"Mother, who has an absolute belief that it is not the cards that one is dealt in life, it is how one plays them, is, by far, the highest card I was dealt."

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Source : Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.17, Pan Macmillan

Kay Redfield Jamison

#Family Quotes #Mother Quotes #Play Quotes

“Pressure is what you make of it. It makes me play harder.”
“Cynics always say no. Saying yes leads to knowledge. So for as long as you have the strength to, say yes.”
“There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives.”

Source : 1899 Boy Life on the Prairie,'Melons and Early Frost'.
“It's also much clearer how much damage the occupation of Iraq is doing to America's reputation and prestige around the world; and that's just starting now to hit home in the United States.”
“There are very few honest friends--the demand is not particularly great.”
“I'll watch the kids play, have a big steak with my friends, stay in a nice hotel, sign a lot of autographs, then go back to Vegas and tell my alumni how tough recruiting is.”
“You cannot learn very much about excellence from studying failure.”
“Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.”

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