Top 100 Quotes About Dwelling
#1. Those with a high level of confidence may have as many or more weaknesses than those with low self-esteem. The difference is this; instead of dwelling on their handicaps, they compensate for them by dwelling on their strengths.
Alan Loy McGinnis
#2. Dwelling on pain, spending too much time immersed in it, tasting its flavors, fingering its textures
this makes it only more potent.
Tayari Jones
#3. Writing is the passageway, the entrance, the exit, the dwelling place of the other in me.
Helene Cixous
#4. No use dwelling on the past. What you do tomorrow and the next day and the day after that is what matters.
Kieran Scott
#5. One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
John Berger
#6. Knowing the voice of the Lord, obeying Him, and dwelling in His presence," William recounted.
Rick Joyner
#7. I want my cuddly bear back."
I narrowed my eyes. "You're calling me cuddly? I tried to kill you ten minutes ago."
"Stop dwelling on old shit.
Suzanne Wright
#8. He saw that his mother was dwelling in an alternate time, a more bearable reality.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#9. There are many pitfalls in life; one is dwelling on blame.
It's pointless. Move on.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#10. As to the value of conversions, God alone can judge. God alone can know how wide are the steps which the soul has to take before it can approach to a community with Him, to the dwelling of the perfect, or to the intercourse and friendship of higher natures.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#11. Death is not easily escaped, try it who will; but every living soul among the children of men dwelling upon the earth goeth of necessity unto his destined place, where the body, fast in its narrow bed, sleepeth after feast.
Chauncey Brewster Tinker
#12. May all the stars hang bright above her dwelling, Silent as though they watched the sleeping earth!
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#13. Hope and Memory have one daughter and her name is Art, and she has built her dwelling far from the desperate field where men hang out their garments upon forked boughs to be banners of battle. O beloved daughter of Hope and Memory, be with me for a while.
W.B.Yeats
#14. People who write poisonous things about your work are using up precious moments of their life dwelling on yours. These are moments they will never get back. Let that be a comfort to you.
Chuck Lorre
#15. Fighting Maoism isn't like fighting an enemy across the border. They are civilians. The military and paramilitary have been trained to fight the enemy, but these are tribals dwelling in forests. They are also our citizens, whom we have ill-treated.
Kishore Chandra Deo
#16. Dwelling is not primarily inhabiting but taking care of and creating that space within which something comes into its own and flourishes.
Martin Heidegger
#17. When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them. But when they are away, we console ourselves for their absence by dwelling on their vices.
George Bernard Shaw
#18. Instead of dwelling on the wickedness and grief of those who have sinned, I rejoice to read how many have abandoned their sinful practices and are now on the road back to righteousness and happiness. Let us rejoice in the spirit of forgiveness, which is the comforting message of the Atonement.
Theodore M. Burton
#19. Scattered throughout, dwelling as they wish. Just as you are now free to roam where you wish." "I wish to roam home." Rhys
Sarah J. Maas
#20. Why should the residence of a preacher be untaxed? Useful citizens must pay taxes on their homes. Yet the Preacher - actually and notoriously the least useful member of the community - lives in a tax-free dwelling.
E. Haldeman-Julius
#21. He sat in his dwelling alone, watching through the window, seeing children at play, citizens bicycling home from uneventful days at work, ordinary lives free of anguish because he had been selected, as others before him had, to bear their burden.
Lois Lowry
#22. I am dwelling on things I love, even if a measure of tragedy is stitched into everything, if you follow the thread long enough
Sebastian Barry
#23. Dwelling-place and food are useful for life but give it no significance: the immediate goals of the housekeeper are only means, not true ends.
Simone De Beauvoir
#24. In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
Lao-Tzu
#25. The Church is built on the rock of Peter, and he who eats the Lamb outside this holy dwelling is reprobate ..He who eats the Lamb outside this Apostolic See has no part with God!
Pope Pius IX
#26. For smoke, which is the London ivy, had so wreathed itself round Peffer's name and clung to his dwelling-place that the affectionate parasite quite overpowered the parent tree.
Charles Dickens
#27. I cannot be grasped in the here and now,
For my dwelling place is much among the dead,
As the yet unborn,
Slightly closer to the heart of creation than usual,
But still not close enough.
Paul Klee
#28. Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#29. When you find yourself dwelling on something negative, consciously use your willpower to remove your mind from that which is negative. Move your mind into the flow of something positive.
Frederick Lenz
#30. The warrior learns of the spiritual realm by dwelling on the cutting edge of the sword, standing at the edge of the fire pit, venturing right up to the edge of starvation if necessary. Vibrant and intense living is the warrior's form of worship.
Stephen K. Hayes
#31. Certainly, for time out of mind, an obsessive dwelling on happier former days has been synonymous with getting older, while it was the juvenescent who rushed with open arms to embrace the future.
Will Self
#32. Change the conversation of the world by dwelling on what's gone right.
Mary Anne Radmacher
#33. I imagined it was far better to be optimistic, to proceed assuming wherever you could that you had cared enough, that you'd made a difference, that you would again. Dwelling on the worst was no way to live.
Gwenda Bond
#34. Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
Bertolt Brecht
#35. Oh that the desert were my dwelling-place, With one fair spirit for my minister
Lord Byron
#36. In my way of thinking, anything is possible. Life is at the bottom of things and belief at the top, while the creative impulse, dwelling in the center, informs all.
Patti Smith
#37. Overcome your uncertainties and free yourself from dwelling on sorrow. When you delight in existence, you will awaken, and become a guide to those in need, revealing the path to many.
Gautama Buddha
#38. Now two punctilious envoys, Thine and Mine Embroil the earth about a fancied line; And, dwelling much on right and much on wrong, Prove how the right is chiefly with the strong.
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
#39. Your house is not your home.
My world is not your world.
Your thoughts are your home
where you're dwelling all along.
Debasish Mridha
#40. My real dwelling
Has no pillars
And no roof either
So rain cannot soak it
And wind cannot blow
it down.
Ikkyu
#41. Fools dwelling in darkness, wise in their own conceit, are puffed up with vain knowledge, go round and round, staggering to and fro, like blind men led by the blind.
Gopi Krishna
#42. The spirit of elder days found a dwelling here, and we delighted to trace its footsteps.
Mary Shelley
#43. With all the time on my hands, I hadn't accomplished much, other than dwelling on the unchangeable.
N.E. Conneely
#44. The fragile art of existenceIs kept alive by sheer persistenceThe fragile art of existence.No time for self-pityNo time for dwelling on what should have beenBut is yet to be.
Chuck Schuldiner
#45. Temperament, he'd only wound up dwelling on Catharine's past.
Maggie Brendan
#47. The very act of looking for evil in others develops evil in those who look. By dwelling upon the faults of others, we are changed into the same image.
Ellen G. White
#48. Once I stopped dwelling on what I didn't have, on what I thought I was going to lose, and began to give freely, everything opened up for me. Everything began to flow into my life.
Patti LaBelle
#49. Outbox and its inherent transient nature - is it a take on life itself ? momentary, independent, fleeting and somewhat meaningless dwelling for all creations on their way out - to sent items.
Sunil Raina
#50. The amount of time people waste dwelling on failures rather than putting that energy into another project, always amazes me
Richard Branson
#51. Created man cannot become a son of God and god by grace through deification, unless he is first through his own free choice begotten in the Spirit by means of the self-loving and independent power dwelling naturally in him.
Maximus The Confessor
#52. 9 Because you have made the LORD your o dwelling place - the Most High, who is my c refuge [2] - 10 p no evil shall be allowed to befall you, q no plague come near your tent. 11 r For he will command his s angels concerning you to t guard you in all your ways.
Anonymous
#53. The best thing you can do is just keep busy, keep working hard, so you're not dwelling on it all the time. Work is the best antidote for sorrow.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#54. Dwelling on the past only defeated her chances for changing the future.
Francine Rivers
#55. However convenient this dwelling, we cannot remain here.
Walt Whitman
#56. As the sun, revealer of all objects to the seer, is not harmed by the sinful eye, nor by the impurities of the objects it gazes on, so the one Self, dwelling in all, is not touched by the evils of the world. (The Upanishads: Breath of the Eternal, pg. 35)
Swami Prabhavananda
#57. "The fool, dwelling on the bank of the Ganga, digs a well for water!" Such are we! Living in the midst of God - we must go and make images.
Swami Vivekananda
#58. Where I live you're not supposed to shoot a firearm within a quarter mile of a dwelling.
Bonnie Jo Campbell
#59. Dwelling on the past causes us to forfeit the power of the moment.
Shannon Tanner
#60. Hair like steel wool grew far back on his head and gave him a domed brown forehead that might at careless glance seemed a dwelling place for brains.
Raymond Chandler
#61. Dwelling over this loss while wandering down Central Park West somewhere around Seventy-sixth, Seventy-fifth, it strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place.
Bret Easton Ellis
#62. 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
#63. A rebel she was, but not of the kind he understood - a rebel who desired, not a wider dwelling-room, but equality beside the man she loved.
E. M. Forster
#64. I had arrived at that well-known portion of the story where Ethelred, the hero of the Trist, having sought in vain for peaceable admission into the dwelling of the hermit, proceeds to make good an entrance by force. Here,
Edgar Allan Poe
#65. Their prayer came up to His holy dwelling place, even unto heaven. - 2 Chronicles 30:27 PRAYER is the never-failing resort of the Christian in any case, in every plight.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#66. I am grateful for all those people who said no. It is because of them that I did it myself. Practice an attitude of gratitude. You can either be miserable dwelling on the troubles you have or grateful for the ones you don't have. Your troubles don't care but it makes a huge difference in your life.
