Grains Of Sand Quotes

• It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

  Robert W. Service

  Anger, Adversity, Climbing

  "Sand: The Never-ending Story". Book by Michael Welland, p. 30, 2009.

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• Faith as tiny as a grain of sand allows us to move mountains.

  Paulo Coelho

  Moving, Mountain, Tiny

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• From a grain of sand in the Pearl comes.

  Confucius

  Pearls, Sand, Grain

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• From an endless beach of reality, we take a grain of sand and call it the world.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Beach, Reality, World

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  Sometimes, that mountain you've been climbing, is just a grain of sand.

  Carrie Underwood

  Climbing, Mountain, Sometimes

  Song: So Small, Album: Carnival Ride, 2007

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• All that mankind has ever learned is nothing more than a single grain of sand on a beach that reaches to infinity.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Beach, Infinity, Sand

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• Individually, every grain of sand brushing against my hands represents a story, an experience, and a block for me to build upon for the next generation.

  Raquel Cepeda

  Block, Hands, Generations

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• Heaven is in a grain of sand.

  William Blake

  Heaven, Sand, Grain

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  To see a world in a grain of sand
  And a heaven in a wild flower,
  Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
  And eternity in an hour.

  William Blake

  Inspirational, Happiness, Peace

  'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 1

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• Infinity is present in each part. A loving smile contains all art. The motes of starlight spark and dart. A grain of sand holds power and might.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Inspiring, Art, Thoughtful

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• I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand.

  Og Mandino

  Mountain, Purpose, Sand

  Og Mandino (2007). “The Greatest Secret In The World”, p.52, Jaico Publishing House

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• Little drops of water, little grains of sand,
  Make the mighty ocean, and the pleasant land.
  So the little minutes, humble though they be,
  Make the mighty ages of eternity.

  Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney

  Time, Ocean, Humble

  Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney, “Little Things”

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• Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

  Robert W. Service

  Inspirational, Success, Climbing

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• I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Motivational, Courage

  Og Mandino (1991). “Og Mandino”, Outlet

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• In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.

  Rachel Carson

  Beach, Nature, Ocean

  Rachel Carson (2011). “Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson”, p.114, Beacon Press

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• The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.

  Carl Sagan

  Beach, Stars, Numbers

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.221, Ballantine Books

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• If all the circumstances of acting are made to easy, then there's no grain of sand to make the pearl.

  Peter Sarsgaard

  Acting, Pearls, Sand

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• Our life is but a grain of sand in the indifferent ocean of infinity.

  Sergei Dovlatov

  Ocean, Infinity, Life Is

  Sergei Dovlatov (2011). “The Suitcase: A Novel”, p.13, Counterpoint Press

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• I am the infinite sea, and all worlds are but grains of sand upon my shore.

  Khalil

  Sea, World, Infinite

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• Hold infinity in the palm of your hand.

  William Blake

  Nature, Flower, Eternity Of Life

  'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 1

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• We all start out knowing magic. We are born with whirlwinds, forest fires, and comets inside us. We are born able to sing to birds and read the clouds and see our destiny in grains of sand. But then we get the magic educated right out of our souls.

  Robert R. McCammon

  Learning, Destiny, Fire

  Robert R. McCammon (2011). “Boy's Life”, p.6, Open Road Media

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• In the fury of the moment/ I can see the Master's hand In every leaf that trembles, in/ every grain of sand.

  Bob Dylan

  Religious, Hands, Religion

  Song: Every Grain of Sand, Album: Shot of Love, 1981

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• ...like a grain of sand that gets into an oyster's shell. What if the grain doesn't want to become a pearl? Is it ever asked to climb out quietly and take up its old position as a bit of ocean floor?

  Robin McKinley

  Ocean, Oysters, What If

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• You must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Change, Evil, Decision

  A Wizard of Earthsea ch. 3 (1968)

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• Love all God’s creation, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf, every ray of light. Love the animals, love the plants, love each separate thing. If thou love each thing thou wilt perceive the mystery of God in all; and when once thou perceive this, thou wilt thenceforward grow every day to a fuller understanding of it: until thou come at last to love the whole world with a love that will then be all-embracing and universal.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Love, Animal, Light

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