I took a little walk outside for a while. I was surprised that I wasn't feeling what I thought people were supposed to feel under the circumstances. May be I was fooling myself. I wasn't delighted, but I didn't feel terribly upset, perhaps because we had known for a long time that it was going to happen. It's hard to explain. If a Martian(who, we'll imagine never dies except by accident) came to Earth and saw this peculiar race of creatures-these humans who live about seventy or eighty years, knowing that death is going to come--it would look to hi like a terrible problem of psychology to live under those circumstances, knowing that life is only temporary Well, we humans somehow figure out how to live despite this problem: we laugh, we joke, we live. The only difference for me and Arlene was, instead of fifty years, it was five years. It was only a quantitative difference--the psychological problem was just the same. The only way it would have become any different is if we had said to ourselves, "But those other people have it better, because they might live fifty years." But that's crazy. Why make yourself miserable saying things like, "Why do we have such bad luck? What has God done to us? What have we done to deserve this?"--all of which, if you understand reality and take it completely into your heart, are irrelevant and unsolvable. They are just things that nobody can know. Your situation is just an accident of life. We had a hell of good time together.. . Richard Feynman
People like to say love is unconditional, but it's not, and even if it was unconditional, it's still never free. There's always an expectation attached. They always want something in return. Like they want you to be happy or whatever and that makes you automatically...
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Katja Millay
Parents were the only ones obligated to love you from the rest of the world you had to earn it.
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Ann Brashares
The only way love can last a lifetime is if it's unconditional. The truth is this: love is not determined by the one being loved but rather by the one choosing to love.
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Stephen Kendrick
Love is made up of three unconditional properties in equal measure:1. Acceptance2. Understanding3. AppreciationRemove any one of the three and the triangle falls apart. Which, by the way, is something highly inadvisable. Think about it – do you really want to live in a world...
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Vera Nazarian
If love is blind, then maybe a blind person that loves has a greater understanding of it.
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Criss Jami
More Quotes By Richard Feynman
Physics isn't the most important thing. Love is.
All the time you're saying to yourself, 'I could do that, but I won't, ' – which is just another way of saying that you can't.
People often think I'm a faker, but I'm usually honest, in a certain way--in such a way that often nobody believes me!
I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys--but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!
— and pompous fools drive me up the wall. Ordinary fools are alright; you can talk to them and try to help them out. But pompous fools — guys who are fools and covering it all over and impressing people as to how wonderful they...
