Mud Quotes - Page 8

• We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time, or we shall stick in the mud. Yet neither must we undertake a new world as catastrophic Utopians, and wreck our civilization in our hurry to mend it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Civilization, Done, World

  George Bernard Shaw (1987). “Back to Methuselah”, p.443, Penguin UK

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• I can still recall vividly how Freud said to me, "My dear Jung, promise me never to abandon the sexual theory. That is the most essential thing of all. You see, we must make a dogma of it, an unshakable bulwark" ... In some astonishment I asked him, "A bulwark-against what?" To which he replied, "Against the black tide of mud"-and here he hesitated for a moment, then added of occultism.

  Carl Jung

  Science, Promise, Black

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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• If you, through poor judgment, were to cover your shoes with mud, would you leave them that way? Of course not. You would cleanse and restore them. Would you then gather the residue of mud and place it in an envelope to show others the mistake that you made? No. Neither should you continue to relive forgiven sin. Every time such thoughts come into your mind, turn your heart in gratitude to the Savior, who gave His life that we, through faith in Him and obedience to His teachings, can overcome transgression and conquer its depressing influence in our lives.

  Richard G. Scott

  Forgiveness, Gratitude, Depressing

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• The University of Timbuktu never existed. The only thing that existed in Timbuktu was a small mud hut.

  R.J. Rushdoony

  Timbuktu, University, Huts

  "The Institutes of Biblical Law". Book by R.J. Rushdoony, 1973.

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• The work of the world is common as mud.

  Marge Piercy

  World, Common

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Circles on the Water”, p.106, Knopf

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• When the mind is turbulent, uncontrolled and restless, it is like a pond of water that is filled with mud. Therefore when we look within ourselves, all we perceive is the mud of our material conceptions of life. But when the mind is still through discipline, and through yoga, it is like a pond that has no waves and no turbulence. Then we can perceive through that crystal clear water the eternal nature of our soul.

  Radhanath Swami

  Yoga, Discipline, Water

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• The flower of #‎ consciousness needs the mud out of which it grows.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Flower, Needs, Consciousness

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• Two men look out a window. One sees mud, the other sees the stars.

  Oscar Wilde

  Stars, Men, Two

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• Give me some mud off a city crossing, some ochre out of a gravel pit and a little whitening and some coal dust and I will paint you a luminous picture if you give me time to gradate my mud and subdue my dust.

  John Ruskin

  Dust, Cities, Giving

  John Ruskin (2012). “The Elements of Drawing”, p.149, Courier Corporation

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• Beneath the light, the river and hills are beautiful, The spring breeze bears the fragrance of flowers and grass. The mud has thawed, and swallows fly around. On the warm sand, mandarin ducks are sleeping.

  Du Fu

  Beautiful, Spring, Flower

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• Love it when a compelling new character kicks open your mental door, tracks mud across your brain, and props their feet up on your cerebrum.

  Don Roff

  Character, Doors, Feet

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• He who hopes for spring with upturned eye never sees so small a thing as Draba. He who despairs of spring with downcast eye steps on it, unknowing. He who searches for spring with his knees in the mud finds it, in abundance.

  Aldo Leopold

  Spring, Eye, Despair

  Aldo Leopold, Michael Sewell (2001). “A Sand County Almanac”, p.56, Oxford University Press

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• It's nice to see you again, Laura." "Thank you, Mrs. T-" "No, no, no. Please, my name is-" "Mud," I suggested. "Mud Barfbag Taylor. Call her Asshat for short." ~Laura, Antonia, Betsy

  MaryJanice Davidson

  Nice, Names, Antonia

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• It's like growing lotus flowers. You cannot grow lotus flowers on marble. You have to grow them on the mud. Without mud you cannot have lotus flowers. Without suffering, you have no way to learn how to be understanding and compassionate.

  Nhat Hanh

  Attitude, Flower, Understanding

  "Being Peace in a World of Trauma". "On Being" with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. January 4, 2007.

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• Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Life, Ocean, People

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.109, University of Illinois Press

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• My love and I are inventing a country, which we can already see taking shape, as if wheels were passing through yellow mud. But there is a problem: if we put a river in the country, it will thaw and begin flooding. If we put the river on the border, there will be trouble. If we forget about the river, there will be now way out. There is already a sky over that country, waiting for clouds or smoke. Birds have flown into it, too. Each evening more trees fill with their eyes, and what they see we can never erase.

  Larry Levis

  Country, Eye, Clouds

  Larry Levis (1998). “The Afterlife: Poems”, Carnegie Mellon

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• A messy mortal is my friend. Come walk with me in the mud.

  Hugh Prather

  Messy, Walk With Me, Walks

  Hugh Prather (2009). “Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person”, p.162, Bantam

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• Then he kissed her, not just a brush of lips as she'd done, but a kiss a kiss that scalded her tongue. The tree burst into full blooms. The garden fluttered around her. A riot of flowers shot out of the earth. She was mud-covered as he pulled back.

  Melissa Marr

  Flower, Kissing, Garden

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• He who searches for spring with his knees in the mud finds it, in abundance.

  Aldo Leopold

  Spring, Knees, Abundance

  Aldo Leopold, Michael Sewell (2001). “A Sand County Almanac”, p.56, Oxford University Press

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• I'm actually as common as mud. I'm not particularly well read, or bred. But the way I look... I seem to have this sort of 'aristocratic' demeanor.

  Charles Dance

  Looks, Way, Common

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• A flower can't grow without rain. (Alexion) Too much rain and it drowns. (Danger) And yet the most beautiful of the lotus flowers are the ones that grow in the deepest mud. (Alexion)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Beautiful, Rain, Flower

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• Our souls demand Purgatory, don't they? Would it not break the heart if God said to us, It is true, my son, that your breath smells and your rags drip with mud and slime, but we are charitable here and no one will upbraid you with these things, nor draw away from you. Enter into joy? Should we not reply, With submission, sir, and if there is no objection, I'd rather be cleansed first. It may hurt, you know-even so, sir.

  C. S. Lewis

  Hurt, Heart, Son

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.222, Simon and Schuster

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• Yes, yes, I'm coming. Right up the top of the house. One moment I'll linger. How the mud goes round in the mind-what a swirl these monsters leave, the waters rocking, the weeds waving and green here, black there, striking to the sand, till by degrees the atoms reassemble, the deposit sifts itself, and a gain through the eyes one sees clear and still, and there comes to the lips some prayer for the departed, some obsequy for the souls of those one nods to, the one never meets again.

  Virginia Woolf

  Weed, Prayer, Eye

  Virginia Woolf (2014). “Monday or Tuesday: Eight Stories”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• A true preacher is best measured not by how many bouquets have been pinned on him but by how many brickbats have been pitched at him. Prophets have been on the receiving end of mud more than medals.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Receiving, Bouquets

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• I am determined, even if they throw mud in my face, never to show any resentment, nor break with them, nor deviate from the esteem and honor I owe them in the sight of God. If they forget themselves and say or do something offensive against your little bark, even if it is done purposely to make it sink, bear with it for the love of God, who will save you from shipwreck and calm the storm. Do not complain or even say a single work about it. In spite of everything, continue to compliment them when you meet, as if nothing were amiss.

  Vincent de Paul

  Wisdom, Sight, Honor

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents”

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