Top 100 Dwell Quotes
#1. Ah, fortune and fame shall follow me ... and I shall dwell in the world of the chosen for a few moments of fleeting ecstasy; ere the seven burly lads turn into creditors and hustle me off to debtors' prison at last.
Hunter S. Thompson
#2. From The Spiral Dance to Dreaming the Dark to Truth or Dare, Starhawk has led us to places of risk and guided us to think in a new way, a womanly order. Now, in fiction, with the aid of her characters, she will save the earth and all the sacred things that dwell therein.
E. M. Broner
#4. If there were several ways to dwell with a perfect God, God wouldn't have had to leave His glory, entering a dead world to save us.
Alisa Hope Wagner
#5. O Light divine! we need no fuller test That all is ordered well; We know enough to trust that all is best Where Love and Wisdom dwell.
Christopher Pearse Cranch
#6. Preserve your conscience always soft and sensitive. If but one sin force its way into that tender part of the soul and dwell there, the road is paved for a thousand iniquities.
Isaac Watts
#7. In peace I will both s lie down and sleep; for you alone, O LORD, make me t dwell in safety.
Anonymous
#8. A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.
Albert Einstein
#9. You know that something is really well written when you have to think so little about the words that are coming out of your mouth, and you're able to dwell in your own headspace to get there.
Tom Weston-Jones
#10. Follow your breathing, dwell mindfully on your steps, and soon you will find your balance.
Nhat Hanh
#11. For a man to be great, he must not dwell on small things, though he may enjoy them.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#12. A period of time is as much an organising principle for a work of fiction as a sense of place. You can do geography, as Faulkner did, or you can dwell on a particular period. It provides the same framework.
E.L. Doctorow
#13. Part of me is ahead and part of me is behind; and yet I dwell in His Peace in the present. An interesting dynamic.
Lisa Kay Hailey Blair
#14. I am, day after day, falling in love with the years that dwell in his wrinkled face and the memories of the old days which are the beats of his weak heart.
Refaat Alareer
#15. Frivolous Gossip and Poetry
It's just so much frivolous gossip to dwell upon the moral merits of a poet;
what should only concern the reader is the merit of his words.
Leave moral judgments to the preachers and aesthetic judgments to the critical readers.
Beryl Dov
#16. It is the sign of a dull mind to dwell upon the cares of the body, to prolong exercise, eating and drinking and other bodily functions. These things are best done by the way; all your attention must be given to the mind.
Epictetus
#17. There are so many great things in life; why dwell on negativity?
Zendaya
#18. We dwell amid pinheaded weasels who know only timid, the generic and the abacus.
Danny Baker
#19. When you're making a purchasing decision around an appliance or a car or a home, that's when to take the environment into mind, but don't dwell so much on paper versus plastic.
Chip Giller
#20. Dwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#21. The person who is to succeed will never let his mind dwell on past mistakes. He will forgive the past in his life and in the lives of other people. If he makes a mistake he will at once forgive it.
Ernest Holmes
#22. The worlds originate so that truth may come and dwell therein.
Gautama Buddha
#23. Facing future I see hope, hope that we will survive, hope that we will
prosper, hope that once again we will reap the blessings of this
magical land, for without hope I cannot live, remember the past but
do not dwell there, face the future where all our hopes stand.
Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
#24. The oppressed people of Palestine, whether those who dwell in that bloodstained holy land or those who continue to bear the brunt of hardship and displacement worldwide, are all in all the victims of Zionist discrimination and aggression,
Mohammad Khatami
#25. Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.
Alexander Pope
#26. Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action.
Orison Swett Marden
#27. I don't like to dwell on regrets. They tell you that you have not come to terms with what you've done.
Joel Dicker
#28. I think if you have lost a great happiness and try to recall it, you are only asking for sorrow, but if you do not try to dwell on the happiness, sometimes you find it dwelling in your heart and body, silent but sustaining.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#29. I imagined a lot of things. That I would shine. That I'd be good. I'd dwell bareheaded on a summit turning a wheel that would turn the earth undetected, amongst the clouds, I would have some influence; be of some avail.
Patti Smith
#30. Conventional wisdom tells us not to dwell in the past. I believe, however, that we should hold hands with it.
Dana Glossbrenner
#31. Is another universe bigger or smaller than the idea of God? Does it matter? If there is a sphere where 'angels' dwell, is it a matter of semantics whether we choose to call it Heaven?
Laini Taylor
#32. To think well of all, to be cheerful with all, to patiently learn to find the good in all - such unselfish thoughts are the very portals of heaven; and to dwell day by day in thoughts of peace toward every creature will bring abounding peace to their possessor.
