#reason

Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all. ↗

— Maggie Gallagher

#good #good reason #know #love #most

Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other's eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire. ↗

— Maggie Gallagher

#deserving #desire #each #eyes #facade

All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#fancies #gain #human #human experience #lose

The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#because #everything #give #hope #hopeless

But if I've heard this saying once, I've heard it a thousand times- everything happens for a reason. And possibly it does. I just haven't found the reason that this all happened yet. ↗

— Jerry Lawler

#everything #found #happened #happens #haven

Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#any #day #fish #give #had

It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#blind #craving #created #creating #driving

If you're going to make a musical, don't cartoon it from the play. Make it better than the play. Have a reason for making it sing. ↗

— Jerome Lawrence

#cartoon #going #make #making #musical

On the same line of reasoning, if Australians were to be Australians, or rather if Australians were as separate from any other nation as Australia from any other land, there would be no jealousy between them on England's account. ↗

— Henry Lawson

#any #australia #australians #between #england

The only reason to invest in the market is because you think you know something others don't. ↗

— R. Foster Winans

#invest #know #market #only #others