"What we choose to embrace, to be responsive to, is the purest reflection of who we are and what we love."

-- Terryl L. Givens

#Reflection Quotes #Who We Are Quotes #Embrace Quotes

“I don't suppose I ever entirely release a fish. I may not eat it, but that does not mean I take nothing from it before I let it go.”

Source : Paul Schullery, Marsha Karle (2013). “The Fishing Life: An Angler's Tales of Wild Rivers and Other Restless Metaphors”, p.154, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
“The Sound of battle fell upon my ear & heart all day yesterday - even after dark the cannon's insatiate roar continued.”

Source : Elizabeth Blair Lee (1991). “Wartime Washington: the Civil War letters of Elizabeth Blair Lee”
“Rich meanings of the prophet-Spring adorn, Unseen, this colourless sky of folded showers, And folded winds; no blossom in the bowers; A poet's face asleep in this grey morn. Now in the midst of the old world forlorn A mystic child is set in these still hours. I keep this time, even before the flowers, Sacred to all the young and the unborn.”
“The fool generalizes the particular; the nerd particularizes the general; some do both; and the wise does neither”
“A fixed idea is like the iron rod which sculptors put in their statues. It impales and sustains.”

Source : Hippolyte Taine (1875). “Notes on Paris”, p.58
“I think it's fun to play for people who don't know what you do.”
“In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.”
“The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.”

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