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• All things human hang by a slender thread; and that which seemed to stand strong suddenly falls and sinks in ruins.

  Ovid

  Strong, Fall, Ruins

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• NATO has been a thread throughout my life.

  Madeleine Albright

  Nato, Has Beens

  "Albright works to rethink NATO" by Laura Rozen, www.politico.com. February 22, 2010.

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• Catastrophe is the essence of the spiritual path, a series of breakdowns allowing us to discover the threads that weave all of life into a whole cloth.

  Joan Halifax

  Spiritual, Essence, Soul

  Joan Halifax (2009). “Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death”, p.199, Shambhala Publications

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• These bright roofs, these steep towers, these jewel-lakes, these skeins of railroad line - all spoke to her and she answered. She was glad they were there. She belonged to them and they to her. . . . She had not lost it. She was touching it with her fingertips. This was flying: to go swiftly over the earth you loved, touching it lightly with your fingertips, holding the railroads lines in your hand to guide you, like a skein of wool in a spider-web game - like following Ariadne's thread through the Minotaur's maze, Where would it lead, where?

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Lakes, Hands, Jewels

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• Nailing him was like trying to thread a needle in a high wind.

  Jack Dempsey

  Wind, Boxing, Trying

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• Though, technically, I'm shooting on location, my films are actually based inside a woman's heart. I think women are more emotional than men, and that's a thread I've explored in all my films. When I see TV these days, I'm shocked at how all the main women characters are portrayed as evil. Women are the foundation of everything, and they deserve to be treated that way on camera.

  Yash Chopra

  Heart, Character, Men

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Life doesn't have plots and subplots and denouements. It's just a big collection of loose ends and dangling threads that never get explained.

  Grant Morrison

  Real, Plot, Ends

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• The great ecosystems are like complex tapestries - a million complicated threads, interwoven, make up the whole picture. Nature can cope with small rents in the fabric; it can even, after a time, cope with major disasters like floods, fires, and earthquakes. What nature cannot cope with is the steady undermining of its fabric by the activities of man.

  Gerald Durrell

  Men, Fire, Ecosystems

  Gerald Durrell (1989). “The Amateur Naturalist”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• Apart from thoughts, there is no independent entity called the world. In deep sleep there are no thoughts, and there is no world. In the states of waking and dream, there are thoughts, and there is a world also. Just as the spider emits the thread (of the web) out of itself and again withdraws it into itself, likewise the mind projects the world out of itself and again resolves it into itself.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Independent, Mind, Spiders

  "The Spiritual Teaching of Ramana Maharshi".

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• Although the threads of my life have often seemed knotted, I know, by faith, that on the other side of the embroidery there is a crown.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Corrie ten Boom (1974). “Tramp for the Lord: The Story that Begins Where The Hiding Place Ends”, p.12, CLC Publications

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• Today, let's set our minds and hearts on feeling more thankful for what we are than guilty for what we're not. Let's cut the threads of guilt with grace.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Thankful, Heart, Cutting

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from May 14, 2014

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• We must leave the entire collection of conditioned thought behind and let ourselves be led by the inner thread of silence into the unknown, beyond where all paths end, to that place where we go innocently or not at all, not once but continually.

  Adyashanti

  Silence, Path, Ends

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• The composer...joins Heaven and Earth with threads of sounds.

  Alan Hovhaness

  Heaven, Sound, Earth

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• I don't have ideas so much as there are things which constantly evolve... there are various threads or layers, if you like, which change.

  Harrison Birtwistle

  Ideas, Layers, Things Change

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• IN ALL MY FILMS, IT SEEMED IMPORTANT TO ME TO REMIND THE AUDIENCE TO THE FACT THAT THEY ARE NOT ALONE, LOST IN AN EMPTY UNIVERSE, BUT THAT THEY ARE CONNECTED BY INNUMERABLE THREADS WITH THEIR PAST AND PRESENT, THAT THROUGH CERTAIN MYSTICAL WAYS, EVERY HUMAN BEING REALIZES THE RAPPORT WITH THE WORLD AND THE LIFE OF HUMANITY.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Art, Past, Being Real

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• Art is like a kite. You have to pull the string hard in order to stretch it to its limit, but you don't want to pull it so hard that you break the thread, because the thread connects you to the land and its peoples.

  Wu Guanzhong

  Art, Order, Land

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• The people of our city are holding on by a thread. Time has run out. Can we survive another night? And who can we depend on? Only God knows.

  Ray Nagin

  Running, Night, Cities

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• Seek to be the purple thread in the long white gown.

  Epictetus

  Purple, White, Long

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• Tradition is not something a man can learn; not a thread he picks up when he feels like it; any more than a man can choose his own ancestors. Someone lacking a tradition who would like to have one is like a man unhappily in love.

  Talal Asad

  Men, Tradition, Ancestor

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• She looked out then, through the crowd, and saw Simon with the Lightwoods, looking at her across the empty space that separated them. It was the same way that Jace had looked at her at the manor. It was the one thread that bound these two boys that she loved so much, she thought, their one commonality: They both believed in her even when she didn't believe in herself.

  Cassandra Clare

  Believe, Boys, Two

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1227, Simon and Schuster

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• One of the purest souls ever to live on this fallen planet was Nicholas Herman, known as Brother Lawrence. He wrote very little, but what he wrote has seemed to several generations of Christians to be so rare and so beautiful as to deserve a place near the top among the world's great books of devotion. The writings of Brother Lawrence are the ultimate in simplicity; ideas woven like costly threads to make a pattern of great beauty.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Beautiful, Christian, Brother

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• Clare, I want to tell you, again, I love you. Our love has been the thread through the labyrinth, the net under the high-wire walker, the only real thing in this strange life of mine that I could ever trust. Tonight I feel that my love for you has more density in this world than I do, myself: as though it could linger on after me and surround you, keep you, hold you.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Real, Love You, Labyrinth

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.515, Simon and Schuster

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• Extreme torture is mute, and so we sat silent, petrified, like columns of marble buried under the sand of an earthquake. Neither wished to listen to the other because our heart-threads had become weak and even breathing would have broken them.

  Khalil Gibran

  Heart, Breathing, Earthquakes

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• If theater is ritual, then dance is too... It's as if the threads connecting us to the rest of the world were washed clean of preconceptions and fears. When you dance, you can enjoy the luxury of being you.

  Paulo Coelho

  Luxury, Dancing, World

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• She who reconciles the ill-matched threads Of her life, and weaves them gratefully Into a single cloth – It’s she who drives the loudmouths from the hall And clears it for a different celebration.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Different, Celebration, Ill

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1996). “Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

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