#impressions

Humans are animals and like all animals we leave tracks as we walk: signs of passage made in snow, sand, mud, grass, dew, earth or moss.... We easily forget that we are track-markers, through, because most of our journeys now occur on asphalt and concrete--and these are substances not easily impressed. ↗

— Robert Macfarlane

#inspirational #life #memories #inspirational

His face contained for me all possibilities of fierceness and sweetness, pride and submissiveness, violence, self-containment. I never saw more in it than I had when I saw it first, because I saw everything then. The whole thing in him that I was going to love, and never catch or explain. ↗

— Alice Munro

#love #love

How can you tell? That I like books, I mean. The look on your face when you walked in, somehow I doubted you were that impressed by me. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#first-impressions #walking

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#between #call #false #few #impressions

I have never experienced another human being. I have experienced my impressions of them. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#being #experienced #human #human being #i

Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years. ↗

— Charlotte Bronte

#age #callous #comparatively #earlier #easily

There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water. ↗

— Kate Chopin

#imprint #lasting #leave #oar #people

Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

#critical #entitled #epistles #essays #impressions

I believe that Orthodoxy has been thinking lately, and despite other impressions, that we can't have full sacramental communion if we don't first have a fundamental agreement on the question of the primacy, that still isn't there. ↗

— Karl Lehmann

#been #believe #communion #despite #first

If the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily. Let him go and come freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself. ↗

— Anne Sullivan Macy

#child #combine #come #freely #go