Pebbles Quotes

• You want to be the pebble in the pond that creates the ripples for change.

  Tim Cook

  Ponds, Want, Ripple

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• I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with

  Plato

  Children, Words Of Wisdom, May

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• My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.

  Beatrice Wood

  Life, Happiness, Mistake

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• A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Motivational, Attitude

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• We drop like pebbles into the ponds of each other's souls, and the orbit of our ripples continues to expand, intersecting with countless others.

  Joan Z. Borysenko

  Spiritual, Soul, Orbit

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• The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

  Blaise Pascal

  Nature, Motivation, Ocean

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• Just as ripples spread out when a single pebble is dropped into water, the actions of individuals can have far-reaching effects.

  Dalai Lama

  Honesty, Water, Action

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• Easy-to know that diamonds-are precious, Good-to learn that rubies-have depth, But more-to see that pebbles-are miraculous.

  Josef Albers

  Depth, Rubies, Easy

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• Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Patience, Persistence, Water

  Rabindranath Tagore (2007). “Stray Birds”, p.22, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• Life itself is not the reality. We are the ones who put life into stones and pebbles.

  Frederick Sommer

  Photography, Reality, Stones

  Frederick Sommer, Stephen Aldrich (1987). “The mistress of this world has no name”

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• Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

  Thomas Browne

  Inspirational, May, Sometimes

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• Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain. The mind does not create what it perceives, anymore than the eye creates the rose.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Perseverance, Stay Strong, Eye

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• Men are polished, through act and speech, Each by each, As pebbles are smoothed on the rolling beach.

  John Townsend Trowbridge

  Beach, Men, Rolling

  John Townsend Trowbridge (1881). “A Home Idyl: And Other Poems”

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• The entire ocean is affected by a single pebble.

  Blaise Pascal

  Ocean, Affected

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• A lesson will keep repeating itself until it is learned. Life first will send the lesson to you in the size of a pebble; if you ignore the pebble, then life will send you a brick; if you ignore the brick, life will send you a brick wall; if you ignore the brick wall, life will send you a demolition truck.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Wall, Lessons, Firsts

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• The difference between a pebble and a mountain lies in whom you ask to move it.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Inspiring, Lying, Moving

  Twitter post from Jun 02, 2014

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• The ocean and I have many pebbles To find and wash off and roll into shape.

  William Stafford

  Ocean, Sea, Shapes

  William Stafford, Paul Merchant, Vincent Wixon (1998). “Crossing unmarked snow: further views on the writer's vocation”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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• Pebble is a piece of sacred ground. They say it's the greatest meeting of land and water in the world. This course was heaven designed - just the way it fits on the land.

  Johnny Miller

  Golf, Land, Water

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• The past is a pebble in my shoe.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Past, Shoes, Legacy

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• It isn't the mountains that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.

  Muhammad Ali

  Shoes, Mountain, Boxing Champions

  FaceBook post by Muhammad Ali from Oct 20, 2014

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• Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains.

  H. Emilie Cady

  Adversity, Men, Mountain

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• It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Science, Math, Hands

  Thomas Carlyle, Brendan King (1993). “The Sayings of Thomas Carlyle”, p.46, Lulu.com

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• Truth is always stranger than fiction. We craft fiction to match our sense of how things ought to be, but truth cannot be crafted. Truth is, and truth has a way of astonishing us to our knees. Reminding us, that the universe does not exist to fulfill our expectations. Because we are imperfect beings who are self-blinded to the truth of the world’s stunning complexity, we shave reality to paper thin theories and ideologies that we can easily grasp – and we call them truths. But the truth of a sea in all it’s immensity cannot be embodied in one tidewashed pebble.

  Dean Koontz

  Reality, Self, Sea

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• There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Heart, Water, Secret

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Favorite Poems”, p.64, Courier Corporation

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• For her I changed pebbles into diamonds, shoes into mirrors, I changed glass into water, I gave her wings and pulled birds from her ears and in her pockets she found the feathers, I asked a pear to become a pineapple, a pineapple to become a lightbulb, a lightbulb to become the moon, and the moon to become a coin I flipped for her love.

  Nicole Krauss

  Love, Wedding, Moon

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.230, W. W. Norton & Company

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