Woven 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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  What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

  Pericles

  Life, Education, Appreciation

  "Flicker to Flame: Living with Purpose, Meaning, and Happiness". Book by Jeffrey Thompson Parker, October 2006.

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• I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.

  William Stafford

  Kindness, Not Giving Up, Thoughtful

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• Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Dream, Collective Unconscious

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• Life is a tapestry woven by the decisions we make.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Decisions We Make, Experience, Life Is

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Kiss of the Night”, p.347, Macmillan

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• The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.

  Carson McCullers

  Philosophy, Color, Medicine

  Carson McCullers (2015). “Reflections in a Golden Eye”, p.97, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• America is not like a blanket- one piece of unbroken cloth. America is more like a quilt- many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven together by a common thread.

  Jesse Jackson

  Quilts, Color, Common Threads

  1984 Launching his 'rainbow coalition' at the Democratic National Convention, San Francisco, 17 Jul.

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• Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?

  Marcus Aurelius

  Destiny, Needs, Patterns

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• America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description.

  Ralph Ellison

  Fate, America, Description

  Invisible Man epilogue (1952)

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• God will never, never, never let us down if we have faith and put our trust in Him. He will always look after us. So we must cleave to Jesus. Our whole life must simply be woven into Jesus.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Looks, Have Faith

  Mother Teresa (1985). “Mother Teresa: Contemplative in the Heart of the World”

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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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• Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.

  Walter Benjamin

  Writing, Musical, Three

  Walter Benjamin (2016). “One-Way Street”, p.44, Harvard University Press

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• Happiness can be woven into every aspect of life once you make new choices.

  Deepak Chopra

  Happiness, Attitude, Choices

  Deepak Chopra (2014). “What Are You Hungry For?: The Chopra Solution to Permanent Weight Loss, Well-Being and Lightness of Soul”, p.188, Random House

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• Resilience is woven deeply into the fabric of Oklahoma. Throw us an obstacle, and we grow stronger.

  Brad Henry

  Oklahoma, Resilience, Stronger

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• Your body is woven from the light of heaven. Are you aware that its purity and swiftness is the envy of angels and its courage keeps even devils away.

  Rumi

  Angel, Light, Envy

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• I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that all the light I can command must be concentrated on this particular web, and not dispersed over that tempting range of relevancies called the universe.

  George Eliot

  Light, Unraveling, Range

  George Eliot (1872). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.251

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• A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.

  George Eliot

  Hope, Women, Expectations

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.16

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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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• Marriage is tough, because it is woven of all these various elements, the weak and the strong. "In love-ness" is fragile for it is woven only with the gossamer threads of beauty. It seems to me absurd to talk about "happy" and "unhappy" marriages.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Strong, Unhappy, Happy Marriage

  "War Within and Without". Book by Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1980.

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• I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Truth, Lying, Science

  "What is Art?". Book by Leo Tolstoy, Ch. 14, 1897.

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• Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Past, Joy, Sorrow

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• The legacy of the Armenian Genocide is woven into the fabric of America.

  Adam Schiff

  America, Legacy, Armenia

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• The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains.

  Paul Simon

  Hope, Cancer, Heart

  Song: Train in the Distance

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• He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.

  William Golding

  Patience, Sea, Sailing

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