Dust Quotes - Page 12

• Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.

  Bodhidharma

  Affliction, Shapes, Form

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.109, Macmillan

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• All religions enjoined worship of the One God who is all-pervasive. He is present even in a drop of water or in a tiny speck of dust.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Water, Tiny

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• All the dry ethics of the world turn to dust because apart from God they are lifeless.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, World, Dry

  Mahatma Gandhi (2011). “The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi”, p.8, North Atlantic Books

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• I would bend the knee before the poorest scavenger, the poorest untouchable in India for having participated in crushing him for centuries; I would even take the dust off his feet.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Crush, Feet, India

  Mahatma Gandhi (1931). “Young India”

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• The unparalleled extravagance of English rule has demented the rajas and the maharajas who, unmindful of consequences, ape it and grind their subjects to dust.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  India, Extravagance, Apes

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.153, Oxford University Press

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• Truth should so humble that even dust could crush it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Crush, Truth, Humble

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• Knowledge of the tallest scientist or the greatest spiritualist is like a particle of dust.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Knowledge, Scientist, Particles

  Mahatma Gandhi (1974). “Collected Works”

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• And I do further recommend to my fellow-citizens aforesaid, that on that occasion they do reverently humble themselves in the dust, and from thence offer up penitent and fervent prayers and supplications to the great Disposer of events for a return of the inestimable blessings of peace, union, and harmony throughout the land which it has pleased him to assign as a dwelling-place for ourselves and for our posterity throughout all generations.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Peace, Prayer, Humble

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.1403, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The surface of the moon is like nothing here on Earth! It's totally lacking any evidence of life. It has lots of fine, talcum-powderlike dust mixed with a complete variety of pebbles, rocks, and boulders. Many pebbles, fewer rocks, and even fewer boulders naturally make up its surface. The dust is a very fine, overall dark gray. And with no air molecules to separate the dust, it clings together like cement.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Dark, Moon, Rocks

  Scholastic Interview, teacher.scholastic.com. November 17, 1998.

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• It's weird making a drawing of painting. I start to realize that charcoal is this incredibly fragile material. I'm making images of paintings out of dust.

  Robert Longo

  Drawing, Painting, Realizing

  Interview with Keanu Reeves, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 4, 2014.

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• Anything that looks like an idea is probably just something that has accumulated, like dust. It looks like I have ideas because I do books that are all on the same subject. That is just because the pictures have piled up on that subject. Finally I realize that I am really interested in it. The pictures make me realize that I am interested in something.

  Lee Friedlander

  Photography, Book, Ideas

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• 'Yea and I beheld Sisyphus in strong torment, grasping a monstrous stone with both his hands. He was pressing thereat with hands and feet, and trying to roll the stone upward toward the brow of the hill. But oft as he was about to hurl it over the top, the weight would drive him back, so once again to the plain rolled the stone, the shameless thing. And he once more kept heaving and straining, and the sweat the while was pouring down his limbs, and the dust rose upwards from his head.

  Homer

  Sad, Strong, Hands

  Homer “The Odyssey of Homer: Several Versions”, Library of Alexandria

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• Whatever is a cruel wrong, Whatever is unjust, The honest years that speed along Will trample in the dust.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Hope, Years, Unjust

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.1069, Delphi Classics

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• I use the word "god" a lot, and I'm not sure if I know what I believe god is. I don't believe that when we die, that's it. It's almost like a logical faith. I logically don't believe that all this stuff [surrounding us] is generated from dust. But I'm also not like "Jesus Christ came down to save us." It's almost selfish to think that human beings, on this plane of reality, are the end of it.

  Blake Butler

  Jesus, Selfish, Believe

  "We don't realize what we're walking on half the time". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. October 16, 2014.

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• I have a couple of nice guitars that I use, but I don't have anything that I collect. I collect a lot of dust in my apartment, if that counts for anything.

