Alan Lightman: Personal

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“If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.”

Alan Lightman book Einstein's Dreams

Source: Einstein's Dreams

“Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.”

Alan Lightman book Einstein's Dreams

Source: Einstein's Dreams

“A person who cannot imagine the future is a person who cannot contemplate the results of his actions. Some are thus paralyzed into inaction.”

Alan Lightman book Einstein's Dreams

Source: Einstein's Dreams

“Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free. Over time, some have determined that the only way to live is to die. In death, a man or a woman is free of the weight of the past [and the future].”

Alan Lightman book Einstein's Dreams

Source: Einstein's Dreams

“Is it possible for a person to love without wanting love back? Is anything so pure? Or is love, by its nature, a reciprocity, like oceans and clouds, an evaporating of seawater and a replenishing by rain?”