“Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love. This is something else I've discovered for myself very recently. I present it to you as a hypothesis: Intelligence without the ability to give and receive affection leads to mental and moral breakdown, to neurosis, and possibly even psychosis. And I say that the mind absorbed in and involved in itself as a self-centered end, to the exclusion of human relationships, can only lead to violence and pain.”
― Flowers for Algernon
― Flowers for Algernon
“Some day this pain will be useful to you.”
― The Island of Missing Trees
― The Island of Missing Trees
“But I had not known that I was strong enough to do any of those things until they were over and I had done them. I had to do the work first, not knowing.”
― Spinning Silver
― Spinning Silver
“You must learn to be generous with your absence to those
who haven’t understood the importance of your presence.”
― Fresh Water for Flowers
who haven’t understood the importance of your presence.”
― Fresh Water for Flowers
“For this is the great secret, which was known to all educated men in our day: that by what men think, we create the world around us, daily new.”
― The Mists of Avalon
― The Mists of Avalon
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