#rational

Out of the Abundance of the Heart the Mouth Speaks" Matthew 12:34b last half of verse ↗

— Jesus

#attitude

People can learn to be more optimistic by acting as if they were more optimistic. ↗

— Suzanne C. Segerstrom

#psychology #attitude

Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#am #ancestors #cultural #derive #feeling

Simi? What was it you told me once about families? We have three kinds of family. Those we are born to, those who are born to us, and those we let into our hearts. ↗

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

#sherrilyn-kenyon #family

I sustain myself with the love of family. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#inspirational #family

Because saving the people you love isn't stupid. It isn't even a choice ↗

— Kami Garcia

#inspirational #love #beauty

For people who have no critical acumen, a state is a mythical entity, for those who think critically it is a rational fiction, created by man in order to facilitate human coexistence. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#coexistence #created #critical #critically #entity

What you believe you can receive if you doubt it you will do without it. ↗

— JoCecelia Shinn

#inspirational-quotes #motivational-quotes #attitude

People underestimate the importance of dilligence as a virtue. No doubt it has something to do with how supremely mundane it seems. It is defined as "the constant and earnest effort to accomplish what is undertaken."... Understood, however, as the prerequisite of great accomplishment, diligence stands as one of the most difficult challenges facing any group of people who take on tasks of risk and consequence. It sets a high, seemingly impossible, expectation for performance and human behavior. ↗

— Atul Gawande

#inspirational #medicine #student-accountability #attitude

People are so obsessed with that these days. As long as you're healthy, what difference do a few pounds make? Crazy diets. Thirteen-year-old girls on magazine covers who wind up in hospitals because they're so anorexic. Real women don't look like that. And who wants them to? No one wants a woman who looks sick or like she;s been from a refugee camp. ↗

— Danielle Steel

#attitude