Dava Sobel famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.
Then I walked away, and I did not look back. I had written my troubles on the sand. The tide was coming in.
And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy's bonfire spread.
I've always wanted to push myself and move with the tide. That's just how I am and it's worked for me.
I swim against the tide because I like to annoy.
The essay form has superceded the novel as the vehicle that best suggests the prevailing apocalyptic gestalt, and as the talisman that is most able to repel the onset of paralysing dread.
You can hold a secret, hold it so far in that it drives nearly every thought and every move you make- your very heartbeat, almost.
Our breath, like our heartbeat, is the most reliable rhythm in our lives. When we become attuned to this constant rhythm, our breath can gradually teach us to come back to the original silence of the mind.
I would work with any one of them again in a heartbeat because it was joyous and incredibly easy.
Every breath, every heartbeat, was one less until maybe things stopped hurting this much.

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