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• I believe that we're all connected to each other with an invisible spiritual thread through which we can transmit energy emissions and positive thinking. I want you to use your visualization techniques.

  Uri Geller

  Spiritual, Believe, Positive Thinking

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• A narrative thread gives people permission to think about other things whilst being carried by its flow. It does not mean that one has to compromise one's vision, or question formal concerns. It's just being more subtle and clever by having one accessible thread.

  Sally Potter

  Clever, Mean, Thinking

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• For every worm beneath the moon Draws different threads, and late and soon Spins, toiling out his own cocoon.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Moon, Different, Cocoons

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.474, Delphi Classics

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• With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread.

  Thomas Hood

  Inspirational, Red, Rags

  'The Song of the Shirt' (1843)

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• Giving yourself threads doesn't mean you don't believe in yourself in my opinion.

  Valentino Rossi

  Believe, Mean, Giving

  global.yamaha-motor.com. 2014.

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• People don’t just disappear. There’s always a reason, or an enemy with a grudge. There’s always a loose thread that starts to unravel.

  Jodi Picoult

  People, Enemy, Grudge

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.1051, Simon and Schuster

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• Love should be the silver thread that runs through all your conduct.

  J. C. Ryle

  Running, Silver, Forbearance

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “The Duties of Parents”, p.5, Booklassic

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• But every human path leads on to God;
  He holds a myriad finer threads than gold,
  And strong as holy wishes, drawing us
  With delicate tension upward to Himself.

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Strong, Drawing, Wish

  Edmund Clarence Stedman (1873). “The Poetical Works of Edmund Clarence Stedman”, p.45

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• Who cannot but see oftentimes how strange the threads of our destiny run? Oft it is only for a moment the favorable instant is presented. We miss it, and months and years are lost.

  Johann Ludwig Tieck

  Running, Destiny, Years

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• In ways and thoughts of weakness and of wrong, Threads turn to cords, and cords to cables strong.

  Isaac Williams

  Strong, Weakness, Way

  Isaac Williams (1842). “The Baptistery, Or The Way of Eternal Life by the Author of "The Cathedral" [i.e. Isaac Williams]”, p.120

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• Faith is the silver thread upon which the pearls of the graces are to be hung. Break that, and you have broken the string - the pearls lie scattered on the ground.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Faith, Lying, Broken

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1963). “The New Park Street Pulpit: Containing Sermons Preached and Revised”

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• When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work , but the solidest thing we know.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Real, Glasses

  "The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

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• Truth is a golden thread, seen here and there In small bright specks upon the visible side Of our strange being's party-coloured web.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Party, Here And There, Golden

  Arthur Hugh Clough (1865). “Letters and Remains of Arthur Hugh Clough”, p.40

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• The patient person accepts a certain amount of failure knowing that it is as important a thread in the fabric of life as is success. Great individuals make great successes out of failure.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• Man finds his pathways: at first they were foot-tracks, as those of the beast in the wilderness; now they are swift and invisible: his thought dives through the ocean, and his wishes thread the air: has he found all the pathways yet? What reaches him, stays with him, rules him: he must accept it, not knowing its pathway.

  George Eliot

  Ocean, Men, Air

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus”, p.440, 谷月社

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• However often the thread may be torn out of your hands, you must develop enough patience to wind it up again and again.

  Walter Gropius

  Hands, Wind, May

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• Promises retain men better than services; for hope is to them a chain, and gratitude a thread.

  Jean-Antoine Houdon

  Gratitude, Men, Promise

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• The thing I absolutely love about food is it's a common thread that connects us no matter what culture we come from.

  Poh Ling Yeow

  Love, Common Threads, Culture

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• But one had to go back to the beginning of things, always. Trace the thread of life - find the knot - untangle it.

  Martha Ostenso

  Knots, Threads Of Life

  Martha Ostenso (1929). “The Young May Moon”

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• We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread.

  Paul Auster

  Reality, People, Personality

  1989 In the Sunday Times,16 Apr.

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• Man doeth this and doeth that from the good or evil of his heart; but he knows not to what end his sense doth prompt him; for when he strikes he is blind to where the blow shall fall, nor can he count the airy threads that weave the web of circumstance. Good and evil, love and hate, night and day, sweet and bitter, man and woman, heaven above and the earth beneath--all those things are needful, one to the other, and who knows the end of each?

  H. Rider Haggard

  Sweet, Hate, Fall

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• Things don't have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function. What's the function of a galaxy? I don't know if our life has a purpose and I don't see that it matters. What does matter is that we're a part. Like a thread in a cloth or a grass-blade in a field. It is and we are. What we do is like wind blowing on the grass.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Wind Blowing, Matter, Fields

  "The Lathe of Heaven". Book by Ursula K. Le Guin, 1971.

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• The Tower. He would come to the Dark Tower and there he would sing their names; there he would sing their names; there he would sing all their names. The sun stained the east a dusky rose, and at last Roland, no longer the last gunslinger but one of the last three, slept and dreamed his angry dreams through which there ran only that one soothing blue thread: There I will sing all their names!

  Stephen King

  Dream, Dark, Blue

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three”, p.424, Simon and Schuster

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• Our advanced art approaches a fragile but marvelous life, one that maintains itself by a mere thread, melting into an elusive, changeable configuration, the surroundings, the artist, his work and everyone who comes to it.

  Allan Kaprow

  Art, Melting, Surroundings

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• Socially we are woven into the fabric of society, where every man is like one thread in a piece of cloth. No single thread has a right to say, "I will stay here no longer," and draw out. No man has a right to make a hole in the well-woven fabric of society.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Woven, Fabric

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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