Pebbles Quotes

I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with

Plato

Children, Words Of Wisdom, May

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You want to be the pebble in the pond that creates the ripples for change.

Tim Cook

Ponds, Want, Ripple

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My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.

Beatrice Wood

Life, Happiness, Mistake

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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.

Henry Ward Beecher

Inspirational, Motivational, Attitude

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We drop like pebbles into the ponds of each other's souls, and the orbit of our ripples continues to expand, intersecting with countless others.

Joan Z. Borysenko

Spiritual, Soul, Orbit

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The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

Blaise Pascal

Nature, Motivation, Ocean

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Just as ripples spread out when a single pebble is dropped into water, the actions of individuals can have far-reaching effects.

Dalai Lama

Honesty, Water, Action

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Life itself is not the reality. We are the ones who put life into stones and pebbles.

Frederick Sommer

Photography, Reality, Stones

Frederick Sommer, Stephen Aldrich (1987). “The mistress of this world has no name”

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Easy-to know that diamonds-are precious, Good-to learn that rubies-have depth, But more-to see that pebbles-are miraculous.

Josef Albers

Depth, Rubies, Easy

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Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection.

Rabindranath Tagore

Patience, Persistence, Water

Rabindranath Tagore (2007). “Stray Birds”, p.22, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

Thomas Browne

Inspirational, May, Sometimes

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Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain. The mind does not create what it perceives, anymore than the eye creates the rose.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Perseverance, Stay Strong, Eye

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Men are polished, through act and speech, Each by each, As pebbles are smoothed on the rolling beach.

John Townsend Trowbridge

Beach, Men, Rolling

John Townsend Trowbridge (1881). “A Home Idyl: And Other Poems”

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The entire ocean is affected by a single pebble.

Blaise Pascal

Ocean, Affected

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A lesson will keep repeating itself until it is learned. Life first will send the lesson to you in the size of a pebble; if you ignore the pebble, then life will send you a brick; if you ignore the brick, life will send you a brick wall; if you ignore the brick wall, life will send you a demolition truck.

Oprah Winfrey

Wall, Lessons, Firsts

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The difference between a pebble and a mountain lies in whom you ask to move it.

Marcus Buckingham

Inspiring, Lying, Moving

Twitter post from Jun 02, 2014

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Truth is always stranger than fiction. We craft fiction to match our sense of how things ought to be, but truth cannot be crafted. Truth is, and truth has a way of astonishing us to our knees. Reminding us, that the universe does not exist to fulfill our expectations. Because we are imperfect beings who are self-blinded to the truth of the world’s stunning complexity, we shave reality to paper thin theories and ideologies that we can easily grasp – and we call them truths. But the truth of a sea in all it’s immensity cannot be embodied in one tidewashed pebble.

Dean Koontz

Reality, Self, Sea

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Pebble is a piece of sacred ground. They say it's the greatest meeting of land and water in the world. This course was heaven designed - just the way it fits on the land.

Johnny Miller

Golf, Land, Water

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It isn't the mountains that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.

Muhammad Ali

Shoes, Mountain, Boxing Champions

FaceBook post by Muhammad Ali from Oct 20, 2014

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Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains.

H. Emilie Cady

Adversity, Men, Mountain

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People say, what is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time. A pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. Each one of our thoughts, words and deeds is like that. No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do.

Dorothy Day

People, Effort, Deeds

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The pebbles of knowledge must be bonded together by the cement of experience.

R. G. LeTourneau

Together, Cement

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Imagination transforms one substance into another. It changes what is into what might be, what was into what might have been. Straw becomes gold, gold straw, and neither is more real nor, I submit, more precious than the other. Pebbles turn into luminous pearls and pearls into little gray rocks, both solid and beautiful, both essential. Human beings take shape from clay, angels' wings are spun out of water, fire gives rise to the long tongues of demons, love emerges out of thin air, and the basic elements reconstitute themselves again and again.

Steve Rasnic Tem

Beautiful, Real, Angel

Steve Rasnic Tem, Melanie Tem (2008). “The Man on the Ceiling”, Wizards of the Coast Discoveries

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The past is a pebble in my shoe.

Edgar Allan Poe

Past, Shoes, Legacy

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It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.

Thomas Carlyle

Science, Math, Hands

Thomas Carlyle, Brendan King (1993). “The Sayings of Thomas Carlyle”, p.46, Lulu.com

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