"All matter/space has some degree of "self" in it, and this self, or anyway some aspect of the personal, is something which infuses all matter/space and everything we know as matter but now think to be mechanical."

-- Christopher Alexander

#Thinking Quotes #Self Quotes #Space Quotes

“The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.”
“Everything is contingent, and there is also chaos.”
“The way to my heart is through Belgian milk chocolate.”
“...God's grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver.... From the earliest parts of the Bible, it was understood that God could not forgive without sacrifice. No one who is seriously wronged can "just forgive" the perpetrator.... But when you forgive, that means you absorb the loss and the debt. You bear it yourself. All forgiveness, then, is costly.”
“There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.”
“It is delightful some times to sit with an ingenious friend, He understands you before you having said anything.”
“Lazarevo drips you into my soul, dawn drop by moonlight drop from the river Kama. When you look for me, look for me there, because that's where I'll be all the days of my life.”
“If you assume you haven't learned anything yet, there's no reason your playing can't stay dynamic all your life.”

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