Embrace
To fasten on, as armor.
To clasp in the arms with affection; to take in the arms; to hug.
To cling to; to cherish; to love.
To seize eagerly, or with alacrity; to accept with cordiality; to welcome.
To encircle; to encompass; to inclose.
To include as parts of a whole; to comprehend; to take in; as, natural philosophy embraces many sciences.
To accept; to undergo; to submit to.
To attempt to influence corruptly, as a jury or court.
To join in an embrace.
Intimate or close encircling with the arms; pressure to the bosom; clasp; hug.
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Embrace Quotations
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
Albert Einstein
Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
William Shakespeare
Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.
Khalil Gibran
Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.
Lao Tzu
The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
Marcus Aurelius
It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.
Alan Cohen
The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
Henry Ellis
Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted.
Erich Fromm
The earth has received the embrace of the sun and we shall see the results of that love.
Sitting Bull
Embrace Translations
embrace in Danish is omfavne
embrace in Dutch is omhelzen, omarmen
embrace in French is embrassement, embrasser, embrassons, embrassent
embrace in German is umarmen, umarmen, umarme
embrace in Italian is abbracciare
embrace in Latin is complectus, complexo
embrace in Norwegian is omfavne
embrace in Portuguese is abranger
embrace in Spanish is abrazar
embrace in Swedish is omfatta, omfamning, krama, omfamna, famna
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