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

    Dream   Thinking   People  
    Source: www.pbs.org
  • When I first came to London, I loved hanging around in cafes, smoking, scribbling, dreaming. It was life-affirming and fun.

    Dream   Fun   Smoking  
    "My week" by Peter Capaldi, www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2006.
  • 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.

    Emotional   Insane   Want  
    Source: logger.believermag.com
  • I have always believed that there is a need for life-affirming films.

  • 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.

    Home   Writing   Kids  
    "Portrait of the artist: Sanjeev Bhaskar, actor and comedian". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2010.
  • 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.

  • 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?

    Funny   Humor   Ideas  
  • 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 (2014). “The Desire Map: A Guide to Creating Goals with Soul”, p.39, Sounds True
  • The wreckage of stars - I built a world from this wreckage.

    Stars   Wreckage   World  
    Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Peacock and the Buffalo: The Poetry of Nietzsche”, p.323, Bloomsbury Publishing
  • The power of our beliefs can work in either direction to become life affirming or life denying.

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

    Air   Knowing   People  
    Simon Doonan (2009). “Eccentric Glamour: Creating an Insanely More Fabulous You”, p.24, Simon and Schuster
  • Art is a way to get strength from something that is life-affirming. It can be quite violent and still be life-affirming.

    Art   Way   Violent  
    Interview with Piotr Uklanski, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 24, 2011.
  • 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.

    Grateful   Tears   Alive  
  • Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

    FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 22, 2017
  • 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.

    Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. August 6, 2008.
  • 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."

  • 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?

    Dream   Art   Reality  
    Pete Wentz, James Montgomery (2013). “Gray”, p.35, Simon and Schuster
  • 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.

    Suicide   Gay   Boys  
    Source: www.dailymail.co.uk
  • 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.

    Wish   Nerves   Want  
    Charles Frazier (2007). “Cold Mountain: A Novel”, p.410, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
  • 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.

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

    "Elizabeth Gilbert On The First Step To Long-Lasting Happiness" By Elizabeth Gilbert, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 19, 2014.
  • 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.

    Real   Stress   Simple  
  • 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 (2008). “Economics for everyone: a short guide to the economics of capitalism”, Pluto Pr
  • I think the film [Dream of Life] is 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

  • 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.

  • Life affirming doesn't mean good things happen.

    "Love & Sincerity: A Conversation with James Gray". Interview with Adam Cook, mubi.com. October 05, 2013.
  • There is always money to kill people. There is never enough money for life affirming ends.

    People   Enough   Ends  
  • 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. See, I always suspect characters who are painted as lovely, decent human beings. I would always question where the darkness lies.

    Art   Lying   Real  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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