Top 100 Dwells Quotes
#1. If one stays too long with friends They will soon tire of him; Living in such closeness leads to dislike and hate. It is but human to expect and demand too much When one dwells too long in companionship.
Milarepa
#2. Didn't it often happen, she thought, that aged parents die exactly at the moment when other people (your husband, your adolescent children) have stopped being thrilled to see you coming? But a parent is always thrilled, always dwells so lovingly on your face as you are speaking.
Anne Tyler
#3. Isn't there any statute of limitation in things spiritual? I don't believe any large mind dwells on its sins, any more than on its virtues!
Margaret Deland
#4. If anyone wishes to see how the soul dwells in its body, let him observe how this body uses its daily habitation; that is to say, if this is devoid of order and confused, the body will be kept in disorder and confusion by its soul ...
Leonardo Da Vinci
#6. I revel in flowers without let,
An atom at random in space;
My soul dwells in regions ethereal,
And the world is my dreaming-place.
L. Cranmer-Byng
#7. A mind that dwells in the past builds a prison it cannot escape. Control your mind, or it will control you, and you will never break through the walls it builds.
A.G. Riddle
#8. For where belief dwells, the spider may not stir, neither by day nor by night.
Jeremias Gotthelf
#10. Let us build for the tomorrow, build a nation strong and free; and the Lord who dwells above us, He will bless our destiny".
P. J. Peters
#11. Yet the love we experience through other people is just a shadow of the love of the inner self. There is a sublime place inside us where love dwells. The love that pulses in the cave of the heart does not depend on anything outside. It does not expect anything. It is completely independent.
Swami Muktananda
#12. Many of us can't go home again, whether home is Seville, Cabo Sur, Nastas, Havana, or Kansas City. Thus, we must recognize that home really lies in the eternal peace, dormant or conscious, that dwells in each human heart ... Quote from "Ms. Quixote Goes Country", a truthful novel.
LEVega
#13. Hell is the special pain that dwells in that loss which you yourself have caused
Elliot Perlman
#14. Within the brain's most secret cells,
A certain lord chief justice dwells,
Of sov'reign power, whom one and all,
With common voice we reason call.
Charles Churchill
#15. The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in; I feel sometimes a hell within myself.
Thomas Browne
#16. What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an unfeeling brute.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#17. What is the sign of every literary decadence? That life no longer dwells in the whole. The word becomes sovereign and leaps out of the sentence, the sentence reaches out and obscures the meaning of the page, the page gains life at the expense of the whole - the whole is no longer a whole.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#18. You worry me, Mags, so self-contained and quiet. Hazelton would not have been my choice for you."
"Why not?"
"He's a man who dwells in the shadows and appears to like it there. You have enough shadows of your own."
"Maybe he sees me as I really am because shadows don't deter him.
Grace Burrowes
#19. A noble soul is not the one that can manage the highest flights but the one that rises very little and falls very little but always dwells in a free, resplendent atmosphere and altitude.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#20. Seek for the Sword that was broken In Imladris it dwells; There shall be counsels taken Stronger than Morgul-spells. There shall be shown a token That Doom is near at hand, For Isuldur's Bane shall waken, And the halfling forth shall stand.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#21. It says in the Bible, in plain words, that God made a self-portrait. He created man in His own image - man and woman - for God is Love.Why should we start thinking of a god up in the clouds with wings, if He dwells within us in the spirit of Love?!
Thor Heyerdahl
#22. Knowledge dwells in heads replete with thoughts of other men; wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
William Cowper
#23. The degree of complications and unhappiness in a person's life corresponds to the degree to which he dwells on the way he thinks the world ought to be rather than the way it really is. and being grateful it isn't worse, while trying to make it better.
Robert Ringer
#24. Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Denis Waitley
#25. Even as the finite encloses an infinite series
And in the unlimited limits appear,
So the soul of immensity dwells in minutia
And in the narrowest limits no limit in here.
What joy to discern the minute in infinity!
The vast to perceive in the small, what divinity!
Jacob Bernoulli
#26. But you are wise,
Or else you love not, for to be wise and love
Exceeds man's might; that dwells with gods above.
William Shakespeare
#27. Humanism ... is not a single hypothesis or theorem, and it dwells on no new facts. It is rather a slow shifting in the philosophic perspective, making things appear as from a new centre of interest or point of sight.
William James
#28. The Principle which gives life dwells in us, and without us, is undying and beneficent, is not heard or seen or smelt, but it is perceived by the man who desires perception.
Mabel Collins
#31. For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be.
John Connolly
#32. In each of us dwells a pilgrim. It is the part of us that longs to have direct contact with the sacred.
Phil Cousineau
#33. The property is cursed. Death dwells here. These rivers run with the blood of those who came before you. Life may not trespass, and when it tries, it will surely be snuffed out.
