#rational

Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever...I saw nothing without seeing it, I heard nothing without hearing it, and felt nothing without feeling it. It looked from every star, it smiled in every calm, breathed in every wind, and moved in every storm. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#beauty-in-literature #freedom #freedom-of-expression #freedom-of-speech #freedom-of-thought

Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. ↗

— Leo Buscaglia

#wisdom #inspirational

I am convinced that we as adults must constantly cling to, affirm, and celebrate with our children those things we love, sunsets, laughter, the taste of a good meal, the warmth of a hickory fire shared by real friends, the joy of discovery and accomplishment, the constant surprises of life. ↗

— Eliot Wigginton

#inspirational #family

I don't do what I'm doing to fight terror. ... I do it because I care about kids. Fighting terror is maybe seventh or eighth on my list of priorities. But working over there, I've learned a few things. I've learned that terror doesn't happen because some group of people somewhere like Pakistan or Afghanistan simply decide to hate us. It happens because children aren't being offered a bright enough future that they have a reason to choose life over death. ↗

— Greg Mortenson

#inspirational #terror #war #death

Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal. ↗

— Anatole France

#defining #him #makes #man #out

Papa always makes it clear that he would like to know me as much more rational and lucid than the girls and women he gets to know during his analytic hours. ↗

— Anna Freud

#analytic #clear #during #gets #his

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight. ↗

— Marilyn French

#ancient greeks #delusion #even #greeks #insanity

If it were not for hopes, the heart would break. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#break #heart #hopes #were #would

Great hopes make great men. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#great #great men #hopes #make #men

Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals. ↗

— T. E. Lawrence

#books #certain #flashing #generals #irrational