"The log on the fire: is it dreaming of the forest?"

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

Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese Philosopher

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

Steve Maraboli, American Author

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

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"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

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"How could we forget those ancient myths that stand at the beginning of all races, the myths about dragons that at the last moment are transformed into princesses? Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage."

Rainer Maria Rilke, German Poet

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"Grace is a small white butterfly, and life is a semi trailer careening up 101."

Anne Lamott, American Author

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"The log on the fire: is it dreaming of the forest?"

Marty Rubin, American Author

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"Islands are metaphors of the heart, no matter what poet says otherwise."

Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist

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"We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material."

J. T. Walsh, American Actor

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

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

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

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

"How could we forget those ancient myths that stand at the beginning of all races, the myths about dragons that at the last moment are transformed into princesses? Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage."

"Grace is a small white butterfly, and life is a semi trailer careening up 101."

"The log on the fire: is it dreaming of the forest?"

"Islands are metaphors of the heart, no matter what poet says otherwise."

"We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material."

Explore more quotes by Marty Rubin

"Who gave fire permission to burn?"

"Distance is not a gulf but a bridge between lovers."

"Thinking is a sign of disturbance. When your bladder doesn't hurt you don't think about it."

"I love talking the way Trappists love silence."

"When people are facing real hardships in their lives, they have no time to invent imaginary ones."

"The mind's best trick is the illusion that it exists."

"There is music the moment you start listening."

"Nature is impulsive. To be impulsive is to be fully alive."

"Ideas stand in the corner and laugh while we fight over them."

"Artists must remain in a state of awe to remain artists."