Top 100 Dwell Quotes

#1. No reason to dwell on why. We all know bullies are bullies because they have their own problems they can't deal with so they take them out on others. So let's focus on how to get your hat back.

Valerie Ormond

#2. 8In peace I will lie down and sleep, for you alone, LORD, make me dwell in safety.

Anonymous

#3. In the secret island the Druid shall dwell once more, and the Bard, the slave of the harp, utter the speech of the Gods.

Lewis Spence

#4. It is not necessary to dwell on the political and social principles of Islam, to underline how close they also are in spirit to the concepts of human rights which govern the political and social systems of the West.

Aly Khan

#5. The word "art" does not designate the concept of a mere eventuality; it is a concept of rank.
To dwell is to garden.

Martin Heidegger

#6. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#7. Most people who daydream of transforming themselves into some vicious beast and going about tearing people's throats out, dismembering them, disfiguring them and perhaps devouring them tend mainly to dwell upon how much fun it would be and generally neglect the practicalities of the situation.

Roger Zelazny

#8. He who only tastes his error will long dwell with it, will take delight in it as in a singular felicity; while he who drains it to the dregs will, if he be not crazy, find it to be what it is.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#9. A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well.

Louisa May Alcott

#10. In a democracy only will the freeman of nature design to dwell.

Plato

#11. Pentecost is a celebration of God ... a celebration of God's power ... a celebration of God's desire to empower us and to dwell within us.

Mark Hart

#12. When pride retreats from a man, humility begins to dwell in him, and the more pride is diminished, so much more does humility grow. The one gives way to the other as to its opposite. Darkness departs and light appears. Pride is darkness, but humility is light.

Tikhon Of Zadonsk

#13. The Holy Spirit comes to dwell within us when we believe in Christ and are redeemed. It is through the Spirit that God reveals mysteries to us, for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God.

Francine Rivers

#14. Love wasn't an emotion I was able to sustain for very long. I tried once, maybe twice in my life, and it just never panned out. It was a dull emotion and I couldn't understand the concept so I decided not to dwell on it.

Yolanda Olson

#15. It is only because you take your mind to be yourself, and make it dwell on what you are not, that you lose your sense of well-being.

Deepak Chopra

#16. He pushed that thoughts away. He didn't like painful memories. Keep moving
that was his motto. Don't dwell in things. Don't stay in one place too long. It was the only way to stay ahead of the sadness.

Rick Riordan

#17. With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#18. You ask me why I dwell in the green mountain; I smile and make no reply for my heart is free of care. As the peach-blossom flows down stream and is gone into the unknown, I have a world apart that is not among men.

Li Bai

#19. Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode until we drive away.

Emily Dickinson

#20. When you die, you are extinguished. From being you will be transformed to non-being. A god does not necessarily dwell among our capricious atoms.

Ingmar Bergman

#21. I can easily do without people (there are days when I could easily do without myself), and ... in the country of books where I dwell, the dead can count entirely as much as the living.

Adrienne Monnier

#22. How could I be expected to identify light when I dwell in total darkness myself?

Laurelin Paige

#23. In those times we yearn to have more in our lives, we should dwell on the things we already have. In doing so, we will often find that our lives are already full to overflowing.

Jim Stovall

#24. ...the Evil Spirit delights more to dwell in an artful body, than in one that has no cunning to work upon.

James Fenimore Cooper

#25. It's a mistake to dwell too much on the consequences of a piece of work that you're making.

Max Irons

#26. Home is where the love is and where the heart wants to dwell with ease.

Debasish Mridha

#27. Remember that your dominating thoughts attract,
through a definite law of nature, by the shortest and most
convenient route, their physical counterpart. Be careful what
your thoughts dwell upon.

Napoleon Hill

#28. If we should think, we should dwell on pure thoughts.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#29. Give house-room to the best; 'tis never known
Verture and pleasure both to dwell in one.

Robert Herrick

#30. It's like most anything. If you want to be a loser, there's always a way to dwell on the negative. If you want to win, there's always a way to think positively.

Tony La Russa

#31. If some temptation arises in the place where you dwell in the desert, do not leave that place in time of temptation. For if you leave it then, no matter where you go, you will find the same temptation waiting for you.

John Moses

#32. If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other's throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace

Voltaire

#33. Eternal life and the invisible world are only to be sought in God. Only within Him do all spirits dwell. He is an abyss of individuality, the only infinite plenitude.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#34. Ws 1:4 For wisdom will not enter into a malicious soul, nor dwell in a body subject to sins.

