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“I love science, and it pains me to think that so many are terrified of the subject or feel that choosing science means you cannot also choose compassion, or the arts, or be awed by nature. Science is not meant to cure us of mystery, but to reinvent and reinvigorate it.”
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“[L]asting love is something a person has to decide to experience. Lifelong monogamous devotion is just not natural—not for women even, and emphatically not for men. It requires what, for lack of a better term, we can call an act of will. . . . This isn't to say that a young man can't hope to be seized by love. . . . But whether the sheer fury of a man's feelings accurately gauges their likely endurance is another question. The ardor will surely fade, sooner or later, and the marriage will then live or die on respect, practical compatibility, simple affection, and (these days, especially) determination. With the help of these things, something worthy of the label 'love' can last until death. But it will be a different kind of love from the kind that began the marriage. Will it be a richer love, a deeper love, a more spiritual love? Opinions vary. But it's certainly a more impressive love.”
― The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are - The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
― The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are - The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
“I expected to feel only empty and heartbroken after Paul died. It never occurred to me that you could love someone the same way after he was gone, that I would continue to feel such love and gratitude alongside the terrible sorrow, the grief so heavy that at times I shiver and moan under the weight of it.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
“Sometimes you feel foolish, even look foolish, but you do the thing anyway.”
― The Go-Giver: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea
― The Go-Giver: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea
“We are built to be effective animals, not happy ones.”
― The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are - The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
― The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are - The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
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