#eli

And this shows that sometimes people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#intelligence #stupidity #truth #intelligence

Today I'm out wandering, turning my skull into a cup for others to drink wine from. In this town somewhere there sits a calm, intelligent man, who doesn't know what he's about to do! ↗

— Rumi

#seelie #unseelie #intelligence

What each of us believes in is up to us, but life is impossible without believing in something. ↗

— Kentetsu Takamori

#buddhism #japan #religion #spirituality #life

It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it; and, if discovered and responded to, must lead, ignis-fatuus-like, into miry wilds whence there is no extrication. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#flattery #love #secret-love #sense #unavowed-love

I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it. ↗

— Garrison Keillor

#denying #eye #i #i believe #i believe in

Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly. ↗

— Matthew Quick

#feelings-of-weakness #happiness #life #literature #movie

The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning. ↗

— Niels Bohr

#meaning #life

If you simply ignored the feeling, you would never know what might happen, and in many ways that was worse than finding out in the first place. Because if you were wrong, you could go forward in your life without ever looking back over your shoulder and wondering what might have been. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#feeling #love #message-in-a-bottle #nicholas-sparks #regret

Paris is a place in which we can forget ourselves, reinvent, expunge the dead weight of our past. ↗

— Michael Simkins

#traveling #education

We should live our lives as though Christ was coming this afternoon. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#judgement #life #preparation #religion #life