James Allen
#33. We are the sum of our thoughts. What you choose to dwell on will dictate your emotions.
James Patterson
#34. I have to move on now as there is no point to dwell on the past. I have a few days to refocus and get ready for the 200 meters on Friday. After this I have the 4x100-meter and a few other races before the end of the season.
Usain Bolt
#35. I do not dwell on dreams I know how soon a dream becomes an expectation How can I have expectations? Look at me, No, Captain, Look at me, Look at me!
Stephen Sondheim
#36. Im afraid to live in the future because of my past yet i dwell in the past and look forward to change in the future
Cheyenne
#38. How do people imagine the landscapes they find themselves in? How does the land shape the imaginations of the people who dwell in it? How does desire itself, the desire to comprehend, shape knowledge?
Barry Lopez
#39. Must I dwell in slavery's night And all pleasure take its flight Far beyond my feeble sight, Forever?
Juana Ines De La Cruz
#40. Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.
Barbara Kingsolver
#41. Well, it's more like a sentence on life," he said, grinning. "I live by three rules: Don't dwell on the past, present, or future, party hard, and never fall in love. Easy.
Ada Adams
#42. Oprah Winfrey shares, "Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility." This affirmation is at the core of our #GirlBizMind series, as it is from possibility and belief that all real world achievement flows.
Helga Klopcic
#43. Sorrow for sin is indeed necessary, but it should not be an endless preoccupation. You must dwell also on the glad remembrance of God's loving-kindness; otherwise, sadness will harden the heart and lead it more deeply into despair.
Saint Bernard
#44. When people feel that they have failed, it's usually because somebody or something caused them to feel that way and taste defeat. I refuse to dwell on that. Yes, it sucks at first, and the feeling is valid, but it all happens for a reason.
Roselyn Sanchez
#46. Dwell in stillness and to observe without reacting and without judging.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#47. There was a moment in between, a moment flung free in the midst of the transition, when he made contact. That was the moment she would dwell on.
Ann Brashares
#48. Ashes have no fear to burn in hell
In your heart's paradise angels dwell
Rib cage fastens all sins of the wrong
Your bones will sing you mortality's song
Munia Khan
#49. Don't dwell on what may be. Apply yourself to the task at hand. The Hags of Fate may predict the future, but there is always free will, and that is your saving grace, my dear.
Yasmine Galenorn
#50. What Churchill described as the twin marauders of war and tyranny have been almost entirely banished from our continent. Today, hundreds of millions dwell in freedom, from the Baltic to the Adriatic, from the Western Approaches to the Aegean.
David Cameron
#51. Always think positively, don't smoke, don't drink, don't dwell on bad thoughts, don't waste time brooding, and go for a walk every day!
Karsten Thormaehlen
#52. Build up your health. Do not dwell in silence upon your sorrows.
Swami Vivekananda
#53. It is in the home that we form our attitudes, our deeply held beliefs. It is in the home that hope is fostered or destroyed. Our homes are to be more than sanctuaries; they should also be places where God's Spirit can dwell, where the storm stops at the door, where love reigns and peace dwells
Thomas S. Monson
#54. Now, we're Americans. Technically, who is from this country? Only the Indians, who we graciously let dwell on their native casinos.
Greg Proops
#55. If our minds are stayed upon God, His peace will rule the affairs entertained by our minds. If, on the other hand, we allow our minds to dwell on the cares of this world, God's peace will be far from our thoughts.
Woodrow M. Kroll
#56. A generous and noble spirit cannot be expected to dwell in the breasts of men who are struggling for their daily bread.
Dionysius Of Halicarnassus
#57. I don't like to dwell all day over one scene as you do in a big feature.
Jerry Orbach
#58. It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
J.K. Rowling
#59. It's just the way things are. And you can't dwell on what might have been. You have to look at what is.
Sophie Kinsella
#60. Day and night cannot dwell together. The Red Man has ever fled the approach of the White Man, as the morning mist flees before the morning sun.
Chief Seattle
#61. O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
William Cowper
#62. Dont dwell on the past when the future smiles bright and the present is by your side
Karinush2828
#63. Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner sanctuary is hope.
George Eliot
#64. If you had an essentially happy childhood, that tends to dwell with you.
Tracy Kidder
#65. High achievers dwell on what they do well and spend very little time evaluating themselves and their performances.
John Eliot
#66. Things happen in NFL games. I don't try to dwell on it. I try to say, It happened. Let's move onto the next one.
Devin Hester
#67. Trust in the Lord, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.
Anonymous
#68. At this point the judge took over the questioning. "Didn't lynchings happen in Mississippi?" he asked. Yes, admitted the rating committee member, but it was all so long ago, why dwell on it now? "It is a history book, isn't it?" asked the judge.
