Dwelling Quotes - Page 3

• In dwelling, be close to the land. In meditation, go deep in the heart.

  Laozi

  Heart, Land, Meditation

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• What a loving God we serve! Not only has He prepared a heavenly dwelling for us, but His angels also accompany us as we transition from this world to the next.

  David Jeremiah

  Angel, Accompany Us, Transition

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• When you first start to practice positive thinking, tell no one, go to it realistically, stop dwelling on your difficulties, your sorrows. Radiate the happiness you reall want in your life.

  Albert E Cliffe

  Positive, Thinking, Practice

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• I think our lives are surely but the dreams
  Of spirits, dwelling in the distant spheres,
  Who as we die, do one by one awake.

  Edgar Saltus

  Dream, Thinking, Spheres

  Edgar Saltus (1906). “Vanity Square: A Story of Fifth Avenue Life”

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• The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient.

  Tacitus

  Race, Tree, Grove

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• The .350 hitter expects, and also deserves, a big payoff for his performance - even if he plays for a cellar-dwelling team. And a .150 hitter should get no reward - even if he plays for a pennant winner.

  Warren Buffett

  Team, Play, Rewards

  Lawrence A. Cunningham, Warren E. Buffett (2013). “The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America (Third Edition)”, p.49, Carolina Academic Press

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• "The fool, dwelling on the bank of the Ganga, digs a well for water!" Such are we! Living in the midst of God - we must go and make images.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Water, Fool, Midst

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3603, Manonmani Publishers

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• May all the stars hang bright above her dwelling, Silent as though they watched the sleeping earth!

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Stars, Sleep, Earth

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Illustrated)”, p.439, Delphi Classics

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• Clay is fashioned into vessels; it is on their empty hollowness that their use depends. Doors and windows are cut out to make a dwelling, and on the empty space within, its use depends. Thus, while the existence of things may be good, it is the non-existence in them that makes them serviceable.

  Laozi

  Cutting, Space, Doors

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• The disembodied soul does not part with Nature when it leaves the earth; life but, rather, it rises to a plane of Nature which is fuller, richer and sweeter in every way than the best of which the earth dwelling soul dreams. The dross of materiality burned away by the astral vibrations, the soul blossoms and bears spiritual fruit in the new life.

  William Walker Atkinson

  Dream, Spiritual, Earth Life

  Yogi Ramacharaka, William Walker Atkinson “The Spiritual Writings”, Jazzybee Verlag

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• If I could live in a tiny dwelling on a rock in the ocean, surrounded by the waves of the sea and cut off from the sight and sound of everything else, I would still not be free of the cares of this passing world, or from the fear that somehow the love of money might still come and snatch me away.

  Cuthbert

  Ocean, Cutting, Sea

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• Lord Jesus, Who in the Eucharist make your dwelling among us and become our traveling companion, sustain our Christian communities so that they may be ever more open to listening and accepting your Word. May they draw from the Eucharist a renewed commitment to spreading in society, by the proclamation of your Gospel, the signs and deeds of an attentive and active charity

  Pope John Paul II

  Christian, Jesus, Commitment

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• Whether he is aware of it or not, every human being dwells in tradition and history. Human memory is this constant dwelling in tradition. It constitutes that fundamental human characteristic of historicity.

  Medard Boss

  Memories, Fundamentals, Tradition

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• We are sad at home and blame the weather and the ugliness of the buildings, but on the tropical island we learn that the state of the skies and the appearance of our dwellings can never on their own underwrite our joy nor condemn us to misery.

  Alain de Botton

  Home, Islands, Sky

  "On anticipation". www.theguardian.com. May 21, 2002.

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  By the anxieties and worries of this life Satan tries to dull man's heart and make a dwelling for himself there.

  Francis of Assisi

  Heart, Men, Worry

  Saint Francis (of Assisi) (1964). “Writings”

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• Zen is really just a reminder to stay alive and to be awake. We tend to daydream all the time, speculating about the future and dwelling on the past. Zen practice is about appreciating your life in this moment. If you are truly aware of five minutes a day, then you are doing pretty well. We are beset by both the future and the past, and there is no reality apart from the here and now.

  Peter Matthiessen

  Past, Reality, Practice

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• Then to Silvia let us sing that Silvia is excelling. She excels each mortal thing upon the dull earth dwelling.

  William Shakespeare

  Excellence, Earth, Dull

  'The Two Gentlemen Of Verona' (1592-3) act 4, sc. 2, l. 40

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• Lord, this humble house we'd keep Sweet with play and calm with sleep. Help us so that we may give Beauty to the lives we live. Let Thy love and let Thy grace Shine upon our dwelling place.

  Edgar Guest

  Family, Sweet, Sleep

  Edgar Albert Guest, “Prayer For The Home”

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• To Mercy Pity Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness. For Mercy Pity Peace and Love Is God our father dear. And Mercy Pity Peace and Love Is Man his child and care. Then every man of every clime That prays in his distress Prays to the human form divine: Love Mercy Pity Peace. And all must love the human form In heathen, Turk, or Jew. Where Mercy, Love and Pity dwell There God is dwelling too.

  William Blake

  Love, Peace, Children

  William Blake (2017). “Songs of Innocence and Experience”, p.17, BookRix

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• Holiness of heart and life. This is not the perfection of the human nature, but the holiness of the divine nature dwelling within.

  A. B. Simpson

  Heart, Perfection, Holiness

  A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers

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• The public realm in America has two roles: it is the dwelling place of our civilization and our civic life, and it is the physical manifestation of the common good. When you degrade the public realm, you will automatically degrade the quality of your civic life and the character of all the enactments of your public life and communal life that take place there.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Character, Dwelling Place, Civilization

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• There is none dwelling in the house but God. When a man is awakened he melts and perishes.

  Rumi

  Men, House, Awakening

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• It is a sultry day; the sun has drunk
  The dew that lay upon the morning grass;
  There is no rustling in the lofty elm
  That canopies my dwelling, and its shade
  Scarce cools me. All is silent, save the faint
  And interrupted murmur of the bee,
  Settling on the sick flowers,
  And then again Instantly on the wing.

  William C. Bryant

  Summer, Morning, Flower

  William Cullen Bryant, “Summer Wind”

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• In the sacred precinct of that dwelling where the despotic woman wields the sceptre of fierce neatness, one treads as if he carried his life in his hands.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Life, Women, Hands

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.160

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• The sage acts without taking credit. He accomplishes without dwelling on it. He does not want to display his worth.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Doe, Credit

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