All Things Quotes - Page 20

• The light, the sky, the water, they were all things you looked *through* during the day. At night, they were things you looked *into*. You looked *into* the stars, you looked *into* dark rollers and the surprising platinum flash of their caps.

  Adam Johnson

  Stars, Dark, Night

  Adam Johnson (2012). “The Orphan Master's Son”, p.41, Random House

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• Above all things physical, it is more important to be beautiful on the inside - to have a big hear and an open mind and a spectacular spleen.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Beautiful, Attitude, Inner Beauty

  Ellen DeGeneres (2011). “Seriously ... I'm Kidding”, p.8, HarperCollins Australia

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• The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend a personal God and avoid dogmas and theology. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity. Buddhism answers this description.

  Albert Einstein

  Meaningful, Spiritual, Religious

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• All things are so very uncertain, and that's exactly what makes me feel reassured.

  Tove Jansson

  Uncertain, Feels

  Tove Jansson (2014). “Moominland Midwinter”, p.19, Macmillan

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• I stand in Minas Anor, the Tower of the Sun; and behold! the Shadow has departed! I will be a Shieldmaiden no longer, nor vie with the great Riders, nor take joy only in the songs of slaying. I will be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Song, Joy, Departed

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.153, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I saw and heard, and knew at last The How and Why of all things, past, and present, and forevermore.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Past, Lasts, Saws

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.117, eBookIt.com

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• Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed; for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess.

  Rene Descartes

  Men, Thinking, Desire

  Rene Descartes (2008). “Discourse on the Method and the Meditations”, p.11, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Mortality is a school of suffering and trials. We are here that we may be educated in a school of suffering and of fiery trials, which school was necessary for Jesus, our Elder Brother, who, the scriptures tell us, ‘was made perfect through suffering.’ It is necessary that we suffer in all things, that we may be qualified and worthy to rule, and govern all things, even as our Father in Heaven and His eldest son, Jesus.

  Lorenzo Snow

  Jesus, Brother, Father

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• The theme of the diary is always the personal, but it does not mean only a personal story: it means a personal relationship to all things and people. The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic; I never generalize, intellectualise. I see, I hear, I feel. These are my primitive elements of discovery. Music, dance, poetry and painting are the channels for emotion. It is through them that experience penetrates our bloodstream.

  Anais Nin

  Mean, Discovery, People

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• That which is alive hath known death, and that which is dead can never die, for in the Circle of the Spirit life is naught and death is naught. Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.

  H. Rider Haggard

  Sleep, Circles, Forever

  H. Rider Haggard (1999). “She”, p.102, Regnery Gateway

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• Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.

  H. Rider Haggard

  Sleep, Forever, Forgotten

  H. Rider Haggard (1999). “She”, p.102, Regnery Gateway

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• I always loved twilight: it was the only time of day I had the feeling that something important could happen. All things were more beautiful bathed in twilight, all streets, all squares, and all the people walking through them; I even had the feeling that I was a handsome young man, and I liked looking at myself in the mirror, watching myself in the shop windows as I strode along, and even when I touched my face, I felt no wrinkles at my mouth or forehead.

  Bohumil Hrabal

  Beautiful, Twilight, Men

  Bohumil Hrabal (1992). “Too Loud a Solitude”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In the end there is nothing to be done but to state clearly what has been done, without shame or regret, and say: Here I am, and this is what I am. Now deal with me as you see fit. That is your right. Mine is to stand by the act, and pay the price. You do what you must do, and pay for it. So in the end all things are simple.

  Ellis Peters

  Regret, Simple, Here I Am

  Ellis Peters (2016). “Brother Cadfael: The Complete Chronicles”, p.3605, Head of Zeus Ltd

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• The difference between a simpleton and an intelligent man, according to the man who is convinced that he is of the latter category, is that the former wholeheartedly accepts all things that he sees and hears while the latter never admits anything except after a most searching scrutiny. He imagines his intelligence to be a sieve of closely woven mesh through which nothing but the finest can pass. 

  R.K. Narayan

  Intelligent, Men, Differences

  R. K. Narayan (1988). “A Writer's Nightmare: Selected Essays, 1958-1988”, p.87, Penguin Books India

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• In the Kamigata area, they have a sort of tiered lunchbox they use for a single day when flower viewing. Upon returning, they throw them away, trampling them underfoot. The end is important in all things.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  Flower, Important, Use

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo (2006). “Hagakure: Selections: Or, the Way of the Samurai”, p.38, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• God arranges everything for us, so that we need have no more fear or trouble and may be quite sure that all things will come right in the end.

  Johanna Spyri

  Needs, May, Trouble

  Johanna Spyri (1993). “Heidi Dievčatko Z Hôr”, p.200, Wordsworth Editions

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• We never choose anything at all. Things happen. Or not.

  Haruki Murakami

  Happens, Things Happen

  Haruki Murakami (1994). “The Elephant Vanishes”, Vintage

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• All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings.

  Denis Diderot

  Feelings, Exception, Regard

  Stephen J. Gendzier, Denis Diderot (1967). “Denis Diderot's The Encyclopedia: selections ; edited and translated by Stephen J. Genzier”

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• All things happen for a purpose.

  James Dashner

  Purpose, Happens, Things Happen

  James Dashner (2014). “The Maze Runner Trilogy”, p.300, Scholastic UK

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• In all His acts God orders all things, whether good or evil, for the good of those who know Him and seek Him and who strive to bring their own freedom under obedience to His divine purpose. All that is done by the will of God in secret is done for His glory and for the good of those whom He has chosen to share in His glory.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Order, Evil

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.55, Shambhala Publications

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• I am your forest, your earth, your eternity. I am your life. I am your death. I am all things forever and always. Love me. Love me. Forever love me.

  Brom

  Forever, Earth, Forests

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• Today I know that all things are watching, that nothing goes unseen, that even wallpaper has a better memory than human beings.

  Gunter Grass

  Memories, Unseen, Today

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• You are the woman of my heart. The one I have been awaiting the whole of my life, though I didn't know it until I spied you. there isn't one thing that makes you special to me, but all things.

  Gena Showalter

  Heart, Special, Whole

  Gena Showalter (2012). “The Nymph King”, p.124, Harlequin

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• Living without expectations is hard but, when you can do it, good. Living without hope is harder, and that is bad. You have got to have hope, and you must'nt shirk it. Love, after all, hopeth all things. But maybe you must learn, and it is hard learning, not to hope out loud, especially for other people. You must not let your hope turn into expectation.

  Wendell Berry

  People, Expectations, Loud

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• All things are strange which are worth knowing.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Knowing, Strange

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