regains

‘Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.’

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

fervor

‘The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded.’

- Douglas MacArthur

with

‘What kind of fool puts two ‘n’ two together, and comes up with the world as it seems?’

- Dave Graney

gently

‘On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light’

- Freya Stark

spaces

‘Here’s to the wind blowing against this lighted house; and to the vast, windless spaces between the stars.’

- William Collins

noiseless

‘Rays from the sunrise drew forth the buds and stretched them into long stalks, lifted up sap in noiseless streams, opened petals, and sucked out scents in invisible jets and breathings.’

- Thomas Hardy

into

‘Once I knew only darkness and stillness…my life was without past or future…but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.’

- Helen Keller

beams

‘I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.’

- Abraham Cowley

cast

‘Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.’

- Jacob Bronowski

oceans

‘In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans’

- Kahlil Gibran