Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
I can explain this to you, but I cannot comprehend it for you.
Knowing is not understanding. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.
The thing is, I don't take anything for granted anymore - my family, my music, you name it.
I reach out and grab her wrist. It feels impossibly tiny in my hand, like this one time I found a baby bird near goose Point, and I picked it up and it died there, taking its final gasping fluttering breaths in my palm.
Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.
The State is a gang of thieves writ large - the most immoral, grasping and unscrupulous individuals in any society.
The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
What one doesn't understand one doesn't possess.
When an opportunity comes, it holds possibilities. And when you move away from it or don't sense it or grasp it, you're really throwing away your future; you're throwing away your tomorrow.
Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.
To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.
Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
I don't want to take things for granted.
Reading is not walking on the words; it's grasping the soul of them.
Since a thing cannot be known directly or totally, one can only attune to it, with greater or lesser degrees of intimacy.
Visual representation of it is essential if we're to come to terms with what it is we've done.
I think it's possible to have experiences of love without attachment, but I think part of our conditioning is to grasp at times, especially when there are unmet needs. It's part of our nervous system to hold on to where we think those needs will be met.
Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach?
Many of us come into the world with a clenched fist, but we all leave with an open hand.
It is true that the grasping of truth is not possible without empirical basis. However, the deeper we penetrate and the more extensive and embracing our theories become the less empirical knowledge is needed to determine those theories.
If I'm going to talk about an issue, I better know what it's about viscerally.
The harder we try to catch hold of the moment, to seize a pleasant sensation..., the more elusive it becomes... It is like trying to clutch water in one's hands - the harder one grips, the faster it slips through one's fingers.
Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
Seeing consists of the grasping of structural features rather than the indiscriminate recording of detail.
