Dwelling Quotes

• We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.

  Winston Churchill

  Home, Shapes, Tradition

  Sir Winston Churchill (1954). “Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait”

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• Man is spiritual being -- a soul, in other words -- and that this soul takes on different bodies from life to life on earth to order at last to arrive at such perfect knowledge, through repeated experience, as to enable one to assume a body fit to be the dwelling-place of a Mahatma or perfected soul. Then, they say, that particular soul becomes a spiritual helper to mankind.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Spiritual, Men, Dwelling Place

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• It is never good dwelling on good-byes ... it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.

  Elizabeth Bibesco

  Love, Being Alone, Bye

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

  Marianne Williamson

  Letting Go, Past, Live In The Present

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• Culture makes the whole world our dwelling place; our palace in which we take our ease and find ourselves at one with all things.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Dwelling Place, Culture, Ease

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.

  Simone Weil

  Truth, Long, House

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.27, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• 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.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Family

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• It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone ch. 12 (1997)

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• The first peace, which is the most important,
  is that which comes within the souls of people
  when they realize their relationship,
  their oneness with the universe and all its powers,
  and when they realize that at the center of the universe
  dwells the Great Spirit,
  and that this center is really everywhere,
  it is within each of us.

  Black Elk

  Inspirational, Relationship, Wisdom

  "The Sacred Pipe: Black Elk's Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux". Book by Black Elk and Joseph Epes Brown, 1953.

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• Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.

  William Blake

  Love, House, Mercy

  William Blake (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Blake (Illustrated)”, p.893, Delphi Classics

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

  Laozi

  Simple, Thinking, Tao Te Ching

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• For the perfect idler, for the passionate observer it becomes an immense source of enjoyment to establish his dwelling in the throng, in the ebb and flow, the bustle, the fleeting and the infinite. To be away from home and yet to feel at home anywhere; to see the world, to be at the very centre of the world, and yet to be unseen of the world, such are some of the minor pleasures of those independent, intense and impartial spirits, who do not lend themselves easily to linguistic definitions. The observer is a prince enjoying his incognito wherever he goes.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Travel, Home, Independent

  "The Painter of Modern Life".

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• Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Motivational, Positive Thinking, Negativity

  Shirley Maclaine (2011). “Out on a Limb”, p.364, Bantam

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• 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

  Plato, Men, Coward

  Plato (2015). “The Complete Plato”, p.166, Booklassic

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• Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Friendship, Best Friend

  In Diogenes Laertius 'Lives of Eminent Philosophers' bk. 5, sect. 20

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• O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.

  Saint Augustine

  Heart, Dark, Catholic

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• Nationalism - in other words, the dividing of the church into bodies - consisting of such and such a nation, is a novelty, not above three centuries old, although many dear children of God are found dwelling in it.

  John Nelson Darby

  Children, Church, Three

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• Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.

  Richard E. Byrd

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Richard E. Byrd (2003). “Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure”, p.189, Island Press

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• The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity.

  Thomas Mann

  House, Humanity, Important

  The New York Times, June 21, 1939.

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• It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.

  Winston Churchill

  Heart, Good Luck, Race

  Speech at Westminster Hall, London, 30 Nov. 1954

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• When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.

  Dian Fossey

  Inspirational, Life, Witty

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• A dwelling should be not a retreat from space, but life in space.

  Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

  Home, Space, Retreat

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• A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences.

  Norman Cousins

  Fashion, Thinking, Doe

  Norman Cousins (1974). “The celebration of life: a dialogue on immortality and infinity”, Harper San Francisco

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• Yes, forget your weakness, whatever that weakness may be. It is egotism, it is selfishness after. all, for it is a dwelling on self. Forget your weakness; and remember your strength.

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot

  Self, House, Weakness

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot (Bishop of Durham) (1890). “Ordination addresses and counsels to clergy”

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• Maybe I spent more time dwelling on emotions than some people, and maybe that's why I ended up writing.

  Iris DeMent

  Writing, People, Emotion

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