Writing Affirmation Quotes & Sayings

In the humanist world following Erasmus, man is at the centre of the universe. Man becomes largely responsible for his own destiny, behaviour and future. This is the new current of thought which finds its manifestation in the writing of the 1590s and the decades which follow. The euphoria of Elizabeth's global affirmation of authority was undermined in these years by intimations of mortality: in 1590 she was 57 years old. No one could tell how much longer her golden age would last; hence, in part, Spenser's attempts to analyse and encapsulate that glory in an epic of the age. This concern about the death of a monarch who - as Gloriana, the Virgin Queen - was both symbol and totem, underscores the deeper realisation that mortality is central to life. After the Reformation, the certainties of heaven and hell were less clear, more debatable, more uncertain. — Ronald Carter

Do you think I am superstitious? I am a super-atheist. — Mahatma Gandhi

Most fundamentally, I used to write because I received positive feedback. To a guy who was picked on pretty relentlessly through a lot of his childhood, the respect and affection of students and teachers is addictive. It was a couple years after grad school that I realized that a need for affirmation wasn't a good enough reason to keep writing, especially in the face of rejection after rejection after even personal rejection, and that if I was going to do it, I had to acknowledge that it was going to take my whole life. The decision to do it until I'm dead has made the writing and the writing life so much easier. — Donald Dunbar

People crave encouragement, and sometimes the greatest encouragement is the writing of words that endure. Perhaps you can pen a note of affirmation and approval to someone today. — David Jeremiah

What a loss it would be if feminism killed chivalry. — Joyce Rachelle

To find the courage to keep writing after constant failure is awesomeness. Winning is eminent. — Sereda Aleta Dailey

In my opinion , every rich man is a miser. — Michel De Montaigne

My work ... is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention from faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself. — Miguel De Unamuno

I'm honored to have served for 18 years as Arizona's 10th Senator - and for four terms in the House of Representatives before that. — Jon Kyl

Cleanliness is very important. If you let kids make a total mess in the kitchen and then leave, you're not really teaching them anything. — Emeril Lagasse

We can do our best to change people, to summon them to be whom they are capable of being, but ultimately they only people we will always have the power to change will be ourselves. — Harold S. Kushner

I have the feeling, Liberty, that you're hoping for someone to give you permission to do what you want to do. — Lisa Kleypas

The only possible recourse a baby has when his screams are ignored is to repress his distress, which is tantamount to mutilating his soul, for the result is an interference with his ability to feel, to be aware, and to remember. — Alice Miller

Of course my jokes are in poor taste, inappropriate, and confused; they reveal my lack of security. But that is because I have no respect for myself. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Who would seriously want to listen to anything emanating from a quasi-chimpanzee's irrational bundle of mental accidents and energies? — David A. Noebel

I'm constantly changing and evolving so I don't abide by just one certain style. — Stella Hudgens

In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the authors. If the authors had not achieved self-affirmation while writing, how could they have continued to write? — Gao Xingjian

A successful story always offers its audience more than a simple resolution of events. A story offers a dramatic affirmation of human needs that are acted out to resolution and fulfillment. Even when that resolution and fulfillment are dark, the journey can still be vivid, potent and illuminating. — Bill Johnson

Most companies can survive even if their debt ratings are lowered below investment grade, although they will have higher borrowing costs. — Alex Berenson

There's really only one good writing habit: You must write constantly. — Rob Bignell, Editor