Famous Quotes about affirmation

Roland Barthes quote #337 from A Lover's Discourse: Fragments

You see the first thing we love is a scene. For love at first sight requires the very sign of its suddenness and of all things it is the scene which seems to be seen best for the first time a curtain parts and what had not yet ever been seen is devoured by the eyes the scene consecrates the object I am going to love. The context is the constellation of elements harmoniously arranged that encompass the experience of the amorous subject...Love at first sight is always spoken in the past tense. The scene is perfectly adapted to this temporal phenomenon distinct abrupt framed it is already a memory the nature of a photograph is not to represent but to memorialize... this scene has all the magnificence of an accident I cannot get over having had this good fortune to meet what matches my desire.The gesture of the amorous embrace seems to fulfill for a time the subjects dream of total union with the loved being The longing for consummation with the other... In this moment everything is suspended time law prohibition nothing is exhausted nothing is wanted all desires are abolished for they seem definitively fulfilled... A moment of affirmation for a certain time though a finite one a deranged interval something has been successful I have been fulfilled all my desires abolished by the plenitude of their satisfaction.
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Melody Beattie quote #32 from The Language of Letting Go: Daily Meditations on Codependency

Make New Years goals. Dig within and discover what you would like to have happen in your life this year. This helps you do your part. It is an affirmation that youre interested in fully living life in the year to come. Goals give us direction. They put a powerful force into play on a universal conscious and subconscious level. Goals give our life direction.What would you like to have happen in your life this year What would you like to do to accomplish What good would you like to attract into your life What particular areas of growth would you like to have happen to you What blocks or character defects would you like to have removedWhat would you like to attain Little things and big things Where would you like to go What would you like to have happen in friendship and love What would you like to have happen in your family lifeWhat problems would you like to see solved What decisions would you like to make What would you like to happen in your careerWrite it down. Take a piece of paper a few hours of your time and write it all down - as an affirmation of you your life and your ability to choose. Then let it go. The new year stands before us like a chapter in a book waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals.
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