Grasping Quotes - Page 6

• Grasping at things can only yield one of two results: Either the thing you are grasping at disappears, or you yourself disappear. It is only a matter of which occurs first.

  S. N. Goenka

  Yield, Two, Matter

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• Para la mayoría de la gente, el principal obstáculo a la hora de comprender los conocimientos modernos sobre la naturaleza del universo es que estos avances suelen formularse utilizando las matemáticas.

  Brian Greene

  People, Development, Modern

  BookBrowse Interview, www.bookbrowse.com.

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• This is where we go our seperate ways. Aware of the almost feel of his hand on my arm when he pulls me back to him and says, "Yes." I look at him, unsure of what he's saying yes to. "The questions you asked earlier, about wanting to settle down, start a family, see my family? Yes. Yes to all of it." I try to swallow but can't, try to speak but the words just won't come. His hands sliding around me, grasping me to him, he lets go of the vial, allows it to fall, to crash to the ground. The sparkling green liquid seeping out all around as he says, "But mostly yes to you.

  Alyson Noel

  Dejarse, Caer, Manos

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• Aprender a ver: acostumbrar el ojo a la calma, a la paciencia y a permitir que las cosas se le presenten; aplazar el juicio y adquirir el hábito de enfocar y comprender un caso individual desde todos los ángulos. Esta es la primera escuela preparatoria de la intelectualidad. No hay que responder inmediatamente a un estímulo; hay que adquirir el dominio de los instintos que obstruyen y aíslan.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Eye, Firsts, Sides

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1911). “The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche: The First Complete and Authorized English Translation”

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• El Señor dio la maravillosa promesa del uso libre de Su nombre con el Padre en conjunción con hacer Sus obras. Al discípulo que vive sólo para la obra y el reino de Jesús, para Su voluntad y honor, se le dará el poder de apropiarse de la promesa. Quien se apropie de la promesa sólo cuando quiera algo muy especial para sí mismo, quedará decepcionado, porque está haciendo de Jesús el siervo de su propia comodidad. Pero quien quiera rezar la oración eficaz de la fe porque la necesita para la obra del Maestro, la aprenderá, porque se ha hecho servidor de los intereses de su Señor.

  Andrew Murray

  Jesus, Prayer, Father

  "Andrew Murray On Prayer".

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• She could not mourn. She could no longer weep grasping the essence of annihilation, she wished only to cease, to be no more, as if sunk in some profound sleep devoid of wakening.

  Tanith Lee

  Sleep, Essence, Profound

  Tanith Lee (2014). “Red as Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer: Expanded Edition”, p.77, Wildside Press LLC

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• From the proletarians nothing is to be feared. Left to themselves, they will continue from generation to generation and from century to century, working, breeding, and dying, not only without any impulse to rebel, but without the power of grasping that the world could be other than it is.

  George Orwell

  Dying, Rebel, Generations

  George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.454, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We are too kind, too willing--too unwilling too--reaching out blindly with a grasping hand but not knowing how to ask for what we don't even know we want.

  Carol Shields

  Hands, Knowing, Want

  Carol Shields (2001). “Dressing Up for the Carnival”, p.22, Penguin

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• I used to think that when I got older, the world would make so much more sense. But you know what? The older I get, the more confusing it is to me. The more complicated it is. Harder. You’d think we’d be getting better at it. But there’s just more and more chaos. The pieces—they’re everywhere. And nobody knows what to do about it. I find myself grasping, Nick. You know that feeling? That feeling when you just want the right thing to fall into the right place, not only because it’s right, but because it will mean that such a thing is still possible? I want to believe in that.

  David Levithan

  Fall, Believe, Mean

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• Hay varias clases de amor. Uno es egoísta, mezquino, codicioso y egoísta, que utiliza el amor para darse importancia. Este es el tipo feo y paralizante. El otro es una efusión de todo lo bueno que hay en ti, de bondad, consideración y respeto, no sólo el respeto social de los modales, sino el respeto mayor que es el reconocimiento de otra persona como única y valiosa. El primer tipo puede enfermarte, empequeñecerte y debilitarte, pero el segundo puede liberar en ti fuerza, valor, bondad e incluso sabiduría que no sabías que tenías.

  John Steinbeck

  Amabilidad, Egoísmo, Maldad

  "Citas personales/ Biografía". www.imdb.com.

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• Somos las nuevas estrellas brillantes nacidas de un agujero negro chirriante, los soles nacientes surgidos de la oscuridad, del vacío asfixiante del espacio que se pliega y se traga, una oscuridad que devoraría a cualquiera que no fuera tan fuerte como nosotros. Somos rarezas, comparsas, temas de tertulia. Captamos la imaginación de todos.