Denise Daisy
#34. Every man may be observed to have a certain strain of lamentation, some peculiar theme of complaint on which he dwells in his moments of dejection.
Samuel Johnson
#35. Silence introduced in a society that worships noise is like the Moon exposing the night. Behind darkness is our fear. Within silence our voice dwells. What is required from both is that we be still. We focus. We listen. We see and we hear. The unexpected emerges.
Terry Tempest Williams
#36. We should cultivate the optimistic temperament, and endeavour to see the good that dwells in everything. If we sit down and lament over the imperfection of our bodies and our minds, we profit nothing; it is the heroic endeavour to subdue adverse circumstances that carries our spirit upward.
Swami Vivekananda
#37. You each have the same energy and it sings within you. You need not be shy of it, it is your own. You need not look to gurus, or Gods, or Seths. It dwells within your own being.
Jane Roberts
#38. Success dwells in a neighbourhood that can only be explored through failure, and it is through perfect knowledge of that neighbourhood that we gain perfect knowledge of her address
Agona Apell
#39. Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with ignorance ...
William Blake
#40. Thus it is that the Great man abides by what is solid, and eschews what is flimsy; dwells with the fruit and not with the flower.
Lao-Tzu
#41. I am not one of those actors who dwells on the histrionics and the subtext and future text of the character. I deal with the scenes that I'm doing at that specific time, because if I do that, they play in more of a real way.
John Barrowman
#42. When God dwells in a person, the colour of his skin is not relevant; it's not the most important thing any more. The main thing is that God is living in a person; then people will see God's glory shining forth.
Sunday Adelaja
#43. That preaching is sadly defective which dwells exclusively on the mercies of God and the joys of heaven, yet never sets forth the terrors of the Lord and the miseries of hell.
J.C. Ryle
#44. Holiness is the remaking of our inward and hidden desires and affections, when the Holy Spirit of God dwells in our mortal bodies.
Oswald Chambers
#45. You have stories worth telling, memories worth remembering, dreams worth working toward, a body worth feeding, a soul worth tending, and beyond that, the God of the universe dwells within you, the true culmination of super and natural.
Shauna Niequist
#46. There are moments when I dare not think of it, but there are others when I rise in spirit to where she ever dwells; then I can thank God that I love the noblest lady in the world, the most gracious and beautiful, and that there was nothing in my love that made her fall short in her high duty.
Anthony Hope
#47. You maggots make me sick, I will be avenged. Lucifer dwells within us all.
Richard Ramirez
#48. Heart-suffering because of sin is the best proof that the Holy Spirit dwells in your heart.
Johann Arndt
#49. There is a gravity which is not austere nor captious, which belongs not to melancholy nor dwells in contraction of heart: but arises from tenderness and hangs upon reflection.
Walter Savage Landor
#50. I am not me, I am not a human being.
I am empty.
Infinite emptiness dwells in me.
I am the spirit.
Emptiness is me.
Debasish Mridha
#51. Farewell happy fields,
Where joy forever dwells: Hail, horrors, hail.
John Milton
#53. For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
Seneca The Younger
#54. Love can be described as compulsive thinking. Compulsive thinking latches on to details and dwells on them as if they hold enormous significance which cannot be grasped in a moment.
Gail Hareven
#55. Take this as the secret of Christ's life in you: His Spirit dwells in your innermost spirit. Meditate on it, believe in it, and remember it until this glorious truth produces within you a holy fear and wonderment that the Holy Spirit indeed abides in you.
Watchman Nee
#56. Out where the handclasp's a little stronger, Out where the smile dwells a little longer, That's where the West begins.
Arthur Chapman
#57. All I've done is put into words what all of us are about. We're now at the archetypal stage of being ready to move from a material to a transcendent world view of culture. I'm only articulating what dwells in the consciousness of a good part of the masses now. That's why the response.
James Redfield
#58. A process for discernment: God is my ultimate source of truth and wisdom, and dwells forever at the center of my being. Therefore, any thought, emotion, or action that takes me further from my center can be neither truthful, nor wise.
Bill Crawford
#59. Neither was to blame for the way they felt, because Marius was someone who embraces sorry and dwells in it, but Cosette felt it deeply but recovered.
Victor Hugo
#60. The largest factor in our well-being is the place where our mind dwells.
Scott Eblin
#61. A person with a forgiving heart knows where happiness dwells.
Debasish Mridha
#62. The child ever dwells in the mystery of ageless time,unobscured by the dust of history.
Rabindranath Tagore
#64. He will also find that the high and independent spirit, which usually dwells in the breast of those who are deeply versed in scientific pursuits, is ill adapted for administrative appointments; and that even if successful, he must hear many things he disapproves, and raise no voice against them.