Michael Josephson
#67. Christ's dwelling and empowering us makes us realize the hope of glory
Sunday Adelaja
#68. Yet the greening grasses and overarching elms and oaks, just beginning to come into leaf, gave the scene a picturesque air, like a fairy-tale dwelling;
Joyce Carol Oates
#69. One thing I learned in here is the past is for learning. It's not for punishing others or yourself. It's not for dwelling on and getting angry about things you can't change. It's for learning how to do better in the rest of your life. And being grateful you get another chance to try and do better.
Nicole Green
#70. But really, the term "forgive and forget" doesn't make sense to me. Forgiving does allow us to stop dwelling on an issue, which isn't always healthy. But if we forget, we don't learn from our mistakes. And that can be deadly.
Meg Cabot
#71. Do not fear emptiness. It is the dwelling place of possibility. Nothing can be added to a vessel that is already full.
~Malachi
Stephanie Stamm
#72. We are not only to renounce evil, but to manifest the truth. We tell people the world is vain; let our lives manifest that it is so. We tell them that our home is above and that all these things are transitory. Does our dwelling look like it? O to live consistent lives!
Hudson Taylor
#73. We all have the same Christ dwelling within, but revelation of some new need will lead us spontaneously to trust Him to live out His life in in that particular.
Watchman Nee
#74. The character of a dwelling, like that of a man, grows slowly.
Beryl Markham
#75. But a lot of our thinking is caught up in dwelling on the past, trying to control the future, generating misperceptions, and worrying about what others are thinking.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#76. St Patrick was a Roman Briton of good family dwelling probably in the Severn valley.
Winston S. Churchill
#77. Do everything as if He were dwelling in us. Thus we shall be His temples and He will be within us as our God - as He actually is.
Ignatius Of Antioch
#78. It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.
Winston Churchill
#79. Bound, elbow to elbow, darkness and night entered the dwelling.
Luis Bunuel
#80. No one can attain to truth by himself. Only by laying stone on stone with the cooperation of all, by the millions of generations from our forefather Adam to our own times, is that temple reared which is to be a worthy dwelling place of the Great God.
Leo Tolstoy
#81. I think that dwelling on other people's perception of you is the road to complete madness, unfortunately. I try and resist that.
Kate Beckinsale
#82. I don't like remembering the way that hurt her. Hurts her. I'm sure it still does; I'm just not around to see, and I don't like dwelling on that, either. That's only normal. Missing people you still love, and not wanting to see them in pain and angry and humiliated.
Caitlin R. Kiernan
#83. Every man, however good he may be, has a yet better man dwelling in him, which is properly himself, but to whom nevertheless he is often unfaithful. It is to this interior and less mutable being that we should attach ourselves, not to be changeable, every-day man.
Wilhelm Von Humboldt
#84. Magnus shrugged. He also made inappropriate amorous advances to a startled grandmotherly sort selling flowers, an Irish wolfhound, and innocent hat stand in a dwelling he broke into, and myself.
Cassandra Clare
#86. The pain of dwelling on the wrongs done to us by other people far exceeds the little bit of pleasure we derive from condemning others for their guilt.
Rabindranath Tagore
#87. Therefore, the places in which we have experienced day dreaming reconstitute themselves in a new daydream, and it is because our memories of former dwelling-places are relived as day-dreams these dwelling-places of the past remain in us for all the time.
Gaston Bachelard
#88. Learn from it and then let it go. Dwelling never helped anyone.
Kady Cross
#89. My journey deep into coma, outside this lowly physical realm and into the loftiest dwelling place of the almighty Creator, revealed the indescribably immense chasm between our human knowledge and the awe-inspiring realm of God.
Eben Alexander
#90. The occultist knows that this thought-atmosphere of a village, town, city, or nation is the composite thought of those dwelling in it or who have previously dwelt there. Strangers
William Walker Atkinson
#91. The .350 hitter expects, and also deserves, a big payoff for his performance - even if he plays for a cellar-dwelling team. And a .150 hitter should get no reward - even if he plays for a pennant winner.
Warren Buffett
#92. Modern, not bottom-dwelling literature like a carp.
Joe Wright
#93. This extravagant dwelling, as domineering as it was distant, brought home to me the intimateconnection between tyranny and abstraction, and put me in mind of John Berger's observation that "abstraction's capacity to ignore what is real is undoubtedly where most evil begins."
Michael Jackson
#94. Instead of dwelling on the failures of today focus on the victories of tomorrow.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#95. Nationalism - in other words, the dividing of the church into bodies - consisting of such and such a nation, is a novelty, not above three centuries old, although many dear children of God are found dwelling in it.
John Nelson Darby
#96. Dwelling on your past won't get you anywhere you haven't already been.
Nel E. Sherk
#97. Finding a homeland is not the same as dwelling in the place where our ancestors once used to live. - KRZYSZTOF CZYZEWSKI
Tony Judt
#98. Yes, forget your weakness, whatever that weakness may be. It is egotism, it is selfishness after. all, for it is a dwelling on self. Forget your weakness; and remember your strength.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
#99. A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences.
Norman Cousins
#100. Breathing in, I calm my body. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is a wonderful moment.
Thich Nhat Hanh