Various

#35. Don't you wonder sometimes why so much gets heaped on certain people?" I almost told the truth. That truth being, "I wouldn't dare." I wouldn't dare dwell on a thing like that. I try to look forward in my life. Because what's behind me is a little hard to take.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#36. No matter in what land we may dwell the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ makes us brothers and sisters, interested in each other, eager to understand and know each other.

Heber J. Grant

#37. Time softens all griefs, they say, and it is useless to dwell on lives that might have been. We are granted only one life, and one is enough. Whom do such regrets profit? What do they achieve, except to bring us unhappiness?

Peter Hobbs

#38. I love words. I crave descriptions that overwhelm my imagination with vivid detail. I dwell on phrases that make my heart thrum. I cherish expressions that pierce my emotions and force the tears to spill over. In essence, I long for a writer's soul sealed in ink on the page.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#39. By coming to dwell with us, Jesus was to reveal God both to men and to angels. He was the Word of God,
God's thought made audible. In

Ellen G. White

#40. Don't put your life on hold so that you can dwell on the unfairness of past hurts.

Nick Vujicic

#41. Why do we bombard God with our prayers for what we lack to be provided? Perhaps we should be asking God not to supply our wants, but to dwell within them.

Margaret Silf

#42. You shall not dwell in tombs made by the dead for the living.

Khalil Gibran

#43. I would rather dwell in the dim fog of superstition than in air rarefied to nothing by the air-pump of unbelief-in which the panting breast expires, vainly and convulsively gasping for breath.

Jean Paul

#44. But it is useless to dwell on this period of my life. If I go on long enough calling that my life I'll end up by believing it.

Samuel Beckett

#45. Enlightenment means choosing to dwell in a state of presence rather than in time. It means saying yes to what is.

Eckhart Tolle

#46. Give unto us this day the daily manna Without which, in this desert where we dwell, He must go backward who would most advance.

Dante Alighieri

#47. The monsters we can't see, the ones that dwell only in our minds, are the scariest ones of all. Because there's only one way to fight those monsters. With the help of someone who loves you.

Cassia Leo

#48. Do not dwell on past failures or it will ruin your future.

Audrey Phillips

#49. Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness
how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view of things? This peephole is all I've got!

Yann Martel

#50. I don't think that stuff is gone - I just don't want to dwell on it. There's a difference. As I said, I think we all have tendencies as writers, and I think we all have experience that we bring as readers to each project.

Chang-rae Lee

#51. Rest, brother, rest. Have you done ill or well Rest, rest, There is no God, no gods who dwell Crowned with avenging righteousness on high Nor frowning ministers of their hate in hell.

Lucretius

#52. I worship nature. The moon and the tides. The sun and the stars. The energies that surround us and dwell within us. The esoteric knowledge of our natural world and its flora and fauna.

Dacha Avelin

#53. Poverty and Discontent appear in every Face (except the Countenances of the Rich) and dwell upon every Tongue." He spoke of a few men, fed by "Lust of Power, Lust of Fame, Lust of Money," who got rich during the war.

Howard Zinn

#54. Either Christ must live and the Law perish, or the Law remains and Christ must perish; Christ and the Law cannot dwell side by side in the conscience. It is either grace or law. To muddle the two is to eliminate the Gospel of Christ entirely.

Martin Luther

#55. One thing have I desired of the Lord, one thing will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord to behold the beauty of the Lord.

Timothy Keller

#56. Love and dignity do not dwell together.

Ovid

#57. I don't dwell on success. Maybe that's one reason I'm successful.

Calvin Klein

#58. Long after you have reached the end of your natural span, part of you will dwell within me . . . as I shall be in you to the last of your days and even after.

Bruce Lee Bond

#59. Before I was paralyzed, there were 10,000 things I could do; now there are 9,000. I can either dwell on the 1,000 I've lost or focus on the 9,000 I have left.

W. Mitchell

#60. Stern and white as a tomb, older than the memory of the dead, and built by men or devils beyond the recording of myth, is the mansion in which we dwell.

Clark Ashton Smith

#61. ...sometimes adventuring into the country where I have lived for so many years - it is beautiful enough, most of the time, for Gods to dwell in...

David Grayson

#62. Ye who dwell at home,
Ye do not know the terrors of the main.

Robert Southey

#63. The unity of all who dwell in freedom is their only sure defense.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#64. I never dwell on what happened. You can't change it. Move forward. Don't waste your energy on being angry at something that somebody did six months ago or a year ago. It's over. Done. Move forward.

Joan Rivers

#65. When you don't have a vision or a plan for the future, your mind has no choice but to dwell in the past.

Steve Maraboli

#66. I am here to win at life, love, and career. I dwell in the plus column, where I belong.

