"Where to begin? Do we measure the relaxing of the feet? The moment when the eye glimpses the hawk, when instinct functions? For in this pure action, this pure moving of the bird, there is no time, no space, but only the free doing-being of this very moment -now!"

-- Peter Matthiessen

#Moving Quotes #Eye Quotes #Feet Quotes

“Here is a truth that most teachers will not tell you, even if they know it: Good training is a continual friend and a solace; it helps you now, and assures you of help in the future. Good education is a continual pain in the neck, and assures you always of more of the same.”
“My days are as long as despair can make them.”

Source : Kathryn Harrison (2011). “The Kiss: A Memoir”, p.155, Random House
“I tend to wear outfits that match the walls.”
“If we displease God, does it matter whom we please? If we please Him, does it matter whom we displease?”
“Now that we are cool, he said, and regret that we hurt each other, I am not sorry that it happened.”

Source : William Henry Hudson (2015). “Green Mansions”, p.12, Sheba Blake Publishing
“Our inability to see the beauty doesn't suggest in the slightest that beauty is not there. Rather, it suggests that we are not looking carefully enough or with broad enough perspective to see the beauty.”
“There's a tendency to treat anyone with a physical disability as inspiring. I call it a pedestal of prejudice, in that you're lifting people up to dismiss them. My whole thing is bringing us down to everyone else's level and saying we're all the same. The struggle is the same.”
“I don't really like over-explaining the songs. Everyone constantly asks what the songs are about, and I think the thing is that the songs definitely all have stories in them; it's just nice to let people decide what they are. I think it's important that people hear it themselves rather than having me annotate it.”

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