Iris Murdoch Quote

We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.

It is as difficult for most poor people to truly believe that they could someday escape poverty as it is for most wealthy people to truly believe that their wealth could someday escape them.

My simple explanation of why we human beings, the most advanced species on earth, cannot find happiness, is this: as we evolve up the ladder of being, we find three things: the first, that the tension...

Beginning a novel is always hard. It feels like going nowhere. I always have to write at least 100 pages that go into the trashcan before it finally begins to work. It's discouraging, but necessary to...

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

Let's take it as a "A" and "B" player. What if "A" decide to kill "B", "A" think that "B" is a evil guy... But "B" think that "A" is Evil so....

The longer you remain distant, the deeper, wider, and darker the chasm becomes making it all the more difficult to bridge.

Japanese universities have a chair system that is a fixed hierarchy. This has its merits when trying to work as a laboratory on one theme. But if you want to do original work you must start young, and...

Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.

Motherhood is... difficult and... rewarding.