Woven 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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  What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

  Pericles

  Life, Education, Appreciation

  "Flicker to Flame: Living with Purpose, Meaning, and Happiness". Book by Jeffrey Thompson Parker, October 2006.

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• I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.

  William Stafford

  Kindness, Not Giving Up, Thoughtful

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• Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Dream, Collective Unconscious

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• The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.

  Carson McCullers

  Philosophy, Color, Medicine

  Carson McCullers (2015). “Reflections in a Golden Eye”, p.97, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Life is a tapestry woven by the decisions we make.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Decisions We Make, Experience, Life Is

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Kiss of the Night”, p.347, Macmillan

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• America is not like a blanket- one piece of unbroken cloth. America is more like a quilt- many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven together by a common thread.

  Jesse Jackson

  Quilts, Color, Common Threads

  1984 Launching his 'rainbow coalition' at the Democratic National Convention, San Francisco, 17 Jul.

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• Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?

  Marcus Aurelius

  Destiny, Needs, Patterns

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• America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description.

  Ralph Ellison

  Fate, America, Description

  Invisible Man epilogue (1952)

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• God will never, never, never let us down if we have faith and put our trust in Him. He will always look after us. So we must cleave to Jesus. Our whole life must simply be woven into Jesus.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Looks, Have Faith

  Mother Teresa (1985). “Mother Teresa: Contemplative in the Heart of the World”

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• Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.

  Walter Benjamin

  Writing, Musical, Three

  Walter Benjamin (2016). “One-Way Street”, p.44, Harvard University Press

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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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• Happiness can be woven into every aspect of life once you make new choices.

  Deepak Chopra

  Happiness, Attitude, Choices

  Deepak Chopra (2014). “What Are You Hungry For?: The Chopra Solution to Permanent Weight Loss, Well-Being and Lightness of Soul”, p.188, Random House

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• Resilience is woven deeply into the fabric of Oklahoma. Throw us an obstacle, and we grow stronger.

  Brad Henry

  Oklahoma, Resilience, Stronger

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• I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that all the light I can command must be concentrated on this particular web, and not dispersed over that tempting range of relevancies called the universe.

  George Eliot

  Light, Unraveling, Range

  George Eliot (1872). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.251

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• Your body is woven from the light of heaven. Are you aware that its purity and swiftness is the envy of angels and its courage keeps even devils away.

  Rumi

  Angel, Light, Envy

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• A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.

  George Eliot

  Hope, Women, Expectations

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.16

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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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• The omnipresent process of sex, as it is woven into the whole texture of our man's or woman's body, is the pattern of all the process of our life.

  Havelock Ellis

  Sexy, Men, Texture

  "The New Spirit". Book by Havelock Ellis, 1890.

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• I've watched and learnt from DJs and remixers and paid way more attention to how I want my voice to sound. Before, as long as it was loud and in tune it was fine. I've discovered the difference made by various microphones and effects, so each track has a different vocal sound, my voice is woven into everything and it's above everything.

  Ellie Goulding

  Voice, Differences, Long

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.

  James Russell Lowell

  Faith, Color, Weather

  Carl Schurz, James Russell Lowell, Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “Abraham Lincoln: The Gettysburg Speech A”, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.

  Margaret Mead

  Humanity, Together, Patterns

  Margaret Mead (1975). “Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world”, William Morrow & Co

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• Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

  Walter Benjamin

  Life, Real, Advice

  Walter Benjamin, Marcus Paul Bullock, Michael William Jennings, Howard Eiland, Gary Smith (2002). “Selected Writings: 1935-1938”, p.146, Harvard University Press

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• America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.

  Jesse Jackson

  Color, America, Diversity

  1988 Democratic National Convention Address, delivered 19 July 1988, Omni Coliseum, Atlanta GA

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