"If some glorious angel suddenly descended through my living room ceiling and offered to take away the children I have and give me other, better children â€” more polite, funnier, nicer, smarter â€” I would cling to the children I have and pray away that atrocious spectacle."

-- Andrew Solomon

#Children Quotes #Angel Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Calvin's theocentric irrationalism eventually revealed itself as the cunning to technocratic reason which had to shape its human material. Misery and the poor laws did not suffice to drive men into the workshops of the early capitalistic era. The new spirit helped to supplement external pressures with a concern for wife and child to which the moral autonomy of the introverted subject in reality was tantamount.”
“I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word.”
“I could feel my anger dissipating as the miles went by--you can't run and stay mad!”

Source : Kathrine Switzer (2017). “Marathon Woman: Running the Race to Revolutionize Women's Sports”, p.84, Hachette UK
“As humans, we are rarely anything more than children that have let the changes to the size and shape of our genitals convince us that there are more important things in life than wonder and happiness. we call the acceptence of this change 'growing up' and it makes us feel big and powerful in a world that would be no less mysterious to us than it was before if all of the fantasizing that we once used to explore the "unknown" quality of our reality had not become devoted almost exclusively to the notion that we are in control.”
“Andrius, I'm...scared." He stopped and turned to me. "No. Don't be scared. Don't give them anything Lina, not even your fear.”

Source : Ruta Sepetys (2011). “Between Shades of Gray”, p.155, Penguin
“We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.”
“The way of God is complex, he is hard for us to predict. He moves the pieces and they come somehow into a kind of order.”
“The last book I read was the book I've been rereading most of my life, The Fountainhead.”

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