"I think that when two people are able to weave that kind of invisible thread of understanding and sympathy between each other, that delicate web, they should not risk tearing it. It is too rare, and it lasts too short a time at best...."

-- M. F. K. Fisher

#Love Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Two Quotes

“It is difficult to distinguish where the feminine ends and nature begins.”

Source : Frank Smith (2014). “To Think: In Language, Learning and Education”, p.25, Routledge
“Italy is a divided country without a center.”
“The prostitutes worked for a pimp now. He was splendid and cruel. He was a god to them. He took their free will away from them, which was perfectly all right. They didn't want it anyway. It was as though they had surrendered themselves to Jesus, for instance, so they could live unselfishly and trustingly-except that they had surrendered to a pimp instead.”
“If you want to stop an argument, close your mouth.”

Source : Charles R. Swindoll (1998). “Hand Me Another Brick”, p.43, Thomas Nelson Inc
“For "full" emotional communication, one person needs to allow his state of mind to be influenced by that of the other.”

Source : Daniel J. Siegel (2015). “The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are”, p.94, Guilford Publications
“People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained. Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state--it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.... Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one's actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel”
“Habits are the shorthand of behavior.”
“I once read somewhere that Sean Connery left school at the age of 13 and later went on to read Proust and Finnegans Wake and I keep expecting to meet an enthusiastic school leaver on the train, the type of person who only ever reads something because it is marvellous (and so hated school). Unfortunately the enthusiastic school leavers are all minding their own business.”

Source : Helen DeWitt (2016). “The Last Samurai”, p.61, New Directions Publishing

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