"Sociologists have a theory of the looking-glass self: You become what the most important person in your life (wife, father, boss, etc.) thinks you are. How would my life change if I truly believed the Bible's astounding words about God's love for me, if I looked in the mirror and saw what God sees?"

-- Philip Yancey

#Life Changing Quotes #Father Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“The government cannot become a bailout organization for companies on the verge of bankruptcy.”
“The big bang, the most cataclysmic event we can imagine, on closer inspection appears finely orchestrated.”
“In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.”

Source : Luigi Pirandello (1962). “To clothe the naked: and two other plays”
“We're kept scrambling so much that we don't have time to really study and analyze and understand the way that power really works in this country.”
“The talk of sheltering woman from the fierce storms of life is the sheerest mockery, for they beat on her from every point of thecompass, just as they do on man, and with more fatal results, for he has been trained to protect himself, to resist, to conquer.”
“I recall feeling an almost delicious terror when one day I found myself alone in the midst of tall June grasses that grew high as my head. But here the secret working of self consciousness is almost too entangled with the things of the past for me to explain it.”
“Some people take the spelling bee very seriously. These people are called "parents of children in the spelling bee." They're trying to make up for their own childhood of crushed dreams and misspelled words.”
“I call myself an experimental philosopher which is as ambiguous a term as comprehensive anticipatory design scientist.”

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