A Quotes
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“Affirmations are powerful and wonderful thoughts that serve you, your body, your immune system, your mind, and your spirit.”
Source: Affirmations for Healing Mind, Body & Spirit
“Affirmations are quality ideas and quality thoughts. The quality of our thoughts reflects the quality of our life. Hence, if we were to raise the quality of our thoughts, we would automatically improve the quality of our life Affirmation literally means to validate or confirm. So when we think a thought over and over again, we are validating or confirming it as the truth Using affirmations on a daily basis is one of the easiest things we can do to change our lives.”
“Affirmations are so easy that some people think they are too simple to be effective.”
“Affirmations are wonderful because it is much better to speak positively than to speak negatively. But the universe is not responding to your words; it responds to your vibration, and your vibration is being indicated to you by the way you feel. If you don’t believe what you are saying, your vibration hasn’t shifted, so nothing changes for you. The key to affirmations is to work yourself into a place where you really feel it. We have never talked about this before anywhere, but a very good application of an affirmation would be to affirm your way up the emotional scale. Start with an affirmation of where you are emotionally, then keep reaching for a better feeling thought.”
“Affirmations are words that empower. However, words are just words
until we bind them with our feelings. Therefore, every affirmation we say
needs to be bound with our feelings, has to be said aloud or silent, or must
be written many times a day. This helps to erase the past that has been
programmed by many years of conditioning, and energetically rewrites the
future that we want for ourselves.”
Source: Twelve Steps to Inner Peace
“Affirmations do not create magic, but they are good to remind yourself that you’re doing great, and it can create a positive mindset.”
Source: 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure
“Affirmations don't make something happen; they make something welcome.”
“Affirmations: "I love & respect my mind, body, spirit." & "I do what best nurtures all parts of myself." & "I thrive on wholeness." Namaste!”
“Affirmations need to be used if they are to become incorporated into the fabric of your being.”
Source: Affirmations for Artists
“Affirmative action and equal opportunity was never and is not intended to let people with fewer skills and less experience triumph over those with more. It was intended to aid a decision between two people who have the same set of skills.”
Source: Women in Tech: Take Your Career to the Next Level with Practical Advice and Inspiring Stories
“Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.”
“Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles.”
“Affirmative action has been generally cast in terms of race. I think women themselves are not as cognizant of the role affirmative action has played in opening the doors for women.”
“Affirmative action hiring pressures make it costly to have no minority employees, but continuing affirmative action pressures at the promotion and discharge phases also make it costly to have minority employees who do not work out well. The net effect is to increase the demand for highly qualified minority employees while decreasing the demand for less qualified minority employees or for those without a sufficient track record to reassure employers.”
Source: Civil Rights: Rhetoric or Reality?
“Affirmative action ignores our society's real minorities - members of the disadvantaged classes, no matter what their race. We have this ludicrous bureaucratic sense that certain racial groups, regardless of class, are minorities. So what happens is those "minorities" at the very top of the ladder get chosen for everything.”
“Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.”
“Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.”
“Affirmative Action is in place because the systems of society were put in place to favor one race of people who had a 300 year head start on people of color. I am calling for better education so people like you understand who America truly is.”
“Affirmative action is letting some Black kids sit in the same row as most of the white kids. It's giving an opportunity to a person who would not otherwise have it because of discriminatory systems.”
Source: The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person
“Affirmative action is not going to be the long-term solution to the problems of race in America, because, frankly, if you've got 50 percent of African-American or Latino kids dropping out of high school, it doesn't really matter what you do in terms of affirmative action. Those kids aren't going to college.”
“Affirmative action is something that I think is very crucial and necessary.”
“Affirmative action is the giving, to some people, of a fair disadvantage.”
“Affirmative action is the most important modern anti-discrimination technique ever instituted in the United States. It is the one tool that has had a demonstrable effect on discrimination. No one who knows anything about the subject would say it hasn't worked. It has certainly done something, or else it wouldn't have provoked so much opposition.”
