Falling in love is not a rational process. It can’t be planned or avoided. It happens—for good or bad, it simply happens. I knew he’d eventually leave. I knew we couldn’t be together, but I fell anyway.
—Suzanne Selfors in Coffeehouse Angel
When we place more value on what other people think of us than on what we think of ourselves, it's a formula for misery.
—Suzanne Selfors in Mad Love
More quotations tagged with “rationality”
When I was a little kid, I was really scared of the dark. But then I came to understand, dark just means the absence of photons in the visible wavelength 400 to 700 nanometers. Then I thought, well it's really silly to be afraid of a lack of photons. Then I wasn't afraid of the dark anymore after that.
—Elon Musk
You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.
—John J. Plomp
Gardening is not a rational act. What matters is the immersion of the hands in the earth, that ancient ceremony of which the Pope kissing the tarmac is merely a pallid vestigial remnant. In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
—Margaret Atwood
I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly; feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
—Charles Baudelaire
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