Floating Quotes

• And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor, Shall be lifted -- Nevermore!

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Halloween, Lying, Ravens

  "The Raven" l. 107 (1845)

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• How sweet to be a Cloud. Floating in the Blue!

  A. A. Milne

  Sweet, Clouds, Blue

  Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) ch. 1

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• To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

  Alan Watts

  Inspirational, Trust, Faith

  "The Essence of Alan Watts". Book by Alan Watts, 1977.

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• Being relaxed, at peace with yourself, confident, emotionally neutral loose, and free-floating - these are the keys to successful performance in almost everything.

  Wayne Dyer

  Peace, Successful, Keys

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Apr 19, 2015

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• The soul, light as a feather, fluid as water, innocent as a child, responds to every movement of grace like a floating balloon.

  Jean-Pierre de Caussade

  Children, Light, Water

  Louis Lallemant, Jean Pierre de Caussade, Claude De La Colombiere, Jean-Pierre Lafouge (2006). “For God's Greater Glory: Gems of Jesuit Spirituality”, p.73, World Wisdom, Inc

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• Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.

  Ava Gardner

  Perfect, Water, Doing Nothing

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

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• I'm floating inside my skin. I could go on floating like this for days. Right now, the real world with its heartbreak and disappointments is just a pulse against the protective membrane we've drunk ourselves into. It's somewhere outside us, waiting." A Great and Terrible Beauty, Page 141, by

  Libba Bray

  Disappointment, Real, Drunk

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.126, Delacorte Press

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• Creativity is a lot like looking at the world through a kaleidoscope. You look at a set of elements, the same ones everyone else sees, but then reassemble those floating bits and pieces into an enticing new possibility.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Leadership, Creativity, Kaleidoscope

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• I used to walk like a giant on the land. Now I feel like a leaf floating in a stream

  Neil Young

  Land, Giants, Leafs

  "Song: 'Walk Like A Giant'". 2012.

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• Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

  Muhammad Ali

  Strength, Sports, Inspiration

  Twitter post from Nov 24, 2014

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• The heavens are full of floating mysteries.

  Thomas Buchanan Read

  Heaven, Mystery

  Thomas Buchanan Read (1855). “Poems by Thomas Buchanan Read”, p.246

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• Ingnore your thoughts. As you focus more intensely, you may feel as if you are floating.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Chakra Meditation, Focus

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• And both of them remained floating in an empty universe where the only everyday & eternal reality was love.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Reality, Everyday, Empty

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• it's the belief, not the words, that mean everything. it's the floating.

  David Levithan

  Mean, Belief

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• There will be no floating waway. There will be no other reality tonight.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Reality, Tonight

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• At a certain place in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, for example, he might feel that he is floating above the earth in a starry dome, with the dream of immortality in his heart; all the stars seem to glimmer around him, and the earth seems to sink ever deeper downwards.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dream, Stars, Heart

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1984). “Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.106, U of Nebraska Press

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• She waited for the train to pass. Then she said, "I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s at the bottom. All you can do is imagine by what comes floating to the surface every once in a while.

  Haruki Murakami

  Heart, Thinking, People

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jun 13, 2011

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• Nothing's gonna stop me from floating

  Tori Amos

  Song: Father Lucifer, Album: Boys for Pele, 1996

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• I am nothing. I’m like someone who’s been thrown into the ocean at night, floating all alone. I reach out, but no one is there. I call out, but no one answers. I have no connection to anything.

  Haruki Murakami

  Ocean, Night, Numbness

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Nov 09, 2013

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• She would be half a planet away, floating in a turquoise sea, dancing by moonlight to flamenco guitar.

  Janet Fitch

  Ocean, Guitar, Sea

  Janet Fitch (2002). “White Oleander”, Large Print Press

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• But most days, I wander around feeling invisible. Like I'm a speck of dust floating in the air that can only be seen when a shaft of light hits it.

  Sonya Sones

  Light, Air, Dust

  Sonya Sones (2013). “One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

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• In so many roles I've played the outsider. As an outsider, you have more energy to succeed simply because you are an outsider. There are scripts floating around but they're not coming my way and I think that I am getting a little bit too old to play Napoleon. But if I was ever offered the role I would grab it.

  David Suchet

  Thinking, Play, Energy

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Sometimes my fancy gets to floating inside me, threatening to carry me away like a leaf on a wind. Better to be a stone.

  Shannon Hale

  Wind, Stones, Fancy

  Shannon Hale (2010). “Book of a Thousand Days”, p.98, A&C Black

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• One must explore deep and believe the incredible to find the new particles of truth floating in an ocean of insignificance.

  Joseph Conrad

  Believe, Ocean, Incredibles

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “The Selected Letters of Joseph Conrad”, p.145, Cambridge University Press

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• Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

  "Stray Birds". Book by Rabindranath Tagore, 1916.

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