"Sisters define their rivalry in terms of competition for the gold cup of parental love. It is never perceived as a cup which runneth over, rather a finite vessel from which the more one sister drinks, the less is left over for the others."

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Source : Elizabeth Fishel (1997). “Sisters: Shared Histories, Lifelong Ties”, Red Wheel

Elizabeth Fishel

#Friendship Quotes #Competition Quotes #Gold Quotes

“We come to the table not because we are holy, but because we are in need of His holiness. We come to the table not because we are strong, but because we are weak and in need of His strength.”

Source : Jonathan Martin (2013). “Prototype: What Happens When You Discover You're More Like Jesus Than You Think?”, p.165, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
“Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.”
“The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else.”
“I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.”
“We still find, especially in parts of academe, the damaging notion that everything is a struggle for power, or being empowered, or hegemony, or oppression: and that all competition is a zero-sum game. This is not more than repetition of Lenin's destructive doctrine. Intellectually, it is reductionism; politically, it is fanaticism.”
“If I can get out of the way, if I can be pure enough, if I can be selfless enough, and if I can be generous and loving and caring enough to abandon what I have in my own preconceived silly notions of what I think I am - and become truly who in fact I am, which is really just another child of God - then the music can really use me. And therein lies my fulfillment. That's when the music starts to happen.”
“If you're conscientiously seeking approval, you're not being true to yourself.”
“If you are building a thirty-story building and you use worm-eaten wood for the frame, inferior structural supports, and other fourth-rate, low-grade materials, what kind of finished product do you think you will wind up with? No need to answer. So if you're building a human body and the material that will become your blood, bones, skin, organs-indeed, every cell of your body-is inferior and of poor quality, what kind of body do you think you will wind up with? No need to answer.”

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