Beads Quotes

• Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue. . . .

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Happiness, Dream

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.473, Library of America

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• We are all beads strung together on the same thread of love.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Together, Thread

  Twitter post from Feb 12, 2016

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• The most important thing I can tell you about aging is this: If you really feel that you want to have an off-the-shoulder blouse and some big beads and thong sandals and a dirndl skirt and a magnolia in your hair, do it. Even if you're wrinkled.

  Maya Angelou

  Hair, Important, Want

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• Love is our true essence. Love has no limitations of caste, religion, race, or nationality. We are all beads strung together on the same thread of love. To awaken this unity-and to spread to others the love that is our inherent nature-is the true goal of human life.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Inspirational, Love Is, Race

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• Friendship, awareness, happiness, all of the arts of the good life, are brilliant beads strung on the golden cord of love.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Art, Good Life, Golden

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• I belong to no race nor time. I am the eternal feminine with its string of beads.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Race, Feminine, Strings

  Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.155, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• On the motionless branches of some trees, autumn berries hung like clusters of coral beads, as in those fabled orchards where the fruits were jewels . . .

  Charles Dickens

  Nature, Autumn, Jewels

  Charles Dickens (1867). “The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit”, p.5

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• Every seam, every lace, every bead has been painstakingly, with love, corrected, perfected and mastered.

  Zac Posen

  Lace, Has Beens

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• The painful things seemed like knots on a beautiful necklace, necessary for keeping the beads in place.

  Anita Diament

  Beautiful, Necklaces, Painful

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• Meditation doesn't have to be complicated. What I do is about as simple as you can get. You could just count the beads, one, two, three, with your eyes closed or open, whatever makes you happy.

  Lou Reed

  Eye, Simple, Two

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Day is like day as two beads in a rosary, unless changes of weather form the only variety.

  Henryk Sienkiewicz

  Weather, Two, Rosary

  Henryk Sienkiewicz (1898). “Sielanka: A Forest Picture, and Other Stories”

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• It's such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string — when one slips off, all the rest follow.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Hero, Finance, Strings

  "The League of Youth and Pillars of Society".

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• It is just an illusion here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone, it is gone forever.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Forever, Slaughterhouse Five, Gone

  Harold Bloom, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (2009). “Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five”, p.9, Infobase Publishing

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• The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.

  Hermann Hesse

  Book, Ideas, Taught

  Hermann Hesse (2002). “The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel”, p.83, Macmillan

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• I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten, - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.

  Brenda Ueland

  Children, Writing, Creativity

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• How many times do I love, again?
  Tell me how many beads there are
  In a silver chain
  Of evening rain
  Unravelled from the trembling main
  And threading the eye of a yellow star:-
  So many times do I love again.

  Thomas Lovell Beddoes

  Love, Life, Valentines Day

  Thomas Lovell Beddoes, “Song From Torrismond”

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• When I was a kid, I was trendier. I'd wear anything. I was in love beads and platforms...

  Michael Kors

  Kids, Platforms

  Interview with Lauren Hutton, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 20, 2011.

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• The hooded clouds, like friars, Tell their beads in drops of rain.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Rain, Clouds, Friars

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.6

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• Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Snakes, Crow, Enemy

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• I envy them, those monks of old; Their books they read, and their beads they told.

  George Payne Rainsford James

  Book, Envy, Monk

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• It is the mass dream of inverted self, populous with fears overt and secret, that forms the continuous but gossamer thread upon which are strung as phantom beads all civilizations from the remotest past of record to that of the present day and hour.

  Louis Sullivan

  Dream, Past, Self

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• Never believe that true prayer consists in mere babbling, reciting so many psalms and vigils, saying your beads while you allow your thoughts to roam.

  Johannes Tauler

  Prayer, Believe, Psalms

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• When holy and devout religious men are at their beads, 'tis hard to draw them thence; so sweet is zealous contemplation.

  William Shakespeare

  Religious, Sweet, Men

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edward Capell, Alexander Pope, George Steevens (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.142

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• Instead of kids just hearing about beads and baskets and fringe, and about what 'was' and 'were,' we present Native American culture as a living contemporary culture.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Native American, Kids, Usa

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• She was beautiful in combat. I know that’s a crazy thing to say, especially after we’d just climbed a sewage waterfall, but her gray eyes sparkled when she was fighting for her life. Her face shone like a goddess’s, and believe me, I’ve seen goddesses. The way her Camp Half-Blood beads rested against her throat—Okay, sorry. Got a little distracted.

  Rick Riordan

  Beautiful, Sorry, Crazy

  Rick Riordan (2012). “The Demigod Diaries (Heroes of Olympus)”, p.75, Penguin UK

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