Quotation Explorer - 'Dwelling'

Dwelling on the past is like dragging a boat over dry land. - Sheila Burke
Life is at the bottom of things and belief at the top, while the creative impulse, dwelling in the center, informs all. - Patti Smith
Thought; the dwelling home of the invisible thing that commands the visible things - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Happiness is always there. You just have to choose to see it. There's no point dwelling in the dark and ignoring the light of the stars. - Carrie Hope Fletcher
No one can attain to truth by himself. Only by laying stone on stone with the cooperation of all, by the millions of generations from our forefather Adam to our own times, is that temple reared which is to be a worthy dwelling place of the Great God. - Leo Tolstoy
In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present. - Lao Tzu
Forgive your past because it the vehicle through your process and from this point forward your life is made of 100% future; Caterpillars always look up despite having no wings... and butterflies don't waste time crying over the legs they lost or dwelling on on the ground. - Johnnie Dent Jr.
One of my greatest lessons of growth was to stop dwelling in the past and forgive myself and others from all the pain and hurt that was caused. When I finally let go and released, I was free with glee. - Jason Micheal Ratliff
Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power. - Shirley MacLaine
Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling in them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself. - Bertolt Brecht
Dwelling among shipwrecked dreams and losing oneself in wishful thinking cannot be a solution to tribulations. Identifying cracks and apprehending the defaults in one's life is essential to find a way to get out of a ghetto and to start a search for a new haven. ("The world was somewhere else" ) - Erik Pevernagie
There are only two ways to solve a problem: stop dwelling, and start doing. - Emily Uraih
we all get waves of regret sometimesbut instead of dwelling on what you can’t change,start focusing on what you can. - Alexandra Elle
Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.
Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified. - William Shakespeare
Hope and Memory have one daughter and her name is Art, and she has built her dwelling far from the desperate field where men hang out their garments upon forked boughs to be banners of battle. O beloved daughter of Hope and Memory, be with me for a while. - W.B. Yeats
The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth, dwelling deeply in the present moment and feeling truly alive. - Thich Nhat Hanh
CREDITOR, n. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions. - Ambrose Bierce
Nothing takes you away from dwelling in the past or worrying about the future like living in the present. - Roy T. Bennett
O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams. - Augustine of Hippo
Bound, elbow to elbow, darkness and night entered the dwelling. - Luis Buñuel
Your house is not your home.My world is not your world.Your thoughts are your homewhere you're dwelling all along. - Debasish Mridha
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. - Aristotle
Time that is spent dwelling on the past will surely continue in your present moment - and the future. - Michelle Cruz-Rosado
The warrior learns of the spiritual realm by dwelling on the cutting edge of the sword, standing at the edge of the fire pit, venturing right up to the edge of starvation if necessary. Vibrant and intense living is the warrior's form of worship. - Stephen K. Hayes
The body is a dwelling of the spirit. - Sunday Adelaja
Diogenes, filthily attired, paced across the splendid carpets in Plato's dwelling. Thus, said he, do I trample on the pride of Plato. Yes, Plato replied, but only with another kind of pride. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The past is no good if you can't learn from it; therefore, no sense in dwelling on it. - Arians Karlovičs
Dwelling on thoughts gives birth to feelings. - Sunday Adelaja
A song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice. - Thomas Aquinas
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