"Hariri says, in his Maqamat: 'Safety is on the river's BANK."

Metaphor, Safety, River, Banks, Protection

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"Life is nether food nor drink. But the faith of a dance dream."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Metaphor, Food, Faith, Dance, Dream

"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

Metaphor, Myth, Transformation, Beauty, Courage

"If lighthouse becomes a burning candle, flickered upon ocean's insanity.Your sailing heart there anchors to handle the obsessed breeze towards sand dune's vanity."

Munia Khan, Bangladeshi Poet

Metaphor, Ocean, Insanity, Heart, Vanity

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

Anne Lamott, American Author

Metaphor, Grace, Life, Fate, Nature

"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

"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

"I whisper like the sea in the horse's ear."

Maggie Stiefvater, American Author

Metaphor, Sound, Emotion, Nature

"If the human condition were the periodic table, maybe love would be hydrogen at No. 1. Death would be helium at No. 2. Power, I reckon, would be where oxygen is."

David Mitchell, British Novelist

Metaphor, Love, Death, Power, Comparison

"This is my knife. It is very sharp and very eager to hurt you."

Lemony Snicket, American Author

Metaphor, Threat, Danger, Violence

"We are like travelers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Metaphor, Travel, Survival, Adaptation

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"When tomorrow comes, think tomorrow's thoughts."

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"Life is nether food nor drink. But the faith of a dance dream."

"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."

"If lighthouse becomes a burning candle, flickered upon ocean's insanity.Your sailing heart there anchors to handle the obsessed breeze towards sand dune's vanity."

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

"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."

"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."

"I whisper like the sea in the horse's ear."

"If the human condition were the periodic table, maybe love would be hydrogen at No. 1. Death would be helium at No. 2. Power, I reckon, would be where oxygen is."

"This is my knife. It is very sharp and very eager to hurt you."

"We are like travelers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs."

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"A loan is the scissors of friendship.A man's own tongue may cut his throat.The cage has no value without the bird."

"Not to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one's true interests."

"When the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it."

"Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information."

"If you assume that it is there, you will generally not be far off the truth."

"A real secret is something which only one person knows."

"I ask about the sky, but the answer is about a rope."

"The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age."

"None should say: 'I can trust' or 'I cannot trust' until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not trusting."

"When tomorrow comes, think tomorrow's thoughts."