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“You've made this day a special day, by just your being you. There's no person in the whole world like you, and I like you just the way you are.”
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“I find myself saying briefly and prosaically that it is much more important to be oneself than anything else. Do not dream of influencing other people, I would say, if I knew how to make it sound exalted. Think of things in themselves.”
― A Room of One’s Own
― A Room of One’s Own
“Does it explain my astonishment the other day when Z, most humane, most modest of men, taking up some book by Rebecca West and reading a passage in it, exclaimed, 'The arrant feminist! She says that men are snobs!' The exclamation, to me so surprising - for why was Miss West an arrant feminist for making a possibly true if uncomplimentary statement about the other sex? - was not merely the cry of wounded vanity; it was a protest against some infringement of his power to believe in himself. Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.”
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“It was this that made him attractive to women, who liked the sense that he was not altogether manly. There was something unusual about him, or something behind him. It might be that he was bookish -- never came to see you without taking up the book on the table (he was now reading, with his bootlaces trailing on the floor)...”
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“So often, it's others around us who can see where God wants to grow us even before we see it ourselves.”
― Christ-Centered Biblical Counseling: Changing Lives with God's Changeless Truth
― Christ-Centered Biblical Counseling: Changing Lives with God's Changeless Truth
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