“ You have to be like the pebble in the stream, keeping the grain and rolling along without being dissolved or dissolving anything else. ”
- Joseph Joubert- Copy
- 2.6K
“ O that this too too solid flesh would melt, thaw, and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! O God! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world! ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 2.7K
“ Tragedy is like strong acid — it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth. ”
- D. H. Lawrence- Copy
- 2.5K
“ When you're following your energy and doing what you want all the time, the distinction between work and play dissolves. ”
- Shakti Gawain- Copy
- 2.7K
“ We are either going to dissolve as a human race or we are going to break through into a new understanding of what it is to be a human being. ”
- Terry Riley- Copy
- 3.4K
“ Risk always brings its own rewards: the exhilaration of breaking through, of getting to the other side; the relief of a conflict healed; the clarity when a paradox dissolves. ”
- Marilyn Ferguson- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Work and play are the same. When you're following your energy and doing what you want all the time, the distinction between work and play dissolves. ”
- Shakti Gawain- Copy
- 2.1K
“ Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. ”
- John Quincy Adams- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquefies the gold, hardens the clay. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
- 729
“ Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear, and obstacles vanish into air. ”
- John Quincy Adams- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
- 31
“ Empires dissolve and peoples disappear, song passes not away. ”
- William Watson- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Heaven is so far of the mind that were the mind dissolved — the site of it by architect could not again be proved. ”
- Emily Dickinson- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Angels dancing on the head of a pin dissolve into nothingness at the bedside of a dying child. ”
- Waiter Rant- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Among all human constructions the only ones that avoid the dissolving hands of time are castles in the air. ”
- Frederico de Roberto- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Catching something is purely a by-product of our fishing. It is the act of fishing that wipes away all grief, lightens all worry, dissolves all fear and anxiety. ”
- Gladys Taber- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar. ”
- Pablo Picasso- Copy
- 879
“ Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved. ”
- Joseph Addison- Copy
- 407
“ That is happiness: to be dissolved into something completely great. ”
- Willa Cattier- Copy
- 360
“ How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love. ”
- Thomas a Kempis- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Information networks straddle the world. Nothing remains concealed. But the sheer volume of information dissolves the information. We are unable to take it all in. ”
- Gunther Grass- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art. ”
- Michel Foucault- Copy
- 3.4K
“ The forces of idealism and realism tug at each other in all human activities, personal, social and national, and real progress is made possible by the proper mix of these two ingredients, so that the clay is kept in the ideal pliable, plastic condition, half moist and half dry, not hardened and unmanageable, nor dissolving into mud. ”
- Lin Yutang- Copy
- 1K
“ The urgent consideration of the public safety may undoubtedly authorize the violation of every positive law. How far that or any other consideration may operate to dissolve the natural obligations of humanity and justice, is a doctrine of which I still desire to remain ignorant. ”
- Edward Gibbon- Copy
- 1.7K
“ The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds. ”
- Gerald G. Jampolsky- Copy
- 1.4K
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