Quotes About Tethers

#1. Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms.

Penelope Lively

#2. To live within the tethers of desire is - again and again - to be shocked at how far they have come loose from reason

Samuel R. Delany

#3. Pain concentrates the mind. Pain tethers you to this world, and the rope is a stout one. But at the same time, the grace of God enables you to look along the pain, to look down the entire length of the trial, and to see the purpose and point of it all.

Douglas Wilson

#4. In the past stories have been what tethers us to the world and they've made us who we are.

Mat McNerney

#5. The mind is moored to others;
the wasps orbit on little tethers of light.

Warren Heiti

#6. The constant nagging in your mind of undone things pulls you out of the present
tethers you to a mind-set of the future so that you're never fully in the moment and enjoying what's now.

Daniel Levitin

#7. Anything you fear is a shackle to ur soul. It is a phobia that tethers and blinds ur ability to see and comprehend your life directions, making you feel discouraged and hopeless in times of danger

Michael Bassey Johnson

#8. It is better to live as a broken piece of jade, than to live as a useless clay.

Bruce Lee

#9. It just goes to show you: every baby is born beautiful.
It's what we project on them that makes them ugly.

Jodi Picoult

#10. For a long time they sat in silence, observing the huddles of juvenile reeds peeking through the water's surface, and watching the scores of bank-rooted daisies nodding their dainty heads in time with the gentle breeze.

Jack Croxall

#11. Exactly. How can you know it makes you happy if you've never experienced it?"
"There are different kinds of happy," she said. "Some kinds don't need any proof.

Jennifer E. Smith

#12. Where was the respect? The boys all looked like girls and the girls all looked like whores. Clearly, the country was already halfway in the shit.

Robert Harris

#13. Trifles make the sum of life.

Charles Dickens

#14. Be a loving person rather than in a love relationship - because relationships happen one day and disappear another day. They are flowers; in the morning they bloom, by the evening they are gone.

Rajneesh

#15. I am so useful. I am not alone. And neither is he. "It must be nice," said Aubergine suddenly, "to have a friend like that, and like things so much." Yes.

Catherynne M Valente

#16. Esther's voice softened. 'Please, we're begging you ...

Jack Croxall

#17. Don't you touch her,' threatened Esther, 'or I'll claw your face off.'
Steven turned away from Abigail and eyed Esther instead. 'I'd like to see you try.'
'I bet you would,' snapped Esther, ' you've got such an ugly mug it'd probably make for an improvement.

Jack Croxall

#18. You can't save someone from their own decisions.

Jack Croxall