Dwelling Quotes

• I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. You wander restlessly from forest to forest while the Reality is within your own dwelling.

  

  Kabir
  • Reality
  • Water
  • Forest

• The fragile art of existenceIs kept alive by sheer persistenceThe fragile art of existence.No time for self-pityNo time for dwelling on what should have beenBut is yet to be.

  

  Chuck Schuldiner
  • Art
  • Should
  • Existence

• Dwelling on negative thoughts is like fertilizing weeds.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Dwelling
  • Weeds
  • Negative Thoughts

• If we do overcome linear time, I would hope this means dwelling more directly in the fertility of the imagination rather than denying it, as some aspects of Buddhism seem to.

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
  • Time
  • Hope
  • Mean

• The dead are the only people to have permanent dwellings.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • People
  • Permanent
  • Dwelling

• Dwelling is not primarily inhabiting but taking care of and creating that space within which something comes into its own and flourishes.

  

  Martin Heidegger
  • Creating
  • Take Care
  • Dwelling

• What a loving God we serve! Not only has He prepared a heavenly dwelling for us, but His angels also accompany us as we transition from this world to the next.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • World
  • God
  • Next

• Clay is fashioned into vessels; it is on their empty hollowness that their use depends. Doors and windows are cut out to make a dwelling, and on the empty space within, its use depends. Thus, while the existence of things may be good, it is the non-existence in them that makes them serviceable.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Good
  • Existence
  • Dwelling

• There's never a villain dwelling in all Denmark But he's an arrant knave.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Villain
  • Denmark
  • Knaves

• So important are insects and other land-dwelling arthropods that if all were to disappear, humanity probably could not last more than a few months.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Important
  • Humanity
  • Land

• I spend my time dwelling on revenge and try to deal with the monsters crawling out of the ashes.

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • Time
  • Deal
  • Revenge

• Every man, however good he may be, has a yet better man dwelling in him, which is properly himself, but to whom nevertheless he is often unfaithful. It is to this interior and less mutable being that we should attach ourselves, not to be changeable, every-day man.

  

  Wilhelm von Humboldt
  • Properly
  • Interior
  • However

• An unchangeable colour rules over the melancholic: his dwelling is a space the colour of mourning. Nothing happens in it. No one intrudes. It is a bare stage where the inert I is assisted by the I suffering from that inertia. The latter wishes to free the former, but all efforts fail, as Theseus would have failed had he been not only himself but also the Minotaur; to kill him then, he would have had to kill himself.

  

  Alejandra Pizarnik
  • Free
  • Space
  • Suffering

• Why should the residence of a preacher be untaxed? Useful citizens must pay taxes on their homes. Yet the Preacher - actually and notoriously the least useful member of the community - lives in a tax-free dwelling.

  

  E. Haldeman-Julius
  • Why
  • Home
  • Free

• Long periods of peace and quiet favor certain optical illusions. Among them is the assumption that the invulnerability of the home is founded upon the constitution and safeguarded by it. In reality, it rests upon the father of the family who, accompanied by his sons, appears with the ax on the threshold of his dwelling.

  

  Ernst Junger
  • Family
  • Home
  • Illusions

• One of the biggest things I struggle with in life is not being present. I'm worried about my future or I'm dwelling on my past, and I'm wondering why I'm not feeling so great right now, but it's because I'm everywhere else, besides what is currently happening in front of me.

  

  Mark Webber Pulp
  • Life
  • Feeling
  • Wondering

• Then to Silvia let us sing that Silvia is excelling. She excels each mortal thing upon the dull earth dwelling.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Earth
  • Excellence
  • Dull

• In dwelling, be close to the land. In meditation, go deep in the heart.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Heart
  • Meditation
  • Dwelling

• We do not heal the past by dwelling there. We heal the past by living in the present.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Past
  • Present
  • Heal

• For neither does wealth bring honour to the owner, if he be a coward; of such a one the wealth belongs to another, and not to himself. Nor does beauty and strength of body, when dwelling in a base and cowardly man, appear comely, but the reverse of comely, making the possessor more conspicuous, and manifesting forth his cowardice.

  

  Plato
  • Body
  • Wealth
  • Dwelling

• The incorruptible things are all within the narrow gate. The peace of God which passed all understanding - the bright hope of good things to come - the sense of the Spirit dwelling in us - the consciousness that we are forgiven, safe, insured, provided for in time and eternity, whatever may happen - these are true gold, and lasting riches.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Time
  • Good
  • God

• In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Thinking
  • Keep
  • Dwelling

• In the sacred precinct of that dwelling where the despotic woman wields the sceptre of fierce neatness, one treads as if he carried his life in his hands.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Woman
  • Despotic
  • Precinct

• Out Milky Way is the dwelling; the nebulae are the city.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • City
  • Dwelling
  • Milky Way

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