"Without time,â€ the angel said, â€œyou have only the bottomless, shapeless mire of eternity.â€ â€œFYI, philosophy bores me.â€ â€œNot philosophy. Reality. Time is what gives life significance."

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J.R. Ward

#Philosophy Quotes #Angel Quotes #Reality Quotes

“There is no shame in my saying that we all want to be loved.”

Source : "Sean Penn: What I've Learned". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. December 12, 2012.
“Irene's got a middle name, and it's Global Warming.”
“There must be some point, at which the lawyer's own personal and social morality will rebel against his traditional allegiance to his client.”
“We're all the harshest judges of ourselves.”
“Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.”
“I feel sorry sometimes for these sportsmen and women who put in just as much effort as the footballers. For example, athletes train at least as hard as footballers but have to be happy if they can earn enough to finance a decent education.”
“Many of America's historical cornbreads were staple breads for people who didn't have many other options.”
“Throughout his life, Albert Einstein would retain the intuition and the awe of a child. He never lost his sense of wonder at the magic of nature's phenomena-magnetic fields, gravity, inertia, acceleration, light beams-which grown-ups find so commonplace. He retained the ability to hold two thoughts in his mind simultaneously, to be puzzled when they conflicted, and to marvel when he could smell an underlying unity. "People like you and me never grow old," he wrote a friend later in life. "We never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born.”

Source : Walter Isaacson (2008). “Einstein: His Life and Universe”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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