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Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power. -- Shirley MacLaine
Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too. -- William Blake
The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men. -- Adam Weishaupt
Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions. -- Ambrose Bierce
Maybe I spent more time dwelling on emotions than some people, and maybe that's why I ended up writing. -- Iris Dement
O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams. -- Saint Augustine
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
The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation. -- Simone Weil
The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind. -- Benjamin Disraeli
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
The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity. -- Thomas Mann
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
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
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
Dwelling on negative thoughts is like fertilizing weeds. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Dwelling in the past prevents doing something in the present. -- John Wooden
Dwelling in failure won't change anything nor will it create a good outcome. -- Yunho
Dwelling on the sins of the past won't help us stop the evils of the present. -- Andrew Mayne
Dwelling on him would make him a bigger part of my life than I want him to be. -- Richard Paul Evans
Dwelling on pain, spending too much time immersed in it, tasting its flavors, fingering its textures--this makes it only more potent. -- Tayari Jones
All the past has done is generated the you that you are now. Dwelling on the past isn't going to change anything. -- Frederick Lenz
All the past has done is generated the you that you are now. Dwelling on the past isn't going to change anything. -- Frederick Lenz
Dwelling is not primarily inhabiting but taking care of and creating that space within which something comes into its own and flourishes. -- Martin Heidegger
Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment. -- Nhat Hanh
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
Dwelling on the loneliness inherent in a city such as this when you dream of endless mountains and expanses of blue sky is a recipe for torment. -- Carla H. Krueger
Dwelling upon the self too much produces terrible fatigue. A man in that position is deaf and blind to everything else. The fatigue itself makes him cease to see the marvels all around. -- Carlos Castaneda
There's no point in dwelling on rejection. -- Isabel Lucas
Life is not about dwelling on the bad. -- Lara Logan
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. -- Aristotle
We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us. -- Winston Churchill
In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. -- Laozi
The relationship between man and space is none other than dwelling, strictly thought and spoken. -- Martin Heidegger
God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart. -- Izaak Walton
I'm not sitting dwelling about the past or stressing or fretting about something in the future. -- Jennifer Aniston
We do not heal the past by dwelling there. We heal the past by living in the present. -- Marianne Williamson
The dwelling places of Europe have an air of inheritance, or cumulative possession - a hive occupied by generations of bees. -- John Updike
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
The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages. -- Stephen Gardiner
Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used. -- Richard E. Byrd
Few men during their lifetime comes anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used. -- Richard E. Byrd
I think if you spend much time dwelling on influence you can get self-conscious about every line you write. That's a great way to freeze up. -- Ben Fountain
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
There is strength deep bedded in our hearts, of which we reck but little till the shafts of heaven have pierced its fragile dwelling. Must not earth be rent before her gems are found? -- Felicia Hemans
What makes a loft authentic isn't its layout or its history but its ability to give people a true home - a dwelling that reflects their personalities and aspirations, including their dreams of urbanity. -- Virginia Postrel
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. -- Laozi
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. -- Laozi
I try to acknowledge both the sacred and the silly in my work. That goes for the live show as well. If I find myself in my head or dwelling in seriousness, I think of my friends back home and how they'd be laughing at me. -- Jason Mraz
I think it's harder to forgive ourselves for mistakes that we made because we keep dwelling on it. We want to know how it affects other people, if they liked us for it, if they didn't like us. I think we stress over it, we replay it in our mind. It becomes an old tape that years later we continue to play it in our mind. -- Sherri Shepherd
Two places are ordained for man to dwell in after this life. While he is here, he may choose, by God's mercy, which he will; but once he is gone from here, he may not do so. For whichever he first goes to, whether he like it well or ill, there he must dwell forevermore. He shall never after change his dwelling, though he hates it ever so badly. -- John Wycliffe
Make mankind your dwelling place. -- Idries Shah
Poetry is truth dwelling in beauty. -- Robert Gilfillan
Conscience is ... the God dwelling in us. -- Benjamin Whichcote
Modern, not bottom-dwelling literature like a carp. -- Joe Wright
Now is the dwelling place of God himself. -- Thomas Raymond Kelly
Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns. -- William Wordsworth
Bound, elbow to elbow, darkness and night entered the dwelling. -- Luis Bunuel
Fore God, you have here a goodly dwelling and a rich. -- William Shakespeare
Out Milky Way is the dwelling; the nebulae are the city. -- Victor Hugo
Change the conversation of the world by dwelling on what's gone right. -- Mary Anne Radmacher
Only if we are capable of dwelling, only then can we build -- Martin Heidegger
His eyes were still like caves with ghosts dwelling in their depths. -- Charlaine Harris
You could dismantle your destiny, dwelling in the chasm between knowing and doing. -- LaShaun Middlebrooks Collier
There's never a villain dwelling in all Denmark But he's an arrant knave. -- William Shakespeare
Each violet peeps from its dwelling to gaze at the bright stars above. -- Heinrich Heine
