Threads Of Life Quotes

• How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart, you begin to understand, there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep...that have taken hold.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Hurt, Taken, Heart

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• Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.

  Chief Seattle

  Life, Lonely, Nature

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• We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color.

  Maya Angelou

  Color, Kwanzaa, Common Threads

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• We don't accomplish anything in this world alone... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads form one to another that creates something.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Teamwork, Kwanzaa, Common Threads

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• Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.

  Simone Signoret

  Love, Anniversary, Marriage

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• Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Uplifting, Wisdom, Nature

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.66, Princeton University Press

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• Life and death are one thread,
  the same line viewed from different sides.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Sympathy, Death

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• But one had to go back to the beginning of things, always. Trace the thread of life - find the knot - untangle it.

  Martha Ostenso

  Knots, Thread

  Martha Ostenso (1929). “The Young May Moon”

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• Life and death are one thread.

  Laozi

  Life And Death, Thread, Different Sides

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• Although the threads of my life have often seemed knotted, I know, by faith, that on the other side of the embroidery there is a crown.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Corrie ten Boom (1974). “Tramp for the Lord: The Story that Begins Where The Hiding Place Ends”, p.12, CLC Publications

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• Each thread of life that you leave, will spin around your deeds and dictate your needs.

  Don McLean

  Needs, Deeds, Adages

  Song: Dreidel, Album: Don McLean

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• Women prevent the threads of life from being broken. The finest minds have always understood the peacemaking role of women.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Life, Peace, Broken

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• Brain surgeons are dealing with the very last thread of life, and they have to be very confident, but I think they tend to remember their failures rather than their successes, and that must be very hard. Who do you share that failure with? That's why their personal lives are often disastrous.

  James Nesbitt

  Thinking, Brain, Lasts

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• The things a man has heard and seen are threads of life, and if he pull them carefully from the confused distaff of memory, any who will can weave them into whatever garments of belief please them best. I too have woven my garment like another, but I shall try to keep warm in it, and shall be well content if it do not unbecome me.

  William Butler Yeats

  Memories, Confused, Men

  William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.222, Penguin

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• For Fate has wove the thread of life with pain,
  And twins ev'n from the birth are Misery and Man!

  Homer

  Life, Pain, Fate

  Homer (1806). “The Odyssey of Homer”, p.31

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• A soul that is ruined in the bud will frequently return to the springtime of its beginning and its promise-filled childhood, as though it could discover new hopes there and retie the broken threads of life. The shoots grow rapidly and eagerly, but it is only a sham life that will never be a genuine tree.

  Hermann Hesse

  Broken, Childhood, Tree

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Beneath the Wheel: A Novel”, p.132, Macmillan

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• I also wanted remembering the past relevant to the present. Some people wanted me to put the names in alphabetical order. I wanted them in chronological order so that a veteran could find his time within the panel. It's like a thread of life.

  Maya Lin

  Past, Order, Names

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