Quotation Explorer - 'Dwell'

Why dwell on the pain, when you can focus on peaceful thoughts? - Lailah Gifty Akita
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself... You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. - Kahlil Gibran
As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple: If the ill spirit have so fair a house, Good things will strive to dwell with 't. - William Shakespeare
Be great, dwell on great thoughts. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Nothing fills the world quite as poetry does. A poet need not dwell on the pagecount of his life. - D.A. Botta
Get better acquainted with yourself, and understand the burning ambitions that dwell within. Be brave enough to follow these. They're your dreams. Follow your dreams. They are your purpose - your purpose will fulfil you. Find it, pursue it, stop at nothing. A happier you makes a happier world. - Nicole Bonomi
Some people have just rented your body to live in it for sometime and depart. Others consider you as a permanent residence to dwell in forever. Which ever, you must remember to accommodate all those who want to be accommodated. Be each other's keeper - Israelmore Ayivor
Is it a time for you, you I say, to dwell in your roofed-in houses?' (Haggai 1:4). The reply might have been that it was unreasonable to expect anyone to live in a roofless house, but the question made its point. What worth did they set on their God, when they left His Temple in ruins? - Joyce G. Baldwin
Miracles dwell in the heart. - Jeffrey A. White
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together. - Petrarch
The opinions of souls are their state of being. Dwell on your own sacred thoughts. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Reading words puts them in your mind. You never forget. Even when you don't get a chance to dwell on the music, you can hear it in your head. - Carolyn Davidson
Identify the problem but never dwell on it. Focus on solutions. - Debasish Mridha
I dwell on great thoughts. - Lailah Gifty Akita
To think well of all, to be cheerful with all, to patiently learn to find the good in all - such unselfish thoughts are the very portals of heaven; and to dwell day by day in thoughts of peace toward every creature will bring abounding peace to their possessor. - James Allen
Evil imaginations causes harm to others. Such things do not dwell in the mind of a righteous person. - Ellen J. Barrier
Be careful of what you dwell on and what you say. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Dwell on your own sacred thoughts. - Lailah Gifty Akita
You mustn't dwell on the inevitable. - Jessica Powers in Melted
When in trouble, run to God. When in pain, dwell in His presence. When you don't know what to say or do, ask God and for every moment praise God. He is always by your side! - Gift Gugu Mona
I dwell on great thoughts.I dwell on positive affirmations. - Lailah Gifty Akita
In the treatment of poverty nationally, one fact stands out: there are twice as many white poor as Negro poor in the United States. Therefore I will not dwell on the experiences of poverty that derive from racial discrimination, but will discuss the poverty that affects white and Negro alike. - Martin Luther King Jr.
To express your love for the universe, be like a cloud to dwell in the high altitudes, and never forget to transform yourself into the water of humility. - Debasish Mridha
Thinking makes man to be god & GOD to dwell in Man. - Auliq-Ice
Be careful of what you dwell on and what you say. Your thoughts and words will either acquit or condemn you. - Lailah Gifty Akita
On our Journey, we should not dwell on the guilt emerging because of dropping back to Ego-dominated state; instead, we should celebrate that we are in the state of the Presence!! - Frank Wanderer
But thy strong Hours indignant work’d their wills,And beat me down and marr’d and wasted me,And tho’ they could not end me, left me maim’dTo dwell in presence of immortal youth,Immortal age beside immortal youth,And all I was, in ashes. - Tithonus - Alfred Tennyson
Peace does not dwell in outward things but within the soul; we may preserve it in the midst of the bitterest pain, if our will remains firm and submissive. Peace in this life springs from acquiescence to, not an exemption from, suffering. - François Fénelon
Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters. - Margaret Halsey
I don't dwell in the past I just can't forget what's passed. - Nigar Siddiqui
The moon will guide you through the night with her brightness, but she will always dwell in the darkness, in order to be seen. - Shannon L. Alder
You build on failure. You use it as a stepping sone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space. - Johnny Cash
I dwell on endless possibilities. - Lailah Gifty Akita
You won't lose anything admitting that you've failed or you are struggling just remember not to dwell on that reality. - Unarine Ramaru
Humility and brokenness before God is the key for Him to dwell in us. - Sunday Adelaja
When you don't have a vision or a plan for the future, your mind has no choice but to dwell in the past. - Steve Maraboli
When I leave this earthly home and go up to God to dwell, someone will look on the heaped up grave and whisper, "She tried to do well. - Reverend Ada Slaton Bonds, Cumberland Presbyterian
Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! - Bible
I dwell in possibility... - Emily Dickinson
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live. - J. K. Rowling
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. - Buddha
Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly, as you teach and admonish one another in all wisdom, and as you sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs with thankfulness in your hearts to God. - Bible
Dare to dwell on great thoughts, you will be great. - Lailah Gifty Akita
If I die today, will you remember me tomorrow?The love I'm leaving behind, will you care to borrow? From a snake-shed-skin or from the sky unknownIn all living and the dead I'll dwell to groan - Munia Khan
If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present. - Roy Bennett
Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire. - Arab Proverb
Be careful which spirit you allow to dwell in your body. - Lailah Gifty Akita
