personal affirmation Quotes

What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.

To love is to see myself in you and to wish to celebrate myself with you. What I love is the embodiment of my values in another person. Love is an act of self-assertion, self-expression and a celebration of being alive.

For the record, I am gay.

I can tell you that I am not self-destructive. I'm not a person who wants to die. I'm a person who has life, who wants to live. And I always have. And I wouldn't mistake it for anything else other than that.

I tell myself, 'I'm the greatest, and this is what you need to do.'

You never outgrow your need to preach to yourself the gospel.

The human need for language is not simply for the transmission of meaning, it is at the same time listening to and affirming a person's existence.

I just said to myself, 'Damn, I'm a great player.'

I am proud to be a Richie.

I can worship Nature, and that fulfills my need for miracles and beauty. Art gives a spiritual depth to existence -- I can find worlds bigger and deeper than my own in music, paintings, and books. And from my friends and family I receive the highest benediction, emotional contact, and personal affirmation. I can bow before the works of Man, from buildings to babies, and that fulfills my need for wonder. I can believe in the sanctity of Life, and that becomes the Revealed Word, to live my life as I believe it should be, not as I'm told to by self-appointed guides.

But she loves me. Me. Just the way I am.

People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.

I've got just 3 words: Ain't I Great?

Ay, is it not a language I speak?

Writing eases my suffering . . . writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.

By listening, by caring, by playing you back to yourself, friends ratify your better instincts and endorse your unique worth. Friends validate you.

I am what I am Are you what you are or What?

I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

Jesse Jackson has to get back to "I am somebody" instead of "I am some color."

I'm gay. I always have been and I always will be, and I'm happy.

I want validation. I'm not ashamed to say that I need the world to validate me and for people to say, 'You are what you think you are.'

It’s so wonderful being a gay person. I said that before. I’m going to say it again. I love being gay. And I love gay people. I think we’re better than other people. I really do. I think we’re smarter and more talented and more aware and I do, I do, I totally do. And I think we’re more tuned in to what’s happening, tuned into the moment, tuned into our emotions, and other people’s emotions, and we’re better friends. I really do think all of these things. And I try not to forget them.

I always thought that people told you that you're beautiful-that this was a title that was bestowed upon you. [...] I think that it's time to take this power into our own hands and to say, "You know what? I'm beautiful. I just am. And that's my light. I'm just a beautiful woman."

My cousin Dwayne was really the first person who was like, 'You're funny, man!' I was like, 'OK, sure.'

The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality.