"The tragedy of this world is that no……" — Alan Lightman
"The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy."
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65 Quotes by Alan Lightman
Alan Lightman has 65 quotes on this site.
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Most people have learned to live in the moment. The argument goes that if the past has uncertain effect on…
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Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time. The first is as…
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With infinite life comes an infinite list of relatives. Grandparents never die, nor do great grandparents, great-aunts…and so on, back…
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Where are the one billion people who lived and breathed in the year 1800, only two short centuries ago?
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Faith is the ability to honor stillness at some moments, and at others to ride the passion and exuberance.
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There is a place where time stands still ...illuminated by only the most feeble red light, for light is diminished…
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In a world without future, each parting of friends is a death. In a world without future, each loneliness is…
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In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in…
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In this acausal world, scientists are helpless. Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic. Scientists turn…
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We're plugged in 24 hours a day now. We're all part of one big machine, whether we are conscious of…
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All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile…
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More Happiness Quotes
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Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be…
— Hannah Arendt
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
— Hannah Arendt
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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
— Aristotle
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He who hath many friends hath none.
— Aristotle
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What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
— Aristotle
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Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or…
— Aristotle
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Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
— Aristotle
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Friendship is essentially a partnership.
— Aristotle
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The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
— Aristotle
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Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of…
— Aristotle
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It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until…
— Richard Bach
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In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.
— Richard Bach
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