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“Our sadness won’t be of the searing kind but more like a blend of joy and melancholy: joy at the perfection we see before us, melancholy at an awareness of how seldom we are sufficiently blessed to encounter anything of its kind. The flawless object throws into perspective the mediocrity that surrounds it. We are reminded of the way we would wish things always to be and of how incomplete our lives remain.”
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“Some say it is best not to go near the center of time. Life is a vessel of sadness, but is noble to live life and without time there is no life. Others disagree. They would rather have an eternity of contentment, even if that eternity were fixed and frozen, like a butterfly mounted in a case.”
Source : Alan Lightman (2011). “Einstein's Dreams”, p.47, Vintage
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“I have as much rage as you have, I have as much pain as you do, I've lived as much hell as you have, and I've kept mine bubbling under for you.”
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“Hide not thy tears; weep boldly, and be proud to give the flowing virtue manly way; it is nature's mark to know an honest heart by.”
Source : Aaron Hill (1791). “Alzira: A Tragedy”, p.33
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“Some reckon their age by years, Some measure their life by art; But some tell their days by the flow of their tears And their lives by the moans of their hearts.”
Source : Abram Joseph Ryan (1973). “Selected poems of Father Ryan”
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“God will never plant the seed of his life upon the soil of a hard, unbroken spirit. He will only plant that seed where the conviction of his spirit has brought brokenness, where the soil has been watered with the tears of repentance as well as the tears of joy.”
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“Life should be lived to the point of tears”
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“Christians have given atheists less and less in which to disbelieve”
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“There are so many factors that go into how you feel, as a performer, on any given movie, that it's really hard to identify which things are the things that help you be good, and which are the things that hinder you.”
Source : "Alessandro Nivola Talks Janie Jones and Redemption". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. Novermber 01, 2011. 
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“But what we are given is taken as well, so that we know God's glory comes to us from His will alone.”
