Thread Quotes

• Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.

  Chief Seattle

  Life, Lonely, Nature

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• A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.

  George Herbert

  Love, Heart, Be Kind

  George Herbert (1841). “The remains of ... George Herbert”, p.170

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• Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Uplifting, Wisdom, Nature

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.66, Princeton University Press

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• Love weaves itself from hundreds of threads.

  David Levithan

  Best Love

  David Levithan (2014). “How They Met and Other Stories”, p.68, Egmont UK

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• Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.

  Aldous Huxley

  Form, Strings

  Aldous Huxley (1947). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

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• We make our way through Everything like thread passing through fabric, giving shape to images that we ourselves do not know.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Giving, Fabric, Shapes

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2007). “Letters on Life: New Prose Translations”, p.48, Modern Library

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• May a thread of comfort be woven through your difficult days.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Pain, Blessing, Comfort

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, p.166, Conari Press

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• Purpose is the thread that connects the dots to everything you do that leads you to an extraordinary life.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Powerful, Dots, Purpose

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• All things are bound together. All things connect.

  Chief Seattle

  Native American, Web Of Life, Earth Day

  Seattle (Chief) (1980). “How can one sell the air?: the manifesto of an Indian chief”, Book Publishing Company (TN)

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• The tapestry of history is woven of many threads.

  Jacqueline Carey

  History, Woven, Tapestry

  Jacqueline Carey (2011). “Kushiel's Dart”, p.53, Pan Macmillan

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• Invisible threads are the strongest ties.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Wise, Wisdom, Nature

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• It will be very interesting one day to follow the pattern of our life as it is spread out like a beautiful tapestry. As long as we live here we see only the reverse side of the weaving, and very often the pattern, with its threads running wildly, doesn't seem to make sense. Some day, however, we shall understand. In looking back over the years we can discover how a red thread goes through the pattern of our life: the Will of God.

  Maria von Trapp

  Beautiful, Running, Years

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• Pull a thread in my story and feel the tremor half a world and two millenia away.

  Daniel Taylor

  Two, Stories, Half

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• The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.

  Orson Scott Card

  Past, Fabric, Hundred

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.858, Macmillan

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• Destiny itself is like a wonderful wide tapestry in which every thread is guided by an unspeakable tender hand, placed beside another thread and held and carried by a hundred others.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Destiny, Hands, Wonderful

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2010). “Letters to a Young Poet”, p.24, New World Library

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• Life is a great tapestry. The individual is only an insignificant thread in an immense and miraculous pattern.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Patterns, Individual

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.230, Princeton University Press

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• Life and death are one thread,
  the same line viewed from different sides.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Sympathy, Death

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• On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Slender, Fortune

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• The Hopi Indians thought that the world’s religions each contained one spiritual thread, and that these threads are always seeking each other, wanting to join. When all the threads are finally woven together they will form a rope that will pull us out of this dark cycle of history and into the next realm.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Spiritual, Dark, Together

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.197, A&C Black

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• We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color.

  Maya Angelou

  Color, Kwanzaa, Common Threads

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• Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.

  Horace Mann

  Motivational, Positive, Happiness

  "Graded Selections for Memorizing : Adapted for Use at Home and in School" by John Bradley Peaslee, (p. 104), 1880.

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• Each of us has a purpose for living beyond our own survival and pleasure. Every individual is like a thread in a beautiful tapestry with a vital contribution to make, not only to the sustenance of life as we know it, but in the creation and development of more beneficial expressions of life.

  John Templeton

  Beautiful, Expression, Survival

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• A weaver who has to direct and to interweave a great many little threads has no time to philosophize about it, but rather he is so absorbed in his work that he doesn't think but acts, and he feels how things must go more than he can explain it.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Thinking, Littles, Great Men

  Vincent van Gogh, Vincent Willem Gogh (1927). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...”

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• Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future and leave their own bright patterns as they go.

  Fred Rogers

  Pregnancy, Past, Parent

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.106, Penguin

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• Separation Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.

  W. S. Merwin

  I Miss You, Missing You, Missing Someone

  William Stanley Merwin, “Separation”

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