Floating Quotes - Page 4

• Sifting daylight dissolves the memory, turns it into dust motes floating in light.

  Toni Morrison

  Memories, Light, Dust

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• A lot of people spend their time just floating/ We were victims together but lonely.

  Jack Johnson

  Lonely, People, Together

  Song: If I Had Eyes, Album: Sleep Through The Static, 2008

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• This is how to contemplate our conditioned existence in this fleeting world:
  
  Like a tiny drop of dew, or a bubble floating in a stream;
  Like a flash of lightning in a summer cloud,
  Or a flickering lamp, an illusion, a phantom, or a dream.
  
  So is all conditioned existence to be seen.

  Gautama Buddha

  Summer, Dream, Clouds

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• How many others were walking around and not even knowing that someone far away cared for them? Imagine all that love floating in the air, waiting to land on someone's life!

  Pam Muñoz Ryan

  Air, Land, Knowing

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• All the time we wondered and wondered, who is this person coming/growing/turning/floating/swimming deep, deep inside.

  Crescent Dragonwagon

  Love, Pregnancy, Swimming

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• She was like a lone angel floating above the surface of the earth, laughing with delight because she could fly but crying out of loneliness.

  Markus Zusak

  Loneliness, Angel, Laughing

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• It's an abnormal world I live in. I don't belong anywhere. It's like I'm floating down the middle. I'm never quite sure where I am.

  Arthur Ashe

  Justice, Diversity, Culture

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• Ecstatic Love is an ocean, and the Milky Way is a flake of foam floating on it.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Ocean, Love Is

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• The law of floatation was not discovered by contemplating the sinking of things, but by contemplating the floating of things which floated naturally, and then intelligently asking why they did so.

  Thomas Troward

  Creativity, Law, Asking Why

  Thomas Troward (2007). “The Edinburgh and Dore Lectures on Mental Science”, p.69, Cosimo, Inc.

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• My mother has always been the point I calibrated myself against. In knowing where she was, I could always locate myself, as well. These months she'd been gone, I felt like I'd been floating, loose and boundaryless, but now that I knew where she was, I kept waiting for a kind of certainty to kick in. It didn't. Instead, I was more unsure than ever, stuck between this new life and the one I'd left behind.

  Sarah Dessen

  Mother, Knowing, Waiting

  "Lock and Key". Book by Sarah Dessen, 2008.

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• All human beings are like travelers floating down the eternal river of time, embarking at a certain point and disembarking again at another point in order to make room for others waiting below the river to come aboard.

  Lin Yutang

  Death, Order, Rivers

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• Floating, falling, sweet intoxication. Touch me, trust me, savour each sensation. Let the dream begin, let your darker side give in.

  Charles Hart

  Trust, Dream, Sweet

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• anyone lived in a pretty how town
  (with up so floating many bells down)
  spring summer autumn winter
  he sang his didn't he danced his did.

  e. e. cummings

  Summer, Spring, Autumn

  '50 Poems' (1949) no. 29

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• He didn't reject the idea so much as not react to it and watch as it floated away. He thought very broadly of desires and ideas being watched but not acted upon, he thought of impulses being starved of expression and dying out and floating dryly away.

  David Foster Wallace

  Expression, Ideas, Dying

  David Foster Wallace (2011). “Infinite Jest”, p.26, Hachette UK

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• In this life, your so-called ordinary life, you must be rooted; and in your inner space, in the spiritual life, you must be weightless and flying and flowing, floating.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Spiritual, Space

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• Why does the thin grey strand
  Floating up from the forgotten
  Cigarette between my fingers,
  Why does it trouble me?

  D. H. Lawrence

  Doe, Forgotten, Trouble

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.4222, Delphi Classics

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• The ocean of Spirit has become the little bubble of my soul. Whether floating in birth, or disappearing in death, in the ocean of cosmic awareness the bubble of my life cannot die. I am indestructible consciousness, protected in the bosom of Spirit’s immortality.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Ocean, Soul, Littles

  Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1956). “Self-realization Magazine”

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• For hundreds of thousands of years I have been dust-grains floating and flying in the will of the air, often forgetting ever being in that state, but in sleep I migrate back.

  Rumi

  Sleep, Air, Dust

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.81, Lulu.com

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• Holy flowers floating in the air, were all these tired faces in the dawn of Jazz America.

  Jack Kerouac

  Flower, Tired, Air

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “Road Novels 1957-1960”

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• It's drugs, isn't it"? Tara was so innocent. She got pulled into that glamorous lifestyle with all her rich friends...all that cocaine dust floating around, she probably inhaled some by accident, and then -' 'There's no such thing as secondhand cocaine snorting, Mom.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Mom, Dust, Drug

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.242, St. Martin's Press

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• Behind my work was ambition, behind my love was personality, behind my purity was fear, behind my guidance the thirst for power. Now they are vanishing and I drift. I come, Mother, I come, in Thy warm bosom, floating wheresoever Thou takest me, in the voiceless, in the strange, in the wonderland, I come - a spectator, no more an actor.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mother, Ambition, Personality

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3000, Manonmani Publishers

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• I think our children will be living on floating cities, and they will look back on the 20th Century, when people lived in primitive governments founded in previous centuries, and they will be living on modular, sustainable, floating cities that we can't imagine now, that are based on the voluntary choice of citizens. I think we will have a marvellous world in the 21st Century.

  Joe Quirk

  Children, Thinking, Government

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Grateful to be a little boat, full of water, still floating.

  John Green

  Hipster, Grateful, Water

  FaceBook post by John Green from Oct 14, 2013

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• We're free out here, really free for the first time. We're floating, literally. Gravity can't bow our backs or break our arches or tame our ideas. You know, it's only out here that stupid people like us can really think. The weightlessness gets our thoughts and we can sort them. Ideas grow out here like nowhere else - it's the right environment for them. Anyone can get into space, if he wants to hard enough. The ticket is a dream.

  Fritz Leiber

  Dream, Stupid, Thinking

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• I feel like I'm 100 years old. I can't tell you what I did today. I can't tell you what I did for seven years. I can't tell you. It happens so seamlessly - I'm just floating along and seven years go by.

  Fiona Apple

  Years, Today, Seven

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