Alan Lightman Said the Tragedy of This World Is That No One
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Alan Lightman said The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stu ck in a time of pain or of joy. Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we dont know how to replenish it s source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings. Anaïs Nin Sometimes the hardest part isnt letting go but rather learning to start over. Nico le Sobon My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long. Marie Antoinette Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gi ves you courage. Lao Tzu Thomas Merton once wrote, Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone; we find it with another. The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort. Mason C ooley I have never yet heard of a murderer who was not afraid of a ghost. John Philpot Curran Thomas Merton once wrote, Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - We find it with another. William Shakespeare once wrote, Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind. The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding so mething to live for. Fyodor Dostoyevsky A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage.. Sydney Smith Frederick Douglass said, It is easier to build strong children than to repair bro ken men. French novelist Jean Giraudoux said, Im not afraid of death. Its the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life. I am not concerned that you have fallen. I am concerned that you arise. Abraham L incoln You never find yourself until you face the truth. Pearl Bailey The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to r eveal to him his own. Benjamin Disraeli Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher. Ja panese Provorb Alfred Austin said, Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are. I became insane with long intervals of horrible sanity. Edger Allen Poe Body and soul cannot be separated for purposes of treatment, for they are one an d indivisible. Sick minds must be healed as well as sick bodies. Dr. Jeff Miller Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote, When a doctor does go wrong, hes the first of crimin als. He has the nerve and he has knowledge. One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is wh at we do for others. Lewis Carroll The German author Goethe wrote, Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows th eir true image. Paul Brown once said, If you win say nothing, if you lose say less. Ralph Steadman wrote, Evil is always devising more corrosive misery for mans restl ess need to exact revenge out of his hate. A man is known by the silence he keeps. Oliver Herford As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do . Andrew Carnegie Ive always heard every ending is also a beginning. We just dont know it at the tim e. Id like to believe thats true. Fear is met and destroyed with courage. James F. Bell The philosopher Voltaire said, We owe respect to the living. To the dead we owe o nly truth. It is only in love and in murder that we still remain sincere. Friedrich Durrenma tt Sooner murder an infant in its cradle than nurse un-acted desires. William Blake Worse than telling a lie is spending your whole life staying true to a lie. Rober t Brault All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream. Edger Allen Poe We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell. Oscar Wilde Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it. Michel de Montaigne Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth but not its twin. Barbara Kings olver For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the trut h. Bo Bennett It was once said love is giving someone the power to destroy you, but trusting t hem not to. Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of y ou. H. Jackson Brown Jr. Eckhart Tolle said, Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath. Im for truth, no matter who tells it. Im for justice, no matter who it is for or a gainst. Im a human being, first and foremost, and as such Im for whoever and whate ver benefits humanity as a whole. Malcolm X Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a f act. Honore de Balzac You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you d ont trust enough. Frank Crane Trust not him that has once broken faith. William Shakespeare George Augustus Sala said, A gambler with a system must be, to a greater or lesse r extent, insane. A Chinese proverb says, At the gambling table, there are no fathers and sons. All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. Henry Ellis We do not suffer from the shock of our trauma, but we make out of it just what s uits our purposes. Alfred Adler There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy. Dante Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead. Benjamin Franklin Hermann Hesse wrote, Some of us think that holding on makes us strong, but someti mes it is letting go. Everybody wants to go to heaven, but no one wants to die. Joe Lewis Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance. Jean de La Fortaine Things do not change. We change. Henry David Thoreau Find a place inside where theres joy, and the joy will burn out the pain. Joseph C ampbell Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark. George Iles Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that c annot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are. Arthur Golden For the man sound in body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weath er, every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pul se more vigorously. George Gissing. The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it. Mary Catherine Bateson To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable. Erich Fromm All things truly wicked start from an innocence. Ernest Hemingway From childhoods hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. Edgar Allen Poe Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Kahlil G ibran You may leave school, but it never leaves you. Andy Partridge Were born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendshi p can we create the illusion for the moment that were not alone. Orson Welles Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. Franklin D. Roosevelt Scott Adams wrote, Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge. If it is a miracle, any sort of evidence will answer, but if it is a fact, proof is necessary. Mark Twain Queen Elizabeth I said, The past cannot be cured. What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. Aristotle Thomas Hardy wrote, And yet to every bad there is a worse. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch, we are going back from whence we came. John F. Kennedy The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of hu man restlessness. Joseph Conrad Doménico Cieri Estrada wrote, Bring the past only if youre going to build from it. Agathon said, Of this alone, even god is deprived, the power of making things tha t are past never to have been. Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false n aming of real events. Adrienne Rich Stephen King wrote, Sometimes human places breed inhuman monsters. Poet Antonio Porchia wrote, Man when he does not grieve, hardly exists. Siddharta Buddha said, It is not his enemy or foe that lures him to evil ways. Lizette Reese wrote, The old faiths light their candles all about, but burly trut h comes by and puts them out. Psychoanalyst Walter Langer wrote, People will believe a big lie sooner than a li ttle one, and if you repeat it frequently enough, people will sooner or later be lieve it. The secret to getting away with lying is believing with all your heart, that goe s for lying to yourself even moreso than lying to another. Author Elisabeth Bear Journalist Dorothy Dix wrote, Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets and takes its own punishment in silence.