Inflating Balloon Quotes & Sayings

Only love can penetrate all your karmas and resistances and set your heart on fire with the awareness of its true nature. — Gurumayi Chidvilasananda

I agree that not responding, and blocking his email, is the way to deal with the man you hope falls silent again. — Emily Yoffe

The tear on my mother's cheek got larger and larger. It detached from her face and became a shiny globe, widening outward like an inflating balloon. At first the tear floated in the air between them, but as it expanded it took my mother and father into itself. I saw them suspended, separate but beginning to slowly drift towards one another. Then my mother looked past my father's shoulder, looked through the bright skin of the tear, at me. The tear enlarged until at last, it took me in, too. It was warm and salt. As soon as I got used to the strange light inside the tear, I began to swim clumsily towards my parents. — Fred Chappell

Don't apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of it. — Walter Darby Bannard

Life is like a cup of tea, the sugar is all at the bottom! — Julia Ward Howe

When all the Self was conquered and dead, when all passions and desires were silent, then the last must awaken, the innermost of Being that is no longer Self - the great secret! — Hermann Hesse

In the seventeenth century, it was held by some that inside a human sperm there was a minute human being - a homunculus - that was planted inside the womb. Development consisted of the miniature homunculus enlarging and passing through birth and on to maturity-just like inflating a balloon. — John Tyler Bonner

From a certain angle, the spring seems so calm: warm, tender, each night redolent and composed. And yet everything radiates tension, as if the city has been built upon the skin of a balloon and someone is inflating it toward the breaking point. — Anonymous

Being yourself is far more important than the style of handbag you choose to carry. — Lisa Robinson

You just have to do what suits you, and it doesn't matter if you don't look like everybody else. Be you. That's our gift and we've got to celebrate that. — Helena Bonham Carter

He (Tom Riley) gestured toward the canvases in the main room. "What are they, really? I mean, no bullshit. Because - I wouldn't say this to very many people - they remind me of the way life was inside my head when I wasn't taking my pills."
"They're just make-believe," I (Edgar) said. "Shadows."
"I know about shadows," he said. "You just want to be careful they don't grow teeth. Because they can. Then, sometimes when you reach for the light-switch to make them go away, you discover the power's out. — Stephen King

You deserve to be the woman that every other woman he ever meets gets compared to - not the other way around. — Melanie Shawn

As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you've allotted for vacation. — John Battelle

Perhaps the experience can give my writing a new dimension. Being actively engaged in the system which I criticize will be an interesting irony in itself. — John Kennedy Toole

Now that I have all the things I once thought would make me happy, they have little meaning for me. Experience, and not just a little heartache, has taught me money buys convenience and conveniences. — Oprah Winfrey

You talk about Steve Jobs when he came out with the iPhone, and everyone thought it was amazing: you touch it and move the screen. — Dana Brunetti

Monarchy is an outrage which even the blind of an entire people cannot justify ... all men hold from nature the secret mission to destroy wherever it my be found. No man can reign innocently. The folly is too evident. Every king is a rebel and a usurper. Do kings themselves treat otherwise those who seek to usurp their authority? — Louis Antoine De Saint-Just

You can blow into a balloon and watch it inflate, and then release it and see it deflate. You can take that same balloon and blow into it again, and observe it inflating. That's what my heart is doing in this moment, inflating and holding the air. — Candace Robinson