"I would think that you are more fluent with the rational. It has its appeal. But the irrational permits a greater exercise of ... shall we say, power."

-- Alan Lightman

#Exercise Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Permit Quotes

“If a person is dying of cancer, you do not say, 'You can't turn back the clock.' You try to heal the person, no matter how painful the process.”
“The optimist sees a light at the end of the tunnel, the realist sees a train entering the tunnel, the pessimist sees a train speeding at him, hell for leather, and the machinist sees three idiots sitting on the rail track. "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; the pessimist fears this is true."”

Source : The Silver Stallion bk. 4, ch. 26 (1926) See Leibniz 3; Voltaire 7; Voltaire 8
“Just be wrong. Just stand there in your wrongness and be wrong, and get used to it.”
“I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.”
“But Jesus always leaves the ninety-nine to chase after the one. He always searches for the one lost coin.”
“Every woman over fifty should stay in bed until noon.”
“Oh, but it was splendid the things women were doing for men all the time, thought Jane. Making them feel, perhaps sometimes by no more than a casual glance, that they were loved and admired and desired when they were worthy of none of these things - enabling them to preen themselves and puff out their plumage like birds and bask in the sunshine of love, real or imagined, it didn't matter which.”

Source : Barbara Pym (1981). “Jane and Prudence”, Dutton Adult
“When you don't take an aggressive role in shaping your thoughts, feelings, and perceptions, you become a helpless passenger floating through the universe like a ghost ship, merely reacting to wherever it takes you.”

Source : Chris Hardwick (2011). “The Nerdist Way: How to Reach the Next Level (In Real Life)”, p.15, Penguin

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