' question to Peter - "Who do you say I am?" (Mark 8:29) - by affirming that Christ was both God (the Creator of the universe, the Lord of Israel) and human (an average Joe, yet without sin), these heretical thinkers answered the question differently.

Justin S. Holcomb

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#14. The first fact about the celebration of a birthday is that it is a way of affirming defiantly, and even flamboyantly, that it is a good thing to be alive.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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#15. When you blame others, you are affirming that you have no power, and your existence is only a reaction to the power of others.

Bryant McGill

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#16. Action eradicates fear. No matter what you fear,
positive, self-affirming action can diminish or completely cancel that which you are fearful of.

Mark Victor Hansen

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#17. I am very close to my family, and there's something life-affirming about that. Even if you feel completely different from them and have totally different views on politics and ethics, you're still family and have that immediate acceptance.

Susanne Bier

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#18. I am affirming that the casting couch for men exists in the modeling world

Arjun Rampal

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#19. we are affirming our trust that creation means well within us all, and that whatever painful growth and change may lie ahead, it is leading us to Life, not destruction

Margaret Silf

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#20. Conservation is not a desperate, defensive effort. It is instead joyous and life-affirming. - from Zen Birding

Susan Guyette And David White

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#21. Love allows us to confront these negative realities in a manner that is life-affirming and life enhancing.

Bell Hooks

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#22. Philosophy isn't programmed into us, and a lot of the forces of our culture steadfastly work against it. Philosophy, for me, is a way of resisting the nihilism of the present by making, creating, affirming. By going on.

Simon Critchley

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#23. Affirming belief that America is an exceptional nation has become a test of patriotism in American politics.

Michael Ignatieff

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#24. The feminist call was for women to embrace ways of seeing beauty and adorning ourselves that are healthy, life-affirming, and not overly time-time consuming.

Bell Hooks

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#25. Many couples have never learned the tremendous power of verbally affirming each other.

Gary Chapman

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#26. The problem with driving around Iceland is that you're basically confronted by a new soul-enriching, breath-taking, life-affirming natural sight every five goddamn minutes. It's totally exhausting.

Stephen Markley

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#27. The surest sign that you're working with the life-affirming kind of discipline, rather than the spirit-depressing kind, is that you don't complain very much about doing what it takes.

Danielle LaPorte

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#28. It's one thing to know "The Secret" or take whatever life-affirming steps you've read about in order to bring positivity into your life, but it's something else altogether to actually create opportunities for yourself. You're definitely not going to find them reading a book.

James Altucher

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#29. ...the Christian life in its fullness is far more than being active in a Christian community, affirming a certain set of beliefs or adopting a particular behavior pattern. These are a secondary result of the primary reality of a life engaged in an ever deepening union with God in love.

M. Robert Mulholland Jr.

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#30. I grew up in church and it's always been important to me. I've always had a sense of calling to do life and faith-affirming media.

Brian Bird

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#31. Because of the interconnectedness of all minds, affirming a positive vision may be about the most sophisticated action any one of us can take.

Willis Harman

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#32. Envy is one of the great enemies of active spirituality. It keeps us from loving our neighbours, from functioning with others in community, and from affirming people's unique worth. It also steals contentment from the heart. Is there anything or anyone you are envious of?

Charles R. Swindoll

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#33. You can make yourself enthusiastic by affirming enthusiasm and by thinking, talking, acting enthusiastic.

Norman Vincent Peale

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#34. We live in times of high stress. Messages that are simple, messages that are inspiring, messages that are life-affirming, are a welcome break from our real lives.

Simon Sinek

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#35. In affirming my belief in Christ's teaching, I could not help explaining why I do not believe, and consider as mistaken, the Church's doctrine, which is usually called Christianity.

Leo Tolstoy

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#36. The most incredible beauty and the most satisfying way of life come from affirming your own uniqueness.

Jane Fonda

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#37. God is not in a hurry to fix us. Our behavior is not his first priority. We are his first priority. Loving us, knowing us, affirming us, protecting us. That is his top goal and his main concern.

Judah Smith

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

Louise Hay

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#39. Affirming others isn't 'flattering' them - it's when you genuinely and consistently acknowledge their efforts and accomplishments, both large and small. Make affirmation a habit and watch what happens!

Lee Ellis

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#40. Vision is about more than just getting things done, accomplishing some task, achieving something; it is about discovering and expanding our view of others, affirming them, believing in them, and helping them discover and realize the potential within them-helping them find their own voice.

Stephen Covey

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#41. Humility means two things. One, a capacity for self-criticism. . . . The second feature is allowing others to shine, affirming others, empowering and enabling others." - CORNEL WEST

John C. Maxwell

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#42. Others are ahead of me. I am continually challenged. My focus is forward. The atmosphere is affirming. I am often out of my comfort zone. I wake up excited. Failure is not my enemy. Others are growing. People desire change. Growth is modeled and expected.

John C. Maxwell

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