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Each Quotes by Alan Lightman
- Most people have learned to live in the moment. The argument goes that if the past has uncertain effect on the present, there is no…
- In a world without future, each parting of friends is a death. In a world without future, each loneliness is final. In a world without…
- We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways. To that end, I believe that we…
- Each time is true, but the truths are not the same.
- Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.
- The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in atime of pain or of joy. The tragedy of this world…
- A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation. For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement of time is…
- For it is only habit and memory that dulls the physical passion. Without memory, each night is the first night, each morning is the first…
- In this world, time has three dimensions, like space. Just as an object may move in three perpendicular directions, corresponding to horizontal, vertical, and longitudinal,…
- But what is the past? Could it be, the firmness of the past is just illusion? Could the past be a kaleidoscope, a pattern of…
- It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity. It is a world in which every word spoken speaks just to that…
- Some make light of decisions, arguing that all possible decisions will occur. In such a world, how could one be responsible for his actions? Others…
- In a world of fixed future, life is an infinite corridor of rooms, one room lit at each moment, the next room dark but prepared.…
- In a world without future, each moment is the end of the world.
- One cannot walk down an avenue, converse with a friend, enter a building, browse beneath the sandstone arches of an old arcade without meeting an…
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- Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Do Not Store Dreams In Your Eyes, They May Roll Down With Tears, Store Them In Ur Heart, Each Heart Beat Will… — Ritu Ghatourey
- Friendship is not only about sharing each and everything having long conversation, hanging out, its about having complete trust in each other… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each… — Antonin Artaud
- The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each… — Paulo Coelho
- The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial side; has… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I used too be the girl that would be soo happy to walk into the classroom and say'guess who just walked in… — Jasmine
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes