Non Dwelling Quotes

#1. Later still, the war memorials would sprout from the earth, dwelling not on the loss, but on what the loss had won, and what a fine thing it was to be victorious. "Victorious and dead," some muttered, "is a poor sort of victory.

M.L. Stedman

#2. Gully Foyle is my name
And Terra is my nation.
Deep space is my dwelling place,
The stars my destination.

Alfred Bester

#3. Clay is fashioned into vessels; it is on their empty hollowness that their use depends. Doors and windows are cut out to make a dwelling, and on the empty space within, its use depends. Thus, while the existence of things may be good, it is the non-existence in them that makes them serviceable.

Laozi

#4. He reminds us that true renunciation is mental, not necessarily physical. We are not required to disown our husbands or wives and turn our children out of doors. We must only try to realize that they are not really ours; to love them as dwelling-places of Brahman, not as mere individuals.

Swami Vivekananda

#5. You took thoughts, choosing them out of your store, and then, not dwelling on them, you let them slip through the fingers of your mind, never clutching at them, never dwelling on them, no concentration ... just letting them drift gently past.

Agatha Christie

#6. Then we feel the divine nature dwelling in everything, and encounter the One in everything.

Ilchi Lee

#7. So important are insects and other land-dwelling arthropods that if all were to disappear, humanity probably could not last more than a few months.

E. O. Wilson

#8. In the sacred precinct of that dwelling where the despotic woman wields the sceptre of fierce neatness, one treads as if he carried his life in his hands.

Henry Ward Beecher

#9. They were plighted; they were one eternally; they could not be parted. She listened gravely, conceiving the infinity as a narrow dwelling where a voice droned and ceased not. However, she listened. She became an attentive listener.

George Meredith

#10. In dwelling, be close to the land. In meditation, go deep in the heart.

Laozi

#11. It's always the right time to live the big goals and dreams and to leave behind dwelling on the little nightmares.

Robert J. Braathe

#12. The poet is a bird of strange moods. He descends from his lofty domain to tarry among us, singing; if we do not honor him he will unfold his wings and fly back to his dwelling place.

Khalil Gibran

#13. Time that is spent dwelling on the past will surely continue in your present moment - and the future.

Michelle Cruz-Rosado

#14. We do not heal the past by dwelling there; we heal the past by living fully in the present.

Marianne Williamson

#15. The woman who had been born in an imperial palace, and then, as Queen of France, had had hundreds of rooms in her dwelling house, was now imprisoned in a tiny basement cell, its walls streaming with damp, and its grated window half occluded.

Stefan Zweig

#16. Dwelling in the past prevents doing something in the present.

John Wooden

#17. Dwelling in failure won't change anything nor will it create a good outcome.

Yunho

#18. The great drama will end, not with "saved souls" being snatched up into heaven, away from the wicked earth and the mortal bodies which have dragged them down into sin, but with the New Jerusalem coming down from heaven to earth, so that "the dwelling of God is with humans" (Revelation 21:3).

N. T. Wright

#19. The habits of every animal are, at least in the eyes of man, constantly similar in all ages. But the habits, the clothes, the words and the dwelling of a prince, a banker, an artist, a bourgeois, a priest and a pauper, are wholly dissimilar and change at the will of civilizations.

Honore De Balzac

#20. If something is buried in the past, leave it buried ... Such dwelling on past lives, including past mistakes, is just not right! It is not the gospel of Jesus Christ ... In cases of marriage and family, ... we can end up destroying so many others.

Jeffrey R. Holland

#21. When you first start to practice positive thinking, tell no one, go to it realistically, stop dwelling on your difficulties, your sorrows. Radiate the happiness you reall want in your life.

Albert E Cliffe

#22. Maybe I spent more time dwelling on emotions than some people, and maybe that's why I ended up writing.

Iris Dement

#23. We are all sentenced to capital punishment for the crime of living, and though the condemned cell of our earthly existence is but a narrow and bare dwelling-place, we have adjusted ourselves to it, and made it tolerably comfortable for the little while we are to be confined in it.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

#24. Holiness, as taught in the Scriptures, is not based upon knowledge on our part. Rather, it is based upon the resurrected Christ in-dwelling us and changing us into His likeness.

A.W. Tozer

#25. For when an old man relives his life, he lives it only by dwelling upon his memories; and when wisdom in an old man has outgrown the immediate impressions of life, the past viewed from the quiet of memory is something different from the present in all its bustle. The

Soren Kierkegaard

#26. Before my accidents, there were ten thousands things I could do. I could spend the rest of my life dwelling on the things that I had lost, but instead I chose to focus on the nine thousand I still had left.

W. Mitchell

#27. feed ur destiny and not ur history. stop dwelling on your disappoinments but prepare for your Appointments

Ikechukwu Joseph

#28. It was not in her nature, however, to increase her vexations by dwelling on them. She was confident of having performed her duty, and to fret over unavoidable evils, or augment them by anxiety, was not part of her disposition.

Jane Austen

#29. I am a living soul dwelling on a planet that is afloat in a universe radiant with life. I feel so small and at the same time so uniquely privileged to partake in that inconceivable mystery.

Yossi Ghinsberg

#30. Out Milky Way is the dwelling; the nebulae are the city.

Victor Hugo

#31. Disciplines are by definition based on territorial epistemologies: studying the borders doesn't lead necessarily to border thinking . . . unless scholars engage in epistemological disciplinary disobedience and bring to the fore the existential experience of dwelling in the border. By

Walter D. Mignolo

#32. By dwelling mentally on the situation, event, or person that is the perceived cause of the emotion, the thought feeds energy to the emotion, which in turn energizes the thought pattern, and so on.

Eckhart Tolle