#ra

Relativism is neither a method of fighting, nor a method of creating, for both of these are uncompromising and at times even ruthless; rather, it is a method of cognition. ↗

— Karel Capek

#cognition #creating #even #fighting #method

Health food shops can make people feel very important; it's like a brand new religion with people trying to convert you to quinoa. ↗

— Pippa Evans

#brand new #convert #feel #food #health

Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was. ↗

— Richard L. Evans

#begin #discourage #everyone #got #had

When you're clinically depressed the serotonin in your brain is out of balance and probably always will be out of balance. So I take medication to get that proper balance back. I'll probably have to be on it the rest of my life. ↗

— Terry Bradshaw

#back #balance #brain #depressed #get

...What you fear will not go away; it will take you into yourself and bless you and keep you. That's the world, and we all live there. ↗

— William Stafford

#inspirational #inspirational

I learned at a very early age, the easiest thing in the world is to tell the truth, and then you don't have to remember what you said. It has nothing to do with morality, just remembering what you said. ↗

— Robert Evans

#early #early age #easiest #easiest thing #i

I never graduated high school; they had to change the Ivy League rules. During my tenure at Brown, I helped them become the number one Ivy League school. ↗

— Robert Evans

#brown #change #during #graduated #had

From the cave to the skyscraper, from the club to weapons of mass destruction, from the tautological life of the tribe to the era of globalization, the fictions of literature have multiplied human experiences, preventing us from succumbing to lethargy, self-absorption, resignation. Nothing has sown so much disquiet, so disturbed our imagination and our desires as the life of lies we add, thanks to literature, to the one we have, so we can be protagonists in the great adventures, the great passions real life will never give us. The lies of literature become truths through us, the readers transformed, infected with longings and, through the fault of fiction, permanently questioning a mediocre reality. Sorcery, when literature offers us the hope of having what we do not have, being what we are not, acceding to that impossible existence where like pagan gods we feel mortal and eternal at the same time, that introduces into our spirits non-conformity and rebellion, which are behind all the heroic deeds that have contributed to the reduction of violence in human relationships. Reducing violence, not ending it. Because ours will always be, fortunately, an unfinished story. That is why we have to continue dreaming, reading, and writing, the most effective way we have found to alleviate our mortal condition, to defeat the corrosion of time, and to transform the impossible into possibility. ↗

— Mario Vargas Llosa

#in-praise-of-reading-and-fiction #nobel-prize #reading #dreams

I'd rather be dead than dying. ↗

— Stephen Evans

#dying #i #rather #than

There is only one dream I can guarantee... my death. ↗

— Stephen Evans

#dream #guarantee #i #i can #only