James W. Loewen
#69. Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.
Richard Cecil
#70. It is okay of airing out your frustration, just don't dwell on them. Find out the cause and find a solution of getting rid of it. If you can't have the solution much as well accept it.
Ann Marie Aguilar
#71. I was content to dwell on the new idea that had come to me that all things and states were just varieties of light, and that in every form, light was the emanation and manifestation of God.
Judith Merkle Riley
#72. To express your love for the universe, be like a cloud to dwell in the high altitudes, and never forget to transform yourself into the water of humility.
Debasish Mridha
#73. They say death will come if you dwell on life, but risk death, and you may yet live
Tamura Yumi
#74. When you get a whole country - as did ours - thinking that Washington is a sort of heaven and behind its clouds dwell omniscience and omnipotence, you are educating that country into a dependent state of mind which augers ill for the future.
Henry Ford
#75. I've had a bad time, which we won't dwell on. We were married and we worked together for 52 years, and suddenly with her gone I was a quadriplegic. Slowly I'm crawling back.
Hume Cronyn
#76. When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and treasure and patience parents poured into bodies no longer suitable for open caskets?
Jim Bishop
#77. In this case," said Randall unpleasantly, "it affords me purer gratification to dwell upon the thought of my dear Aunt Gertrude duped and betrayed."
"Your aunt doesn't suffer throught it!"
"What a pity!" said Randall.
Georgette Heyer
#78. From all who dwell below the skiesLet the Creator's praise arise;Let the Redeemer's name be sungThrough every land, by every tongue.
Isaac Watts
#79. One family
we dwell in Him,
One church above, beneath,
Though now divided by the stream,
The narrow stream of death.
Charles Wesley
#80. When any welfare scheme is being proposed, its political sponsors always dwell on what a generous and compassionate government should pay to Paul; they neglect to mention that this additional money must be seized from Peter.
Henry Hazlitt
#81. If the Word does not dwell with power in us, it will not pass with power from us.
John Owen
#82. People should learn that you cannot dwell in your past. One who dwells in the past hurts not only himself, but also the people around him.
Jun Mochizuki
#83. Pursue not the outer entanglements; Dwell not in the inner void; Be serene in the oneness of things; And dualism vanishes by itself.
Sengcan
#84. Blessed are those who dwell in your house, ever singing your praise ... Blessed are those whose strength is in you ... blessed is the one who trusts in you!
David
#85. The English may love gardening and fishing, but they have never struck me as being close to nature. Their way of expression is 'the hollyhocks are awfully good' sort of thing, all done in very good taste. The savagery of nature is something they don't dwell upon.
Denholm Elliott
#86. God appears, and God is Light, to those poor souls who dwell in Night; but does a Human Form display to those who dwell in realms of Day.
William Blake
#88. When you are your authentic self, you fulfill the possibilities that dwell inside your soul.
April WIlliams
#90. What you focus on grows, what you think about expands, and what you dwell upon determines your destiny.
Robin Sharma
#91. Apollo knew well and good that wishes were nothing more than dust held together with hope, impossible to hold and foolish to dwell on.
Annabeth Albert
#92. Nature I'll court in her sequester'd haunts,
By mountain, meadow, streamlet, grove, or cell;
Where the pois'd lark his evening ditty chants,
And health, and peace, and contemplation dwell.
Tobias Smollett
#93. It's a moment to learn. This was the thing about miscalculations, errors, and mistakes. You admitted them, you used them as teachable moments, and then you moved on. You didn't forget, but you didn't dwell.
Meg Howrey
#94. I don't spend much time regretting the past, once I've taken my lesson from it. I don't dwell on it.
Charlie Munger
#95. Whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right,
whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute,
if there is any excellence and anything worthy of praise,
let your mind dwell on these things.
Anonymous
#96. So many people dwell on negativity and I've survived by ignoring it: it dims your light and it's harder each time to turn the power up again.
Judith Jamison
#97. Always she thought of him as climbing some mountain in his mind, like that great one to the west on which his eyes would dwell so often and from which he seemed to derive something that was even more than strength.
Elizabeth Yates
#98. Peace comes by knowing you're dearly loved by the Lord, Who gives to His children the Holy Spirit to dwell within, to make their witness strong, so that one day they will be as a tree, fruitful and blessed with the wisdom of the forest.
Calvin W. Allison
#99. When I am happy it is so rare. I need to dwell on it, to contemplate it. What a hunger, a craving for beautiful things.
Anais Nin
#100. Make God's glory your object in life; live in his sight; dwell close to him; seek for fellowship with him; and thou hast "godliness";
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
