The affirmation of one's own life, happiness, growth and freedom, is rooted in one's capacity to love. — Erich Fromm
I have always believed that there is a need for life-affirming films. — Anthony Minghella
To create something beautiful about despair or out of a feeling of despair is for me the most hopeful life affirming thing a person can do — Sarah Kane
To be inspired is the ultimate antidote to existential despair. — Jason Silva
Life is not just something to be endured. It is to be lived in joy, in a fullness without limit (p.82) — Ernest Holmes
At the core of life is a hard purposefulness, a determination to live. — Howard Thurman
The joy of life consists in the inevitable, continual triumph of new values. — Wassily Kandinsky
The aims of life are the best defense against death. — Primo Levi
It is the experiences, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found. God it's great to be alive! — Christopher McCandless
Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability then go beyond to a higher level. — Alexander Haig
To fully thrive, we must not only eliminate the stressors but also actively seek joyful, loving, fulfilling lives that stimulate growth processes — Bruce H. Lipton
Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life. — Gertrude Stein
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. — Henry Miller
Part of my approach to my illness has been to say I want to choose life, I want to keep going, I want to live fully until I die. — Thea Bowman
Short Life Affirming Quotes
For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life. — William Blake
The aim is to balance the terror of being alive with the wonder of being alive. — Carlos Castaneda
an uneasy rhythm of life is more life like than an easy death — Suman Pokhrel
I love life more than I love death. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Live your life in a sublime spirit of confidence and determination. — Neville Goddard
Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation. — Walter Benjamin
Life is movement. Once you stop moving, you're dead. Choose life. — Eugen Sandow
Live a wild, generous full, exciting life – blessing those around you and seeing the good in all. — Bear Grylls
Action is the antidote to despair. — Joan Baez
Life Affirming Image Quotes
For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and, if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.
Positive Life Affirming Quotes
Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough. — Josh Billings
With a positive attitude, you can be anything you want to be. — Selena
I give myself permission to be all that I can be, and I deserve the very best in life. — Louise Hay
Never be a prisoner of your past. It was just a lesson, not a life sentence.
It's not what happens to you, It's what you do about it. — W Mitchell
I rejoice in what I have and I know that fresh new experiences are always ahead. I greet the new with open arms. I trust life to be wonderful. — Louise Hay
Here is an affirmation for today: I feel passionately about my life, and this passion fills me with excitement and energy! — Wayne Dyer
There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's book and write your own.
Change your thinking, change your life. — Ernest Holmes
You can do it if you believe you can. — Napoleon Hill
Faith Words arent just mere positive affirmations; they open your life up to the supernatural power of God. — Bo Sanchez
When I talk about doing affirmations, I mean consciously choosing words that will either help eliminate something from your life or help create something new in your life. — Louise Hay
Affirming Quotes
Affirming words from moms and dads are like light switches. Speak a word of affirmation at the right moment in a child's life and it's like lighting up a whole roomful of possibilities. — Gary Smalley
When I ran I was a first candidate to talk about how immigration was going be so damaging to the American people. When I first ran I talked about affirmative-action. — David Duke
Everything you do and every word you say can become a ministering seed. You can be a blessing to everyone with whom you come in contact. — Kenneth Copeland
Some days I wish I could go back in life. Not to change anything, but to feel a few things twice.
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
True community is based on upon equality, mutuality, and reciprocity. It affirms the richness of individual diversity as well as the common human ties that bind us together. — Pauli Murray
Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful. — Norman Vincent Peale
Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice.
The point of my work is to show that culture and education arent simply hobbies or minor influences. They are hugely important in the affirmation of differences between groups and social classes and in the reproduction of those differences. — Pierre Bourdieu
Jesus rejected hatred because he saw that hatred meant death to the mind, death to the spirit, and death to communion with his Father. He affirmed life; and hatred was the great denial. — Howard Thurman
To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both. — St. Catherine of Siena
Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion. — Jim Rohn
Self Affirmation Quotes
Be very careful what you say to yourself because someone very important is listening . . . YOU! — John Assaraf
It is essential that our love be liberating, not possessive. We must at all times give those we love the freedom to be themselves. Love affirms the other as other. It does not possess and manipulate another as mine. — John Powell
Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image. — Denis Waitley
The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure.
There would be nothing to frighten you if you refused to be afraid. — Mahatma Gandhi
WHAT A TIRING WAY TO LIVE, WHEN YOUR SELF-WORTH IS CONSTANTLY RELYING ON THE AFFIRMATION AND APPROVAL OF OTHERS. — Darlene Zschech
What has to be given up is not the I, but that drive for self-affirmation which impels man to flee from the unreliable, unsolid, unlasting, unpredictable, dangerous world of relation into the having of things. — Martin Buber
Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tip top if you must, but take the step.
Brain wave tests prove that when we use positive words, our "feel good" hormones flow. Positive self-talk releases endorphins and serotonin in our brain, which then flow throughout our body, making us feel good. These neurotransmitters stop flowing when we use negative words. — Ruth Fishel
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
I am willing to release the need to be unworthy. I am worthy of the very best in life, and I now lovingly allow myself to accept it — Louise Hay
In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the authors. If the authors had not achieved self-affirmation while writing, how could they have continued to write? — Gao Xingjian
Celebrate Life Quotes
Live your life not celebrating victories, but overcoming defeats. — Che Guevara
If you want to change the world, start with yourself. — Mahatma Gandhi
Not everyone will be happy when you begin to better yourself. Those who are for you will not just celebrate in your triumphs, but they will also pray with you through your tribulations. — T. D. Jakes
Don't wait for everything to be perfect before you decide to enjoy your life.
