"One can impose silence on sentiment, but one can not give it limits."

-- Suzanne Curchod

#Giving Quotes #Silence Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“I realise I'm still a child, though I do feel older.”
“The trouble is if we take no new steps to try a new challenge, our comfort zone doesn't seem just to stay still, but retract.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“I don't want to read more into it than there is. I try not to overanalyze anymore, as it tends to make me self-centered. If there is a deeper message in what happened in the last year and a half, I'm not going to look under every rock for it. Just let God be God.”
“This cold weather has set all the young Folks to providing Bedfellows. I have signed two or three Licences every Day [as a Fairfax Justice of the Peace] since I have been at Home. I wish I knew where to get a good one myself; for I find cold Sheets extreamly disagreeable.”
“When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it.”
“My brain kind of rolls pretty fast when I'm conscious. It's constantly looking for stuff to do. Like if I'm in my house and I'm hanging out, I tend to be listening to music whilst watching a film whilst sending e-mails.”
“Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious generations.”

Source : Edward Sapir (2014). “Language”, p.235, Cambridge University Press
“Nobody has been able to stop them [homosexuals] so far, I'm hoping Uganda can.”

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