"I was late to understand that chaos and intensity are no subsitute for lasting love, nor are they necessarily an improvement on real life. Normal people are not always boring. On the contrary. Volatility and passion, although often more romantic and enticing, are not intrinsically preferable to a steadiness of experience and feeling about another person."

-- Kay Redfield Jamison

#Real Quotes #Passion Quotes #People Quotes

“There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.”
“It is true that it feels very differently to enjoy a good meal, taking part in an interesting conversation, or to think of how successful your children are. Suppose we do all these things at a particular time. How happy are we at the time? We do not need to calculate the value of each such feelings on any singular scale to answer this question. We need not see our happiness at the time as a mathematical function of these items. It is rather that all these experiences, together with many other factors, causally puts us at the time at a certain level of happiness, i.e. in a certain mood.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“It's hard to wipe your eyes when you have whirring buzzsaws for hands.”
“Youth and age touch only the surface of our lives.”
“Greatness is best measured by how well an individual responds to the happenings in life that appear to be totally unfair, unreasonable, and undeserved.”

Source : Marvin J. Ashton (1987). “Be of Good Cheer”, Deseret Book Co
“The eyes of the Armenians speak long before the lips move and long after they cease to.”

Source : University of Texas at Austin. University Art Museum, Arshile Gorky (1975). “Arshile Gorky: drawings to paintings”
“Benevolence is one of the distinguishing characters of man.”
“The first and most optimistic response was complete rational expectations econometrics. A rational expectations equilibrium is a likelihood function. Maximize it.”

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