Sand Quotes

• Write your Sad times in Sand,
  Write your Good times in Stone.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Sad, Encouragement, Writing

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• I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Motivational, Courage

  Og Mandino (1991). “Og Mandino”, Outlet

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• Time is like a handful of sand - the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Running, Faster, Fingers

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• The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Life, Positive, Birthday

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• All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Love, Life, Friendship

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2013). “Poems of Ella Wheeler Wilcox: Passion”, p.9, eBookIt.com

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• You throw the sand against the wind and the wind blows it back again.

  William Blake

  Blow, Wind, Back Again

  'MS Note-Book' p. 7

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• I love the sea's sounds and the way it reflects the sky. The colours that shimmer across its surface are unbelievable. This, combined with the colour of the water over white sand, surprises me every time.

  John Dyer

  Sky, White, Sea

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• I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.

  Og Mandino

  Purpose, Cry, Mercy

  Og Mandino (1991). “Og Mandino”, Outlet

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  To see a world in a grain of sand
  And a heaven in a wild flower,
  Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
  And eternity in an hour.

  William Blake

  Inspirational, Happiness, Peace

  'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 1

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• I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it.

  George Sand

  Kings, Noble, Earth

  George Sand (1800). “The Haunted Pool: (La Mare Au Diable).”, p.25

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• We are like children building a sand castle. We embellish it with beautiful shells, bits of driftwood, and pieces of colored glass. The castle is ours, off limits to others. We’re willing to attack if others threaten to hurt it. Yet despite all our attachment, we know that the tide will inevitably come in and sweep the sand castle away. The trick is to enjoy it fully but without clinging, and when the time comes, let it dissolve back into the sea.

  Pema Chodron

  Beautiful, Hurt, Children

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.65, Shambhala Publications

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• Hold infinity in the palm of your hand.

  William Blake

  Nature, Flower, Eternity Of Life

  'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 1

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• Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

  Robert W. Service

  Inspirational, Success, Climbing

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• Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.

  George Sand

  Life, Intellectual, Flipping A Coin

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• Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?

  George Sand

  Regret, Struggle, Heart

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• The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.

  George Sand

  Beauty, Eye, Soul

  George Sand (1871). “Handsome Lawrence: A Sequel to A Rolling Stone”, p.30

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• No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.

  George Sand

  Hands, Knowing, Humanity

  George Sand (1800). “The Haunted Pool: (La Mare Au Diable).”, p.7

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• It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

  Robert W. Service

  Anger, Adversity, Climbing

  "Sand: The Never-ending Story". Book by Michael Welland, p. 30, 2009.

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• One is happy as a result of one's own efforts, once one knows of the necessary ingredients of happiness-simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self-denial to a point, love of work, and, above all, a clear conscience. Happiness is no vague dream, of that I now feel certain.

  George Sand

  Happiness, Dream, Simple

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• If they are ignorant, they are despised, if learned, mocked. In love they are reduced to the status of courtesans. As wives they are treated more as servants than as companions. Men do not love them: they make use of them, they exploit them, and expect, in that way, to make them subject to the law of fidelity.

  George Sand

  Love, Men, Law

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• America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Ostriches, America, Presidential

  Speech at Des Moines, 1 Feb. 1916, in New York Times 2 Feb. 1916, p. 1

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• I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand.

  Og Mandino

  Mountain, Purpose, Grain

  Og Mandino (2007). “The Greatest Secret In The World”, p.52, Jaico Publishing House

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• It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

  Muhammad Ali

  Funny, Sports, Jobs

  Twitter post from Aug 18, 2010

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• Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Stones, Built, Ifs

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  If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.

  Milton Friedman

  Government, Years, Political

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