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These affirmations are practical. To applaud them from the balcony is easy.
To perform them on your daily stage is noble. Affirmism, like charity, begins
at home.
- 1. We affirm EXUBERANCE.
Society offers us a smorgasbord of adventures and pleasures.
What hunger is to food, zest is to life.
- 2. We affirm TRIUMPH.
Failure makes us bitter and cruel, whereas success enables kindness.
It's a good deed to share a companion's sufferings.
It's an art to celebrate a friend's victories.
- 3. We affirm HEROES.
We improve to the degree that we recognize and emulate
persons more talented than ourselves.
A hero is a soaring eagle. Let us lift our heads.
- 4. We affirm INTELLIGENCE.
Perception, memory, and imagination distinguish us from lambs and lions.
In the cosmic zoo, ignorance can be fatal. But stupidity is the original sin.
- 5. We affirm COURAGE.
Some persons will say you're on the wrong road, if it's truly yours.
Behold turtles! They inch forward only when they stick their necks out.
- 6. We affirm CIVIL LIBERTIES.
Every person deserves the protections stated in the United States Bill of Rights (1791)
and the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights (1948).
Liberty is a daily struggle, not a gift.
- 7. We affirm KINDRED SPIRITS.
The Cosmos is indifferent to our existence. However, life echoes with exceptions.
Lovers call out with loud spasms; friends with quiet ones.
- 8. We affirm SCIENTIFIC METHOD.
Truth is sensual and tentative.
We experience nature by observing, experimenting, and reflecting.
The joy of science lies in the slaying of beautiful theories with ugly facts.
- 9. We affirm PROGRESS.
Everybody has ups and downs.
Unfortunate persons live the same problem over and over.
Fortunate persons live a series of new problems.
- 10. We affirm THE GOOD LIFE.
Health, meaningful work, economic security, recreation, sex love,
cultural enjoyment, educational opportunity, community recognition,
freedom of speech, and a sense of beauty are our goals.
Success is getting what we want; fulfillment is wanting what we get.
