Shapes Quotes

• The name we give to something shapes our attitude toward it.

  Katherine Paterson

  Attitude, Positivity, Names

  Katherine Paterson (2001). “The Invisible Child: On Reading and Writing Books for Children”, Dutton Juvenile

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• It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person's life.

  John Eldredge

  Heart, Persons

  John Eldredge (2006). “Waking the Dead: The Glory of a Heart Fully Alive”, p.45, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Everything has shape, if you look for it. There is no escape from form.

  Salman Rushdie

  Looks, Form, Ifs

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• The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.

  Eric Hoffer

  Future, Power, Way

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• We come in many different shapes and sizes, and we need to support each other and our differences. Our beauty is in our differences.

  Carre Otis

  Differences, Support, Different

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• Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will.

  John Sterling

  Men, Color, Feelings

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• I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Inspiring, Art, Flower

  Dennis Abrams, Georgia O'Keeffe (2009). “Georgia O'Keeffe”, p.23, Infobase Publishing

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• The way you see your life shapes your life.

  Rick Warren

  Way

  Rick Warren (2011). “What on Earth Am I Here For? Purpose Driven Life”, p.25, Harper Collins

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• We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

  Gautama Buddha

  Positive, Leadership, Uplifting

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• The choices that you make will shape your life forever.

  Francis Capra

  Choices, Decision, Forever

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• There are not many original shapes or silhouettes -- only a million variations.

  Charles James

  Variation, Silhouettes, Originals

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• There is nothing constant in the universe. All ebb and flow, and every shape that's born, bears in its womb the seeds of change.

  Ovid

  Destiny, Ebb And Flow, Bears

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• How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Life, Romantic

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• In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• With the softest hand, you can shape the hardest rocks!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Rocks, Hands, Hardest

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• The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

  Pablo Picasso

  Life, Beautiful, Art

  Elizabeth Cowling, Pablo Picasso (2002). “Picasso: style and meaning”, Phaidon Press

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• Our lives disconnect and reconnect, we move on, and later we may again touch one another, again bounce away. This is the felt shape of a human life, neither simply linear nor wholly disjunctive nor endlessly bifurcating, but rather this bouncey-castle sequence of bumpings-into and tumblings-apart.

  Salman Rushdie

  Moving, Castles, Tumbling

  Salman Rushdie (2000). “The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel”, p.543, Macmillan

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• Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.

  Rene Dubos

  Men, Decision, Tree

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• I have been a multitude of shapes, Before I assumed a consistent form.

  Taliesin

  Form, Consistent, Multitudes

  Taliesin, “The Battle Of Goddeu”

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• Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container.

  Wallace Stevens

  People, Water, Human Nature

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• It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.

  Tony Robbins

  Life, Motivational, Spiritual

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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• I saw more than I can tell / And I understood more than I saw.

  Black Elk

  Native American, Circles, Sacred

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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• Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Attitude, Greatness, Eagles

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  It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Sep 08, 2016

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• The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice.

  R. D. Laing

  Spiritual, Thinking, Failing

  Attributed in: "Educating Christians" by Jack Lee Seymour, Margaret Ann Crain, Joseph V. Crockett, (p. 53), 1993.

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