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Absorbing Quotes

Bruce Lee quote: "Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless."
Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless. Bruce Lee
Bruce Lee quote: "Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is..."
Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own. Bruce Lee
Virginia Woolf quote: "Absorbing, mysterious, of ifinite richness, this life."
Absorbing, mysterious, of ifinite richness, this life. Virginia Woolf
Kenneth Grahame quote: "...Absorbed in the new scents, the sounds, and the sunlight..."
...Absorbed in the new scents, the sounds, and the sunlight... Kenneth Grahame
Willie Morris quote: "His claim to his home is deep, but there are too many ghosts...."
His claim to his home is deep, but there are too many ghosts. He must absorb without being absorbed. Willie Morris
I've not as yet found one hobby that would absorb me completely when I'm not working, but I have just bought a new apartment and didn't quite bargain for the amount of effort and time and money that that absorbs. Hugh Dancy
Walt Whitman quote: "The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as..."
The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it. Walt Whitman
You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere. David Herbert Lawrence
She was wet with my crying. Up around her collar the cotton of her dress was plastered to her skin. I could see her darkness shining through the wet places. She was like a sponge, absorbing what I couldn't hold anymore. Sue Monk Kidd
I cannot exist without you - I am forgetful of every thing but seeing you again - my Life seems to stop there - I see no further. You have absorb'd me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I were dissolving... I have been astonished that Men could die Martyrs for religion - I have shudder'd at it - I shudder no more - I could be martyr'd for my Religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that - I could die for you. My creed is Love and you are its only tenet - You have... John Keats
<...> [Rainer Maria Rilke] speaks of absorbing Earth's phenomena with the full frenzy of human relish and insight as our destiny: "It is our task to imprint this temporary, perishable earth into ourselves so deeply, so painfully and passionately, that its essence can rise again... We are the bees of the invisible... [Our work is] the continual conversion of the beloved visible and tangible world into the invisible vibrations and agitation of our own nature. Diane Ackerman
The three of them set out every morning on adventures of their own kind. Once, an elderly professor of literature, Mrs. Taggart's friend, saw them on top of a pile in a junk yard, dismantling the carcass of an automobile. He stopped, shook his head and said to Francisco, 'A young man of your position ought to spend his time in libraries, absorbing the culture of the world.' 'What do you think I'm doing?' asked Francisco. Ayn Rand
If it wasn’t for the mist we could see your home across the bay," said Gatsby. "You always have a green light that burns at the end of your dock." Daisy put her arm through his abruptly but he seemed absorbed in what he had just said. Possibly it had occurred to him that the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever. Compared to the great distance that had separated him from Daisy it had seemed very near to him, almost touching her. It had seemed as close as a star to the... F. Scott Fitzgerald
My life isn’t theories and formulae. It’s part instinct, part common sense. Logic is as good a word as any, and I’ve absorbed what logic I have from everything and everyone… from my mother, from training as a ballet dancer, from Vogue magazine, from the laws of life and health and nature. Audrey Hepburn
Maya Angelou quote: "I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world's..."
I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world's variety and uniqueness. Maya Angelou

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