Pararational Quotes & Sayings

Let's remind ourselves that to be compassionate and forgiving doesn't mean we are endorsing dysfunctional behaviour. On the contrary, it's essential the harm that was inflicted upon us is properly validated and grieved. Forgiveness isn't an intellectual concept or an airy-fairy idea. It's a painstaking process. To be compassionate and to forgive mean we are gradually letting go of poisonous, toxic feelings that are trapped in our minds and bodies. — Christopher Dines

Two cities have been formed by two loves: the earthly by the love of self; the heavenly by the love of God. — Saint Augustine

Anyone who says forty is the new twenty can suck it - if they can bend over enough to reach it. It's more like the new ninety, because you're now seriously pondering when Death will ring your doorbell in the form of those everyday pains and aches that now torture your once hot, tight body. — Christine Zolendz

The worst kind of loneliness in the world is isolation that comes from being misunderstood. It can make people lose their grasp on reality. — Shyza Chaudhry

To think but nobly of my grandmother: Good wombs have borne bad sons. — William Shakespeare

Fantasy is not antirational, but pararational; not realistic but surrealistic, a heightening of reality. In Freud's terminology, it employs primary not secondary process thinking. It employs archetypes which, as Jung warned us, are dangerous things. Fantasy is nearer to poetry, to mysticism, and to insanity than naturalistic fiction is. It is a wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Those that can, philosophize. Those who can't, do. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

When I'm around people who are incredibly passionate about what they're doing, people who live their lives in a more selfless way than most people. That's when I'm inspired. That's what I aspire to do and be. — John Rzeznik

Josh had a movie star jewfro and a smug little grin — Saira Viola

Sometimes the only solution when the data is very noisy - is to focus more on process than on results. — Nate Silver

The church today has reduced the Christians to a level that has made them to be too weak to make anything happen. — Sunday Adelaja

I'm not fond of a tradition that requires people to open the door for strangers. Or for kids to take candy from strangers. — Megan Erickson