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Quotes About Embrace

What does brace mean, anyway? Brace. Such an odd word. It comes from the Latin brachium, meaning arm. It means, as its heart, to embrace. It was a hug. A hug good-bye.
~ Laurence Gonzales
To have—to hold—and—in time—let go!
~ Laurence Hope
For this is wisdom- to love and live To take what fate or the Gods may give, To ask no question, to make no prayer, To kiss the lips and caress the hair, Speed passion's ebb as we greet its flow, To have and to hold, and, in time--let go.
~ Laurence Hope
For this is Wisdom; to love, to live To take what fate, or the Gods may give. To ask no questions, to make no prayer, To kiss the lips and caress the hair, Spend passion's ebb as you greet its flow To have, -to hold -and -in time, -let go!
~ Laurence Hope
A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.
~ Laurence Sterne
What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within the span of his little life by him who interests his heart in everything.
~ Laurence Sterne
Is there any other way to be? I mean, this is it. This is my body, my soul; I gotta live with it. I'd better get comfortable. I plan on taking it for a long ride.
~ Cecil Castellucci
Every time she kissed him, every time he opened his arms and she crawled into them, felt like a miracle. Coming to her made him feel perfectly welcomed, perfectly at home, as he had never in his life felt before.
~ Celeste Ng
The occasional embrace, a head leaned for just a moment on your shoulder, when what you really wanted more than anything was to press them to you and hold them so tight you fused together and could never be taken apart. It was like training yourself to live on the smell of an apple alone, when what you really wanted was to devour it, to sink your teeth into it and consume it, seeds, core, and all.
~ Celeste Ng
Mia was affectionate but never effusive; Pearl had never seen her mother embrace anyone other than her.
~ Celeste Ng
To have such a deep taproot in a single place, to be immersed in it so thoroughly that it had steeped into every fiber of your being: she couldn't imagine it.
~ Celeste Ng
The occasional embrace, a head leaned for just a moment on your shoulder, when what you really wanted more than anything was to press them to you and hold them so tight you fused together and could never be taken apart.
~ Celeste Ng
Já não se lembrava de como era abraçar uma criança - abraçar fosse quem fosse - desta forma. Como o peso da outra pessoa se afunda em nós, como se agarram instintivamente. Como confiam em nós. Passa muito tempo até se sentir preparado para a largar.
~ Celeste Ng
even before the nurses had wiped the baby clean, even before they had cut the cord—touched every part of her child, her tiny flaring nostrils and the faint shadows of her eyebrows and the womb-slicked soles of her feet, making certain she was wholly present, learning her by heart.)
~ Celeste Ng
The occasional embrace, a head lean, just a moment on your shoulder, when what you really wanted more than anything was to press them to you and hold them so tight you fuse together and could never be taken apart.
~ Celeste Ng
A friend confided to me recently that she wasn't sure if it was the 'change,' plain old PMS, or just a slow shift toward embracing her inner witch that is causing her to become progressively more irritated by everything her husband does.
~ Celia Rivenbark
Bir ÅŸeyden, onu görmezlikten gelerek deÄŸil, ancak onu yaÅŸayarak kurtulabiliriz.
~ Cesare Pavese
Es aterrador amar lo que la muerte tiene a su alcance.
~ Chaim Stern
Amar es, sin duda, la mejor manera de vivir, es guardar la luna llena en el estanque del jardín de tu corazón e ir por la vida dejando huellas de luz.
~ Chamalu
You can be affected by a person because of something particular they said or did but sometimes how a person was, a manner of being, that gets most deeply absorbed, and prompts you to revisit certain parts of your life with an enhanced perspective, flowing forward right up to now.
~ Chang-Rae Lee
Intimacy" Even in the dark I think of you— That these shadows have made me long for your touch. Might that I wrap myself in the soft, white blanket of your skin, your words tumbling tenderly into my ear. And yet as I pause to consider the gentleness within your voice I realize it is only the sound of my heart—trembling To be next to you.
~ Charles
Neurodiversity? Indeed. According to The New York Times: "As psychiatrists and neurologists uncover an ever-wider variety of brain wiring," a new kind of disability movement, calling for an acceptance of neurodiversity, has been born. Proponents of neurodiversity argue that "brain differences, like body differences, should be embraced," and appeal for a neurologically tolerant society.76
~ Charles Barber
Life's as kind as you let it be.
~ Charles Bukowski
The embrace of a new technology by ordinary people leads inevitably to its embrace by people of malign intent.
~ Charles C. Mann