You need music, I don't know why. It's probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual. We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it. — Jerry Garcia
I think what we owe each other is a celebration of life and to replace fear and hopelessness with fearlessness and joy. — Vandana Shiva
A single Mass offered for oneself during life may be worth more than a thousand celebrated for the same intention after death. — Anselm of Canterbury
Pressure is something you feel when you do not know what you are doing. — Chuck Noll
Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle! — Stevie Wonder
Don't be jealous of other people's success. Celebrate it, use it as inspiration. Life is way more fun that way. — Lex Fridman
Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them. — B. R. Babasaheb Ambedkar
Don't compare your life to others. There's no comparison between the sun and the moon. They shine when it's their time.
In the gay world, some of the most enriching and incredibly life-affirming and shaping relationships, very often between younger boys and older men, can be hugely positive experiences for those young boys. They can save those young boys from desolation, suicide and drug addiction, all sorts of things, providing they're consensual. — Milo Yiannopoulos
Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives. — Robert Collier
There comes a moment when you must quit talking to God about the mountain in your life and start talking to the mountain about your God. You proclaim His power. You declare His sovereignty. You affirm His faithfulness. You stand on His Word. You cling to His promises. — Mark Batterson
The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation. — Hermann Hesse
You are not responsible for the programming you picked up in childhood. However, as an adult, you are one hundred percent responsible for fixing it. — Ken Keyes Jr.
Humanism involves far more than the negation of supernaturalism. It requires an affirmative philosophy . . . translated into a life devoted to one's own improvement and the service of all mankind. — Corliss Lamont
Little by little, one travels far — J. R. R. Tolkien
Scientific advancement should aim to affirm and to improve human life. — Nathan Deal
To sing is to love and affirm,
to fly and to 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. — Joan Baez
I’ve always been a dreamer, have always believed in the power of love and art and loud, life-affirming rock and roll, but, for the first time, I’m starting to have doubts. Can a dream even exist in reality? Or does it turn to stone the second it leaves your mind? — Pete Wentz
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
Affirm: I now willingly release all negative beliefs about myself, my life and all other people. I now forgive myself for thinking I ever did anything wrong. I am now filled with the love and the Power that I am. For this I am so grateful! And so it is! — Iyanla Vanzant
Music has touched me deeply, sometimes to tears. But at the same time it's been life-affirming, because I've been grateful for the fact that I'm alive and human and capable of being so moved. — Brian Molko
I am the joy of life expressing and receiving in perfect rhythm. — Louise Hay
Faith, then, is not a set of beliefs about the world. It is rather found in the loving embrace of the world. Because the actual existing church has reduced the Crucifixion and Resurrection to religious affirmations held by a certain tribe, rather than expressions of a type of life, the event they testify to has been almost completely eclipsed. — Peter Rollins
All life is sacred. Since life is an affirmation of the Creator, I shall live on, even when I am gone. In trailing clouds of glory shall I return to my Creator only to find that I had never really left. I shall walk among the lilies of the field and leave my trail in stardust in the sky. — John Harricharan
We cannot survive as a free nation when some men decide that others are not fit to live and should be abandoned to abortion or infanticide...t here is no cause more important for preserving that freedom than affirming the transcendent right to life of all human beings, the right without which no other rights have any meaning. — Ronald Reagan
Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow. — Dorothy Thompson
Prayer meetings are dead affairs when they are merely asking sessions; there is adventure, hope and life when they are believing sessions, and the faith is corporately, practically and deliberately affirmed. — Norman Grubb
The wreckage of stars - I built a world from this wreckage. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The power of our beliefs can work in either direction to become life affirming or life denying. — Gregg Braden
Every breath is a sacrament, an affirmation of our connection with all other living things, a renewal of our link with our ancestors and a contribution to generations yet to come. Our breath is a part of life's breath, the ocean of air that envelopes the earth. — David Suzuki
I believe the approach of the artist and the approach of the environmentalist are fairly close in that both are, to a rather impressive degree, concerned with the affirmation of life. — Ansel Adams
Hockey captures the essence of Canadian experience in the New World. In a land so inescapably and inhospitably cold, hockey is the chance of life, and an affirmation that despite the deathly chill of winter we are alive. — Stephen Leacock
Explain to people that everything they say is an affirmation. Everything they think is an affirmation. Everything! What you want to do is to get control of what you are saying and thinking, so these things bring you good experiences in life rather than rotten experiences. — Louise Hay
Quality of life is the sum total of the fairness of our tax structure; the caliber of our homes; the cleanliness of our air and water; and the provision of affirmative assistance to those who cannot assist themselves. True quality is absent if we allow social suffering to abide in an otherwise pristine environment. — Tom McCall
Make New Year's goals. Dig within, and discover what you would like to have happen in your life this year. This helps you do your part. It is an affirmation that you're interested in fully living life in the year to come. — Melody Beattie
My dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement. — Martha Graham
It is safe to be me. I love life. I am always safe and secure. I move forward in life with joy and ease. All is well in my world. — Louise Hay
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