#senses

As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound. ↗

— Yann Martel

#humor #senses #humor

For ourselves, who are ordinary men and women, let us return thanks to Nature for her bounty by using every one of the senses she has given us. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#senses #men

It was then that the ecstasy and the dream began, in which emotion was the matter of the universe, and matter but an adventitious intrusion likely to hinder you from spinning where you wanted to spin. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#senses #dreams

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#able #between #communication #intercept #man

There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#companions #employ #everybody #intelligent #schoolmasters

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#attacks #head #heart #love is #passions

Both our senses and our passions are a supply to the imperfection of our nature; thus they show that we are such sort of creatures as to stand in need of those helps which higher orders of creatures do not. ↗

— Joseph Butler

#creatures #helps #higher #imperfection #nature

I tried to go out for theater or theater arts, but I was too scared or too intimidated. But I had a lot of friends on the cross country team that had great senses of humor. ↗

— Dana Carvey

#country #cross #cross country #friends #go

The sensory misers will inherit the earth, but first they will make it not worth living on. When you consider something like death, after which we may well go out like a candle flame, then it probably won’t matter if we try too hard, are awkward sometimes, care for one another too deeply, are excessively curious about nature, are too open to experience, enjoy a nonstop expense of the senses in an effort to know life intimately and lovingly. ↗

— Diane Ackerman

#love #lust-for-life #senses #death

It is often when night looks darkest, it is often before the fever breaks that one senses the gathering momentum for change, when one feels that resurrection of hope in the midst of despair and apathy. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#before #breaks #change #darkest #despair