Stones Quotes

• Leave no stone unturned. Deeply explore the beauty of your life.

  Neil Gaiman

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• It's frightening and unnerving to watch a stone melt.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Artist, Scary, Watches

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• You should look at certain walls stained with damp, or at stones of uneven color. If you have to invent some backgrounds you will be able to see in these the likeness of divine landscapes, adorned with mountains, ruins, rocks, woods, great plains, hills and valleys in great variety; and expressions of faces and clothes and an infinity of things which you will be able to reduce to their complete and proper forms. In such walls the same thing happens as in the sound of bells, in whose stroke you may find every named word which you can imagine.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Wall, Creativity, Clothes

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• Life is like that. Some days are diamonds and some days are stones.

  Jann Arden

  Life Is Like, Life Is, Diamond

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• The first hole made through a piece of stone is a revelation.

  Henry Moore

  Art, Pieces, Firsts

  Henry Moore, David Mitchinson, Julian Andrews, Henry Moore Foundation (1998). “Celebrating Moore: Works from the Collection of the Henry Moore Foundation”, p.163, Univ of California Press

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• We can choose to throw stones, to stumble on them, to climb over them, or to build with them.

  William Arthur Ward

  Lynching, Choices, Personality

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• There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Block, Rocks, Words Of Wisdom

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• I have everything I need. A square of sky, a piece of stone, a page, a pen, and memory raining down on me in sleeves.

  Harriet Doerr

  Memories, Rain, Squares

  Harriet Doerr (1996). “The Tiger in the Grass: Stories and Other Inventions”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• Nothing lasts forever, but old Fords and a natural stone.

  Willie Nelson

  Forever, Lasts, Natural

  Song: Old Fords And A Natural Stone

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• A line will take us hours maybe; / Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, / Our stitching and unstitching has been naught... Better go down upon your marrow-bones / And scrub a kitchen pavement, or break stones... For to articulate sweet sounds together / Is to work harder than all these, and yet / Be thought an idler by the noisy set.

  William Butler Yeats

  Sweet, Hard Work, Kitchen

  William Butler Yeats (1931). “Later Poems”, p.31, Library of Alexandria

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• But this mind isn't somewhere outside the material body of the four elements. Without this mind we can't move. The body has no awareness. Like a plant or a stone, the body has no nature. So how does it move? It's the mind that moves.

  Bodhidharma

  Moving, Four Elements, Mind

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.43, Macmillan

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• There is life in a stone. Any stone that sits in a field or lies on a beach takes on the memory of that place. You can feel that stones have witnessed so many things.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Beach, Nature, Memories

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• Successful people see adversity as a stepping stone rather than a stumbling block.

  Shawn Achor

  Block, Adversity, Successful

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• I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once -- I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth. It's sort of freeing: I can say I'm abandoning this thing that I hate forever and I'm moving on to something that's good. I'll find that I'll go back to [the other project] in a day or a week and like it again. But that moment of wanting to trash something -- that Virginia Woolf moment when you have to be stopped from filling your pocket with stones -- comes pretty regularly for me. Switching is probably a good thing.

  Dan Chaon

  Hate, Moving, Virginia

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  The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.

  Zig Ziglar

  Love, Success, Faith

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Dec 03, 2014

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  Everything changes, even stone.

  Claude Monet

  Change, Things Change

  Joachim Pissarro, Claude Monet (1990). “Monet's cathedral: Rouen 1892-1894”, Pavilion Books, Limited

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• Stones are mute teachers; they silence the observer, and the most valuable lesson we learn from them we cannot communicate.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Teacher, Silence, Lessons

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• The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

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• Without stones there is no arch.

  Marco Polo

  Historical, Arches

  "Invisible Cities". Book by Italo Calvino, 1972.

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• .... all blades of grass, wood, and stone, all things are One.

  Meister Eckhart

  Religion, Gardening, Woods

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• I've begun to appreciate the generational patterns that ripple out from our lives like stones dropped in water, pulsing outward even after we are gone. Although we have but one childhood, we relive it first through our children's and then our grandchildren's eyes.

  Anne Cassidy

  Children, Eye, Appreciate

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• Are you going to let the obstacles in your life be stumbling blocks or stepping stones? Choose the positive. You are the master of your attitude.

  Bruce Lee

  Attitude, Block, Obstacles

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• Can't you see the angel imprisoned in the block of stone trying to get out? I am trying to free him

  Michelangelo

  Block, Angel, Trying

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• What exists beneath the sea?I'd always pictured it in colors of emerald and aquamarine, where black velvet fish with sequined eyes swim among plankton.But, when my eyes adjust, I see gray stones, lost anchors, wet wood, buttons, hooks, and eyes, the salem witches who wouldn't float, stars and stripes, missing vessels, windup toys, the souls of Romeo and Juliet, peaches, cream, pistons, screams, cages of ribs and birds, tunnels, nutcracker soldiers, satin bows, drugstore signs, Pandora box ripped open at its hinges.

  Kelly Easton

  Stars, Eye, Color

  Kelly Easton (2001). “The Life History of a Star”, p.163, Simon and Schuster

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