#metaphor

"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."

"...I sense that stepping into the light is also a powerful metaphor for consciousness, for the birth of the knowing mind, for the simple and yet momentous coming of the sense of self into the world of the mental."

"The sunset produces flower clouds in a garden in the sky, and while there is still light you can see a heavenly representation of my love for you.The sunrise produces rays that light up the world like your eyes do when you're with me. They shimmer and I can see the stars in your eyes that gleam from your soul.-Jarod Kintz and Karen Quan"

"The common man prays, 'I want a cookie right now!' And God responds, 'If you'd listen to what I say, tomorrow it will bring you 100 cookies."

"Let me just pause a minute and drink in this moment. And if you film it, I’ll be able to get free refills for life."

"I'm oxygen and he's dying to breathe."

"The mind is a metaphor of the world of objects."

"Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar"

"Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull."

"Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely."

"Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come."

"She had eyes like sunsets, and every time she blinked it felt like the end of the world, otherwise known as night."

"Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along."

"People say that eyes are windows to the soul."

"Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half contends that they are not facts at all. As a result we have people who consider themselves believers because they accept metaphors as facts, and we have others who classify themselves as atheists because they think religious metaphors are lies."

"She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong."

"Geography is the key, the crucial accident of birth. A piece of protein could be a snail, a sea lion, or a systems analyst, but it had to start somewhere. This is not science; it is merely metaphor. And the landscape in which the protein "starts"shapes its end as surely as bowls shape water."

"Books are the mirrors of the soul."

"Hope is the crystal meth of emotions. It hooks you fast and kills you hard."

"Guilt is the toothache of the soul."