Mortimer Adler
Philosopher, Educator
"More consequences for thought and action follow the affirmation or denial of God than from answering any other basic question."
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Affirmation
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John F. Kennedy
Politician
"Persons are judged to be great because of the positive qualities they possess, not because of the absence of faults."
Brian Tracy
Author, Speaker
"You become what you think about most of the time."
Antonin Artaud
Playwright, Actor, Theorist
"I see in the act of throwing the dice and of risking the affirmation of some intuitively felt truth, however uncertain, my whole reason for living."
Louise Hay
Author, Motivational Speaker
"An affirmation opens the door. It's a beginning point on the path to change."
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"Art for me...is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside of all the rules and all the demands of society."
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"I don’t want to be an anti, against anybody. I simply want to be the builder of a great affirmation: the affirmation of God,who loves us and who wants to save us."
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"When affirmation and negation came into being, Tao faded. After Tao faded, then came one-sided attachments."
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"Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence."
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"To give someone a blessing is the most significant affirmation we can offer."
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"Love is at once an affirmation and a transcendence of who we are."
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"As You Think, So Shall You Be."
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"You are not a helpless victim of your own thoughts, but rather a master of your own mind."
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"You're worth something because God says you're worth something-not because of what people think or say about you."
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"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."
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"Man lives more by affirmation than by bread."
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"I firmly believe the world will sort itself out in the end. Believe it with me. At least none of us will be around to be proven wrong."
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"Every action and feeling is preceded by a thought."
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"Affirmation statements are going beyond the reality of the present into the creation of the future through the words you use in the now."
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"Live as if your prayers are to be answered."
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"The words you say could hurt or help you. "Change Your Words, Change Your Life""
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"As I say yes to life, life says yes to me!"
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"I say no to doubt and yes to life!"
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"A good affirmation has five basic ingredients: it's personal, it's positive, it's present tense, it's visual, and it's emotional."
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"I usually eat breakfast twice. I'm usually up at 3 a.m. - do my spiritual work, my affirmations, a little bit of songwriting, get my daily work in order, and by that time I've worked up a bigger appetite."
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