The virtue of a historical novel is in its vice - the flatfooted affirmation of possibility as fact.
Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.
You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which "clicks."
It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance.
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
Humore is an affirmation of man's dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
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? - Nobel Lecture 2000.