Dust Quotes - Page 40

• Closing cycles. Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because that no longer fits your life. Shut the door, change the record, clean the house, shake off the dust. Stop being who you were, and change into who you are.

  Paulo Coelho

  Pride, Doors, House

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• There is dust enough on some of your Bibles to write 'damnation' with your fingers.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Writing, Damnation, Enough

  Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.1231, Barbour Publishing

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• I looked a hundred times and all I saw was dust. The sun broke through and flecks of gold filled the air.

  Mark Nepo

  Air, Gold, Saws

  Mark Nepo (2011). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)”, p.204, Conari Press

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• The physical body is acknowledged as dust, the personal drama as delusion. It is as if the world we perceive through our senses, the whole gorgeous and terrible pageant, were the breath-thin surface of a bubble, and everything else, inside and outside, is pure radiance. Both suffering and joy come then like a brief reflection, and death like a pin.

  Stephen Mitchell

  Drama, Reflection, Joy

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• Everybody stumbles across a golden opportunity at least once in a lifetime. Unfortunately most people just pick themselves up, dust themselves down, and walk away from it.

  Winston Churchill

  Opportunity, People, Once In A Lifetime

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• I am amazed at the seeker of purity
  When time for polishing comes
  Complaints of harsh treatment
  Love is a lawsuit
  Without evidence, you will not win
  My son, when one beats the rug The beating is not intended against the rug
  But against the dust inside the rug
  My son, that harsh treatment
  Is not intended against you
  But against the ill qualities inside you

  Rumi

  Son, Love Is, Winning

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• The world is a better place to live in because it contains human beings who will give up ease and security in order to do what they themselves think worth doing. They do the useless, brave, noble, divinely foolish, and the very wisest things that are done by Man. And what they prove to themselves and to others is that Man is no mere creature of his habits, no automaton in his routine, but that in the dust of which he is made there is also fire, lighted now and then by great winds from the sky.

  Walter Lippmann

  Giving Up, Men, Thinking

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• People say to us how brave we are, fighting the wilderness, braving the isolation of the Outback. But these are easy opponents, compared with drought. To watch your land shrivel and die, year in and year out, to see beautiful fields turn to dust bowls, to watch your animals starve and die. To suffer all this, only to be then washed away in a flood, your home and your family treasures lost and destroyed. And then to pick up the pieces and start again. The farmers of the South are brave!

  Sara Henderson

  Beautiful, Home, Fighting

  Sara Henderson (2013). “From Strength to Strength”, p.321, Pan

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• Insects influenced the shape of the Australian house. Some, like the white ant and lthe Lyctus borer, worked quietly and invisibly until a little shower of yellow dust or a sudden collapse indicated their presence. Others, like the mosquito and housefly, were less dangerous and more objectionable. The former type influenced structure in minor ways; the latter affected planning to a major degree.

  Robin Boyd

  Yellow, White, House

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• And all poets love dust and mist because all the last answers. Go running back to dust and mist.

  Carl Sandburg

  Running, Poetry, Answers

  Carl Sandburg, Frances Schoonmaker Bolin (1995). “Carl Sandburg”, p.12, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• A measure of victory has been won, and honors have been bestowed in token thereof. But honours fade or are forgotten, and monuments crumble into dust. It is the battle itself that matters - and the battle must go on.

  Elizabeth Kenny

  Community, Honor, Victory

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• Man worships because God lays His hand to the dust of our experience, and man miraculously becomes a living soul - and knows it and wants to worship.

  Douglas Horton

  Men, Hands, Soul

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• Your hands are not made to type out memos. Or put paper through fax machines. Or hold a phone up while you talk to people you dislike. 100 years from now your hands will rot like dust in your grave. You have to make wonderful use of those hands now. Kiss your hands so they can make magic.

  James Altucher

  Kissing, Hands, Years

  "10 Reasons Why You Have To Quit Your Job This Year" by James Altucher, www.businessinsider.com. May 10, 2013.

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• Give me some mud off a city crossing, some ochre out of a gravel pit and a little whitening and some coal dust and I will paint you a luminous picture if you give me time to gradate my mud and subdue my dust.

  John Ruskin

  Cities, Giving, Coal

  John Ruskin (2012). “The Elements of Drawing”, p.149, Courier Corporation

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• All actions without love are just like dust in the air.

  Habib Umar bin Hafiz

  Air, Action, Without Love

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• There is not one piece of cosmic dust that is outside the scope of God's sovereign providence.

  R. C. Sproul

  Pieces, Sovereign, One Piece

  Twitter post from Aug 17, 2016

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• I'm covered with loser dust.

  Courtney Love

  Loss, Loser, Covered

  "American Morning" with Soledad O'Brien, www.cnn.com. April 21, 2004.

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• If you want to correct your brother when he is doing wrong? you must keep yourself calm; otherwise you yourself may catch the sickness you are seeking to cure and you may find that the words of the Gospel now apply to you? 'Why do you look at the speck of dust in your brother's eye, and not notice the rafter in your own eye?'

  John Cassian

  Christian, Brother, Eye

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• Technologies of easy travel give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel! Transition being so facile, what can be any man's inducement to tarry in one spot?

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Travel, Technology, Men

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• I went down to Houston and I stopped in San 'Antone, I passed up the station for the bus. I was trying to find me something, but I wasn't sure just what... man, I ended up with pockets full of dust.

  Ryan Adams

  Travel, Men, Trying

  Song: Oh My Sweet Carolina, Album: Heartbreaker, 2000

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• The magical dust of Christmas glittered on the cheeks of humanity ever so briefly, reminding us of what is worth having and what we were intended to be.

  Max Lucado

  Humanity, Cheeks, Reminding

  Max Lucado (2011). “One Incredible Savior: Celebrating the Majesty of the Manger”, p.68, Harper Collins

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• I loved my motherland dearly before I went to America and England.
  After my return, every particle of dust of this land seems sacred to me.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Land, America

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• Most of the things we spend our lives chasing will turn to dust in the end.

  LeCrae

  Ends, Chasing, Turns

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• Run down the list of those who felt intense anger at something: the most famous, the most unfortunate, the most hated, the most whatever: Where is all that now? Smoke, dust, legend...or not even a legend. Think of all the examples. And how trivial the things we want so passionately are.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Running, Thinking, Example

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• I am perfectly convinced that whatever the gospels are they are not legends. I have read a great deal of legend and I am quite clear they are not that sort of thing....Christ bent down and scribbled in the dust with His finger. Nothing comes of this. No one has based any doctrine on it. And the act of inventing little irrelevant details to make an imaginary scene more convincing is purely a modern art.

  C. S. Lewis

  Art, Details, Doctrine

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