Secret Senses Quotes

#1. Both the thoughts and the senses were pretty things, the ultimate meaning was hidden behind both of them ... from both the secret voices of the innermost truth had to be attentively perceived.

Hermann Hesse

#2. I felt stuck in the bottom of a wishing well. I was desperate to shout what I wanted, but I didn't know what that was. I knew only what it wasn't.
The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan

Amy Tan

#3. That woman," Lord Maccon spat,"is is definitely alpha and most certainly female.

Gail Carriger

#4. We need a regime change in this country ... If we launch a pre-emptive strike on Iraq we lose all moral authority.

Jesse Jackson

#5. Oh yes, I know the way to heaven was easy. We found the little kingdom of our passion that all can share who walk the road of lovers. In wild and secret happiness we stumbled; and gods and demons clamoured in our senses.

Siegfried Sassoon

#6. One man doesn't believe in god at all, while the other believes in him so thoroughly that he prays as he murders men!

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#7. Almost nine years later, I know that stars don't burn forever, and even the brightest can shatter into a million, burning sparks before falling from the sky.

Kristen Kehoe

#8. Every master was once a beginner. Every pro was once an amateur.

Robin Sharma

#9. A waltz begins, that floating, sweet rhythm. The fiddle is plaintive. A few minutes ago she was at least pleasantly contented. Now certain of the notes dip into her like ladles and come up full of loneliness. The people in the room recede. They are strangers, every one.

Anna Keesey

#10. I was a pretty delicate kid. Anything that was going around I'd get it and I'd generally get it much worse than other people, so I spent a lot of time out of school.

Geraldine Brooks

#11. Fear of failure has always been my best motivator.

Douglas Wood

#12. I am like you, curious and small. Like you, I pause alertly and open my senses to try to read the air, the clouds, the sun's slant, the little movements of the animals, all in the hope I will learn the secret of whether I am loved.5

Pat Schneider

#13. Now anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity. It is the fruit of unanswered questions. But questions cannot go unanswered unless they first be asked.

Thomas Merton

#14. That's the secret - to distract the senses. Have I told you my theory about them? I think that our sight, smell, taste, touch, hearing are all calibrated for the enjoyment of a perfect world. But since the world is imperfect, we must put blinders on the senses.

Rohinton Mistry

#15. The secret of life is not in the Die And Live,
The secret of life is Don't ever lose your senses in the NOW.

Sushil Singh

#16. Money. You don't know where it's been, but you put it where your mouth is. And it talks!

Dana Gioia

#17. Travel, for me, is a little bit like being in love because suddenly, all your senses are at the setting marked 'on.' Suddenly, you're alert to the secret patterns of the world.

Pico Iyer

#18. Me, following her home.
Her, thinking she's alone.
For hours, I watched her paint, sat in the darkness, and marveled.

Kenya Wright

#19. Life's always a big fucking compromise. You don't always get what you want, no matter how smart you are, how hard you work, how good you are. That's a myth. We're all hanging in the best way we can.

Amy Tan

#20. Logic will save you when nothing else will.

Marie Lu

#21. We've a saying that you should always expect pleasant surprises. The unpleasant surprises will come anyway.

Petra Durst-Benning

#22. the complex integration of the three secret senses: the labyrinthine, the proprioceptive, and the visual. It is this synthesis that is impaired in Parkinsonism. The

Oliver Sacks

#23. Remember it is the heart and not the body, which strives to draw near to God. By heart I do not mean the flesh perceived by the senses, but that secret thing which is sometimes expressed by spirit, and sometimes by soul.

Al-Ghazali

#24. There is nothing in the world that does not speak to us. Everything and everybody reveals its own nature, character and secrets continuously. The more open our inner senses, the more we understand the voice of everything.

Hazrat Inayat Khan