Life Affirming Quotes:

I have always believed that there is a need for life-affirming films.

- Anthony Minghella

topic: Needs, Film, Life Affirming, Affirming

A glorious failure can sometimes be more life affirming than a cautious win.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Winning, Sometimes, Life Affirming

The power of our beliefs can work in either direction to become life affirming or life denying.

- Gregg Braden

source: Gregg Braden (2009). “The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits”, p.191, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Belief, Life Affirming, Affirming

Movies that are consciously life-affirming are to be consciously avoided ...

- Pauline Kael

source: Pauline Kael (1989). “Hooked”, E P Dutton

topic: Life Affirming, Affirming

Life affirming doesn't mean good things happen.

- James Gray

source: "Love & Sincerity: A Conversation with James Gray". Interview with Adam Cook, mubi.com. October 05, 2013.

topic: Mean, Good Things, Life Affirming

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

- Jim Rohn

topic: Inspiring, Leadership, Greatness, Life Affirming, Affirming

You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which 'clicks.'

- Florence Scovel Shinn

topic: Success, Done, Affirmation, Life Affirming, Power Subconscious Mind

With a positive attitude, you can be anything you want to be.

- Selena

topic: Attitude, Positive Attitude, Want, Singleness, Desire For Success

The wreckage of stars - I built a world from this wreckage.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Stars, World, Wreckage, Life Affirming

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

topic: Real, Stress, Simple, Life Affirming

There is always money to kill people. There is never enough money for life affirming ends.

- Derrick Jensen

topic: People, Enough, Ends, Life Affirming, Affirming

Knowing how you actually want to feel is the most potent form of clarity that you can have.

- Danielle LaPorte

source: Danielle LaPorte (2014). “The Desire Map: A Guide to Creating Goals with Soul”, p.13, Sounds True

topic: Knowing, Want, Clarity, Life Affirming, Affirming

Journey through the Power of the Rainbow represents a condensed compendium of literary efforts from a life dedicated to transforming the themes of injustice, grief, and despair that we all encounter during some unavoidable point of our existence into a sustainable life-affirming poetics of passionate creativity, empowered spiritual vision, and inspired commitment.

- Aberjhani

source: Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.27, Lulu.com

topic: Spiritual, Grief, Creativity, Spiritual Vision, Life Affirming

Knowing who you really are and dressing the part -- with an air of amused recklessness -- is life affirming for you and life enhancing for other people.

- Simon Doonan

source: Simon Doonan (2009). “Eccentric Glamour: Creating an Insanely More Fabulous You”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

topic: Air, Knowing, People, Amused, Life Affirming

When I first came to London, I loved hanging around in cafes, smoking, scribbling, dreaming. It was life-affirming and fun.

- Peter Capaldi

topic: Dream, Fun, Smoking, Life Affirming

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

topic: Depressing, Discipline, Complaining, Life Affirming

Awards movies are normally sort of... life-affirming and noble. It's probably too much of an intellectual conceit and, you know, people don't like it when you don't lead the bad guy off in cuffs.

- David Fincher

source: "EXCLUSIVE: David Fincher Talks Zodiac: Director's Cut". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. January 7, 2008.

topic: Awards, People, Guy, Life Affirming

I love to make music that makes people feel mood-enhancing, life-affirming brilliance but I just make whatever comes out at the time and sometimes it's up and sometimes it down and sometimes it sideways with a hint of s smile.

- Eliza Doolittle

topic: People, Hints, Down And, Life Affirming

It was quite life-affirming, for me, that I felt hat kind of pity for [Margaret Thatcher], because I didn't think I ever would.

- Irvine Welsh

source: Source: thequietus.com

topic: Thinking, Hats, Kind, Life Affirming, Affirming

You don't go to a town to present the play and have applause at the end of it, but that's benign conquest. It's a glorious way of exploring other landscapes and other cultures in a very life-affirming way.

- Ben Kingsley

source: Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. August 6, 2008.

topic: Other Cultures, Play, Landscape, Life Affirming

Art is a way to get strength from something that is life-affirming. It can be quite violent and still be life-affirming.

- Val Kilmer

source: Interview with Piotr Uklanski, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 24, 2011.

topic: Art, Way, Violent, Life Affirming

Casting a spell, in self-defense or in self-interest is not selfish, but positive, life-affirming. You have been given powers, the very same powers that society devalues... What if it comes back tenfold? Well, don't be a fool. Never use your magick to attack the innocent. Then you have nothing to fear... Don't be frivolous or cowardly. If your course is righteous, and your tools ready, go to it.

