“In modern times, if the sole measure of what’s out there flows from your five senses then a precarious life awaits you.”

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American astrophysicist and science communicator 1958

Steve Maraboli (1975)

Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 38

“Because you have to just go with the flow. Your life is not your own, with people coming in and out all the time. You get mellow because you have to.”

Sarah Dessen (1970) American writer

“The example of the five (daily) prayers is like that of a clear-water river flowing in front of your houses in which a person washes himself five times a day – cleansing him from all dirt.”

Muhammad (570–632) Arabian religious leader and the founder of Islam

Kanzul `Ummal, Volume 7, Tradition 18931
Shi'ite Hadith

“All your life people will tell you things. And most of the time, probably ninety-five percent of the time, what they'll tell you will be wrong.”

Michael Crichton book The Lost World

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“In the uncertain ebb and flow of time and emotions much of one's life history is etched in the senses.”

Banana Yoshimoto book Kitchen

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“All sense of reality had gone out of her life; she had abandoned herself to fate, and awaited the consequences with indifference.”

Kate Chopin book The Awakening

The Awakening (1899)

“There are five people you meet in heaven," the Blue Man suddenly said. "Each of us was in your life for a reason. You may not have known the reason at the time, and that is what heaven is for. For understanding your life on earth.”

Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)

“What awaits you? Eternal peace. Serenity. The light on the other side. What awaits me is unknown. The only certainty is that life is an eternal hell.”

Julie Anne Peters (1952) American writer

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“An estimated value is a precarious measure of justice, compared with the specific thing.”

William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield (1705–1793) British judge

Fisher v. Prince (1762), 3 Burr. Part IV. 1365.

“I’m not sentimental about anything. Life flows by, and you flow with it or you don’t. Move on and move out.”

Gore Vidal (1925–2012) American writer

“In modern times, if the sole measure of what’s out there flows from your five senses then a precarious life awaits you.”

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