Anonymous

#67. Perhaps it is a fault of the species who thrive in peace, mutual help, aspirations for more of the same
to forget that outside these borders dwell very different types of mind, feeding on different fuel.

Doris Lessing

#68. He who on earth has lived in the conjugal state as he should live, will be placed among the Gods who dwell in heaven

Thiruvalluvar

#69. Do not dwell on what once was, but rather look forward and ponder how you can make the future brighter

Christopher Paolini

#70. Forget it, Ana, I scold myself. I decide that, all in all, it's been a very interesting experience, but I shouldn't dwell on it. Put it behind you. I never have to see him again.

E.L. James

#71. Perhaps this is for the best,' Warden said. 'You already dwell too deep in shadows.'
'I would have gone into the shadows for you.

Samantha Shannon

#72. I beg of you always to dwell upon the necessity of a thorough understanding of principles, in order to stop the vivacity of his mind, and please do not forget to meditate upon the subject of our discussion.

Nicolas Malebranche

#73. The greatest knight in all of England, fallen from glory by a single blow. What a shame." "A greater shame to dwell on it," Charles suggested. "So shut your mouth, Arthur.

Christina Dodd

#74. 33 but s whoever listens to me will dwell secure and will be t at ease, without dread of disaster.

Anonymous

#75. I just take a tune and play it the only way I can. That's it. I don't really dwell on it very much. Some people probably do. I can only say I play it the way I feel it.

Zoot Sims

#76. Entering the house of God to dwell with God, beholding, glorifying and enjoying him eternally, I suggest, is the story of the Bible, the plot that makes sense of the various acts, persons and places of its pages, the deepest context for its doctrines.

L. Michael Morales

#77. Above all shadows rides the Sun
and Stars for ever dwell:
I will not say the Day is done,
nor bid the Stars farewell.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#78. As it is impossible to be outside God, the best is consciously to dwell in Him.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#79. You only get one body; it is the temple of your soul. Even God is willing to dwell there. If you truly treat your body like a temple, it will serve you well for decades. If you abuse it you must be prepared for poor health and a lack of energy.

Oli Hille

#80. I pledge allegiance to the soil
of Turtle Island,
and to the beings who thereon dwell
one ecosystem
in diversity
under the sun
With joyful interpenetratio n for all.

Gary Snyder

#81. Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.

Bertolt Brecht

#82. You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.

Johnny Cash

#83. Louisa went about her duties at the hospital, trying not to dwell on the fact that this might be her last day alive.

David Healey

#84. American politicians who dwell on American exceptionalism only dishonor us by suggesting we play dumb to our past.

Jay Parini

#85. The shadows of Ina-Karekh are the place where nightmares dwell, but not their source. Never forget: the shadowlands are not elsewhere. We create them. They are within.

N.K. Jemisin

#86. If we dwell in a community that is comfortable, then it's probably not broad enough a coalition.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

#87. However, like many creatures that dwell in cold and darkness, they fear light and warmth, which we shall therefore call to our aid should the need arise.

J.K. Rowling

#88. As with many Southern Writers, I believe that the special quality of the land itself indelibly shapes the people who dwell upon it.

Willie Morris

#89. I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: Go down again - I dwell among the people.

John Henry Newman

#90. They dwell in my light, while I dwell in unbearable darkness, the source of that light.

Umberto Eco

#91. But paper and ink have conjuring abilities of their own. arrangements of lines and shapes, of letters and words on a series of pages make a world we can dwell and travel in.

Lynda Barry

#92. I had rather be a mind provocateur than a celebrity because thoughts dwell longer in a person than a designer dress borrowed for one night.

Gloria D. Gonsalves

#93. Drop all negative thoughts from the mind. Do not dwell on adversity but think plenty into everything, for there is power in the word. Meditate on the things you are doing as being already done - complete and perfect.

Ernest Holmes

#94. Humans have yet to dwell upon the consequences of their
actions. People have yet to admit the bad that they do to
nature, for example. Actually, most people spend their time
finding fault in the action of others, rather than their own.

Masaaki Hatsumi

#95. Our prayer must always be, 'Holy Spirit, dwell with me! Holy Spirit, dwell with Your servants!

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#96. There are two kinds of 'disabled' persons: Those who dwell on what they have lost and those who concentrate on what they have left.

Thomas Szasz

#97. Dwell not on the faults and shortcomings of others; instead, seek clarity about your own.

Gautama Buddha

#98. O Elbereth! Gilthoniel! We still remember, we who dwell In this far land beneath the trees. Thy starlight on the Western Seas.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#99. The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.

Saint Augustine

#100. It does nothing to dwell on what's been taken from you. Nothing.

V.E Schwab

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