A Quote by John Eliot
Overachievers don't think reasonably, sensibly, or rationally.
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Get the heat and emotion out worry, and put cold, ruthless scrutiny onto the problem, and worry loses its power. When we are worried and filled with apprehension, we become panicky and are likely to see only gloom and failure. There isn't any situation so bad that it won't become a lot better when you think rationally - and spiritually - about it. God gives you the ability to think rationally about things by filling you with peace and faith.
Because I can think rationally, I can think cosmically, and I can think about the world scientifically and poetically and the universe.
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She tended to be impatient with that sort of intellectual who, for all his brilliance, has never been able to arrive at the simple conclusion that to be reasonably happy you have to be reasonably good.
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To him who looks at the world rationally the world looks rationally back.
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