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• You have to remember that goodbyes are temporary because no one ever really leaves and nothing lasts forever. People are always with us, because they are in our hearts and in our memory. The only thing we can depend on is change... Life is just a series of moments -- a string of pearls that make up the necklace of your life and so every once in a while, to complete the circle, you need to end a chapter.

  Amy Poehler

  Goodbye, Memories, Life Changing

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• For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.

  Samuel Butler

  Truth, Rich, Divine

  Samuel Butler, Hudibras (fict.name.) (1835). “Hudibras; with notes by T.R. Nash”, p.311

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• The burden of suffering seems a tombstone hung about our necks, while in reality it is only the weight which is necessary to keep down the diver while he is hunting for pearls.

  Jean Paul

  Tombstone, Reality, Hunting

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• Impressions are like pearls; ideas are like the string that turns the pearls into a necklace. The string is invisible, but it is not dispensable and cannot be broken.

  Mu Xin

  Ideas, Broken, Necklaces

  Interview with Toming Jun Liu, www.wordswithoutborders.org. August 2003.

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• Friendship is a precious gift that can't be bought or sold. It's value is greater than mountains made of gold. If you shall ask God for a gift be thankful if he sends not diamonds pearls or riches but the love and trust of friends. It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Being Thankful, Gold, Mountain

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• A SEEING eye is better than three hundred blind men's: The eye can distinguish pearls from pebbles.

  Rumi

  Eye, Men, Soul

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• Pearls ... have a way of dying when separated from their owner.

  Nina Berberova

  Jewels, Dying, Way

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• Like a layer on a pearl, you can't specifically identify the irritant, the moment of the irritant, but at the end of the day, you know you have a pearl.

  Ken Burns

  The End Of The Day, Layers, Moments

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• Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the pearl

  Rumi

  Happiness, Death, Spiritual

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• All religions are like precious pearls strung on the golden thread of divinity.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Divinity, Golden, Thread

  "The Divine Science: Eternal Techniques of Authentic Mysticism".

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• People don't want to be bothered, if they're not being pressured to change. You have to push people. You have to be the agitator that makes the pearl.

  Marlo Thomas

  People, Want, Bothered

  Source: collider.com

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• Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.

  Bill Vaughan

  Funny, Dark, Teeth

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• I dream a world... where wretchedness will hang its head and joy, like a pearl, attends the needs of all mankind. Of such I dream, my world!

  Langston Hughes

  Dream, Joy, Needs

  Langston Hughes (2001). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1941-1950”, p.259, University of Missouri Press

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• The first time I saw a picture of [fabled actress] Ethel Barrymore - she was on Broadway and she was wearing pearls. I thought, "That's who I should grow up to be." It's odd, because it was her physical image that I wanted; I had no idea what it was like actually to be her. In those days, we weren't bombarded by images the way we are now, and the ones we did have were more vivid in people's minds.

  Bette Midler

  Growing Up, Ideas, Bombarded By

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• As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is truly precious.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Obscurity, Shells, Fame

  Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.55

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• When 5150 came out rock was king. Post Nirvana and Pearl Jam 1996 is a different story.

  Gary Cherone

  Kings, Rocks, Different

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• The beauty of You delights me. The sight of You amazes me. For the Pearl does this... and the Ocean does that.

  Hafez

  Ocean, Sight, Doe

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• Costly grace is the treasure hidden in the field; for the sake of it a man will gladly go and sell all he has. It is the pearl of great price to by which the merchant will sell all his goods.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Men, Grace, Treasure

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.4, SCM Press

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• There is a curious thing that happens with the passage of time: a calcification of character... Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation, and to others, like a pearl.

  Jodi Picoult

  Character, Irritation, People

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.350, Simon and Schuster

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• Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Change, Tombstone, Sea

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1859). “Shelley Memorials: From Authentic Sources : Now First Printed”, p.219

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• How could you reach the pearl by only looking at the sea? If you seek the pearl, be a diver: the diver needs several qualities: he must trust his rope and his life to the Friend's hand, he must stop breathing, and he must jump.

  Rumi

  Hands, Sea, Breathing

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• Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.

  A. E. Housman

  Heart, Giving, Rubies

  Shropshire Lad (1896) no. 13

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• There are stories that are true, in which each individual's tale is unique and tragic, and the worst of the tragedy is that we have heard it before, and we cannot allow ourselves to feel it to deeply. We build a shell around it like an oyster dealing with a painful particle of grit, coating it with smooth pearl layers in order to cope. This is how we walk and talk and function, day in, day out, immune to others' pain and loss. If it were to touch us it would cripple us or make saints of us; but, for the most part, it does not touch us. We cannot allow it to.

  Neil Gaiman

  Pain, Loss, Unique

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• The pearl on my beloved's neck, Afflicted sore the oyster!

  Bhartrhari

  Sacrifice, Oysters, Necks

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• Full fathom five thy father lies

  William Shakespeare

  Father, Lying, Nymphs

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 1, sc. 2, l. 394

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