"The more words I have, the more distinct, precise my perceptions become--and such lucidity is a form of joy."

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Eva Hoffman

#Joy Quotes #Perception Quotes #Form Quotes

“As soon as you give your heart to something new you will immediately be able to think in a way that is new.”
“With no other choices open to us, we'd turned our gaze seaward. The oceans were our America: they reached farther than any prairie, untamed as on the first day of creation. Nobody owned them.”

Source : Carsten Jensen (2011). “We, the Drowned”, p.216, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Like families, competitors can bring out the worst as well as the best in each other. Like romance, competition has many faces, some of them ugly. In addition to showing me my grace and graciousness, the mirror of sports has reflected back to me my jealousy, pettiness, and arrogance.”
“As the spring comes on, and the densening outlines of the elm give daily a new design for a Grecian urn, â€” its hue, first brown with blossoms, then emerald with leaves, â€” we appreciate the vanishing beauty of the bare boughs. In our favored temperate zone, the trees denude themselves each year, like the goddesses before Paris, that we may see which unadorned loveliness is the fairest.”
“Anyone who knows how difficult it is to keep a secret among three men - particularly if they are married - knows how absurd is the idea of a worldwide secret conspiracy consciously controlling all mankind by its financial power; in real, clear analysis.”

Source : Oswald Mosley (2012). “My Life - Oswald Mosley”, p.361, Black House Publishing Ltd
“From the early days of the telegraph, to be a telegrapher was a job, and there weren't many of those folks. They could recognize each other's style by their dots and dashes.”
“Illness is the result of imbalance. Imbalance is a result of forgetting who you are. Forgetting who you are creates thoughts and actions that lead to an unhealthy lifestyle and eventually to illness.... Illness can thus be understood as a lesson you have given yourself to help you remember who you are.”

Source : Barbara Ann Brennan (2011). “Hands of Light: A Guide to Healing Through the Human Energy Field”, p.286, Bantam
“A too explicit elucidation in education destroys much of the pleasure of learning. There should be room for sly hinters, masters of suggestion.”

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