#rational

Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren't susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place. ↗

— Brian Eno

#dangerous #erupt #evaluation #feelings #grow

If I were a character in one of my books, I'd be the optimistic one, believing the best and urging others to do the same. ↗

— Stacy Hawkins Adams

#faith #fiction #hope #inspirational #women-s-fiction

Il bel far niente means 'the beauty of doing nothing'... [it] has always been a cherished Italian ideal. The beauty of doing nothing is the goal of all your work, the final accomplishment for which you are most highly congratulated. The more exquisitely and delightfully you can do nothing, the higher your life's achievement. You don't necessarily need to be rich in order to experience this, either. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#spiritual #values-in-life #beauty

If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart. ↗

— Lars von Trier

#fall #rationality #tends #world

Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood? ↗

— Judith Viorst

#cost #does #foolish #how #irrational

When you're young, faith is often a matter of rules. What you should do and shouldn't do, that kind of thing. But as you get older, you realize that faith is really a matter of relationship - with God, with the people around you, with the members of your community. ↗

— Rhoda Janzen

#inspirational #faith

When she listened to songs that she loved on the radio, something stirred inside her. A liquid ache spread under her skin, and she walked out of the world like a witch. ↗

— Arundhati Roy

#inspirational #music #witch #beauty

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#act #always #animal #called #dictates

When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#inspirational

You is kind. You is smart. You is important. ↗

— Kathryn Stockett

#inspirational