Charles Babbage
#65. In the midst of all dwells the Sun. For who could set this luminary in another or better place in this most glorious temple, than whence he can at one and the same time brighten the whole.
Nicolaus Copernicus
#66. Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#67. Truth and Good are one; and Beauty dwells in them, and they in her.
Mark Akenside
#68. The longer I live, the more my mind dwells upon
the beauty and the wonder of the world.
John Burroughs
#69. A woman in her glory, a woman of beauty, is a woman who is not striving to become beautiful or worthy or enough. She knows in her quiet center where God dwells that he find her beautiful, has deemed her worthy, and in him, she is enough.
John Eldredge
#70. Feelings are 'entertained'; love comes to pass. Feelings dwell in man; but man dwells in his love.
Martin Buber
#71. Even the enlightened person remains what he is, and is never more than his own limited ego before the One who dwells within him, whose form has no knowable boundaries, who encompasses him on all sides, fathomless as the abysms of the earth and vast as the sky
Carl Jung
#72. The insignificant matters of daily life are the important tests of eternity because they prove what Spirit truly dwells within us.
Andrew Murray
#73. It is the evil that lies in ourselves that is ever least tolerant of the evil that dwells within others.
Maurice Maeterlinck
#74. In the nine heavens are eight Paradises; Where is the ninth one? In the human breast. Only the blessed dwell in th' Paradises, But blessedness dwells in the human breast.
William Rounseville Alger
#75. The soul takes flight to the world that is invisible but there arriving she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise.
Plato
#76. My friend, I am not what I seem. Seeming is but a garment I wear - a care-woven garment that protects me from thy questionings and thee from my negligence. The "I" in me, my friend, dwells in the house of silence, and therein it shall remain for ever more, unperceived, unapproachable.
Kahlil Gibran
#78. Psalm 91
My Refuge and My Fortress
91:1 He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.
2 I will say to the Lord, My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.
LaNina King
#79. Now to rivulets from the mountains Point the rods of fortune-tellers; Youth perpetual dwells in fountains, Not in flasks, and casks, and cellars.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#80. There is in the soul a something in which God dwells, and there is in the soul a something in which the soul dwells in God.
Meister Eckhart
#81. True wisdom dwells in the ability to remain constantly aware of that in which we have no practical knowledge of
Carl Henegan
#82. Do not wander far and wide but return into yourself. Deep within man there dwells the truth.
Saint Augustine
#83. Hers was the perfect love that dwells on the other's happiness, and not on its own. She knew that, though for the time being he would find bliss and oblivion in her arms, he would soon repine in inactivity whilst others fought for that which he held sublime.
Emmuska Orczy
#85. We are looked upon by God as though we were in eternity; God dwells in eternity, and does not view things as we do.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#87. Behind your thoughts and feelings, my brother, there is a mighty lord, an unknown sage- it is called Self; it dwells in your body, it is your body.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#88. God wants to purify our minds until we can bear all things, believe all things, hope all things, and endure all things. God dwells in you, but you cannot have this divine power until you live and walk in the Holy Ghost, until the power of the new life is greater than the old life.
Smith Wigglesworth
#89. The Bible got it wrong when it intimated that the valley contained the shadow of death. Death dwells in the high places.
Courtney Milan
#90. The statement that 'God is dead' comes from Nietzsche and has recently been trumpeted abroad by some German and American theologians. But the good Lord has not died of this; He who dwells in the heaven laughs at them.
Karl Barth
#91. A great variety of reading confuses and does not teach. It makes the student like a man who dwells everywhere and, therefore, nowhere in particular.
Martin Luther
#93. Nothing is more important than our family where our heart dwells.
Debasish Mridha
#94. The imagination of a eunuch dwells more and longer upon the material of love than that of man or woman ... supplying, so far as he can, by speculation, the place of pleasures he can no longer enjoy.
John Quincy Adams
#95. The nobleness of silence. The highest melody dwells only in silence,
the sphere melody, the melody of health.
Thomas Carlyle
#96. Are you asking me if there is a god?' he said, still in that soft voice. 'All I can say is, I believe there is. I feel him when I sing. He has responded to my prayers countless times. He guides my actions and he dwells in my heart. I know he is there.
Sharon Shinn
#97. Isn't doubt forbidden for a Christian?" he asked. She glanced over at him, an impish twinkle in her eye. "I don't think God dwells on when we fall down. I'd like to think he is more interested in helping us get back up again.
Elizabeth Camden
#98. Where love comes from our righteous passions flow. Where good comes from righteous men go.
What dwells in your heart is who you are. Whatever you are passionate about is who you become.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#99. Take it for words. O woman's poor revenge,
Which dwells but in the tongue!
John Webster
