Gems Quotes

• Let us carve gems out of our stony hearts and let them light our path to love.

  Rumi

  Heart, Light, Path

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• Gems, in fact, are a species of mineral flowers; they are the blossoms of the dark, hard mine; and what they want in perfume, they make up in durability.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Flower, Dark, Rocks

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.630, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.

  George Eliot

  Jewels, Color, Jewelry

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.2657, ShandonPress

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• There are little gems all around us that can hold glimmers of inspiration.

  Richelle Mead

  Inspiration, Littles

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• The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• Improve your spare moments and they will become the brightest gems in your life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Jewels, Jewelry, Moments

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• Good listeners, like precious gems, are to be treasured.

  Walter Anderson

  Eulogy, Listening, Good Listener

  Walter Anderson (1986). “Courage is a three-letter word”, Random House Inc

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• Sometimes the darkest challenges, the most difficult lessons, hold the greatest gems of light.

  Barbara Marciniak

  Light, Challenges, Lessons

  Barbara Marciniak (1998). “Family of Light: Pleiadian Tales and Lessons in Living”, p.17, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

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• I adore wearing gems, but not because they are mine. You can't possess radiance, you can only admire it.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Fashion, Sunglasses, Radiance

  Twitter post from May 01, 2013

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• Each moment you are alive is a gem. It needs you to breathe gently for the miracles to be displayed.

  Nhat Hanh

  Inspirational Life, Miracle, Needs

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2009). “Happiness (EasyRead Edition)”, p.184, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The pearl is the queen of gems and the gem of queens.

  Grace Kelly

  Queens, Jewels, Pearls

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• Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Time

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  Don't be a hard rock when you really are a gem!

  Lauryn Hill

  Encouraging, Witty, Rocks

  Song: DOO WOP THAT THING Album 'The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hi, Album: The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

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• Gem of all joy, jasper of jocundity.

  William Dunbar

  Joy

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• There are gems of wondrous brightness
  Ofttimes lying at our feet,
  And we pass them, walking thoughtless,
  Down the busy, crowded street.
  If we knew, our pace would slacken,
  We would step more oft with care,
  Lest our careless feet be treading
  To the earth some jewel rare.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Lying, Knowledge, Jewels

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• Precious gems are profoundly buried in the earth and can only be extracted at the expense of great labor.

  Anandamayi Ma

  Earth, Buried, Expenses

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• The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.

  Leonard Cohen

  Writing, Cutting, Shining

  Leonard Cohen (2014). “Leonard Cohen on Leonard Cohen”, p.355, Omnibus Press

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• There is in them a softer fire than the ruby, there is the brilliant purple of the amethyst, and the sea green of the emerald - all shining together in incredible union. Some by their splendor rival the colors of the painters, others the flame of burning sulphur or of fire quickened by oil.

  Pliny the Elder

  Sea, Purple, Oil

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• True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision. That new, that personal, vision is attained only by looking long enough at the object represented to make it the writer's own; and the mind which would bring this secret gem to fruition must be able to nourish it with an accumulated wealth of knowledge and experience.

  Edith Wharton

  Wealth Of Knowledge, Long, Mind

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• Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

  Confucius

  Life, Success, Mistake

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• From myself I am copper, through you, friend, I am gold. From myself I’m a stone, but through you, I am a gem!

  Rumi

  Gold, Stones, Copper

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• Rich and various gems inlay The unadorned bosom of the deep.

  John Milton

  Ocean, Rich, Various

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1826). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors”, p.254

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• Jewelry takes people's minds off your wrinkles.

  Sonja Henie

  Wrinkles, Jewels, People

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

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• Some gems for the greatest of them all

  Muhammad Ali

  Boxing

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• There is another language beyond language,
  another place beyond heaven and hell.
  Precious gems come from another mine,
  the heart draws light from another source.

  Rumi

  Heart, Light, Heaven

  Rumi (2012). “Rumi's Little Book of Life: The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit”, p.183, Hampton Roads Publishing

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