Quotes About Grasp

An aggressive reason that seeks always to grasp on its own terms will never come to know deeper dimensions of reality, including and especially the personal. Such depths can be plumbed only through something like a faith that accepts and receives.

Everything, saith Epictetus, hath two handles,the one to be held by, the other not.

I came to realize that having a critical grasp of cultist behavior is an important step toward undermining claims of owned reality, and that this was best done from observations on actual human behavior.

Into the heart he thrusts his sword, into the heart, to hold their hearts. Who draws it out shall follow after, What hand can grasp that fearful blade?

Possessed by the grasp of quality and connoisseurship, he knew and measured the worth of man's visible heritage and determined, in the midst of constant change, to preserve and enhance that heritage so that it might be visible to anyone with eyes to see."30

He had learned the rare secret that you must take happiness when you find it - that there is no use in marking the place and coming back to it at a more convenient season, because it will not be there then.

To try to let go was to hold more tightly.

All this rapture," managed Letty, wriggling out of her mother's grasp, "is decidedly premature.

When someone put money in your hand you closed your fingers around it and put it in your pocket.

This world represents the promise of a unique happiness which we are not well-enough equipped to grasp.

Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.

It's very useful to have a good grasp of all the big ideas in hard and soft science. A, it gives perspective. B, it gives a way for you to organize and file away experience in your head, so to speak.

You must all know about Bourgain, so I don't have to write his name on the board-for an obvious reason.

He and his supporters never doubted that if only Britain were to act, it could force Leopold to mend his ways or could wrest the Congo entirely from his grasp.

Opportunities show up in direct proportion to your willingness to recognize them.

caressing each moment as an emerald on temporary consignment.

That was the annoying thing about the kid, who was otherwise okay. Every once in a while, he'd get it before anybody else got it, and when he got it, he got it. So Tiny said to him, "If you got it, give it to us.

The meaning of life is to see.

A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.

Life is too long to reject the opportunities in front of you every day.

Our world spins upside down and sometimes we have to lose our grip on the things we value in this life in order to grab on to true life.

Art reminds us that in fact the world always exceeds our grasp and perception.

Hence to be separate means to be helpless, unable to grasp the world—things and people—actively; it means that the world can invade me without my ability to react. Thus, sepa-rateness is the source of intense anxiety. Beyond that, it arouses shame and the feeling of guilt.

Kiekvien? akimirk? jau?iame, kad negalime laim?s išlaikyti, ir n? nebandome <...> Bet jeigu mes nem?giname su?iupti jos ir sutur?ti savo šiurkš?iomis rankomis, tai gal ji, niekieno nebaidoma, išlieka m?s? aki? gilumoje? Gal ji išlieka ten, kol gyvos tos akys?