#gh

There might be a million wrong people in your life, but when the right one comes everything looks dark. ↗

— M.F. Moonzajer

#right-person #wrong #life

Light has a battery life; darkness has none! Light is finite; darkness is infinite! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#life

At some point, it's time to stop fighting with death, my thighs and the way things are. And to realize that emotional eating in nothing but bolting from multiple versions of the above: the obsession will stop when the bolting stops. And at that point, we might answer, as spiritual teacher Catherine Ingram did, when someone asked how she allowed herself to tolerate deep sorrow, "I live among the brokenhearted. They allow it. ↗

— Geneen Roth

#self #sorrow #weight #death

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbor's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder. ↗

— George Eliot

#jealousy #neighborhood #jealousy

When the time is ripe for certain things, these things appear in different places in the manner of violets coming to light in early spring. ↗

— Farkas Bolyai

#mathematics #politics #science #thought #science

Don't they know science doesn't work like that? You can't just order scientific breakthroughs. They happen when you are looking at something you've been working on for years and suddenly see a connection you never noticed before, or when you're looking for something else altogether. Sometimes they even happen by accident. Don't they know you can't get a scientific breakthrough just because you want one? ↗

— Connie Willis

#science #science

There is still a popular fantasy, long since disproved by both psychoanalysis and science, and never believed by any poet or mystic, that it is possible to have a thought without a feeling. It isn't. When we are objective we are subjective too. When we are neutral we are involved. When we say ‘I think’ we don't leave our emotions outside the door. To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#thoughts #science

Of course genes can’t pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and the brain is the seat of our drives, temperaments and patterns of thought. Each of us is dealt a unique hand of tastes and aptitudes, like curiosity, ambition, empathy, a thirst for novelty or for security, a comfort level with the social or the mechanical or the abstract. Some opportunities we come across click with our constitutions and set us along a path in life. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#genes #patterns #temperments #thought #life

Are you still mad at me?" "Yes." "I'll go back to sleep, then." "Good. ↗

— E.L. James

#fifty-shades-freed #sleep #fighting

No, thank you," said Adrian. "These hands don't sully themselves with fighting. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#fighting