“Affirmative action was always racial justice on the cheap.”
“Affirmative action was designed originally for "women and other minorities" but the phrase has become just another tortured euphemism. Female conscientiousness and eagerness to please have always made women good students and natural test takers. Jews have gloried in scholarship throughout the ages, and Asians of both sexes score so high on SATs and IQ tests that they regard affirmative action as an impediment. Affirmative action really means favoritism for blacks for the sake of racial peace, but the favor is pure chimera, and so, increasingly, is the peace.”
“Affirmative action was designed to keep women and minorities in competition with each other to distract us while white dudes inject AIDS into our chicken nuggets.”
“Affirmative action was never meant to be permanent, and now is truly the time to move on to some other approach.”
“Affirmative precepts are distinguished from negative whenever one is not comprised in the other; thus, that of honoring parents does not comprise that of not killing, and vice versa.”
“Affirmative words and actions confirm you are on the right path and help you attract what you desire. Whether you are reaffirming a dream, a goal, a previous commitment, or a person, reaffirmations will strengthen your area of focus. Begin reaffirming yourself and others through encouragement, paying attention, listening, and being grateful.”
“Affirming others isn't 'flattering' them-it's when you genuinely and consistently acknowledge their efforts and accomplishments, both large and small. Make affirmation a habit and watch what happens!”
“Affirming words from moms and dads are like light switches. Speak a word of affirmation at the right moment in a child's life and it's like lighting up a whole roomful of possibilities.”
Source: Leaving the Light On: Building the Memories That Will Draw Kids Home
“Affirming your gender can be joyful and safe! If your current binding method isn't doing it for you, experiment with other methods. There is a better one out there for you.”
Source: Breathe: Journeys to Healthy Binding
“Affirmitive action is extremely complex because it appears in many different forms.”
“Afflatus! I want to split mountains, oceans I want to divaricate, walk my mind through this universe along with a vigorous desire to spin a sun on my index finger.
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“Affleck was the bomb in Phantoms.”
“Afflicted by love's madness all are blind.”
“Afflicted with existence, each man endures like an animal the consequences which proceed from it. Thus, in a world where everything is detestable, hatred becomes huger than the world and, having transcended its object, cancels itself out.”
Source: A short history of decay
“Affliction brings out graces that cannot be seen in a time of health. It is the treading of the grapes that brings out the sweet juices of the vine; so it is affliction that draws forth submission, weanedness from the world, and complete rest in God. Use afflictions while you have them.”
“Affliction by that falsehood is the act of dying. To be free from that delusion is to attain Immortality.”
“Affliction caused by the tongue is worse than that caused by the strike of the blade of a sword.”
“Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.”
“Affliction doth not rise out of the dust or come to men by chance; but it is the Lord that sends it, and we should own and reverence His hand in it.”
Source: The Whole Works of the Late Reverend and Learned Mr. Thomas Boston, Minister of the Gospel at Etterick
“Affliction equips the suffering to empathize with others in anguish and not only does it strengthen them, it enables them to be consoling comforters in a world full of hurt.”
“Affliction hardens and discourages us because, like a red hot iron, it stamps the soul to its very depths with the scorn, the disgust, and even the self-hatred and sense of guilt that crime logically should produce but actually does not.”
Source: Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)
“Affliction hardens those whom it does not soften.”
Source: Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 19: 1873
“Affliction has a sting, out withal a wing: sorrow shall fly away.”
“Affliction is a divine diet which though it be not pleasing to mankind, yet almighty God hath often imposed it as a good, thought bitter, physic, to those children whose souls are dearest to him.”
Source: The Works of Mr. Richard Hooker: Containing Eight Books of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, and Several Other Treatises
“Affliction is a good man's shining time.”
“Affliction is a pill, which, being wrapt up in patience and quiet submission, may be easily swallowed; but discontent chews the pill, and so embitters the soul.”
“Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.”