#affirmation

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. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#deity #i #one thing #practiced #thing

The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation. ↗

— Simone Weil

#contemplation #degraded #faith #into #made

If there are flaws they are in ourselves, and our task therefore must be one not of redesign but of renewal and reaffirmation, especially of the standards in which all of us believe. ↗

— Elliot Richardson

#especially #flaws #must #our #ourselves

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion. ↗

— Jim Rohn

#affirmation #beginning #delusion #discipline #without

Success is a process, a quality of mind and way of being, an outgoing affirmation of life. ↗

— Alex Noble

#being #life #mind #outgoing #process

Unlike a lot of people, I don't need the affirmation or anything. ↗

— Bob Seger

#anything #i #lot #need #people

There's looking and there's looking. When some men look at you it's a greasy thing. It makes you want to have a bath. With other men it's nice. It helps you know you're beautiful. ↗

— Patrick Rothfuss

#beauty #lechery #beauty

We each appear to hold within ourselves a range of divergent views as to our native qualities.. And amid such uncertainty, we typically turn to the wider world to settle the question of our significance.. we seem beholden to affections of others to endure ourselves. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#affirmation #insecurity #self-esteem #status #uncertainty

Have you ever said Yes to a single joy? O my friends, then you have said Yes too to all woe. All things are entangled, ensnared, enamored; if ever you wanted one thing twice, if ever you said, "You please me, happiness! Abide moment!" then you wanted all back. All anew, all eternally, all entangled, ensnared, enamored--oh then you loved the world. Eternal ones, love it eternally and evermore; and to woe too, you say: go, but return! For all joy wants--eternity. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#life

I'm so proud of you that it makes me proud of me. I hope you know that. ↗

— John Green

#fathers #pride #sons #father