From a grain of sand in the Pearl comes. — Confucius
Individually, every grain of sand brushing against my hands represents a story, an experience, and a block for me to build upon for the next generation. — Raquel Cepeda
Sometimes, that mountain you've been climbing, is just a grain of sand. — Carrie Underwood
Waste not the smallest thing created, for grains of sand make mountains, and atomies infinity. — Eric Knight
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe. — Robert W. Service
Keep your hands open, and all the sands of the desert can pass through them. Close them, and all you can feel is a bit of grit. — Taisen Deshimaru
Many do with opportunities as children do at the seashore; they fill their little hands with sand, and then let the grains fall through, one by one, till all are gone. — Thomas Jones
Our lives are but specks of dust falling through the fingers of time. Like sands of the hourglass, so are the days of our lives. — Socrates
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. — Jean Paul
In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth. — Rachel Carson
Chasing a dream is like building a sandcastle. Every grain of sand is important, even if you can’t see them all. — Alexi Pappas
The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. — Niccolo Machiavelli
My role in life is that of the grain of sand to the oyster-it irritates the oyster and out comes a pearl. — Ross Perot
To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower. — William Blake
Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection. — Rabindranath Tagore
Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually. — Jimi Hendrix
Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone. — Jorge Luis Borges
Life's like an hourglass glued to the table. — Anna Nalick
Time is like a handful of sand - the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers. — Henry David Thoreau
God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls and coal into diamonds using time and pressure. He's working on you too.
World In A Grain Of Sand Quotes
Every particle of the world is a mirror. In each atom blazes forth the light of a thousand suns. Open the heart of a raindrop and you will find a hundred oceans. In a grain of sand lies the seed of a thousand beings. — Mahmud Shabistari
To see a world in a grain of sand,And a heaven in a wild flower,Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,And eternity in an hour. — William Blake
To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour. — William Blake
Knowledge without wisdom is like water in the sand.
Why did you make it so hard for me? I'd rather empty the ocean with a sieve. I do it for you. Or count the grains of sand on every beach. All for you. There are so many people, so many countries. But I have time. All the time in the world. Eternity. — Grant Morrison
I'll tell you truly: I value my thought and work terribly, but in essence - think about it - this whole world of ours is just a bit of mildew that grew over a tiny planet. And we think we can have something great - thoughts, deeds! They're all grains of sand — Leo Tolstoy
Grain Of Sand Universe Quotes
Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches. — William Goldman
Can we find "The Universe in a grain of sand"? Well perhaps, but a stone seems easier to visualize. — Peter J. Carroll
The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth. — Carl Sagan
Life's a beach. I am just playing in the sand.
If you took all the sand from all the beaches, all the desserts, and all the oceans and called that the Universe, our whole solar system would be less than one grain of sand. — Seth Shostak
The wise man can pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe. But the stupid man will just lay down on some seaweed and roll around in it until he's completely draped in it. Then he'll stand up and go hey, I'm Vine Man. — Jack Handey
The profoundly 'atomic' character of the universe is visible in everyday experience, in raindrops and grains of sand, in the hosts of the living, and the multitude of stars; even in the ashes of the dead. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Salt in the air, sand in my hair
One thought includes all thought, in the sense that a grain of sand includes the universe. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Beach Sand Quotes
I typically enjoy a beautiful beach destination, as I find the water and sand to be the most replenishing. — Elizabeth Berkley
Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running - that's the way to live. All alone and free in the soft sands of the beach. — Jack Kerouac
I love being in Malibu. It's so cool there, and the water is just, it's nice and, and I love the beach. And I found a sand dollar there. — Jackie Evancho
I can never get over when you're on the beach how beautiful the sand looks and the water washes it away and straightens it up and the trees and the grass all look great. I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own. — Andy Warhol
From an endless beach of reality, we take a grain of sand and call it the world. — Robert M. Pirsig
On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings. — Erma Bombeck
What we know is to what we do not know, as a grain of sand is to the beach. — Ivan Panin
For me exotic means beaches, palm trees and sand and frolicking in the ocean — Priyanka Chopra
When building sand castles on the beach, we can ignore the waves but should watch the tide. — Edsger Dijkstra
We walk up the beach under the stars. And when we are tired of walking, we lie flat on the sand under a bowl of stars. We feel stretched, expanded to take in their compass. They pour into us until we are filled with stars, up to the brim. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Grain Of Salt Quotes
A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her. — Helen Rowland
Wisdom lies in taking everything with good humor and a grain of salt. — George Santayana
Take every birthday with a grain of salt. This works much better if the salt accompanies a large margarita — Maxine
It's all in fun. I take everything with a grain of salt. — Hope Solo
