“I've developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more books, by far, than I learned anything useful from, except, of course, that some very tedious gentlemen have written books.”
― Gilead
― Gilead
“To value one another is our greatest safety, and to indulge in fear and contempt is our gravest error.”
― The Givenness of Things: Essays
― The Givenness of Things: Essays
“More often than not, we want him to have fairy wings and spread fairy dust and shine like a precious little star, dispensing nothing but good times on everyone, like some kind of hybrid of Tinker Bell and Aladdin’s Genie. But the God of the Bible, this God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, is a pillar of fire and a column of smoke.”
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“...It is when we act freely, for the sake of the action itself rather than for ulterior motives, that we learn to become more than what we were.”
― Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
― Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
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