"What I fear and desire most in this world is passion. I fear it because it promises to be spontaneous, out of my control, unnamed, beyond my reasonable self. I desire it because passion has color, like the landscape before me. It is not pale. It is not neutral. It reveals the backside of the heart."

-- Terry Tempest Williams

#Heart Quotes #Passion Quotes #Self Quotes

“The sea can swallow ships, and it can spit out whales like watermelon seeds. It will take what it wants, and it will keep what it has taken, and you may not take away from it what it does not wish to give.”

Source : Natalie Babbitt (2010). “The Eyes of the Amaryllis”, p.5, Macmillan
“An excellent monument might be erected to the Unknown Stockholder. It might take the form of a solid stone ark of faith apparently floating in a pool of water.”
“I like to say, in Hollywood, you can't make a redneck movie without me. That doesn't happen. You better not do it.”

Source : Source: www.movieweb.com
“Brevity is the soul of wit.”

Source : 'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. 90
“When you love someone, you expect them to love you back the same way - with a singleness of heart.”

Source : Colleen Coble (2006). “Fire Dancer”, p.166, Thomas Nelson Inc
“Measure your progress by your experience of the love of God and its exercise before men.”
“All birds during the pairing season become more or less sentimental, and murmur soft nothings in a tone very unlike the grinding-organ repetition and loudness of their habitual song. The crow is very comical as a lover; and to hear him trying to soften his croak to the proper Saint-Preux standard has something the effect of a Mississippi boatman quoting Tennyson.”
“O sleep, O gentle sleep, I thought gratefully, Nature's gentle nurse.”

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