A great book allows me to leap over that wall: in a deep, significant conversation with another consciousness, I feel human and unalone.
– David Shields
Related Quotes:
- Wall your life, guard your heart and mind your mind! A life without a wall least blocks something! A mind without a wall accepts anything at all! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- That’s the key to walking through the Wall…. You have to first see it as not being a Wall, even though everyone you know still sees it as a Wall. – Kevin J Shay
- High to low, roof to floor, wall to wall, and door to door; Basement deep to sky above, fill this home with light and love. – Dani Harper
- This divergence of experience was not a stumbling block to conversation; indeed, it was what made the conversation interesting. – Michael David Lukas
- Suffering and pain are always obligatory for a broad consciousness and a deep heart. Truly great men I think, must feel great sorrow in this world. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Life being full of sense and devotion to a significant goal, makes looking for my destination a significant goal – Sunday Adelaja
- You don’t need a significant other to lead a significant life. – Mandy Hale
- Feel, he told himself, feel, feel, feel. Even if what you feel is pain, only let yourself feel. – PD James
- To leap over the wall of self, to look through another’s eyes–this is valuable experience, which literature offers. – X J Kennedy
- Make people feel great when they feel small. Make them feel responsible when they feel great. – Alin Sav
- The deep observation of nature can transform your consciousness into a higher consciousness that will awaken your true being. – Debasish Mridha
- Silence is what allows people to suffer without recourse, what allows hypocrisies and lies to grow and flourish, crimes to go unpunished. – Rebecca Solnit
- For those he has ignored, he allows them this. He allows them God, their only ally. Places to worship, but no one to teach. – Greg Rucka
- The idea economy is a conversation. Try to channel or control that conversation and you will stop the chatter. – AE Samaan
- Empathy allows us to enter the world of another. It allows us to take a mental vacation from ourselves. – Arthur P Ciaramicoli
- Story seems to say that everything happens for a reason and I want to say, No, it doesn’t. – David Shields
- To write only according to the rules laid down by masterpieces signifies that one is not a master but a pupil. – David Shields
- Since the human mind is the primary weapon of the human being, it is also therefore the primary and most significant instrument of violence. – Bryant McGill
- Buy this book , buy this book , you need this book, buy book now.’Subliminal messaging works! – Nick Jimbanis
- The seventh element is -˜consciousness’ that raises a human from the basic corporeal state and takes them to super-consciousness. – Girdhar Joshi
- When push to the wall. You have to develop strategies to scale over the wall. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- A small crack in a wall, the wall might fall. A small crack in a relationship, several walls get created. – Santosh Avvannavar
- I can’t!- Maggie was now standing on the wall. -œPast the boundary wall is a bad place. I’m not allowed in the bad place. – Sian B Claven
- We try so hard to make ourselves lovable, and yet each layer of this mask puts another wall around us -“ a wall that keeps love out. – Vironika Tugaleva
- We try so hard to make ourselves lovable, and yet each layer of this mask puts another wall around us -“ a wall that keeps love out. – Vironika Tugaleva
- The coldest day in fallis at the Hallows Evening ballwhere ghoulish funavoids the sunas monsters mingle wall to wall. – Richelle E Goodrich
- How you react when your back is against the wall will determine if you see what’s actually over the wall. – Onyi Anyado
- It all began with a shoe on the wall. A shoe on the wall shouldn’t be there at all. – Dr Seuss
- A good book … leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul. – Richard Flanagan
- In deep silence, raise your consciousness. Now feel the profound joy of life. – Debasish Mridha
- Reading a great work of literature can truly be likened to having a conversation with a great mind. – Jennie Chancey
- Sometimes I feel like we are the same, but sometimes, like right now, I feel the separation between our personalities like I’ve just run into a wall. – Veronica Roth
- We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success. – Henry David Thoreau
- Did every step feel like the running leap a bird takes before flight? – Jesmyn Ward
- Can’t you feel it?-She could. No question about it. But saying yes felt like a giant leap for them. For her.-œBe brave for me. – Jennifer Kacey
- Can’t you feel it?-She could. No question about it. But saying yes felt like a giant leap for them. For her.-œBe brave for me. – Jennifer Kacey
- Every book is a great action and every great action is a book! – Martin Luther
- Great Leadership sometimes requires taking a step backward in order to take a leap forward. – Todd Stocker
- Beauty takes courage. Courage itself takes courage. – Carol Shields
- Darkness shields as much as it threatens. – R Scott Bakker