"My heart burns like fire but my eyes are as cold as dead ashes."

-- Soyen Shaku

#Eye Quotes #Heart Quotes #Fire Quotes

“Women eat while they are talking; men talk while they are eating.”
“As an atheist, I was predisposed to not enjoy the MAZE performance. I am happy to report the opposite”
“I refrain from lots of things I love, like cheese and carbs. I eat plenty of greens every day, my favorite being watercress.”
“When I say music saved me, I don't say that lightly.”
“Something hurts, lean in. You just lean into that point until it loses its power over you. There's a certain amount of suffering that you have to be willing to sustain if you want to have a good life. And the real trick is to be able to sustain it with your heart open and still be loving.”
“And then what did you do, Lord Oliver?" Karl's eight-year-old daughter gazed up at him in awe, as though this were the best story she had ever heard.”
“In every literate society, learning to read is something of an initiation, a ritualized passage out of a state of dependency and rudimentary communication.”
“I think I realized early on that my family wasn't like other families.”

You may also like:

Clark Blaise
Author
D.T. Suzuki
Author
Dave Eggers
Writer
Jack London
Author
Joan Didion
Author
John Steinbeck
Author
Nyogen Senzaki
Paul Carus
Author
Peter Matthiessen
Novelist