Mosaics Quotes

• We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

  Jimmy Carter

  Beautiful, Dream, America

  Speech, Pittsburgh, Pa., 27 Oct. 1976

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• There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.

  Anais Nin

  Life, Time, Illumination

  Diary entries, 1943.

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• One should make one's life a mosaic. Let the general design be good, the colors lively, and the materials diversified.

  Marthe Bibesco

  Life, Color, Design

  Marthe Bibesco (1928). “Catherine-Paris”

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• Our lives are unique stones in the mosaic of human existence -- priceless and irreplaceable.

  Henri Nouwen

  Unique, Stones, Priceless

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• We are not here to fit in...we are here to be eccentric, different, perhaps strange, perhaps merely to add our small piece, our little clunky, chunky selves, to the great mosaic of being...we are here to become more and more ourselves.

  James Hollis

  Self, Different, Add

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• None of us is alone in this world; each of us is a vital piece of the great mosaic of humanity as a whole.

  Pope John Paul II

  Humanity, Pieces, World

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  I always feel the movement is a sort of mosaic. Each of us puts in one little stone, and then you get a great mosaic at the end.

  Alice Paul

  Women, Movement, Stones

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• As I look back upon my life, I see that every part of it was a preparation for the next. The most trivial of incidents fits into the larger pattern like a mosaic in a preconceived design.

  Margaret Sanger

  Life, Design, Preparation

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• I am but a small shard in a grand mosaic.

  Fred Crane

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• For ages happiness has been represented as a huge precious stone, impossible to find, which people seek for hopelessly. It is not so; happiness is a mosaic, composed of a thousand little stones, which separately and of themselves have little value, but which united with art form a graceful design.

  Delphine de Girardin

  Happiness, Art, Precious Stones

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• Our lives are a mosaic of little things, like putting a rose in a vase on the table.

  Ingrid Trobisch

  Rose, Tables, Littles

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• Hold fast to whatever fragments of love that exist, for sometimes a mosaic is more beautiful than an unbroken pattern.

  Dawn Powell

  Love, Beautiful, Unbroken

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• LIFE is a mosaic of pleasure and pain - grief is an interval between two moments of joy. Peace is the interlude between two wars. You have no rose without a thorn; the diligent picker will avoid the pricks and gather the flower. There is no bee without the sting; cleverness consists in gathering the honey nevertheless.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Pain, War, Grief

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• Today, the world can appear fragmented and its people disconnected, mosaics allow me to fuse the pieces together to create something cohesive and beautiful , what I wish the world could be.

  Laura Harris

  Beautiful, People, Wish

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• The law of mosaics: how to deal with parts in the absence of wholes.

  Ronald Sukenick

  Law, Absence, Deals

  Ronald Sukenick (1975). “98.6: A Novel”, p.167, University of Alabama Press

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• Learn to get from the day. Not just get through it, get from it. Soak it up. Each day is a piece of the mosaic of your life.

  Jim Rohn

  Pieces, Each Day

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 06, 2014

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• Music is, for me, like a beautiful mosaic which God has put together. He takes all the pieces in his hand, throws them into the world, and we have to recreate the picture from the pieces.

  Jean Sibelius

  Beautiful, Hands, Together

  Jean Sibelius' remarks quoted by Jalmari Finne to Anna Sarlin, June 28, 1905.

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• Social change can be seen as a mosaic, taking that which is broken and creating something new.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Creating, Broken, Social

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The map of what we call reality is an ever-shifting mosaic of ideas.

  Marcelo Gleiser

  Reality, Ideas, Maps

  Marcelo Gleiser (2014). “The Island of Knowledge: The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning”, p.14, Basic Books

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• People are fighting over how our heartsongs are different. But they don't need to be the same. That's the beauty. We are a mosaic of gifts. Each of us has our inner beauty no matter how we look.

  Mattie Stepanek

  Fighting, People, Inner Beauty

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• It dances today, my heart,
  like a peacock it dances,
  it dances.
  It sports a mosaic of passions like a peacock’s tail,
  It soars to the sky with delight, it quests,
  Oh wildly, it dances today, my heart,
  like a peacock it dances.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Sports, Passion, Heart

  Rabindranath Tagore (1986). “Selected poems”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• The scenes of our life are like pictures done in rough mosaic. Looked at close, they produce no effect. There is nothing beautiful to be found in them, unless you stand some distance off.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Life, Beautiful, Distance

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism”, p.33, Arthur Schopenhauer

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• A well-fashioned day - with a beginning and an end, a purpose and a content, a color and a character, a feel and a texture - takes it place among the many and becomes a valuable memory and treasure. At midnight the winged messengers come and gather up all these pieces and take them off to wherever the mosaic is kept. And surely, on occasion, one messenger says to another, 'Wait 'til you see this one.'

  Jim Rohn

  Memories, Character, Color

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  We live in a broken world - and for the life of me I can't get it all right. But Jesus takes all our broken messes and He makes them, by His grace, into a mosaic of grace.

  Ann Voskamp

  Jesus, Broken, Grace

  Source: www.hslda.org

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• I'm always looking for those places where you can slam really disparate people up against one another, and they have to deal with each other. There are very few crossroads anymore. We talk about this country as this big melting pot, but it's a mosaic. There's all these pieces, they're next to each other, they're not necessarily mixing. And I'm looking for those spaces where people actually do mix.

  Jenji Kohan

  Country, Badass, Space

  "'Orange' Creator Jenji Kohan: 'Piper Was My Trojan Horse'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 13, 2013.

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