Thing Quotes (page 8)

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• beautiful
• beauty
• spring

Things growing to themselves are growth's abuse: Seeds spring from seeds and beauty breedeth beauty; William Shakespeare

• heart
• promise
• together

Things that break - be they bones, hearts, or promises - can be put back together but will never really be whole. Jodi Picoult

• painting
• love
• look

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. Nor hath Love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste. William Shakespeare

• time
• work
• saying

Things just happen in the right way, at the right time. At least when you let them, when you work with circumstances instead of saying, 'This isn't supposed to be happening this way,' and trying harder to make it happen some other way. Benjamin Hoff

• brainy
• people
• may

Things may happen and often do to people as brainy and footsy as you Dr. Seuss

• change
• waiting
• different

Things are always different than what they might be...If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything. Henry James

• change
• changes
• who

Things do not grow better; they remain as they are. It is we who grow better, by the changes we make in ourselves. Swami Vivekananda

• together
• universe
• thoughts

Things aren't like this," he kept repeating. "It shouldn't be this way." As if he had access to some other plane of existence, some parallel, "right" universe, and had sensed that our time had somehow been put out of joint. Such was his vehemence that I found myself believing him, believing, for example, in the possibility of that other life in which Vina had never left and we were making our lives together, all three of us, ascending together to the stars. Then he shook his head, and the... Salman Rushdie

• look
• dream
• dream big

Things certainly aren't the way you imagine them when you're a kid and dreaming big dreams about what your life as a grown-up will look like. Emily Giffin

• work
• thinking
• sometimes

Things work out; it isn't as bad as you sometimes think it is. Gordon B. Hinckley

• age
• drain
• things

Things speed up as you circle the drain. Armistead Maupin on ageing Armistead Maupin

• wellness
• universe
• night out

Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations. Alan Watts

• liking
• like
• more

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been. Gerald R. Ford

• change
• things change
• changed

Things change when you're not in danger anymore. Mitch Albom

• happy
• moving on
• moving

Things are going downhill with you!' he said to himself, and laughed about it, and as he was saying it, he happened to glance at the river, and he also saw the river going downhill, always moving on downhill, and singing and being happy through it all. Herman Hesse