Eternal blessings crown my earliest friend, And round his dwelling guardian saints attend. -- Oliver Goldsmith
Quit dwelling on other people's stories and make up some of your own. -- Alethea Kontis
A dwelling should be not a retreat from space, but life in space. -- Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
In dwelling, be close to the land. In meditation, go deep in the heart. -- Laozi
Do you get a nice monthly check from the government for dwelling on things? -- Doug Benson
Oh that the desert were my dwelling-place, With one fair spirit for my minister -- Lord Byron
Expect the unexpected like a chain smoking, hard drinking, monochrome world dwelling Noir Detective -- Dean Cavanagh
Your mind must be at its best for God before it becomes His dwelling place. -- T. B. Joshua
The man who has made God his dwelling place will always have a safe habitation. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
Instead of dwelling on negative thoughts, cause your mind to dwell on peace and joy. -- Ernest Holmes
By dwelling on negativity, we prevent ourselves from living in the simple state of well-being. -- Deepak Chopra
Discouragement tricks you into mentally or emotionally dwelling in the very place you want to leave. -- Guy Finley
The spirit of elder days found a dwelling here, and we delighted to trace its footsteps. -- Mary Shelley
If you are looking for Christ in folks you will not be dwelling on their faults. -- Charles E. Fuller
Writing is the passageway, the entrance, the exit, the dwelling place of the other in me. -- Helene Cixous
May all the stars hang bright above her dwelling, Silent as though they watched the sleeping earth! -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice. -- Thomas Aquinas
There's no point dwelling on what might or could have been. You just have to go forward. -- Jack Nicholson
Learn to focus on the light ahead instead of dwelling on the darkness that's already behind you. -- Edmond Mbiaka
Darkness is the fit hour for beasts of prey, and ignorance the natural dwelling place of cruelty. -- Charles Spurgeon
Where I live you're not supposed to shoot a firearm within a quarter mile of a dwelling. -- Bonnie Jo Campbell
Live each day the fullest you can, not guaranteeing therell be a tomorrow, not dwelling endlessly on yesterday. -- Jane Seymour
I'm not sitting somewhere dwelling on the past. I'm not fretting or obsessing about something in the future. -- Jennifer Aniston
There is none dwelling in the house but God. When a man is awakened he melts and perishes. -- Rumi
Friend of my bosom, thou more than a brother, Why wert thou not born in my father's dwelling? -- Charles Lamb
People tend to assume that I come from a long line of castle-dwelling gentry and am made of money. -- Jasmine Guinness
Time that is spent dwelling on the past will surely continue in your present moment - and the future. -- Michelle Cruz
Things are what they are and there's no point dwelling in the past or wondering what could have been. -- Emily Giffin
Our intellect has achieved the most tremendous things, but in the meantime our spiritual dwelling has fallen into disrepair. -- Carl Jung
I spend my time dwelling on revenge and try to deal with the monsters crawling out of the ashes. -- Louise Erdrich
Asks the Possible of the Impossible, "Where is your dwelling-place?" "In the dreams of the Impotent," comes the answer. -- Rabindranath Tagore
The sage acts without taking credit. He accomplishes without dwelling on it. He does not want to display his worth. -- Laozi
The amount of time people waste dwelling on failures rather than putting that energy into another project, always amazes me -- Richard Branson
We try to live every moment like that, dwelling peacefully in the present moment, and respond to events with compassion. -- Nhat Hanh
The only way you can own this moment is to evict the victim mentality from the dwelling of your mind. -- Steve Maraboli
It is never good dwelling on good-byes ... it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting. -- Elizabeth Bibesco
Gully Foyle is my name And Terra is my nation Deep space is my dwelling place The stars my destination -- Alfred Bester
Your house is not your home.My world is not your world.Your thoughts are your homewhere you're dwelling all along. -- Debasish Mridha
My real dwelling Has no pillars And no roof either So rain cannot soak it And wind cannot blow it down. -- Ikkyu
Pay attention only to the form; emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling place always finds an inhabitant. -- Andre Gide
By the anxieties and worries of this life Satan tries to dull man's heart and make a dwelling for himself there. -- Francis of Assisi
The new statement is always hated by the old, and, to those dwelling in the old, comes like an abyss of skepticism. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quit dwelling on the negative things people have said about you. You don't have to have everyone's approval. You have God's approval. -- Joel Osteen
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself. -- Bertolt Brecht
O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams. -- Saint Augustine
No use dwelling on the past. What you do tomorrow and the next day and the day after that is what matters. -- Kate Brian
A creative block is a fear about the future, a guess about the dangers dwelling in the dark computer and the locked studio. -- Eric Maisel
I do not wish my house to be walled and my windows stuffed. I want all cultures to blow freely through my dwelling. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The extent and condition of our property, and our choice of style in dwelling, create a powerful emblem of our identity and status. -- Deborah Tall
Holiness of heart and life. This is not the perfection of the human nature, but the holiness of the divine nature dwelling within. -- A. B. Simpson
There are no chains like hate...dwelling on your brother's faults multiplies your own. You are far from the end of your journey. -- Gautama Buddha
A melancholy sound is in the air, A deep sigh in the distance, a shrill wail Around my dwelling. 'Tis the Wind of night. -- William C. Bryant
With six small diamonds for his eyes He walks upon the summer skies, Drawing from his silken blouse The lacework of his dwelling house. -- Robert P. T. Coffin
And that which sings and contemplates in you is still dwelling within the bounds of that first moment which scattered the stars into space. -- Khalil Gibran
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

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