125 Quotes About Analogy

Joy is to fun what the deep sea is to a puddle. It’s a feeling inside that can hardly be contained.

It be urged that the wild and uncultivated tree, hitherto yielding sour and bitter fruit only, can never be made to yield better; yet we know that the grafting art implants a new tree on the savage stock, producing what is most estimable in kind and degree. Education, in like manner, engrafts a new man on the native stock, and improves what in his nature was vicious and perverse into qualities of virtue and social worth.

Reading poetry is like undressing before a bath. You don't undress out of fear that your clothes will become wet. You undress because you want the water to touch you. You want to completely immerse yourself in the feeling of the water and to emerge anew.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

That's the thing about rocks--they don't break easily. When I held them, I wanted to be like them-strong and steady, weathered but not broken.

If life was a book; every day would be a new page, every month would be a new chapter, and every year would be a new series.

Open the aperture of awareness so that light shines through and distractions are defocused.

Have you ever wondered to yourself, “How did my body and health end up on thewrong side of the garbage can?” Don’t lie, you know you have thought somevariation of that question. Have you also wondered, “I wonder what the solution isto get out of this trash situation and close the lid on that stink for good?