“I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”
Persuasion (1817)
Works, Persuasion
Source: Pride and Prejudice
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Jane Austen477
English novelist 1775–1817Related quotes
Umberto Eco (1932–2016) Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist
Source: The Name of the Rose (Everyman's Library
George Long (1800–1879) English classical scholar
An Old Man's Thoughts on Many Things, Of Education I
F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead (1872–1930) British politician
"The Future of the Conservative Party", p. 17
Unionist Policy and Other Essays (1913)
Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist
Variant: Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and i learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
“I am more content with questions than answers.”
Roger Ebert (1942–2013) American film critic, author, journalist, and TV presenter
Source: Life Itself : A Memoir (2011), Ch. 54 : How I Believe In God
Context: Quantum theory is now discussing instantaneous connections between two entangled quantum objects such as electrons. This phenomenon has been observed in laboratory experiments and scientists believe they have proven it takes place. They’re not talking about faster than the speed of light. Speed has nothing to do with it. The entangled objects somehow communicate instantaneously at a distance. If that is true, distance has no meaning. Light-years have no meaning. Space has no meaning. In a sense, the entangled objects are not even communicating. They are the same thing. At the “quantum level” (and I don’t know what that means), everything may be actually or theoretically linked. All is one. Sun, moon, stars, rain, you, me, everything. All one. If this is so, then Buddhism must have been a quantum theory all along. No, I am not a Buddhist. I am not a believer, not an atheist, not an agnostic. I am more content with questions than answers.
