J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart, you begin to understand, there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep...that have taken hold.
Quotes to Explore
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Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.
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I understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It's a perversely and universally appealing topic.
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Female can understand more detail and really care for the consequence and understand all the process.
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You have to really love women in order to really just have a respect for women and love them. No man - I don't care what kind of man it is, how feminine he is - they never could understand what we go through as far as physically and mentally.
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I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
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The kitchen is where we deal with the elements of the universe. It is where we come to understand our past and ourselves.
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It's hard for us to really understand the immensity so far of the conquest of space.
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Well, only Japanese may understand it, but I'm like a goat or something that likes high places.
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Most people don't understand that being in the public eye is emotionally exhausting. It takes a lot out of you.
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I wanted to get away from the Mexican vernacular and do more 'nuevo Latino.' Americans are starting to understand regionality in Mexican food. It is very regional in terms of ingredients.
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It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.
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I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.
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Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.
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My dad doesn't get any of my jokes. He laughs at them, but he doesn't understand them. He's just laughing because people around him are laughing.
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I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
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To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.
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People do things which I find quite amazing - things I would never have done and can't understand very well.
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For even bad poetry has relevance for what it does not say for what it leaves out.
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The general consensus among historians, among the ones who can handle the fact that 'Lincoln' is, in fact, historical fiction, is that we demonstrate enormous fidelity to history and that, beyond that, we've actually contributed a line of thinking about Lincoln's presidency that's somewhat original.
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Practicing mindfulness calms down the sympathetic nervous system, so that you are less likely to be thrown into fight-or-flight.11 Learning to observe and tolerate your physical reactions is a prerequisite for safely revisiting the past. If you cannot tolerate what you are feeling right now, opening up the past will only compound the misery and retraumatize you further.12 We can tolerate a great deal of discomfort as long as we stay conscious of the fact that the body’s commotions constantly shift. One moment your chest tightens, but after you take a deep breath and exhale, that feeling softens and you may observe something else, perhaps a tension in your shoulder. Now you can start exploring what happens when you take a deeper breath and notice how your rib cage expands.13 Once you feel calmer and more curious, you can go back to that sensation in your shoulder. You should not be surprised if a memory spontaneously arises in which that shoulder was somehow involved.
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How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart, you begin to understand, there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep...that have taken hold.
