All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.
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Nationality: English Type: Journalist Born: 1660 Death: 1731 |
Eight months later, having left Columbia, I was studying physics in a summer program and working in Colorado when I decided to enroll as a graduate student in biophysics.
The pain comes from knowing that we have never been safe, and therefore will never be safe again. It comes from knowing we can never be so ignorant again. It comes from knowing we can never be children again. Losing innocence. Remembering heaven. That was the essence of hell.

