Beads Quotes

• Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue. . . .

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Happiness, Dream

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.473, Library of America

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• We are all beads strung together on the same thread of love.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Together, Thread

  Twitter post from Feb 12, 2016

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• The most important thing I can tell you about aging is this: If you really feel that you want to have an off-the-shoulder blouse and some big beads and thong sandals and a dirndl skirt and a magnolia in your hair, do it. Even if you're wrinkled.

  Maya Angelou

  Hair, Important, Want

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• Friendship, awareness, happiness, all of the arts of the good life, are brilliant beads strung on the golden cord of love.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Art, Good Life, Golden

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• I belong to no race nor time. I am the eternal feminine with its string of beads.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Race, Feminine, Strings

  Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.155, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• Wearing love beads and touting our sincerity will not make this a safer world.

  Ronald Reagan

  Love Is, World, Sincerity

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• Love is our true essence. Love has no limitations of caste, religion, race, or nationality. We are all beads strung together on the same thread of love. To awaken this unity-and to spread to others the love that is our inherent nature-is the true goal of human life.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Inspirational, Love Is, Race

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• Every seam, every lace, every bead has been painstakingly, with love, corrected, perfected and mastered.

  Zac Posen

  Lace, Has Beens

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• On the motionless branches of some trees, autumn berries hung like clusters of coral beads, as in those fabled orchards where the fruits were jewels . . .

  Charles Dickens

  Nature, Autumn, Jewels

  Charles Dickens (1867). “The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit”, p.5

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• Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads Let love through good deeds show.

  Edwin Arnold

  Charity, Deeds, Crystals

  Edwin Arnold (2015). “Collected Works of Edwin Arnold: Buddhism and Hinduism Studies, Poetry & Plays (Unabridged): The Essence of Buddhism, Light of the World, The Light of Asia, The Song Celestial, Indian Poetry, Hindu Literature, The Japanese Wife, Death--And Afterwards…”, p.352, e-artnow

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• Meditation doesn't have to be complicated. What I do is about as simple as you can get. You could just count the beads, one, two, three, with your eyes closed or open, whatever makes you happy.

  Lou Reed

  Eye, Simple, Two

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The painful things seemed like knots on a beautiful necklace, necessary for keeping the beads in place.

  Anita Diament

  Beautiful, Necklaces, Painful

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• Day is like day as two beads in a rosary, unless changes of weather form the only variety.

  Henryk Sienkiewicz

  Weather, Two, Rosary

  Henryk Sienkiewicz (1898). “Sielanka: A Forest Picture, and Other Stories”

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• It is just an illusion here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone, it is gone forever.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Forever, Slaughterhouse Five, Gone

  Harold Bloom, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (2009). “Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five”, p.9, Infobase Publishing

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• The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.

  Hermann Hesse

  Book, Ideas, Taught

  Hermann Hesse (2002). “The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel”, p.83, Macmillan

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• It's such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string — when one slips off, all the rest follow.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Hero, Finance, Strings

  "The League of Youth and Pillars of Society".

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• When I was a kid, I was trendier. I'd wear anything. I was in love beads and platforms...

  Michael Kors

  Kids, Platforms

  Interview with Lauren Hutton, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 20, 2011.

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• I can't tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I've got a good bead on myself.

  Dolly Parton

  Running, Believe, I Can

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• Real life isn't a series of interconnected events occurring one after another - like beads strung on a necklace. Life is actually a series of encounters in which one event may change those that follow in a wholly unpredictable, even devastating way.

  Michael Crichton

  Real, Encounters, Events

  Michael Crichton (1997). “Michael Crichton's Jurassic World”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• There is nothing worse than silence, strung like heavy beads on too delicate a conversation.

  Jodi Picoult

  Silence, Heavy, Conversation

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten, - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.

  Brenda Ueland

  Children, Writing, Creativity

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• How many times do I love, again?
  Tell me how many beads there are
  In a silver chain
  Of evening rain
  Unravelled from the trembling main
  And threading the eye of a yellow star:-
  So many times do I love again.

  Thomas Lovell Beddoes

  Love, Life, Valentines Day

  Thomas Lovell Beddoes, “Song From Torrismond”

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• If I look back, my mother was always out. I can remember the perfume and her scarlet chiffon dress and crystal beads, going to a party. She used to play her violin at restaurants later on in life and at old people's homes. She loved the races, which she used to take me to as a child: our carpets were bought with her winnings. Loved her chickens.

  Celia Imrie

  Mother, Children, Party

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• The hooded clouds, like friars, Tell their beads in drops of rain.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Rain, Clouds, Friars

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.6

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• Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Snakes, Enemy, Wish

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