"I think there's a natural link between the fact that our self is a story that we make up and that we're drawn to stories. It resonates, in a way."

-- Mohsin Hamid

#Thinking Quotes #Self Quotes #Links Quotes

“One cannot have economic growth without security.”
“Darwinism's atheism prevents science from knowing why things are as they are. Without God there is no answer to the why for anything.”
“In today's society we sometimes forget to balance our hearts and our heads; this is the reason we stop laughing.”
“Poetry is paying attention to life when all the world seems asleep to its beauties and truths.”
“America should do a reverse Columbus. The world no longer needs to discover America; but America urgently needs to discover the world's view of America.”
“A gym for the soul is a place where personal investment is required and the return is real.”

Source : Anne Bogart (2014). “What's the Story: Essays about Art, Theater and Storytelling”, p.18, Routledge
“The single most prevalent form of child abuse in this country is the act of sending a child to a government school. We worry incessantly about the separation of church and state. We would do well to devote half as much attention to the separation of government and education.”
“Man-made computers are limited in their performance by finite processing speed and memory. So, too, the cosmic computer is limited in power by its age and the finite speed of light.”

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