I'm fascinated by the fact that we can't grasp anything about time.
True adulthood occurs the moment we grasp that the people who raised us do not exist solely for our comfort and reassurance. From that point on, the steady stream of unconditional love and support we've expected from them all our lives has to flow both ways.
I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
Even the revolutionary writer will err if he fails to grasp the enormous effectiveness of occasional understatement.
The weakness in traditional Scottish nationalism lay in its own inability to grasp that identity could not be the only factor in the march to independence.
Wonder is that possession of the mind that enchants the emotions while never surrendering reason. It is a grasp on reality that does not need constant high points in order to be maintained, nor is it made vulnerable by the low points of life's struggle.
