#metaphor

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

"...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."

"But what he didn't understand was that this dreamland was preferable,walking through this life half-sleeping,everything at arm's length or farther away. I understood those mermaids.I didn't care if they sang to me.All I wanted was to block out all the human voices as they called me name again and again,pulling me upward into light,to drown."

"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."

"The nail that sticks out farthest gets hammered the hardest."

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

"In short, philosophical theories are largely the product of the hidden hand of the cognitive unconscious."

"The well-being of a neuron depends on its ability to communicate with other neurons. Studies have shown that electrical and chemical stimulation from both a neuron's inputs and its targets support vital cellular processes. Neurons unable to connect effectively with other neurons atrophy. Useless, an abandoned neuron will die."

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

"The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do you know what I'm getting at? People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues....[But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings."

"Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act."

"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"

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

"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."

"They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet."

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

"Guilt is the toothache of the soul."

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

"Books are the mirrors of the soul."

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