#fat

Now you look here. All your father ever dreamed of for you was to do something you loved in life. He didn't care about fancy qualifications or fancy clothes or cars, just that you were both happy and fulfilled. He was so excited about your dreams for a career. ↗

— Hazel Gaynor

#father #life #dreams

His small compliments and offhand remarks formed a new scripture, and in breathless conversations and lonely, dream-drunk nights they built whole theologies from them. ↗

— Carey Wallace

#infatuation #love #projection #dreams

Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place. ↗

— Angela Carter

#cults #does #emotional #father #first

Whatever problems we encountered, we put there. If we trace the line back, every struggle derived from some decision we made. It is not chance, it is how we teach ourselves. ↗

— Thomm Quackenbush

#fate #lessons #problems #teach #dreams

Fate is unalterable only in the sense that given a cause, a certain result must follow, but no cause is inevitable in itself, and man can shape his world if he does not resign himself to ignorance. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#destiny #education #fate #ignorance #self-determination

For truly barren is profane education, which is always in labor but never gives birth. For what fruit worthy of such pangs does philosophy show for being so long in labor? Do not all who are full of wind and never come to term miscarry before they come to the light of the knowledge of God, although they could as well become men if they were not altogether hidden in the womb of barren wisdom? ↗

— Gregory of Nyssa

#philosophy #theology #education

While traditionalism can thwart the planners and molders of industry, education, and society in general, fatalism can so stultify a people that passive resignation becomes the approved norm, and acceptance of undesirable conditions becomes the way of life. ↗

— Jack E. Weller

#education #fatalism #folk #traditionalism #education

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#ago #brought #conceived #continent #created

Whatever is,is in its causes just; But purblind man Sees but a part o' th' chain;the nearest link; His eyes not carrying to that equal beam That poises all above. ↗

— John Dryden

#equality

The formula was simple: E + F + C = M. That is, excitement plus fatigue, plus confusion equals mistakes. ↗

— Rutledge Etheridge

#mistakes #equality