"We think the fire eats the wood. We are wrong. The wood reaches out to the flame. The fire licks at what the wood harbors, and the wood gives itself away to that intimacy, the manner in which we and the world meet each new day."

-- Jack Gilbert

#Thinking Quotes #Fire Quotes #Flames Quotes

“You can cultivate taste, as you can the intellect. Full understanding whets the appetite and desire, and, later, sharpens the enjoyment of possession.”
“Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?”
“Skin has become inadequate in interfacing with reality. Technology has become the body's new membrane of existence.”
“Life is a stream On which we strew Petal by petal the flower of our heart; The end lost in dream, They float past our view, We only watch their glad, early start. Freighted with hope, Crimsoned with joy, We scatter the leaves of our opening rose; Their widening scope, Their distant employ, We never shall know. And the stream as it flows Sweeps them away, Each one is gone Ever beyond into infinite ways. We alone stay While years hurry on, The flower fared forth, though its fragrance still stays.”

Source : Amy Lowell (2009). “A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass”, p.9, ReadHowYouWant.com
“Too many women waste their lives grieving because they do not have something other people tell them they should want. Whether you are happy or not depends to some degree upon outsward circumstances, but mostly it depends how you choose to look at thing syourself, whether you measure what you have or what you have not.”
“Weight every purpose in the light of eternity. A trivial pursuit is that which is out side the will of God & detached from the glory of God.”
“I can see no practical application of molecular biology to human affairs... DNA is a tangled mass of linear molecules in which the informational content is quite inaccessible.”

Source : "Immunological Surveillance". Book by Burnet, F.M., Pergamon Press, pp. 240-241, 1970.
“See, my strumpf is in my hair. Now, I don't know what strumpf means. It's just a term some brothas gave me.”

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