Specks Quotes - Page 2

• From inaccessible mountain range by way of desert untrod by human foot to the ends of the unknown seas, the breath of the everlasting creative spirit is felt, rejoicing over every speck of dust that hearkens to it and lives.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Mountain Ranges, Dust

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1963). “Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims”

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• I begin my pictures under the effect of a shock which I feel and which makes me escape from reality... I need a point of departure, even if it's only a speck of dust or a flash of light.

  Joan Miro

  Reality, Light, Dust

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• We can see the Divine in each speck of dust, but that doesn't stop us from wiping it away with a wet sponge. The Divine doesn't disappear; it's transformed into the clean surface.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dust, Witch, Clean

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• I am early in my story, but I believe I will stretch out into eternity, and in heaven I will reflect upon these early days, these days when it seemed God was down a dirt road, walking toward me. Years ago He was a swinging speck in the distance; now He is close enough I can hear His singing. Soon I will see the lines on His face.

  Donald Miller

  Distance, Believe, Years

  Donald Miller (2012). “Blue Like Jazz: Movie Edition: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality”, p.1, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Day by day, tiny specks of us float away.

  Roger Housden

  Tiny, Floats

  Roger Housden (2014). “Keeping the Faith Without a Religion”, p.56, Sounds True

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• There is nothing but God, nothing but the Goddess, nothing but Spirit in all directions, and not a grain of sand, not a speck of dust, is more or less Spirit than any other.

  Ken Wilber

  Spiritual, Dust, Goddess

  Ken Wilber (1998). “The Eye of Spirit: An Integral Vision for a World Gone Slightly Mad”, Shambhala Publications

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• Why do we argue? Life's so fragile, a successful virus clinging to a speck of mud, suspended in endless nothing.

  Alan Moore

  Successful, Viruses, Mud

  "Watchmen". Comic book series by Alan Moore, 1986 - 1987.

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• What are the lessons to be learned from this journey of the mind through the universe? That humans are emotionally fragile, perennially gullible, hopelessly ignorant masters of an insignificantly small speck in the cosmos. Have a nice day.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Nice, Journey, Lessons To Be Learned

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.47, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I do not feel that I am the product of chance, a speck of dust in the universe, but someone who was expected, prepared, prefigured. In short, a being whom only a Creator could put here; and this idea of a creating hand refers to God.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Dust, Hands, Ideas

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• Skin was earth; it was soil. I could see, even on my own skin, the joined trapezoids of dust specks God had wetted and stuck with his spit the morning he made Adam from dirt. Now, all these generations later, we people could still see on our skin the inherited prints of the dust specks of Eden.

  Annie Dillard

  Morning, Eden, Dust

  Annie Dillard (2016). “An American Childhood”, p.28, Canongate Books

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• I know not if this earth on which I stand is the core of the universe or if it is but a speck of dust lost in eternity. I know not and I care not. For I know what happiness is possible to me on earth. And my happiness needs no higher aim to vindicate it. My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.

  Ayn Rand

  Happiness, Being Happy, Philosophy

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Anthem”, p.46, Xist Publishing

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• The Realization of the Nondual traditions is uncompromising: There is only Spirit, there is only God, there is only Emptiness in all its radiant wonder. All the good and all the evil, the very best and the very worst, the upright and the degenerate- each and all are radically perfect manifestations of Spirit precisely as they are. There is nothing but God, nothing but the Goddess, nothing but Spirit in all directions, and not a grain of sand, not a speck of dust, is more or less Spirit than any other.

  Ken Wilber

  Dust, Evil, Perfect

  Ken Wilber (2001). “The Eye of Spirit: An Integral Vision for a World Gone Slightly Mad”, p.290, Shambhala Publications

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• This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence - even this spider and this moonlight between the trees, and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Dust, Tree

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.273, Vintage

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• There can be no love so long as there is lust- even a speck of it, as it were, in the heart. None but men of great renunciation, none but mighty giants among men, have a right to that Love Divine. If that highest ideal of love is held out to the masses, it will indirectly tend to stimulate its worldly which dominates the heart of man- for, meditating on love to God by thinking of oneself as His wife or beloved, one would very likely be thinking most of the time of one's own wife- the result is too obvious to point out.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Heart, Love Is, Men

  Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.125, Vivekananda Kendra

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• I know there's no heaven. I know it all turns to nothingness. But I fear there will be some remnant of me left within that void. Left conscious by some random fluke. Something that will scream out for this. That one speck of my soul will still exist and be left trapped and wanting. For you. For the light. For anything.

  Drew Magary

  Light, Heaven, Soul

  Drew Magary (2011). “The Postmortal: A Novel”, p.342, Penguin

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• I'M SIGNIFICANT!!! ... Say's the dust speck.

  Bill Watterson

  Dust, Significant

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• When one looks truly at the good side of everyone, others come to love him very naturally, and he does not need even a speck of flattery.

  Abraham Isaac Kook

  Doe, Needs, Looks

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• In this model, the sun is a very tiny speck of dust indeed-a speck less than a three-thousandth of an inch in diameter ... Think of the sun as something less than a speck of dust in a vast city, of the earth as less than a millionth part of such a speck of dust, and we have perhaps as vivid a picture as the mind can really grasp of the relation of our home in space to the rest of the universe.

  James Jeans

  Home, Science, Thinking

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• Nothing is more humbling than to look with a strong magnifying glass at an insect so tiny that the naked eye sees only the barest speck and to discover that nevertheless it is sculpted and articulated and striped with the same care and imagination.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Strong, Humility, Eye

  Rudolf Arnheim (1990). “Parables of Sun Light: Observations on Psychology, the Arts, and the Rest”, p.160, Univ of California Press

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• ...The God I know is one that promotes peace and freedom. But I get great sustenance from my personal relationship. That doesn't make me think I'm a better person than you are, by the way. Because one of the great admonitions in the Good Book is, don't try to take a speck out of your eye if I've got a log in my own.

  George W. Bush

  Faith, Book, Eye

  Ireland Radio and Television Interview, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. June 24, 2004.

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• You have the choice to be here as a speck of creation or as the very source of creation. Not exploring such a phenomenal possibility is a crime.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Choices, Perception

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• Once I got into space, I was feeling very comfortable in the universe. I felt like I had a right to be anywhere in this universe, that I belonged here as much as any speck of stardust, any comet, any planet.

  Mae Jemison

  Science, Space, Feelings

  "Then & Now: Dr. Mae Jemison". CNN Interview, edition.cnn.com. June 19, 2005.

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• How beautiful is night! A dewy freshness fills the silent air; No mist obscures; nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, Breaks the serene of heaven: In full-orbed glory, yonder moon divine Rolls through the dark blue depths; Beneath her steady ray The desert circle spreads Like the round ocean, girdled with the sky. How beautiful is night!

  Robert Southey

  Beautiful, Ocean, Dark

  Robert Southey, Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1884). “The Poetical Works of Robert Southey: With a Memoir ...”

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• People are much like those stars up there. Some burn faintly for millions of years, barely visible to us on earth. They're there, but you'd hardly know it. They blend in, like a speck on a canvas. But others blaze with such intensity, they light up the sky. You can't help but notice them, marvel at them. Those are the ones that never last long. They can't. They use up all their energy quickly

  Sarah Jio

  Stars, Light, Years

  Sarah Jio (2013). “The Last Camellia: A Novel”, p.162, Penguin

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