"We tend to think, 'Life should be fair because God is fair.' But God is not life. And if I confuse God with the physical reality of life- by expecting constant good health for example- then I set myself up for crashing disappointment."

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Philip Yancey

#Disappointment Quotes #Reality Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“We must let the world know childrenâ€™s stories and we must take effective protective, legal and political actions to ensure that as many children as possible are spared the brutalities of war. Our joint action has, and will, make a difference, if only we make the effort.”
“If Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.”
“I regard it (the Constitution) as the work of the purest patriots and wisest statesman that ever existed, aided by the smiles of a benign Providence; it almost appears a "Divine interposition in our behalf... the hand that destroys our Constitution rends our Union asunder forever.”
“Throughout my career, I had a lot of mentors, and I just adopted them. What I found is that, especially if you're young, when you go up to people and say, 'Would you mind being my mentor?,' their eyes widen. They literally step back. What they're thinking about is the commitment and time involved if they say yes. And time is something they don't have. So I would not ask them to be my mentor, but I would just start treating them like it. And that worked very well for me.”
“I've got to be active in life, and it's the same when I'm doing stunts in a movie: I'll do anything.”
“If I physically made every work myself, I would get only one or two paintings done a year, if that.”
“There are many ways of casting molecular spells using DNA. What we really want to do in the end is learn how to program self-assembly so that we can build anything.”
“I always wanted to be a writer since I was around 12 years old and I wrote my first book.”

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