"Itâ€™s right to say that people fall in love. We donâ€™t glide, slip, or stumble into it. Instead we tumble head first from the moment we decide to step off the edge of a cliff with someone and see whether weâ€™ll fly together. Love might be irrational, but we make the choice to risk everything."

-- Martin Pistorius

#Falling In Love Quotes #People Quotes #Choices Quotes

“Olive's private view is that life depends on what she thinks of as "big bursts" and "little bursts." Big bursts are things like marriage or children, intimacies that keep you afloat, but these big bursts hold dangerous, unseen currents. Which is why you need the little bursts as well: a friendly clerk at Bradlee's, let's say, or the waitress at Dunkin' Donuts who knows how you like your coffee. Tricky business, really.”
“Disease may be defined as "A change produced in living things in consequence of which they are no longer in harmony with their environment."”

Source : William Thomas Councilman (1913). “Disease and its causes”
“If those who give are conscious of their own generosity and those who receive feel indebted, they are no longer family but rather strangers doing business.”
“Did not the artists of the great age of Japanese art change names many times during their careers? I like that; they wanted to safeguard their freedom.”
“Well, I am a dilettante. It's only in England that dilettantism is considered a bad thing. In other countries it's called interdisciplinary research.”
“If ordinary means I have suddenly got to produce a household of kids and iron Peter's shirts, I'm sorry, I'm not interested.”

Source : "PROFILE: Helen Clark, new chief of UN Development Programme" by David Barber, Asia-Pacific News, March 26, 2009.
“Fifty years is the long time to think about a thinker's relevance or to think of the relevance of their work to a contemporary period.”
“Because drug dealers shoot each other in London, Norfolk farmers can't have guns to defend their homes. I mean, no one wants a gun - except at 4am when they hear a strange sound in the kitchen.”

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