#thoughtful

A brain is only capable of what it could conceive, andit couldnt concieve what it hasnt experienced ↗

— Graham Greene

#capable #concieve #experience #human #mind

If you have supportive family and friends combined with a strong will; there is no limit to what you can achieve. ↗

— S.J. Hailey

#family

Even those novelists most commonly deemed “philosophical” have sometimes answered with an emphatic no. Iris Murdoch, the longtime Oxford philosopher and author of some two dozen novels treating highbrow themes like consciousness and morality, argued that philosophy and literature were contrary pursuits. Philosophy calls on the analytical mind to solve conceptual problems in an “austere, unselfish, candid” prose, she said in a BBC interview broadcast in 1978, while literature looks to the imagination to show us something “mysterious, ambiguous, particular” about the world. Any appearance of philosophical ideas in her own novels was an inconsequential reflection of what she happened to know. “If I knew about sailing ships I would put in sailing ships,” she said. “And in a way, as a novelist, I would rather know about sailing ships than about philosophy. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#imagination

If losers can exploit what their adversaries teach them, yes, losers can become winners in the long term. ↗

— David Mitchell

#interesting #losing #perspectives #thoughtful #winning

It was my kingdom. And when enemies attack your kingdom, you don’t flee. You show them why it’s your kingdom. ↗

— Olan Rogers

#personality #thoughtful #inspirational

Why is being a nerd bad? Saying I notice you’re a nerd is like saying, ‘Hey, I notice that you’d rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you’d rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Linsey Lohan. Why is that? ↗

— John Green

#nerd #nerds #nerdy #thoughtful #intelligence

Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#thoughtful #water #nature

Anyone unable to understand how useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book either. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#religion

Married women are far more depressed than married men -- in unhappy marriages, three times more; and -- interestingly -- in happy marriages, five times more. In truth, it is men who are thriving in marriage, now as always, and who show symptoms of psychological and physical distress outside it. Not only their emotional well-being but their very lives, some studies say, depend on being married! ↗

— Dalma Heyn

#depression #love #marriage #relationships #social-science

Some days seem to fit together like a stained glass window. A hundred little pieces of different color and mood that, when combined, create a complete picture. ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#different