Thread Quotes

• Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.

  Chief Seattle

  Life, Lonely, Nature

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• We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven.

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  Silence, Woven, Tissues

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1973). “The Prose of the World”, p.46, Northwestern University Press

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• Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.

  Aldous Huxley

  Form, Strings

  Aldous Huxley (1947). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

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• Love weaves itself from hundreds of threads.

  David Levithan

  Best Love

  David Levithan (2014). “How They Met and Other Stories”, p.68, Egmont UK

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• All things are bound together. All things connect.

  Chief Seattle

  Native American, Web Of Life, Earth Day

  Seattle (Chief) (1980). “How can one sell the air?: the manifesto of an Indian chief”, Book Publishing Company (TN)

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• May a thread of comfort be woven through your difficult days.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Pain, Blessing, Comfort

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, p.166, Conari Press

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• Invisible threads are the strongest ties.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Wise, Wisdom, Nature

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• A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.

  George Herbert

  Love, Heart, Be Kind

  George Herbert (1841). “The remains of ... George Herbert”, p.170

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• Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Uplifting, Wisdom, Nature

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.66, Princeton University Press

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• Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.

  Victor Hugo

  Philosophical, Bird, Flying

  "Les Miserables".

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• Purpose is the thread that connects the dots to everything you do that leads you to an extraordinary life.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Powerful, Dots, Purpose

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• The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.

  Orson Scott Card

  Past, Fabric, Hundred

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.858, Macmillan

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• The tapestry of history is woven of many threads.

  Jacqueline Carey

  History, Woven, Tapestry

  Jacqueline Carey (2011). “Kushiel's Dart”, p.53, Pan Macmillan

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• We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.

  Henry Melvill

  Life, Sympathy, Beautiful

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• We make our way through Everything like thread passing through fabric, giving shape to images that we ourselves do not know.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Giving, Fabric, Shapes

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2007). “Letters on Life: New Prose Translations”, p.48, Modern Library

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• Life and death are one thread,
  the same line viewed from different sides.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Sympathy, Death

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• Destiny itself is like a wonderful wide tapestry in which every thread is guided by an unspeakable tender hand, placed beside another thread and held and carried by a hundred others.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Destiny, Hands, Wonderful

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2010). “Letters to a Young Poet”, p.24, New World Library

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• Pull a thread in my story and feel the tremor half a world and two millenia away.

  Daniel Taylor

  Two, Stories, Half

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• It will be very interesting one day to follow the pattern of our life as it is spread out like a beautiful tapestry. As long as we live here we see only the reverse side of the weaving, and very often the pattern, with its threads running wildly, doesn't seem to make sense. Some day, however, we shall understand. In looking back over the years we can discover how a red thread goes through the pattern of our life: the Will of God.

  Maria von Trapp

  Beautiful, Running, Years

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• Life is a great tapestry. The individual is only an insignificant thread in an immense and miraculous pattern.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Patterns, Individual

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.230, Princeton University Press

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• The universe is bound by unseen threads. We have only to untangle them a little to see a pattern unfold.

  Kathleen Tessaro

  Unseen, Patterns, Littles

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• Destiny is thrifty. To weave her tapestry, she uses even the tiniest snips of thread.

  Zelda Popkin

  Fate, Destiny, Use

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• If we accept that we are all cut from the same genetic cloth, all cultures share the same genius. And whether that genius is placed into technological wizardry which has been our great achievement, or, by contrast, placed into the unraveling of complex threads of memory inherent in a myth is simply a matter of choice.

  Wade Davis

  Memories, Cutting, Choices

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• No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.

  Robert Burton

  Love, Dream, Umbilical Cord

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• The thread breakes, where it is weakest.

  George Herbert

  George Herbert (1857). “Works: In Prose & Verse”, p.321

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