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• There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Years, People, Way

  Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Three plays”

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• The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other mens lives.

  Pericles

  Reality, Men, Stories

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• In Asian languages, the word for mind and the word for heart are the same word.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Heart, Mind, Asian

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2013). “Arriving at Your Own Door: 108 Lessons in Mindfulness”, p.2, Hachette UK

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• You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Wise, Thinking, Mindfulness

  "Q&A: Jon Kabat-Zinn Talks About Bringing Mindfulness Meditation to Medicine". Interview With Maia Szalavitz, healthland.time.com. January 11, 2012.

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• The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.

  Thucydides

  Men, Earth, Fame

  Thucydides (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thucydides (Illustrated)”, p.118, Delphi Classics

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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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• My sight
  My heart
  My Life
  All three words I have woven into one ... Love.

  Rumi

  Heart, Sight, Three

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• The tapestry of history is woven of many threads.

  Jacqueline Carey

  History, Thread, Tapestry

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• They trekked out along the crescent sweep of beach, keeping to the firmer sand below the tidewrack. They stood, their clothes flapping softly. Glass floats covered with a gray crust. The bones of seabirds. At the tideline a woven mat of weeds and the ribs of fishes in their millions stretching along the shore as far as the eye could see like an isocline of death. One vast salt sepulchre. Senseless. Senseless.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Weed, Beach, Eye

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “The Road”, p.187, Vintage

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• During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, TV, air travel, and satellites, has woven a network of communication which puts each part of the world in to almost instant contact with all the other parts.

  David Bohm

  Travel, Communication, Past

  David Bohm, Lee Nichol (2004). “On Dialogue”, p.1, Psychology Press

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• The winter is made and you have to bear it,
  The winter web, the winter woven, wind and wind,
  For all the thoughts of summer that go with it
  In the mind, pupa of straw, moppet of rags.

  Wallace Stevens

  Summer, Winter, Wind

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.211, Vintage

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• Life is so generous a giver but we, judging its gifts by their covering, cast them away as ugly or heavy or hard. Remove the covering and you will find beneath it a living splendor, woven of love, by wisdom, with power. Welcome it, grasp it, and you touch the angel's hand that brings it to you. Everything we call a trial or a sorrow or a duty, believe me that angel's hand is there, and the wonder of an overshadowing presence. Life is so full of meaning and purpose, so full of beauty beneath its covering, that you will find earth but cloaks your heaven. Courage then to claim, that is all.

  Giovanni Giocondo

  Fun, Believe, Angel

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• The Silk Worm
  
  I stood before a silk worm one day.
  And that night my heart said to me,
  
  "I can do things like that, I can spin skies,
  I can be woven into love that can bring warmth to people;
  I can be soft against a crying face,
  I can be wings that lift, and I can travel on my thousand feet
  throughout the earth, my sacs filled with the sacred."
  
  And I replied to my heart,
  "Dear, can you really do all those things?"
  
  And it just nodded "Yes" in silence.
  
  So we began and will never cease.

  Rumi

  Love, Heart, Night

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• Mind and intelligence are woven into the fabric of our universe in a way that altogether surpasses our understanding.

  Freeman Dyson

  Science, Reality, Understanding

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• We were so wholly one I had not thought That we could die apart. I had not thought That I could move,—and you be stiff and still! That I could speak,—and you perforce be dumb! I think our heart-strings were, like warp and woof In some firm fabric, woven in and out; Your golden filaments in fair design Across my duller fibre.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Moving, Heart, Thinking

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2007). “The Collected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay”, p.25, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• Ireland is a land of poets and legends, of dreamers and rebels. All of these have music woven through and around them. Tunes for dancing or for weeping, for battle or for love.

  Nora Roberts

  Land, Dancing, Dreamer

  Nora Roberts (2000). “Tears of the Moon”, p.14, Penguin

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• Science has yet to isolate the Godiva Chocolate or Prada gene, but that doesn't mean your weakness for pricey swag isn't woven into your DNA. According to a new study of identical twins, it's less TV ads or Labor Day sales that make you buy the things you do than the tastes and temperaments that are already part of you at birth.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Mean, Dna, Swag

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• The things a man has heard and seen are threads of life, and if he pull them carefully from the confused distaff of memory, any who will can weave them into whatever garments of belief please them best. I too have woven my garment like another, but I shall try to keep warm in it, and shall be well content if it do not unbecome me.

  William Butler Yeats

  Memories, Confused, Men

  William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.222, Penguin

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• That faeries have forgotten the Tapestry; that is the greatest tragedy of all. It's the fabric of all creation and it's woven of dreams, the dreams of the Djinn. Dreams are real, Magpie. They're seed and water and sun. They're everything.

  Laini Taylor

  Dream, Real, Water

  Laini Taylor (2009). “Blackbringer”, p.162, Penguin

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• The universe danced towards life. Life was a remarkably common commodity. Anything sufficiently complicated seemed to get cut in for some, in the same way that anything massive enough got a generous helping of gravity. The universe had a definite tendency towards awareness. This suggested a certain subtle cruelty woven into the very fabric of space-time.

  Terry Pratchett

  Cutting, Space, Fabric

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