"There's a beauty to forgiveness, especially forgiveness that goes beyond rationality. Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great & powerful one"

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Source : A. J. Jacobs (2008). “The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible”, p.275, Simon and Schuster

A. J. Jacobs

#Powerful Quotes #Unconditional Love Quotes #Love Is Quotes

“An enactment for the favour and liberty of the subject ought to have a liberal construction.”

Source : Johnson v. Harris, 3 W.R. 104, 1854.
“Be free; hope for nothing from anyone. I am sure if you look back upon your lives you will find that you were always vainly trying to get help from others which never came.”
“I donâ€™t think â€˜science fictionâ€™ is a very good name for it, but itâ€™s the name that weâ€™ve got. It is different from other kinds of writing, I suppose, so it deserves a name of its own. But where I can get prickly and combative is, if Iâ€™m just called a sci-fi writer. Iâ€™m not. Iâ€™m a novelist and poet. Donâ€™t shove me into your damn pigeonhole, where I donâ€™t fit, because Iâ€™m all over. My tentacles are coming out of the pigeonhole in all directions.”
“I violated apparently an unspoken rule that we are supposed to take care of our own. Frankly if that invites discomfort, I welcome it. I don't think there's enough discomfort in journalism, especially in Washington.”
“There is a difficulty about disagreeing with God. He is the source from which all your reasoning power comes: you could not be right and he wrong any more than a stream can rise higher than its own source. When you are arguing against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on.”
“I dont know that I want to act 15 years from now. I mean, I love the process of acting, but not the masochism. No matter how successful you get in Hollywood, you cannot rest. Your new movie doesn't open well; they're looking for the next person to replace you; it's always something. You never have true peace.”
“Editors are licensed to be curious.”
“The injury that we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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