We all grow up with the weight of history on us. Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as they do in the spiraling chains of knowledge hidden in every cell of our bodies. - Shirley Abbott
Let us not dwell into past thoughts, worn out ideas, false beliefs. Let them go so that you can create a new self by emptying your mind and filling it with new thoughts, ideas, and visions. - Debasish Mridha
A wise person can enter and dwell in his own teacher's knowledge, having realized it for himself through knowledge. - Guatama Buddha
I think women dwell quite a bit on the duress under which they work, on how hard it is just to do it at all. We are traditionally rather proud of ourselves for having slipped creative work in there between the domestic chores and obligations. I'm not sure we deserve such big A-pluses for all that. - Toni Morrison
I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people. - John Henry Newman
I discovered that those who seldom dwell on their emotions know better than anyone else just what an emotion is. - John Cage
Was ever book containing such vile matter so fairly bound? O, that deceit should dwell in such a gorgeous palace! - William Shakespeare
I don't dwell in the past, I just can't forget what's passed. - Nigar Siddiqui
There is a brilliant novel in all of us. Some imagine it…others live it. Authors dwell in an auspicious life by having the ability to fuse the two. - Carl Henegan
Peace is a blue skyWith gentle and kind breezeFilled with love and joyWhich we can dwell and share. - Debasish Mridha
Be careful of what you allow your mind to dwell on. And the words that come out of your mouth. - Lailah Gifty Akita
I've learned it does not do well to dwell on the past. You cannot change it. you can revisit it, you can remember it, but it simply will not change! - Kim Yannayon
Does the imagination dwell the most Upon a woman won or a woman lost? - W.B. Yeats
Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possiblity. - Oprah Winfrey
With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals? - Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Never dwell in resentment, but never forget to learn from the reflection. - Debasish Mridha
Be careful which spirit you allow to dwell in your body. It is better to allow good spirit. - Lailah Gifty Akita
The pain you endure today will lead to a better tomorrow. Don't dwell so much on the pain but focus on the lessons learned. There in lies your strength to rise above all odds. Your best is yet to come. - Kemi Sogunle
If your eyes dwell in your heart; then your inner voice will be your congenial Guide. - Kristian Goldmund Aumann
Some things you cannot see or explain, but they are there, lurking.Some things dwell in the dark: waiting…watching…haunting.Sometimes evil takes on many forms, many faces.And silence is the last thing you hear, when it’s already too late.THE SILENCE - Barry Brickey
People living godly will dwell on high. Meaning wealth, honour, prosperity, fame, elevation, joy etc. - Sunday Adelaja
Don't dwell in comparisons; be your own kinda' beautiful - Soke Behzad Ahmadi
I dwell on God's blessings. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Home is where the love is and where the heart wants to dwell with ease. - Debasish Mridha
Behold, how good and pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity. - Bible
dont dwell on the past when the future smiles bright and the present is by your side - karinush2828
Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy. Peace does not dwell in outward things, but in the heart prepared to wait trustfully and quietly on Him who has all things safely in His hands. - Elisabeth Elliot
One thing I have asked from Jehovah- It is what I will look for- That I may dwell in the house of Jehovah all the days of my life, To gaze upon the pleasantness of Jehovah And to look with appreciation upon his temple. - New World Translation of the World Scriptures
People live in different worlds. There's a rich world, there's a poor world, and there's an extremely poor. The one you dwell is determined by the outcome of your sacrifice. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations, and thou shalt be called, the repairer of the breach, the restorer of paths to dwell in.
The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid. - Bible
I dwell on positive and beauty of life. - Lailah Gifty Akita
You can’t start a new life if you continue to dwell in your past. - Debasish Mridha
I have come to realise that the most critical of the social media accounts are the least verbal in real life and I can assure you that most social media trolls have no physical troll land to dwell. - Aysha Taryam
There are those who wish to read everything. Do not try to do this. Let it> alone. The number of books is infinite, and you cannot follow> infinity...For where there is no end, there can be no rest; where there is> no rest, there can be no peace; and where there is no peace, God cannot> dwell. - Hugh of St. Victor
To make my body a temple pureWherein I dwell serene;To care for the things that shall endure,The simple, sweet and clean.To oust out envy and hate and rage,To breathe with no alarm;For Nature shall be my anchorage,And none shall do me harm. - Robert Service
I dwell in possiblities. - Emily Dickinson
I love words. I crave descriptions that overwhelm my imagination with vivid detail. I dwell on phrases that make my heart thrum. I cherish expressions that pierce my emotions and force the tears to spill over. In essence, I long for a writer's soul sealed in ink on the page. - Richelle E. Goodrich
Our dreams become our home where we dwell. - Debasish Mridha
Do not dwell on past failures or it will ruin your future. - Audrey Phillips
Live and dwell in endless possibilities to find out what is possible. - Debasish Mridha
Yea, though i walk through the valley of the shadow of death, i will fear no evil, for thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me... Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me throughout the rest of my life and i will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. - Bible
O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell! - William Shakespeare
Home is— Where the heart wants to dwell, Where the mind wants to dance, Where the air is always pleasant, And where love is always abundant. - Debasish Mridha
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become. - Oprah Winfrey
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