Brain Quote by Maile Meloy Download Open image “The role of the human brain was to rationalize suffering.” — Maile Meloy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Brain Human brain Humans Nature of man Rationalize Roles Suffering
“We suffer for the simple reason that suffering is biologically useful. It is nature’s preferred agent for inspiring change.” — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
Suffering has a noble purpose: the evolution of consciousness and the burning up of the ego. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Our misery. This suppression of our rational mind is the source of inspiration. Suffering takes us out of our rational self-control and lets the… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Suffering can precipitate creativity, liberating the creator through inspiration and then many available channels of human communication, and therefore there is value in suffering.” — Brent Green Copy Share Image
“Human suffering is caused mainly by ideas, emotions, and thoughts which are the handiwork of the human itself.” — Shai Tubali Copy Share Image
Suffering is part and parcel of extensive intelligence and a feeling heart. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The brain gives us two ways to evaluate experiences like suffering—there is how we apprehend such experiences in the moment and how we look… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
Suffering is basically the mind's refusal to accept reality as it is. — Marcus Thomas Copy Share Image
The problem of human suffering is never too much rational thinking, or too high a demand for evidence. But the solutions are. ... Reason… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“We humans have a lamentable tendency to spend more time theorizing the reasons behind human suffering, than working to alleviate human suffering.” — Terryl L. Givens Copy Share Image
“He held his hands tightly together and cursed his daughter for bringing the terrible world, with its humiliation and longing, back to his door.” — Maile Meloy Copy Share Image
When they started to drain a swamp where birds and fish had lived, for a new housing development down the road from his apartment,… — Maile Meloy Copy Share Image
“It takes experience to know what is a catastrophe (Richard Hughes, 'A High Wind in Jamaica'),” — Maile Meloy Copy Share Image
“Civilization, her mother had told her since she was small, was a series of agreements about what was good for everyone, enforced by law.… — Maile Meloy Copy Share Image
To be a kid is to be invisible and to listen, and to interpret things that aren't necessarily meant for you to hear--because how… — Maile Meloy Copy Share Image
“All the while, Everett felt both the threat of disorder and the steady, thrumming promise of having everything he wanted, all at once.” — Maile Meloy Copy Share Image
“We're creating little hedonists,' Frank used to say. 'Nothing will be as pleasurable as this for the rest of their lives. They'll search everywhere… — Maile Meloy Copy Share Image
“Benjamin called it “estro-lock,” the way the two women could talk for hours and lose track of time. They ended up in conversation across… — Maile Meloy Copy Share Image
“Whenever we tamper with natural laws, there are consequences,” the count said. “The larger the disruption, the larger the consequence.” — Maile Meloy Copy Share Image
His heart felt dangerously full, for the first time in years. That dried-up battered organ, suddenly flush with love. It could kill him. — Maile Meloy Copy Share Image
In some circles where very heavy people think they have very heavy brains, words like "charming" and "clever" and "pretty" are all put-downs; all… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
Let me tell you that atheism has never painted a masterpiece. Atheism has never dispelled fear. Atheism has never healed a disease; faith in… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
down with ought with because with every brain that thinks it thinks nor dares to feel. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To explicate the uses of the Brain seems as difficult a task as to paint the Soul, of which it is commonly said, that… — Thomas Willis Copy Share Image
I prefer the word 'musician.' I'm a musician and a composer. I have a problem with the word 'artist.' I don't know if it's… — Stromae Copy Share Image
Thinking of sex provides enough mental stimulation to reduce risk of diseases that damage the brain. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My writing routine is: get son off to school and sit down at 8 A.M. I read what I wrote the day before, and… — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
The reason I'm drawn to it is - both the off road racing and the motorcycles on the track - it takes a lot… — Dax Shepard Copy Share Image
Without illusions. I love you because you are fallible and because your poor misguided testosterone-corrupted brain has you doing cartwheels trying not to be.… — Cindy Gerard Copy Share Image
being asked to decide between your passion for work and your passion for children was like being asked by your doctor whether you preferred… — Helen Bevington Copy Share Image
I was told I had brain damage. I always knew it was an unfair label. Now I have a clearer understanding of what's wrong… — Susan Boyle Copy Share Image
