"You make decisions, take actions, affect the world, receive feedback from the world, incorporate it into yourself, then the updated 'you' makes more decisions, and so forth, 'round and 'round."

-- Douglas Hofstadter

#Decision Quotes #World Quotes #Action Quotes

“I just want to get a Ph.D. in love.”
“... when we are talking about 'Christians' and 'Moslems' we must first make sure that we are talking about people who have an idea, which should be more or less correct, as to what the other is supposed to believe and what he is expected to do as a consequence of that belief.”
“The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.”
“All fear is but the notion that God's love ends.”
“People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is.”
“My great-grandfather, Sam Aykroyd, was a dentist in Kingston, Ontario, and he was also an Edwardian spiritualist researcher who was very interested in what was going on in the invisible world, the survival of the consciousness, precipitated paintings, mediumship, and trans-channeling.”
“When a young person, even a gifted one, grows up without proximate living examples of what she may aspire to become--whether lawyer, scientist, artist, or leader in any realm--her goal remains abstract. Such models as appear in books or on the news, however inspiring or revered, are ultimately too remote to be real, let alone influential. But a role model in the flesh provides more than inspiration; his or her very existence is confirmation of possibilities one may have every reason to doubt, saying, 'Yes, someone like me can do this.”

Source : Sonia Sotomayor (2013). “My Beloved World”, p.178, Vintage
“My children range in age from 5 to 31. We adopted the 5-year-old, but people are often impressed with my wife before knowing that.”

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