wayTo QUOTES

1 " Let me go: take back thy gift:
Why should a man desire in any way
To vary from the kindly race of men,
Or pass beyond the goal of ordinance
Where all should pause, as is most meet for all?
...Why wilt thou ever scare me with thy tears,
And make me tremble lest a saying learnt,
In days far-off, on that dark earth, be true?
‘The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.’
- Tithonus "

― Alfred Tennyson

2 " I am, and that is all I know at times,My being shaped by forces known and not.But whereas words are made to bend to rhymes,My feet are bound to steps that I have wrought.I feel myself expanding into thisBeautiful niche I could not see beforeBut I always sensed-and now I cannot missMyself: I am unlimited and moreIs opening to me, the more I open To this sweet fear, like falling from a cloud,My heart's inertia clear and calm, unspokenBut heard. It says to me: " You are allowed." And I am free at last to feel this wayTo take this step: to wonder, love and stray. "

3 " The law is so complex and voluminousthat no one, not even the most knowledgeable lawyer, can understand itall. Moreover, lawyers and legal scholars have not gone out of their wayto make the law accessible to the ordinary person. Just the opposite: Legalprofessionals, like the priests of some obscure religion, too often try tokeep the law mysterious and inaccessible. "

4 " Have little,
Need less:
This is the way
To inner peace.

Surrender is a journey
From the outer turmoil
To the inner peace.

Peace
Is in inner awakening,
And this inner awakening
We must share
With the rest of the world. "

― Sri Chinmoy

5 " The things they say!
A truck driver would blush.
I would never talk that way
to Trevor he walks on water.
I want him to think I do too.
For a while, he did, or at least
he pretended to.

I did things with Trevor
I wouldn't dare to confess
to anyone—things I didn't
know anyone did.
But he wanted me to,
so I did. That's what you do
when you love someone,
right? "

― Ellen Hopkins , Impulse (Impulse, #1)

6 " Leonardo believed his research had the
potential to convert millions to a more spiritual life. Last year he categorically proved the existence of
an energy force that unites us all. He actually demonstrated that we are all physically connected… that
the molecules in your body are intertwined with the molecules in mine… that there is a single force
moving within all of us.” Langdon felt disconcerted. And the power of God shall unite us all. “Mr. Vetra actually found a way
to demonstrate that particles are connected?”
“Conclusive evidence. A recent Scientific American article hailed New Physics as a surer path to God
than religion itself. "

― Dan Brown , Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)

7 " Crashing into the trembling void
Stretching my hand to you
Losing myself to frigid regret
Is this fragile love
A way
To say
Good-bye "

― Maggie Stiefvater , Shiver (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #1)

8 " The only way to watch paid TV from the comfort of your room is
by subscribing to a paid TV service. In the same way, the only way
to change your level of financial success ‘permanently’ is to subscribe
and keep upgrading your financial mind-set. But it is your decision
whether you choose to change or not. "

― Derric Yuh Ndim

9 " My brother was on his wayto a dental appointmentwhen the second plane hitfour stories below the officewhere he worked. He’s neversaid anything about the guywho took football bets, howhe liked to watch his secretarywalk, the friends he ate lunch with,all the funerals. Maybe, shamedby his luck, he keeps quiet,afraid someone might guesshow good he feels, breathing. "

10 " ...feel the fierce way desiretourniquets itself around you andclingsClubland South of Market tweak-chic trannies powder their noses frombullet-shaped compacts and flick their forkedtongues like switchblades as they burn the nightdown bleed day to night to day toMission sidewalks where pythons hidetwenty dollar balloons beneath their tongues whichget bartered in smiles quicker than a coke buzz andtossed out through the cracksCottonmouth kissescamouflage emotions andstrike with a vengeancewhen hewants and shewants and theywant and Iwon'tGenet was right, I supposewhen he wrote " The only wayto avoid the horror of horror isto give in to it" it'sthe nature ofthe economy of thebusiness it's thenature ofthings... "

11 " Poetry, I tell my students,is idiosyncratic. Poetryis where we are ourselves,(though Sterling Brown said" Every 'I' is a dramatic 'I'" )digging in the clam flatsfor the shell that snaps,emptying the proverbial pocketbook.Poetry is what you findin the dirt in the corner,overhear on the bus, Godin the details, the only wayto get from here to there.Poetry (and now my voice is rising)is not all love, love, loveand I'm sorry the dog died.Poetry (here I hear myself loudest)is the human voice,and are we not of interest to each other? "

12 " The skin of her face,parched by the monotonous dietof salty rain,with tremendous effortgave wayto a smile. "

13 " Dividing earth and sky
is not the right way
to think about this wholeness.
It only allows one to live
at a more precise address--
were I to be searched for
I'd be found much faster.
My distinguishing marks
are rapture and despair.

From 'Sky', in the collection 'Miracle Fair "

― Wisława Szymborska

14 " Doubt wisely; in strange way
To stand inquiring right, is not to stray;
To sleep, or run wrong, is. "

― John Donne