"Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each to his passion; what's in a name?"

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Source : Helen Hunt Jackson (1892). “Poems”

Helen Hunt Jackson

#Passion Quotes #Flames Quotes #Names Quotes

“I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.”
“Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.”
“When your situation has gone beyond the power of nature, it has become a curse. Who can remove a curse but Jesus Christ?”
“Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing. We have not fully recognized this process of leaping ahead, however, in part because textbooks tend to tame revolutions...They describe the advances as if they had been logical in their day, not all shocking.”
“I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be met, with a reason for the faith that is in us, as well as with a loving sympathy for them as brothers.”
“I love fashion. I think it's so important, because it's how you show yourself to the world.”
“The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled.”
“Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.”

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