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Letter "D" » drifts
«When the soul drifts uncertainly between life and the dream, between the mind's disorder and the return to cool reflection, it is in religious thought that we should seek consolation.»
«The whole fauna of human fantasies, their marine vegetation, drifts and luxuriates in the dimly lit zones of human activity, as though plaiting thick tresses of darkness. Here, too, appear the lighthouses of the mind, with their outward resemblance to less pure symbols. The gateway to mystery swings open at the touch of human weakness and we have entered the realms of darkness. One false step, one slurred syllable together reveal a man's thoughts.»
Author: Louis Aragon
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Essayist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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Keywords:
dimly,
drifts,
fauna,
gateway,
gateways,
human activity,
Human Touch,
lighthouse,
lighthouses,
light touch,
lit,
luxuriate,
luxuriates,
Marine,
Marines,
plait,
Plaited,
plaiting,
slur,
slurred,
slurs,
syllable,
The Gateway,
The Lighthouse,
The Touch,
vegetation,
zones
«Every day you spend drifting away from your goals is a waste not only of that day, but also of the additional day it takes to regain lost ground»
Author: Ralph Marston
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About:
Day,
Goals
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Keywords:
additional,
drifted,
drifting,
drifts,
drift away,
ground,
regain,
regained,
regaining,
regains,
wasting away
«Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment. This is an attitude of mind. Everyone can be constructive even in tiny ways.»
«I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Humorist,
Physician,
Poet,
Professor,
Writer)
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Keywords:
anchor,
anchored,
anchors,
direction,
drift,
drifted,
drifts,
moving,
port,
ports,
sail,
The Wind,
wind,
with the wind
«To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Humorist,
Physician,
Poet,
Professor,
Writer)
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Keywords:
anchor,
anchored,
anchors,
drift,
drifted,
drifts,
lie,
must not,
port,
ports,
reach,
sail,
The Wind,
wind,
with the wind
«If you examined a hundred people who had lost their faith in Christianity, I wonder how many of them would turn out to have reasoned out of it by honest argument? Do not most people simply drift away?»
Author: C.S. Lewis
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Novelist,
Scholar)
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Keywords:
argument,
away,
a hundred,
Christianity,
drift,
drifted,
drifts,
drift away,
examined,
examines,
faith,
had,
honest,
hundred,
lost,
many,
out to,
reasoned,
simply,
turn,
turning away,
turn out,
wonder
«Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafairing soul, if either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas. For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
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Essayist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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Keywords:
alone,
broken,
Burns,
confining,
destruction,
drift,
drifted,
drifts,
either,
flame,
flamed,
force,
held,
In Flames,
mid,
or else,
passion,
rudder,
ruling,
rulings,
sails,
seas,
sea a,
standstill,
toss,
tosses,
tossing,
toss in,
toss out,
Toss Up,
unattended
«The further through life I drift the more obvious it becomes that I am lacking in thrift.»