- Zsuzsanna Budapest

topic: Selfish, Positive Life, What If, Life Affirming, Devalue

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

topic: Home, Writing, Kids, Life Affirming, Affirming

It's Steven's [Sebring] view of what he saw in traveling and working with me. But on another scale, I think the film [Dream of Life] is very humanistic: It touches on motherhood, death, birth, art, laundry, anger against the Bush administration... While I don't think it's the kind of film where one goes to find some of the darker, edgier aspects of life, the film was born of grief.

- Patti Smith

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Dream, Art, Grief, Life Affirming, Affirming

The film [Dream of Life], in the end, is life-affirming, and I think it's always useful for people to be reminded that no matter how rough things get, no matter what kind of twists and turns our lives can take, we can keep going, we can create something new.

- Patti Smith

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Dream, Thinking, People, Life Affirming, Twists And Turns

A healthy society is life-affirming. Homosexuality is the metaphysical negation of life. Incapable of reproduction (giving life), it can replenish its numbers only by seduction.

- Don Feder

source: Don Feder (1993). “A Jewish conservative looks at pagan America”, Vital Issues Pr

topic: Numbers, Giving, Healthy, Life Affirming, Affirming

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

topic: Suicide, Gay, Boys, Enriching, Life Affirming

It feels intimate and life affirming to me when someone tweets things that appear to just be insane thoughts they had and typed out then tweeted immediately, with little or no regard for how others might perceive them, simply because they were in a state of emotional desperation and felt like they didn't want to express those thoughts to anyone else.

- Mira Gonzalez

source: Source: logger.believermag.com

topic: Emotional, Insane, Want, Life Affirming

I can always look up at the cosmos and marvel, no matter what happens. And when I look up at it, I feel as though my problems are small. I don't know why, but it always makes me feel better.

- Matthew Quick

topic: Feel Better, Looks, Matter, Life Affirming

What I'm certain I don't want is to find myself someday in a new century, an old bitter woman looking back, wishing that right now I'd had more nerve.

- Charles Frazier

topic: Wish, Want, Nerves, Life Affirming, Cold Mountain

The atheist view is correspondingly life-affirming and life-enhancing, while at the same time never being tainted with self-delusion, wishful thinking, or the whingeing self-pity of those who feel that life owes them something.

- Richard Dawkins

topic: Atheist, Thinking, Self, Life Affirming, Self Delusion

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

source: Pete Wentz, James Montgomery (2013). “Gray”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

topic: Dream, Art, Reality, Life Affirming

It is so inspiring to see a new group coming together not to focus on a particular war or weapons system, but on all war-everywhere. And it's great to have such beautifully crafted arguments about why war is not inevitable and how war contributes to so many other global ills. This coalition is worthy of Martin Luther King's call to end violence and instead put our energies and resources into 'life-affirming activities.' Bravo!

- Medea Benjamin

topic: Kings, War, Focus, Life Affirming, Bravo

Unlike most heritages, Western civilization is not primarily a geographical place or a genetic bloodline. It is a state of mind. No matter where on earth one was born, to become heir to Western civilization's ancestry, one need only pledge allegiance to reason and individual liberty-the civilized, life-affirming values that represent the "West at its best."

- Terri Runnels

topic: Civilization, Individuality, Mind, Life Affirming, Western Civilization

I suppose I walk that line between comedy and cruelty because I think one illuminates the other. We're all cruel, aren't we? We are all extreme in one way or another at times and that's what drama, since the Greeks, has dealt with. I hope the overall view isn't just that though, or I've failed in my writing. There have to be moments when you glimpse something decent, something life-affirming even in the most twisted character. That's where the real art lies.

- Martin McDonagh

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Art, Real, Drama, Life Affirming, Affirming

Growth can also involve producing services instead of goods. In particular, a major expansion of public and caring services (like child care, education, elder care, and other life-affirming programs) would generate huge increases in GDP and incomes, with virtually no impact on the environment.

- Jim Stanford

source: Jim Stanford (2008). “Economics for everyone: a short guide to the economics of capitalism”, Pluto Pr

topic: Children, Caring, Impact, Life Affirming, Child Care

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

topic: Grateful, Tears, Alive, Life Affirming

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

topic: Beautiful, Hopeful, Feelings, Life Affirming, Affirming

I've just finished reading a book about the brilliant Margaret Rutherford. She wasn't a beauty, but inside she was absolutely blazing and passionate about her work. She's one of those life-affirming characters.

- Sophie Thompson

topic: Book, Reading, Character, Life Affirming, Affirming

Never ever discount the idea of marriage. Sure, someone might tell you that marriage is just a piece of paper. Well, so is money, and what's more life-affirming than cold, hard cash?

- Dennis Miller

topic: Funny, Ideas, Life Is Hard, Discounts, Life Affirming