"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing."

-- C. S. Lewis

#Wisdom Quotes #Grief Quotes #Yawning Quotes

“If you follow your heart, you're going to find that it is often extremely inconvenient.”
“Success is more about doing the things you know you should do than discovering the secrets you don't yet know.”

Source : Twitter post from Feb 09, 2017
“I'm a Christian woman, but I believe in human rights,”
“To see the outside world as the same stuff as our most secret or unknown thoughts is a fine necessity...”
“I hope that the feeling of making poetry is not confined to the people who write it down. There is no luxury like it, and I hope we all share it. ... I am sure that the great glory of poetry in one's heart does not wait on achievement.”
“someday we will regard our children not as creatures to manipulate or to change but rather as messengers from a world we once deeply knew, but which we have long since forgotten, who can reveal to us more about the true secrets of life, and also our own lives, than our parents were ever able to.”

Source : Alice Miller (2002). “For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence”, p.18, Macmillan
“With the camera, it's all or nothing. You either get what you're after at once, or what you do has to be worthless. I don't think the essence of photography has the hand in it so much. The essence is done very quietly with a flash of the mind, and with a machine. I think too that photography is editing, editing after the taking. After knowing what to take, you have to do the editing.”
“Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.”

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