#r

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#deathers #logic #politics #reason #tea-party

If you live today, you breath in nihilism ... it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church to fight it with or to tell me the necessity of fighting it, I would be the stinkingest logical positivist you ever saw right now. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#church #nihilism #philosophy #theology #logic

The mistake is thinking that there can be an antidote to the uncertainty. ↗

— David Levithan

#mistakes

We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them. ↗

— John Irving

#perspective #revelation #self-discovery #mistakes

How do you know if a demon is lying? His lips are moving. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#insult #paraphrased #insult

But I too hate long books: the better, the worse. If they're bad they merely make me pant with the effort of holding them up for a few minutes. But if they're good, I turn into a social moron for days, refusing to go out of my room, scowling and growling at interruptions, ignoring weddings and funerals, and making enemies out of friends. I still bear the scars of Middlemarch. ↗

— Vikram Seth

#effort

All the action adventure girls have red hair," he said. "Whenever it is an independent girl, not a sidekick person, when she has her own mind or does as good as the guys, she has red hair. ↗

— Marion Roach

#independence

It was funny the way memory obliged the heart. His happy recollections were always afloat in his soupy subconscious where so many of his darker memories had sunk to the underbelly of his past and been as good as lost forever. But without conscious instruction, memory had edited and enlarged the finest moments of his life and stored them like masterpieces in the private gallery of his personal history. ↗

— Nanci Kincaid

#happy #heart #masterpieces #memory #private-gallery

Every challenge you encounter in life is a fork in the road. You have the choice to choose which way to go - backward, forward, breakdown or breakthrough. ↗

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#challenge #failing-forward #fortune-in-failing #forward #higherlife

Lebanon: the country where everyone wants a piece while we want peace. ↗

— Sandra Chami Kassis

#country #lebanon #life #peace #politics