"The sort of fish that a good fisherman puts back into the water."

Metaphor, Fish, Release, Nature, Choice

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"Perhaps time's definition of coal is the diamond."

Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese Philosopher

Metaphor, Time, Change, Values

"What was my path to success? Well, there were some steps forward, some back, some to the side... maybe it wasn't a path, but more of a dance."

Steve Maraboli, American Author

Metaphor, Success, Path, Dance, Life

"Until you press the switch button of the light in your room on, you shall always have light in your room and still leave in darkness."

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

Metaphor, Light, Darkness, Press, Existence

"Don't let the tall weeds cast a shadow on the beautiful flowers in your garden."

Steve Maraboli, American Author

Metaphor, Weeds, Flowers, Garden, Shadow

"We have the St. Vitus' dance, and cannot possibly keep our heads still."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Metaphor, Body, Mind, Energy, Disease

"For I am a drop of water, I may change but I will never vanish in thin air."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Metaphor, Water, Change, Vanishing

"It was his self-esteem she had sought to destroy, knowing that a man who surrenders his value is at the mercy of anyone's will; it was his moral purity she had struggled to breach, it was his confident rectitude she had wanted to shatter by means of the poison of guilt-as if, were he to collapse, his depravity would give her a right to hers."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

Metaphor, Hope, Journey, Death, Faith

"Like the cotton-carder who combs tangled cotton into a long bundle of fibre, you take all my knotted fragments and comb them into light."

Kamand Kojouri, Iranian Poet

Metaphor, Healing, Transformation, Light, Hope

"Our mouths and bodies speak for us in a new language as the trees shake loose a rain of petals that stick to our slickness like skins we will wear forever. And just like that, I am changed."

Libba Bray, American Author

Metaphor, Transformation, Change, Awareness, Nature

"A bull that allows a he goat to deter it from moving forward is nothing but a mere he goat."

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

Metaphor, Strength, Movement, Life

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"The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own."

Romantic

"The mind of man, moreover, works with equal strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented on the timepiece of the mind by one second."

Time

"It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality."

Reality

"The proper stuff of fiction does not exist everything is the proper stuff of fiction every feeling every thought every quality of brain and spirit is drawn upon no perception comes amiss. And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst she would undoubtedly bid us break her and bully her as well as honour and love her for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assured."

Art

"I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past."

Time

"So that the monotonous fall of the waves on the beach, which for the most part beat a measured and soothing tattoo to her thoughts seemed consolingly to repeat over and over again..."

Nature

"I have lost friends some by death ... others by sheer inability to cross the street."

Friendship

"The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness."

Beauty

"We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print."

Media

"It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work."

Age