  Dave Eggers

  Fuerte, Estrellas, Curiosidades

  Dave Eggers (2013). "Una obra desgarradora de una genialidad asombrosa: A Memoir Based on a True Story", p.122, Simon and Schuster.

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• Establish your mind as necessary for knowledge and remembrance. Establish a mind free of grasping to anything.

  Buda Gautama

  Buddhist, Remembrance, Mind

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• ...he makes me feel out of control and out of my head. He is exhilarating and terrifying. I see and feel him everywhere, and I'm always grasping for equilibrium even when he's not there... I feel like I'm always falling in love, falling and falling and falling.

  Megan McCafferty

  Falling In Love, Equilibrium, He Makes Me Feel

  Megan McCafferty (2007). “Fourth Comings: A Jessica Darling Novel”, p.322, Broadway Books

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• We still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry and grasping at the spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised to furnish new pretenses for revenue and taxation. It watches prosperity as its prey and permits none to escape without a tribute.

  Thomas Paine

  Wisdom, Government, Hands

  Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson (1988). “Paine and Jefferson on Liberty”, p.107, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim.

  Frank Herbert

  Taken, Use, Victim

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.183, Penguin

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• Many of our attempts to understand Christian faith have only cheapened it. I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me. The little we do understand, that grain of sand our minds are capable of grasping, those ideas such as God is good, God feels, God loves, God knows all, are enough to keep our hearts dwelling on His majesty and otherness forever.

  Donald Miller

  Christian, Heart, Ideas

  Donald Miller (2007). “Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God”, p.117, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Since the end of the Cold War, America has been grasping left and right for an identity.

  Matt Taibbi

  War, America, Identity

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• Unlike the primate hand, the elephant's grasping organ is also its nose. Elephants use their trunks not only to reach food but also to sniff and touch it. With their unparalleled sense of smell, the animals know exactly what they are going for. Vision is secondary.

  Frans de Waal

  Animal, Hands, Elephants

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• I am alone, I am all alone, I am completely alone. Grasping this reality, I let go of my bag, drop to my knees and press my forehead against the floor. There, I offer up to the universe a fervent prayer of thanks. First in English. Then in Italian. And then - just to get the point across - in Sanskrit.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Letting Go, Prayer, Italian

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.9, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• There are times when personal experience keeps us from reaching the mountain top and so we let it go because the weight of it is too heavy. And sometimes the mountain top is difficult to reach with all our resources, factual and confessional, so we are just there, collectively grasping, feeling the limitations of knowledge, longing together, yearning for a way to reach that highest point. Even this yearning is a way to know.

  Ganchos de campana

  Feelings, Let It Go, Together

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• I'm trying..." How could I put it? "I'm trying to get far enough down the line so that I can remember." I stopped, then continued: "so that I can remember without the pain killing me" And the days were stacking up. And weeks. And months. It was now almost the middle of June and he'd died in February, but I still felt like I'd just woken from a horrible dream, that I was suspended in that stunned, paralyzed state between sleep and reality where I was grasping for, but couldn't get a handle on normality.

  Marian Keyes

  Sueño, Dolor, Sueño

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• My worst mistake has been not grasping that time goes by. It was going by and there I was, set in the attitude of the ideal wife of an ideal husband. Instead of bringing our sexual relationship to life again I brooded happily over memories of our former nights together.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Memories, Husband, Attitude

  Simone de Beauvoir (1969). “The Woman Destroyed”

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• This living hand, now warm and capable Of earnest grasping, would, if it were cold And in the icy silence of the tomb, So haunt thy days and chill thy dreaming nights That thou would wish thine own heart dry of blood, So in my veins red life might stream again, And thou be conscience-calm'd. See, here it is-- I hold it towards you.

  John Keats

  Sueño, Corazón, Noche

  'This living hand, now warm and capable' (written 1819)

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• Pain is what I feed from when nothing else will nourish the noxious fury in my heart. It’s what I cling to when everything else—everyone else—slips right between my grasping fingers.

  Rachel Vincent

  Pain, Heart, Fingers

  Rachel Vincent (2010). “Alpha”, p.367, MIRA

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• El único soberano al que puedo permitir que me gobierne es la razón. La primera ley de la razón es ésta: lo que existe, existe; lo que es, es. A partir de este principio irreductible y básico se construye todo conocimiento. Este es el fundamento desde el que se abraza la vida. La razón es una elección. Los deseos y los caprichos no son hechos, ni un medio para descubrirlos. La razón es nuestra única forma de captar la realidad: es nuestra herramienta básica de supervivencia. Somos libres de eludir el esfuerzo de pensar, de rechazar la razón, pero no somos libres de evitar la pena del abismo que nos negamos a ver." -Richard

  Terry Goodkind

  Media, Realidad, Pensamiento

  Terry Goodkind (2010). “Faith of the Fallen”, p.31, Macmillan

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