Pearls Quotes

• The world is your oyster. It's up to you to find the pearls.

  Chris Gardner

  Inspirational, Pursuit Of Happiness, Oysters

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• Pearls are always appropriate.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Fashion, Appropriate

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• The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Heart, Men, Sea

  Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.1171, Delphi Classics

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• The pearl is the queen of gems and the gem of queens.

  Grace Kelly

  Queens, Jewels, Jewelry Boxes

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• Whatever pearl you seek, look for the pearl within the pearl!

  Rumi

  Wisdom, Looks

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• The sea hath its pearls
  The heaven hath its stars
  But my heart, my heart
  Has its love.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Romantic, Boyfriend, Stars

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1849). “The Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; Complete in One Volume”, p.113

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• God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls and coal into diamonds using time and pressure. He's working on you, too.

  Rick Warren

  I Hate You, Butterfly, Anxiety

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• Those who look for seashells will find seashells; those who open them will find pearls.

  Al-Ghazali

  Looks

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• From a grain of sand in the Pearl comes.

  Confucius

  Sand, Grains Of Sand, Grain

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• Said one oyster to a neighboring oyster, "I have a very great pain within me. It is heavy and round and I am in distress." And the other oyster replied with haughty complacence, "Praise be to the heavens and to the sea, I have no pain within me. I am well and whole both within and without." At that moment a crab was passing by and heard the two oysters, and he said to the one who was well and whole both within and without, "Yes, you are well and whole; but the pain that your neighbor bears is a pearl of exceeding beauty."

  Khalil Gibran

  Beauty, Pain, Oysters

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• The most extraordinary thing about the oyster is this. Irritations set into his shell. He does not like them. But when he cannot get ride of them, he uses the irritation to do the loveliest thing an oyster ever has a chance to do. If there are irritations in our lives today, there is only one prescription: make a pearl. It may have to be a pearl of patience, but anyhow, make a pearl. And it takes faith and I love to do it.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Love, Faith, Irritation

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• Whenever sorrow comes, be kind to it.
  For God has placed a pearl in sorrow’s hand.

  Rumi

  Hands, Sorrow, Be Kind

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• The moon in her chariot of pearl

  Oscar Wilde

  Moon, Chariots

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Short Stories”, p.357, Cosimo, Inc.

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• At root, a pearl is a 'disturbance' a beauty caused by something that isn't supposed to be there, about which something needs to be done. It is the interruption of equilibrium that creates beauty. Beauty is a response to provocation, to intrusion. ... The pearl's beauty is made as a result of insult.

  Julia Cameron

  Beauty, Roots, Needs

  Julia Cameron (2005). “The Sound of Paper”, p.14, Penguin

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• Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

  Tahar Ben Jelloun

  Friendship, Best Friend, Real

  "Voice of the Maghreb". Interview with Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 5, 2006.

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• Age before beauty, and pearls before swine.

  Dorothy Parker

  Age, Youth, Swine

  Dorothy Parker, Stuart Y. Silverstein (2009). “Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• I am the glorious sun, the ocean laden with pearls.  Within my heart is the grandeur of heaven.

  Rumi

  Ocean, Heart, Heaven

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• The liquid drops of tears that you have shed
  Shall come again, transform'd to orient pearl,
  Advantaging their loan with interest
  Of ten times double gain of happiness.

  William Shakespeare

  Tears, Gains, Liquid

  William Shakespeare (1803). “The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.468

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• Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.

  Joseph Hall

  Life, Running, Ties

  "The Holy State and the Profane State". Book by Thomas Fuller, Book III, 1642.

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• A women needs ropes and ropes of pearls.

  Coco Chanel

  Needs, Rope

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• I like the laughter that opens the lips and the heart, shows at the same time the pearls and the soul.

  Victor Hugo

  Laughter, Heart, Soul

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• The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.

  Virginia Woolf

  Order, Empathy, Mind

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.4523, Delphi Classics

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• Can you rework your past, the grit that rubs in you, until it is shiny and smooth as a pearl?

  Anna Funder

  Past, Grit, Smooth

  Anna Funder (2011). “Stasiland: Stories From Behind The Berlin Wall”, p.162, Granta Books

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• The Pearl Principle - no inner irritation, no pearl.

  Surya Das

  Positive Thinking, Irritation, Principles

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• My heart resembles the ocean; has storm, and ebb and flow; and many a beautiful pearl lies hid in its depths below.

  Heinrich Heine

  Beautiful, Lying, Ocean

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