Tracey Garvis-Graves quotes

“Maybe love is like a pendulum. It swings back and forth, slowly, steadily, and sometimes you don't know where it will come to rest.”
-- Tracey Garvis-Graves

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“I wonder how many marriages are fractured and damaged beyond repair by complacency rather than any single traumatic event. One day you wake up and realize that the distance between you and your spouse has grown to such an enormous width that neither of you are capable of clearing the distance. No matter how much speed you build up, or how far you can jump, it's just there. Gaping and unforgiving.”
-- Tracey Garvis-Graves

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“Life has no guarantees, though. What good is living if all you think about is dying?”
-- Tracey Garvis-Graves

#Life Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Dying Quotes

“And when you're not happy with your own life, and yourself, you can't be happy with anyone else.”
-- Tracey Garvis-Graves

#Not Happy Quotes

“There's a beauty to forgiveness, especially forgiveness that goes beyond rationality. Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great & powerful one”

Source : A. J. Jacobs (2008). “The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible”, p.275, Simon and Schuster

“Love is a flame that burns everything other than itself. It is the destruction of all that is false and the fulfillment of all that is true.”

“Our First Amendment expresses a far different calculus for regulating speech than for regulating nonexpressive conduct and that is as it should be. The right to swing your fist should end at the tip of my nose, but your right to express your ideas should not necessarily end at the lobes of my ears.”

“Because of the suit I was wearing, I couldn't make a good pivot on the swing. And I had to hit the ball with one hand.”

“I can hit it farther on the moon. But actually, my swing is better here on Earth.”

Source : "Lunar-Golfer Shepard Takes Swings In Tourney". The Orlando Sentinel, p. A2, August 13, 1992.

“Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.”

Source : Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.66, Publishdrive

“Religion without philosophy is sentiment, or sometimes fanaticism, while philosophy without religion is mental speculation.”

Source : A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1976). “Bhagavad-Gita as it is: Abridged edition with translations and elaborate purports”

“Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.”

“Sometimes to heal, you must first get hurt.”

“People who get Nobel prizes aren't necessarily the most imaginative of people. People who sometimes find a system, develop a system, do very useful work.”

Source : Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Interview, library.cshl.edu. June 17, 2005.