Have you ever looked at, say, a picture or a great building or read a paragraph in a book and felt the world suddenly expand and, in the same instant, contract and harden into a kernel of perfect purity? Do you know what I mean? Everything suddenly fits, everything's in its place. Carol Shields
About This Quote

You walk into a room and you see the beauty in the architecture. You see the pictures on the walls and you see the objects in the room. You see the beauty in everything around you. Suddenly, everything seems to be in its place because you are appreciating all of it. Your focus is completely on the things before you, your senses are open to everything around you, and everything is seen in its proper place.

Source: The Stone Diaries

Some Similar Quotes
  1. Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that you’ve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you say and actually want to hear more. You share hopes for... - Bob Marley
  2. As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once. - John Green
  3. I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you,... - Pablo Neruda
  4. Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. - Neil Gaiman
  5. There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment. - Sarah Dessen
More Quotes By Carol Shields
  1. Have you ever lost yourself in a kiss? I mean pure psychedelic inebriation. Not just lustful petting but transcendental metamorphosis when you became aware that the greatness of this being was breathing into you. Licking the sides and corners of your mouth, like sealing a...
  2. They say that I am a poet I wonder what they would say if they saw me from the inside I bottleemotions and place them into the sea for others to unbottle ondistant shores I am unsure as to whether they ever reach and forthat...
  3. We are unraveling our navels so that we may ingest the sun. We are not afraid of the darkness. We trust that the moon shall guide us. We are determining the future at this very moment. We know that the heart is the philosopher's stone....
  4. The wind is the moon's imagination wandering.
  5. She stuck a bookmark in my heart and walked away
Related Topics