Dissolving Quotes - Page 2

• You have absorb'd me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I was dissolving.

  John Keats

  Moments, Forgetful, Sensations

  John Keats (1820). “The Complete Works of John Keats”, p.130

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• I feel my sinews slackened with the fright, and a cold sweat trills down all over my limbs, as if I were dissolving into water.

  John Dryden

  Fear, Sweat, Water

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• I've been so lazy all my life. I used to literally lie on the couch, up until the age of 35, fearing that my bones were dissolving like sugar cubes, from disuse.

  Guy Maddin

  Lying, Lazy, Age

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Rise above the dualities, the opposites. See this whole world as the bubbles on the surface of water. See people as bubbles on the surface of the Brahman, of the Infinity...Water bubbles up, rises up. Like that, everybody is rising and having their own games and plays and dissolving back into the Infinite.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Opposites, Games, Play

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• Take the wonder drug that cures all your ills, take Jeremiah Peabody's polyunsaturated, quick dissolving, fast acting, pleasant tasting, green and purple pills.

  Ray Stevens

  Reality, Purple, Drug

  Song: Jeremiah Peabody's Polyunsaturated Quick-Dissolving Fast-Acting Pleasan, Album: Ray Stevens Box Set

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• The analyst's psyche operates as a kind of... something to hold on to while somebody's going through therapy, if they're deconstructing their own psyche, if that's cracking up in some way, or dissolving.

  Susie Orbach

  Way, Kind, Analysts

  Interview with Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2011.

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• Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past.

  Mason Cooley

  Past, Ironic, Narrative

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• Anxiety is a deep conscious breath away from dissolving.

  Michael Dolan

  Worry, Anxiety, Conscious

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• The waves belong to the Ganges, not the Ganges to the waves. A man cannot realize God unless he gets rid of all such egotistic ideas as "I am such an important man" or "I am so and so". Level the mound of "I" to the ground by dissolving it with tears of devotion.

  Ramakrishna

  Men, Ideas, Important

  Ramakrishna, Mahendra Nath Gupta (1942). “The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna”, Ramakrishna Vivekanada Center

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• The powerful and prominent soar like dragons, the heroic and valiant fight like tigers: but if you look upon them with cool eyes, they are like ants gathering on rancid meet, like flies swarming on blood. Judgments of right and wrong bristle like porcupine quills: but if you meet them with cool feelings, that is like a forge melting metal, like hot water dissolving snow.

  Zicheng Hong

  Powerful, Eye, Fighting

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• In the West, it is the opposite, like you are using these practices [meditation and yoga ] to further your ego by being more productive, being more this, and getting more out of your work and earning more money. In the East, the whole idea is that you are dissolving your essence through these practices.

  Karan Bajaj

  Yoga, Essence, Opposites

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• You have to be like the pebble in the stream, keeping the grain and rolling along without being dissolved or dissolving anything else.

  Joseph Joubert

  Rolling Along, Pebbles, Grain

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• The man would stop suffering, when he become capable of dissolving the I.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Men, Suffering, He Man

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• But for me at any rate it was all part of dissolving the God trip or father-figure trip. Facing up to reality instead of always looking for some kind of heaven.

  John Lennon

  God, Father, Reality

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• Medication is of course important but do not conclude that a pill dissolving in your stomach is necessarily more powerful than a healing thought in your mind.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Powerful, Healing, Mind

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2007). “The Tough-Minded Optimist”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• Because we've become so ecologically minded now, they have developed a product called Rapidly Dissolving Toilet Paper. Just how rapidly are we talking? 'Cause I don't want to have to play Beat the Clock in the thicket.

  Bill Engvall

  Talking, Play, Causes

  FaceBook post by Bill Engvall from Mar 28, 2013

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• [My] pictures are about memory and forgetfulness. The evidence is dissolving. Bones crumble; human ash returns to soil; teeth, sandals, hair, bullets, axes disperse into atoms and molecules. Footprints in the snow will be erased by the next storm. The evidence of evil, like the evidence of good, obeys the universal laws of entropy. Heat cools, matter disintegrates, memories fade. If we let them.

  Simon Norfolk

  Memories, Axes, Law

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• The world's great age begins anew, The golden years return, The earth doth like a snake renew Her winter weeds outworn; Heaven smiles, and faiths and empires gleam, Like wrecks of a dissolving dream.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Weed, Dream, Winter

  'Hellas' (1822) l. 1060

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• Lightning my pilot sits; In a cavern under is fettered the thunder, It struggles and howls at fits; Over earth and ocean, with gentle motion, This pilot is guiding me, Lured by the love of the genii that move In the depths of the purple sea; Over the rills, and the crags, and the hills, Over the lakes and the plains, Wherever he dream, under mountain or stream The Spirit he loves remains; And I all the while bask in heaven's blue smile, Whilst he is dissolving in rains.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Dream, Rain, Ocean

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1847). “The works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, ed. by mrs. Shelley”, p.259

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• The human race has not devised any way of dissolving barriers, getting to know the other chap fast, breaking the ice, that is one-tenth as handy and efficient as letting you and the other chap, or chaps, cease to be totally sober at about the same rate in agreeable surroundings.

  Kingsley Amis

  Ice, Race, Way

  Kingsley Amis (2010). “Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis”, p.4, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• The change is from inner to outer. We start by dissolving our attitude not by altering outer conditions.

  Bruce Lee

  Attitude, Conditions

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.120, Tuttle Publishing

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• Life is change, to cease to change is to cease to live; yet if you may shed a tear beside the death-bed of an old friend, let not your heart be silent on the dissolving of a faith.

  James Anthony Froude

  Heart, Old Friends, Tears

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The Nemesis of Faith”, p.34

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• So the idea is to triangulate a sufficiently large number of data points in your set of experience that you can make a model of the world that is not imprisoning. That's why, second to psychedelics, I think travel is the most boundary-dissolving, educational enterprise that you can get mixed up in.

  Terence McKenna

  Educational, Thinking, Data

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• Zen is the fastest method I know of, aside from mysticism, of dissolving the fixations people have about spiritual practice and themselves.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Practice, People

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• Privacy is rarely lost in one fell swoop. It is usually eroded over time, little bits dissolving almost imperceptibly until we finally begin to notice how much is gone.

  Daniel J. Solove

  Littles, Gone, Privacy

  Daniel J. Solove (2011). “Nothing to Hide: The False Tradeoff Between Privacy and Security”, p.30, Yale University Press

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