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To this day, she’s still sad. Because there’s not some finite amount of pain inside us. Our bodies and minds just keep manufacturing more of it. I’m just saying that I took the pain that was inside of her at that moment and made it my own. And it didn’t hurt me at all.

Tom Perrotta

Hurt, Pain, Mind

"The Leftovers". Book by Tom Perrotta, August 30, 2011.

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He always thought that Touie's long illness would somehow prepare him for her death. He always imagined that grief anf guilt, if they followed, would be more clear-edged, more defined, more finite. Instead they seem like weather, like clouds constantly re-forming into new shapes, blown by nameless, unidentifiable winds.

Julian Barnes

Grief, Clouds, Wind

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Time and space are fragments of the infinite for the use of finite creatures.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Time, Space, Use

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Humor is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite.

Christian Morgenstern

Life, Humor, Views

"The Hidden Souls of Words" by Mary Cox Garner, (p. 142), 2004.

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In love at one of its poles you find the personal, and at the other the impersonal. At one you have the positive assertion — Here I am; at the other the equally strong denial — I am not. Without this ego what is love? And again, with only this ego how can love be possible?
Bondage and liberation are not antagonistic in love. For love is most free and at the same time most bound. If God were absolutely free there would be no creation. The infinite being has assumed unto himself the mystery of finitude. And in him who is love the finite and the infinite are made one.

Rabindranath Tagore

Life, Strong, Love Is

"The Complete Works of Rabindranath Tagore".

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Our most serious problem, perhaps, is that we have become a nation of fantasists. We believe, apparently, in the infinite availability of finite resources.

Wendell Berry

Nature, Believe, Animal

Wendell Berry (2010). “What Are People For?: Essays”, p.202, Counterpoint Press

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Being human, we can only receive infinite truth in finite doses

Norman Grubb

Truth, Infinite, Being Human

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Our self (Soul) is maya (an illusion) where it is merely individual and finite, where it considers its separateness as absolute; it is satyam (truth) where it recognizes its essence in the universal and infinite, in the Supreme Self, in paramatman (God). This is what Christ means when he says, "Before Abraham was, I am" (i.e. before Abraham was God, who is the same that is in my soul - I am That.)

Rabindranath Tagore

God, Mean, Self

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If you reject the infinite, you are stuck with the finite, and the finite is parochial... the best explanation of anything eventually involves universality, and therefore infinity. The reach of explanations cannot be limited by fiat.

David Deutsch

Infinity, Infinite, Stuck

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And that, quite simply, is the issue. We live in a finite world with finite resources. Although it may sometimes seem quite big, earth is really very small - a tiny blue and green oasis of life in a cold universe.

David Suzuki

Oasis, Blue, Issues

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Worship is the highest act of which a person is capable. It not only stretches us beyond all the limits of our finite selves to affirm the divine depth of mystery and holiness in the living and eternal God, but it opens us at the deepest level of our being to an act which unites us most realistically with our fellow people.

Samuel Henry Miller

Self, People, Depth

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I am tired of the litany
of months, September October
I am tired of the way the seasons
keep changing, mimicking
the seasons of the flesh
which are real and finite.

Linda Pastan

Real, Tired, Flesh

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It is completely incomprehensible to us how God can reveal himself and to some extent make himself known in created beings: eternity in time, immensity in space, infinity in finite, immutability in change, being in becoming, the all, as it were, in that which is nothing. This mystery cannot be comprehended; it can only be gratefully acknowledged.

Herman Bavinck

Space, Infinity, Becoming

Herman Bavinck, John Bolt, John Vriend (2004). “Reformed Dogmatics: God and Creation”, p.49, Baker Academic

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Although your time and attention are finite, the demands on your time and attention are infinite.

Merlin Mann

Marketing, Attention, Demand

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While most of those who hold that the whole heaven is finite say that the earth lies at the center, the philosophers of Italy, the so-called Pythagoreans, assert the contrary. They say that in the middle there is fire, and that the earth is one of the stars, and by its circular motion round the center produces night and day.

Aristotle

Stars, Lying, Night

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He who knows his soul knows this truth:
" I am beyond everything finite; I I now see that the Spirit, alone in a space with Its ever-new joy, has expressed Itself as the vast body of nature.
I am the stars,
I am the waves,
I am the Life of all,
I am the laughter within all hearts,
I am the smile on the faces of the flowers and in each soul.
I am the Wisdom and Power that sustain all creation. "

Paramahansa Yogananda

Stars, Laughter, Flower

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It is not given to man to know the whole Truth. His duty lies in living up to the truth as he sees it, and in doing so, to resort to the purest means, i.e., to non-violence. God alone knows absolute truth. Therefore, I have often said, Truth is God. It follows that man, a finite being, cannot know absolute truth. Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth. This is God's attribute alone. Relative truth is all we know. Therefore, we can only follow the truth as we see it. Such pursuit of truth cannot lead anyone astray.

Mahatma Gandhi

Truth, Lying, Mean

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Love is the infinite which is given to the finite.

Paul Tillich

Love Is, Infinite, Given

Paul Tillich (2005). “The New Being”, p.173, U of Nebraska Press

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Words are finite expressions of the infinite mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Expression, Mind Blowing, Infinite

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Our lives are composed of a finite set of moments that we choose how to spend.

John Green

Hipster, Cherish Every Moment, Moments

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Man the infinite dreamer, dreaming finite dreams!

Swami Vivekananda

Dream, Men, Infinite

Swami Vivekananda (2016). “My Life and Mission”, p.21, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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The cause being finite, the effect must be finite. If the cause is eternal the effect can be eternal, but all these causes, doing good work, and all other things, are only finite causes, and as such cannot produce infinite result.

Swami Vivekananda

Causes, Infinite, Good Work

Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.20, editionNEXT.com

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Growth has failed on its own terms. You can't have infinite growth in a world of finite resources.

Andrew Simms

Growth, World, Infinite

"Economists start to consider that money can't buy happiness" by Ashley Seager, Heather Stewart, www.theguardian.com. January 9, 2010.

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So he that despairs, limits an Infinite Power to a Finite Apprehension, and measures Providence by his own little, contracted Model.

Robert South

Despair, Littles, Limits

"Twelve Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions".

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A Christian, who realizes he has been made in the image of the Creator God and is therefore meant to be creative on a finite level, should certainly have more understanding of his responsibility to treat God's creation with sensitivity, and should develop his talents to do something to beautify his little spot on the earth's surface.

Edith Schaeffer

Christian, Responsibility, Creator God

Edith Schaeffer (1972). “Hidden art”

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