"Where do you think youâ€™re going?â€ Dr. Nokes demandedâ€¦. â€œWhat do you have for directions?â€ And Dadâ€¦ said, â€œI have the substance of things hoped for. I have the anticipation of things unseen"

-- Leif Enger

#Dad Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Unseen Quotes

“We taste Thee, O Thou Living Bread, And long to feast upon Thee still: We drink of Thee, the Fountainhead And thirst our souls from Thee to fill.”
“In every life we have some trouble, but when you worry you make it double. Don't worry. Be happy.”

Source : Song: Don't Worry Be Happy
“The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.”
“Little sleep's-head sprouting hair in the moonlight, when I come back we will go out together, we will walk out together among, the ten thousand things, each scratched too late with such knowledge, the wages of dying is love.”

Source : Galway Kinnell, “Little Sleep's-Head Sprouting Hair In The Moonlight”
“Heavenly Father loves youâ€”each of you. That love never changes.”
“God made thee perfect, not immutable.”
“When those myths were created, when the Bible was written, man didn't know what an atom or a germ was, or where the sun went at night, or why the women got pregnant. [Laughs.] They needed stories to answer the questions.”
“To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. When we take away the right to an individual name, we symbolically take away the right to be an individual. Immigration officials did this to refugees; husbands routinely do it to wives.”

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