Writer's block is a luxury most people with deadlines don't have. — Diane Ackerman Block Copy Share Image
habit, a particularly insidious thug who chokes passion and smothers love. Habit puts us on autopilot. — Diane Ackerman Autopilot Copy Share Image
“Suffering took hold of me like a magic spell abolishing all differences between friends and strangers.” — Diane Ackerman Changes Copy Share Image
“It's not enough to do research from a distance. It's by living beside animals that you learn their behavior and psychology.” — Diane Ackerman Animal Copy Share Image
“Alligators have beautiful undulating skin, which feels dense, spongy, solid, like the best eraser.” — Diane Ackerman Alligators Copy Share Image
“It's like having a head full of holes, in which the perfect repository of words have shamed themselves," he lamented.” — Diane Ackerman Aphasia Copy Share Image
Mystery causes a mental itch, which the brain tries to soothe with the balm of reasonable talk. — Diane Ackerman Brain Copy Share Image
The heart is a museum, filled with the exhibits of a lifetime's loves. — Diane Ackerman Exhibits Copy Share Image
“Below us somewhere in the gelatinous phantasmagoria of churning blue, the whales wouldn't be much aware of the storm.” — Diane Ackerman Whales Copy Share Image
Our relationship with nature has changed radically, irreversibly, but by no means all for the bad. Our new epoch is laced with… — Diane Ackerman Changed Copy Share Image
To begin to understand the gorgeous fever that is consciousness, we must try to understand the senses and what they can tell… — Diane Ackerman Consciousness Copy Share Image
The great affair, the love affair with life, is to live as variously as possible, to groom one's curiosity like a high-spirited… — Diane Ackerman Affair Copy Share Image
When I set a glass prism on a windowsill and allow the sun to flood through it, a spectrum of colors dances… — Diane Ackerman Color Copy Share Image
I like knowing that the further back one traces any lineage, the narrower the path grows, to the haunt of just a… — Diane Ackerman Ancestors Copy Share Image
What do those of us who aren't tall, flawlessly sculpted adolescents do? Answer: Console ourselves with how relative beauty can be... Thank… — Diane Ackerman Answers Copy Share Image
“Without memories we wouldn't know who we are, how we once were, who we'd like to be in the memorable future. We… — Diane Ackerman Memories Copy Share Image
“Our lives together, our duet, also continues to evolve, and even if we can’t go back to how it was, we’re designing… — Diane Ackerman Duet Copy Share Image
“Europe enjoyed a heritage of fairy tales alive with talking animals--some almost real, other deliciously bogus-- to spark child's fantasies and gallop… — Diane Ackerman Animals Copy Share Image
When I go biking, I repeat a mantra of the day's sensations: bright sun, blue sky, warm breeze, blue jay's call, ice… — Diane Ackerman Behinds Copy Share Image
Though most of us don't hunt, our eyes are still the great monopolists of our senses. To taste or touch your enemy… — Diane Ackerman Animal Copy Share Image
In rare moments of deep play, we can lay aside our sense of self, shed time's continuum, ignore pain, and sit quietly… — Diane Ackerman Absolutes Copy Share Image
As anyone who has received or dispensed psychotherapy knows, it's a profession whose mainspring is love. Nearly everyone who visits a therapist… — Diane Ackerman Attachment Copy Share Image
Gardeners may create order briefly out of chaos, but nature always gets the last word, and what it says is usually untidy… — Diane Ackerman Accept Copy Share Image
“So much in a relationship changes when a partner is seriously ill, helpless yet blameless, and indefatigably needy. I felt old. [p.… — Diane Ackerman Compassion Copy Share Image
“I understood the therapists were trying to rebuild Paul's vocabulary, beginning wit the rudiments, but Paul found it taxing, boring, and disturbingly… — Diane Ackerman Language Copy Share Image
“In her diary she described Tuzinka as a giant bundle, the largest baby animal she'd ever seen, weighing in at 242 pounds,” — Diane Ackerman Largest Baby Copy Share Image
For the longest time I didn't realize I was creative - I just thought I was strange. — Diane Ackerman Creative Copy Share Image
I consider fiction a very high-class form of lying. I enjoy and admire it enormously, but I don't think I'm very good… — Diane Ackerman Admire Copy Share Image
Love is like a batik created from many emotional colors, it is a fabric whose pattern and brightness may vary. — Diane Ackerman Brightness Copy Share Image
“I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the lenght of it. I… — Diane Ackerman Life Copy Share Image
There is that unique moment when one confronts something new and astonishment begins. — Diane Ackerman Astonishment Copy Share Image
“Sophie Hodorowicz Knab, Polish Customs, Traditions, and Folklore (New York: Hippocrene Books, 1996), p. 259. people” — Diane Ackerman Traditions Copy Share Image
Love is the best school, but the tuition is high and the homework can be painful. — Diane Ackerman Best Copy Share Image
When I go biking, I am mentally far far away from civilization. The world is breaking someone else's heart. — Diane Ackerman Biking Copy Share Image
American writer 1803-1882 Play is our brain's favorite way of learning. — Diane Ackerman American writer Copy Share Image
A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically. — Diane Ackerman Language Copy Share Image
“Only by fumbling with countless bits of knowledge, and then ignoring most of it, does a creative mind craft something original.” — Diane Ackerman Creative Copy Share Image
We humans are obsessed with lights...Perhaps it is our way of hurling the constellations back at the sky. — Diane Ackerman Constellations Copy Share Image
![“So much in a relationship changes when a partner is seriously ill, helpless yet blameless, and indefatigably needy. I felt old. [p. 99] The animal part of him in pain accepted my caring. But the part of himself watching himself in that pain didn't believe I could ever respect him again. None of…” quote by Diane Ackerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4cb/diane-ackerman-1035_compassion_so-much-in-a-relationship-changes-when-a_820598.jpg)
![“I understood the therapists were trying to rebuild Paul's vocabulary, beginning wit the rudiments, but Paul found it taxing, boring, and disturbingly condescending. His loss of language didn't mean he was any less a grown-up with adult feelings, experiences, worries, and problems. [p. 144]” quote by Diane Ackerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e55/diane-ackerman-1035_language_i-understood-the-therapists-were-trying_2065315.jpg)
