Grasp Quotes

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The world was full of beauty. She wanted to grab hold of it and take it down into her bones. Yet always it seemed beyond… — Sara Zarr
So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp. — Rainer Maria Rilke
When once the mind has raised itself to grasp and to delight in excellence, those who love most will be found to love most wisely. — Unknown Author
When I run after what I think I want, my days are a furnace of stress and anxiety; if I sit in my own place… — Unknown Author
. . . [T]o live not with hands clenched to grasp, to strike, to hold tight to a life that is always slipping away the… — Frederick Buechner
If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of… — Margaret Mead
I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real… — Rainer Maria Rilke
The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility… — Simone Weil
Historians of a generation ago were often shocked by the violence with which scientists rejected the history of their own subject as irrelevant; they could… — I. Bernard Cohen
The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball. — Doug Larson
Slowly, gently night unfurls its splendor. Grasp it, sense it, tremulous and tender. Turn your face away from the garish light of day, turn your… — Charles Hart
One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going. — J. B. Priestley
To grasp and hold a vision, that is the very essence of successful leadership-not only on the movie set where I learned it, but everywhere. — Ronald Reagan
Since we are provided with both a body and a mind, we grasp onto the physical forms we see. Since we are provided with both… — Dogen
Do not try to become anything. Do not make yourself into anything. Do not be a meditator. Do not become enlightened. When you sit, let… — Ajahn Chah
Previously, young children had to be shown by their parents how to use a mouse or a remote, and the connection between what they were… — Hanna Rosin
Give a portion of your money to others. By releasing an anxious grasp on your money, you will open yourself to receive all that is… — Suze Orman
Sometimes, the things we think are so simple but not so easy to grasp are the things that work the best. — Howard Graham Buffett
I like to see a film and then start scoring it in my mind while doing something unrelated. You just grasp a film and start… — A. R. Rahman
Suffering is a corrective to point out a lesson which by other means we have failed to grasp, and never can it be eradicated until… — Edward Bach

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