#reason

I was afraid of being rejected, yes. I was also afraid of being accepted for the wrong reasons. ↗

— Erich Segal

#afraid #reason #reject #love

I'm telling you this for one reason and one reason only: No matter how sure you are of someone's love, it's always nice to hear it. ↗

— Mike Gayle

#affirmation #confirmation #love #lovers #nice

Emotion without reason lets people walk all over you; reason without emotion is a mask for cruelty. ↗

— Nalini Singh

#knowledge-wisdom #life-lessons #living-life #love #people

The heart has its reasons but the mind makes the excuses. ↗

— Amit Abraham

#heart #love #mind #reasons #love

The search for Nirvana, like the search for Utopia or the end of history or the classless society, is ultimately a futile and dangerous one. It involves, if it does not necessitate, the sleep of reason. There is no escape from anxiety and struggle. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#class #irrationality #nirvana #reason #society

The heart has its order, the mind has its own, which uses principles and demonstrations. The heart has a different one. We do not prove that we ought to be loved by setting out in order the causes of love; that would be absurd. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#mind #reason #love

The loss of reason in war seems to me honorable, like the death of a sentry at his post. ↗

— Leonid Andreyev

#his #honorable #like #loss #me

I was confided to your loyalty and accepted by your treason; you offer my death to those to whom you had promised my life. Do you know who it is you are destroying here? It is yourself. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#treason #death

Life and all that is in it is a gift from the infinite mind / God; And the only way that life can go wrong is by the limited finite mind / Man. ↗

— Eric F. Saucier

#life #living #meaning-of #reason-for #death

She was trying to find the section that described the penalties for treason. She'd browsed through the section at one point and vaguely recalled a long list of punishments culminating with the guilty party being ritually trampled to death by the population of the village of Avebury, which seemed unlikely, or at least somewhat difficult to arrange. ↗

— Daniel O'Malley

#treason #death