  Chris Carmack

  Couple, Nice, Guitar

  "Nashville's Chris Carmack on The O.C. and the rules of the death row meal". Interview with Marah Eakin, tv.avclub.com. September 22, 2015.

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• If the suns come down, and the moons crumble into dust, and systems after systems are hurled into annihilation, what is that to you? Stand as a rock; you are indestructible. You are the Self, the God of the universe. Say - "I am Existence Absolute, Bliss Absolute, Knowledge Absolute, I am He," and like a lion breaking its cage, break your chain and be free forever. What frightens you, what holds you down? Only ignorance and delusion; nothing else can bind you. You are the Pure One, the Ever-blessed.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Blessed, Ignorance

  Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Jnana Yoga”, p.118, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I am one of the proudest men ever born, but let me tell you frankly, it is not for myself, but on account of my ancestry. The more I have studied the past, the more I have looked back, more and more has this pride come to me, and it has given me the strength and courage of conviction, raised me up from the dust of the earth, and set me working out that great plan laid out by those great ancestors of ours.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Pride, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”, p.266, Advaita Ashrama

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• If any dust of imperfection cling to your heart, be not troubled, but consume it immediately in the fire of divine love, and, sorrowfully asking forgiveness, continue to live in peace.

  Paul of the Cross

  Forgiveness, Heart, Fire

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• Borges was unapologetically smart and equally sentimental; a proto-geek, blind to distinctions between low pulp fiction and high criticism, experimental but never arch, and always playful, with a humor as dry as dust.

  John Hodgman

  Smart, Criticism, Dry

  "The Exchange: John Hodgman". Interview with Thessaly La Force, www.newyorker.com. November 11, 2008.

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• ...Which brings me to the Hubble Space Telescope's newest images. If it's wonder that you're looking for, and mystery, don't just scan the photographs. Stop and think about them. Try to imagine the scale. The Earth is just a speck of dust on one distant whirling tentacle of the Milky Way galaxy, which contains billions of stars. A 'collision' of galaxies seems unimaginably large - and yet it is something scientists long ago imagined... The imaginings of pseudoscience are feeble by comparison.

  Mark Bowden

  Stars, Thinking, Space

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• To be forgotten is to sleep in peace with the undisturbed myriads, no longer subject to the chills and heats, the blasts, the sleet, the dust, which assail in endless succession that shadow of a man which we call his reputation.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Failure, Sleep, Men

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• By speech first, but far more by writing, man has been able to put something of himself beyond death. In tradition and in books an integral part of the individual persists, for it can influence the minds and actions of other people in different places and at different times: a row of black marks on a page can move a man to tears, though the bones of him that wrote it are long ago crumbled to dust.

  Julian Huxley

  Moving, Book, Writing

  "The Individual in the Animal Kingdom" by Julian Huxley (1912) as quoted in Connie Barlow "From Gaia to Selfish Genes: Selected Writings in the Life Sciences", 1991.

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• How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, how complicate, how wonderful is man! Distinguished link in being's endless chain! Midway from nothing to the Deity! Dim miniature of greatness absolute! An heir of glory! A frail child of dust! Helpless immortal! Insect infinite! A worm! A God!

  Edward Young

  Children, Greatness, Men

  John Milton, Edward Young, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, William Collins (1836). “The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins”

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• I would rather be ashes than dust.

  Jack London

  Ashes

  Quoted in Bulletin (San Francisco), 2 Dec. 1916.

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• Tragedy blows through your life like a tornado, uprooting everything, creating chaos. You wait for the dust to settle, and then you choose. You can live in the wreckage and pretend it's still the mansion you remember. Or you can crawl from the rubble and slowly rebuild. Because after disaster strikes, the important thing is that you move on. But if you're like me, you just keep chasing the storm.

  Rob Thomas

  Life, Moving, Blow

  Rob Thomas (2007). “Neptune Noir: Unauthorized Investigations into Veronica Mars”, p.46, BenBella Books, Inc.

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