#affirming

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

#attitudes #contented #day #days #develop

Watching birds has become part of my daily meditation affirming my connection to the earth body. ↗

— Carol P. Christ

#become #birds #body #connection #daily

Coming out to gays is a way of affirming sanity and self-worth. ↗

— George Weinberg

#coming #gays #out #sanity #self-worth

If you have no more happiness to give me, / Well then! you still have your pain. ↗

— Lou Andreas-Salomé

#life

Thankfully, President Obama has stood firmly behind women's health care issues by supporting coverage for contraception and reaffirming commitment to organizations like Planned Parenthood. ↗

— Felicity Huffman

#care #commitment #contraception #coverage #firmly

Jesus was not denying the legitimacy of biblical law. On the contrary, He was affirming biblical law. We love God first; God commands us to keep His word; therefore, we must enforce the law on ourselves. ↗

— Gary North

#commands #contrary #denying #enforce #first

Americans are a lot more open, of course. There's something more declamatory in the way you express emotions. It's a stereotype but it's true. British people can appear repressed in expressing emotions. Not very good at self-evaluating, or affirming situations, touching, anything like that. ↗

— Emily Blunt

#anything #appear #british #british people #course

Very curious, at the age of about 13 years, Oswald began to study Marxism and he kept on in his writing, affirming that he was a Marxist. Probably he did want to show himself as a great, supreme Marxist. ↗

— John Sherman Cooper

#affirming #age #began #curious #did

When you use words, you're able to keep your mind alive. Writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence. ↗

— Gao Xingjian

#alive #existence #keep #mind #my own

It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#affirming #draw #examine #into #look