Trade liberty for safety or money and you'll end up with neither. Liberty, like a grain of salt, easily dissolves. The power of questioning - not simply believing - has no friends. Yet liberty depends on it. — Thomas Jefferson
You have to take criticism with a grain of salt because you're never going to please everybody. — Yolanda Adams
The critical opinions of a writer should always be taken with a large grain of salt. For the most part, they are manifestations of his debate with himself as to what he should do next and what he should avoid. — W. H. Auden
Rebuke should have a grain more of salt than of sugar. — Proverbs
Hemingway hated me. I sold 200 million books, and he didn't. Of course most of mine sold for 25 cents, but still... you look at all this stuff with a grain of salt. — Mickey Spillane
Hulkamania is like a single grain of sand in the Sahara desert that is Macho Madness. — Randy Savage
Love all God's creation, the whole and every grain of sand of it. Love every leaf, every ray of God's light. Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe. — Robert W. Service
In a single breath, more molecules of air will pass through your nose than all the grains of sand on all the world’s beaches – trillions and trillions of them. These little bits of air come from a few feet or several yards away. As they make their way toward you, they’ll twist and spool like the stars in a van Gogh sky, and they’ll keep twisting and spooling and scrolling as they pass into you, traveling at a clip of about five miles per hour. — James Nestor
The Hubbell space telescope, it's first year up after they fixed it, categorized and counted 500 billion galaxies in any one photograph field of view of dark matter. That's like grains of sand at the beach and you've just got a handful. It's massive amounts. I'm sure that of all of the galaxies, and I'm sure the universe is teeming with life. — Alex Jones
I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. — Og Mandino
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand. — William Blake
Sometimes that mountain you've been climbing is just a grain of sand, and what you've been up there searching for forever, is in your hands. When you figure out love is all that matters after all it sure makes everything else seem so small. — Carrie Underwood
I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy. — Og Mandino
We all start out knowing magic. We are born with whirlwinds, forest fires, and comets inside us. We are born able to sing to birds and read the clouds and see our destiny in grains of sand. But then we get the magic educated right out of our souls. — Robert R. McCammon
The torments of hell abide for ever.... If all the earth and sea were sand, and every thousandth year a bird should come, and take away one grain of this sand, it would be a long time ere that vast heap of sand were emptied; yet, if after all that time the damned may come out of hell, there were some hope; but this word EVER breaks the heart. — Thomas Watson
Your existence is passing before you. Grains of sand in the hourglass. The Wicked Witch of the West has you in her castle and she's turned the hourglass over and the sand is running through. Will you be liberated or will you die? The only way you can beat death is liberation. — Frederick Lenz
Little drops of water, little grains of sand,
Make the mighty ocean, and the pleasant land.
So the little minutes, humble though they be,
Make the mighty ages of eternity. — Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney
The divine is everywhere, even in a grain of sand; there I represented it in the reeds. — Caspar David Friedrich
Amid this vast and overwhelming space and in these boundless solar archipelagoes, how small is our own sphere, and the earth, what a grain of sand! — Hippolyte Taine
If all the circumstances of acting are made to easy, then there's no grain of sand to make the pearl. — Peter Sarsgaard
They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood. — Gamal Abdel Nasser
Heaven is in a grain of sand. — William Blake
I don't want to sit on the sidelines and not value the gift of being here. Instead of the idea of time ticking away, the grains of sand running out, I try to think of time as giving me another grain of sand, another gift. So time passing is an accumulation, rather than a diminishing. — Tori Amos
You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened. — Jorge Luis Borges
The sand looked so beautiful then, so many little individual grains in the light of the night, giving the watcher the childhood feeling of infinite things finally understood, the humiliating feeling of the watcher's nothingness. — Ayi Kwei Armah
Put three grains of sand inside a vast cathedral, and the cathedral will be more closely packed with sand than space is with stars. — James Jeans
A grain of sand leads to the fall of a mountain when the moment has come for the mountain to fall. — Ernest Renan
God will forgive you if you ask him to. Though your sins be numerous as the grains of sand on the shore, God’s merciful forgiveness is far greater than your sins. Do not be afraid. Trust in his love. Repent of your sins without delay and return to the house of the Father. He is waiting for you. — Patrick Madrid
Gratitude and Contentment is the greatest worker of miracles. It transforms water into wine, grains of sand into pearls, raindrops into balsam, poverty into wealth, the smallest into the greatest, the most common to the most noble, earth into paradise. — Kaspar Hauser
God is everywhere, in the smallest grain of sand. — Caspar David Friedrich
A faerie heart is different from a human heart. Human hearts are elastic. They have room for all sorts of passions, and they can break and heal and love again and again. Faerie hearts are evolutionarily less sophisticated. They are small and hard, like tiny grains of sand. Our hearts are too small to love more than one person in a lifetime. — Tink
You must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act. — Ursula K. Le Guin
Infinity is present in each part. A loving smile contains all art. The motes of starlight spark and dart. A grain of sand holds power and might. — Madeleine L'Engle
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