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I don't know what music is but I love it Coz I believe it dwells in my world.

Niliflash

added by ValidVibes
3 years ago

There's need to understand the spirit that dwells in you than listening to the voice that misleads your decision.

Auliq Ice

added by Auliq-Ice
5 years ago

Man dwells between passion and compulsion

RAMANA PEMMARAJU

added by anonymous
6 years ago

Know that the divine dwells in your heart — not because I said it, but because you felt it. Not one day, not two days, not three days, but all your life.

Prem Rawat

added by anonymous
6 years ago

Every feeling that looks to the future elevates human nature; for life is never so low or so little as when it concentrates itself on the present. The miserable wants, the small desires, and the petty pleasures of daily existence have nothing in common with those mighty dreams which, looking forward for action and action's reward, redeem the earth over which they walk with steps like those of an angel, beneath which spring up glorious and immortal flowers. The imagination is man's noblest and most spiritual faculty ; and that ever dwells on the to-come.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

added by Madeleine Quinn
7 years ago

We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and because our faith tells us so, that we possess souls. As to what good qualities there may be in our souls, or who dwells within them, or how precious they are, those are things which seldom consider and so we trouble little about carefully preserving the soul's beauty.

Teresa of Ávila

added by anonymous
9 years ago

A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.

Jeremy Taylor

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The Marvel of Life dwells in the sight of a diligent human.

Sunil Joyia

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Just like water in an aquarium, a mind left to stagnate brings forth death to whichever life that dwells within it

Ahmed Korayem

added by anonymous
10 years ago

You are one thing only. You are a Divine Being. An all-powerful Creator. You are a Deity in jeans and a t-shirt, and within you dwells the infinite wisdom of the ages and the sacred creative force of All that is, will be and ever was.

Anthon St Maarten

added by anonymous
11 years ago

Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The best [man] is like water.Water is good; it benefits all things and does not compete with them.It dwells in [lowly] places that all disdain.This is why it is so near to Tao.

Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance.

William Blake

added by anonymous
14 years ago

There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man.

Polybius

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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 Watley

added by anonymous
14 years ago

When a man dwells on the objects of sense, he creates an attraction for them attraction develops into desire, and desire breeds anger.

Bhagavad Gita

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

Albert Einstein

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Advice is like snow the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

added by anonymous
14 years ago

The best man is like water. Water is good it benefits all things and does not compete with them. It dwells in lowly places that all disdain. This is why it is so near to Tao.

Lao Tzu

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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