Quotes
Authors
Antonella Gambotto-Burke

"We watched each other evolve into parents, with all the fear, rage and confusion evolution can involve. Our eight-year-old is the incarnation of our union; we are forever fused by her blood. My old take on romance seemed vaguely ludicrous, as affected as a pair of spats. I no longer saw the point in 'getting back to normal', that pantomime of pretending nothing had changed; I wanted to evolve from sexual posturing into a deeper consciousness, that of love."

-- Antonella Gambotto-Burke

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“My father would conclude his dissertations by saying, "Of course, [Albert] Einstein never believed in gravity. It was a distortion of space." And so my father couldn't believe that an attraction at a distance was a reality.”
“This weapon the atomic bomb has added an additional responsibility-or, better, an additional incentive-to find a sound basis for lasting peace. It provides an overwhelming inducement for the avoidance of war. It emphasizes the crisis we face in international matters and strengthens the conviction that adequate safeguards for peace must be found.”
“The novel remains for me one of the few forms where we can record man's complexity and the strength and decency of his longings.”
“When a corporation goes into the marketplace to buy back its own stock, it means management thinks the stock is undervalued. This is a smart time to buy.”
“While meditating we are simply seeing what the mind has been doing all along.”

Source : Allan Lokos (2012). “Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living”, p.48, Penguin
“In fact the whole passion ordinarily termed love (and heaven help me if I can think of any other term to apply to it) is of such exceeding triviality that I see nothing that I think comparable with it.”
“The world is vast and meant for wandering. There is always somewhere else to go.”

Source : Nick Burd (2009). “The Vast Fields of Ordinary”, p.204, Penguin
“The magic happens when you find the sweet spot where your genuine interests, skills, and opportunity intersect.”

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