Swirls Quotes

• I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.

  James A. Michener

  Writing, Swings, Emotion

  Ernest Hemingway, James A. Michener (1986). “The dangerous summer”, Scribner Book Company

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• Artistic creativity is a whirlpool of imagination that swirls in the depths of the mind.

  Robert Toth

  Creativity, Imagination, Mind

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• Dance, and make joyous the love around you. Dance, and your veils which hide the Light shall swirl in a heap at your feet.

  Rumi

  Light, Feet, Veils

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• The whole mad swirl of everything that was to come began then.

  Jack Kerouac

  Mad, Literature, Whole

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.118, Penguin

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• We are travelers on a cosmic journey,stardust,swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share.This is a precious moment. It is a little parenthesis in eternity.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Journey, Dancing

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 20, 2017

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• Swirls of antique stained glass, blazes of brass, forests of carved wood and waterfalls of crystal combine to make up the city's most fabulously festive interior.

  Mimi Sheraton

  Glasses, Cities, Antiques

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• My heart stopped. It just stopped beating. And for the first time in my life, I had that feeling. You know, like the world is moving all around you, all beneath you, all inside you, and you're floating. Floating in midair. And the only thing keeping you from drifting away is the other person's eyes. They're connected to yours by some invisible physical force, and they hold you fast while the rest of the world swirls and twirls and falls completely away.

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  Moving, Fall, Heart

  Wendelin Van Draanen (2008). “Flipped”, p.14, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• To paraphrase the great poet Dante, the heavens swirl above us and our eyes are still cast to the ground.

  Vanna Bonta

  Eye, Heaven, Poet

  "Sex in Space". History Channel's "The Universe" (TV series), Season 3, Episode 4, 2008.

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• Visualize the soft white light continuing to expand as it gently swirls around, until it has filled the earth, the sky, the universe, and all of infinity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Chakra Meditation

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• Fashion is a part of the world and part of history. It's not a meaningless swirl of meaningless clothes. They (clothes) reflect the times.

  Valerie Steele

  Fashion, Clothes, World

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• Sit, then, as if you were a mountain, with all the unshakeable, steadfast majesty of a mountain. A mountain is completely natural and at ease with itself, however strong the winds that try to bother it, however thick the dark clouds that swirl around its peak. Sitting like a mountain, let your mind rise and fly and soar

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Strong, Dark, Clouds

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• Make-believe colors the past with innocent distortion, and it swirls ahead of us in a thousand ways - in science, in politics, in every bold intention.

  Shirley Temple

  Inspirational, Believe, Past

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• We seem to inhabit a universe made up of a small number of elements-particles-bits that swirl in chaotic clouds, occasionally clustering together in geometrically logical temporary configurations.

  Timothy Leary

  Clouds, Small Numbers, Together

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• October arrives in a swirl of fragrant blue leaf smoke, the sweetness of slightly frosted MacIntosh apples, and little hard acorns falling. We are in the midst of cool crisp days, purple mists, and Nature recklessly tossing her whole palette of dazzling tones through fields and woodlands.

  Jean Hersey

  Fall, Blue, Purple

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• A gift, like a good friend drawing a personal road map out of the crazy busy swirl of our overloaded lives.

  Brigid Schulte

  Crazy, Good Friend, Drawing

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• Suddenly the clouds seem high above us. They’re moving over us in an arch, circling the planet. They have seen abysmal oceans and charred, scorched islands. They have seen how we destroyed the world. If I could see everything, as the clouds do, would I swirl around this remaining continent, still so full of color and life and seasons, wanting to protect it? Or would I just laugh at the futility of it all, and meander onward, down the earth’s sloping atmosphere?

  Lauren DeStefano

  Ocean, Moving, Clouds

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• We need new words for what this is, this hunger entering our loneliness like birds, stunning our eyes into rays of hope. we need the flutter that can save us, something that will swirl across the face of what we have become and bring us grace.

  Lucille Clifton

  Loneliness, Eye, Bird

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• I want to feel myself part of things, of the great drift and swirl: not cut off, missing things, like being sent to bed early as a child, the blinds being drawn while the sun and cheerful voices came through the chink from the garden.

  Marion Milner

  Children, Cutting, Garden

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• Our lives are lived in intense and anxious struggle, in a swirl of speed and aggression, in competing, grasping, possessing and achieving, forever burdening ourselves with extraneous activities and preoccupations.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Struggle, Buddhism, Forever

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• I watch the ashes swim around like dandelion puffs, making swirls where bodies and walls once stood.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Wall, Swim, Watches

  FaceBook post by Lauren DeStefano from May 23, 2012

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• Snowflakes swirl down gently in the deep blue haze beyond the window. The outside world is a dream. Inside, the fireplace is brightly lit, and the Yule log crackles with orange and crimson sparks. There’s a steaming mug in your hands, warming your fingers. There’s a friend seated across from you in the cozy chair, warming your heart. There is mystery unfolding.

  Vera Nazarian

  Christmas, Dream, Healing

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• I believe in black holes. I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will smack together in the last swirl around the drain.

  Abraham Verghese

  Believe, Past, Black

  "Cutting for Stone". Book by Abraham Verghese, February 2009.

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• Prayer is a relationship; half the job is mine. If I want transformation, but can't even be bothered to articulate what, exactly, I'm aiming for, how will it ever occur? Half the benefit of prayer is in the asking itself, in the offering of a clearly posed and well-considered intention. If you don't have this, all your pleas and desires are boneless, floppy, inert; they swirl at your feet in a cold fog and never lift.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Jobs, Prayer, Fog

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.186, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Time's passage through the memory is like molten glass that can be opaque or crystalize at any given moment at will: a thousand days are melted into one conversation, one glance, one hurt, and one hurt can be shattered and sprinkled over a thousand days. It is silent and elusive, refusing to be damned and dripped out day by day; it swirls through the mind while an entire lifetime can ride like foam on the deceptive, transparent waves and get sprayed onto the conciousness at ragged, unexpected intervals.

  Gloria Naylor

  Hurt, Memories, Glasses

  Gloria Naylor (2005). “The Women of Brewster Place”, p.35, Penguin

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• Every individual, from the highest to the lowest degree, has his place in the ladder of social life, and around him swirls a little world of interests, composed of stormy passions and conflicting atoms

  Alexandre Dumas

  Passion, World, Littles

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