Threads Of Life Quotes:

But one had to go back to the beginning of things, always. Trace the thread of life - find the knot - untangle it.

- Martha Ostenso

source: Martha Ostenso (1929). “The Young May Moon”

topic: Thread, Knots, Threads Of Life

How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart, you begin to understand, there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep...that have taken hold.

- J. R. R. Tolkien

topic: Hurt, Taken, Heart, Threads Of Life, Frodo Baggins

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.

- Chief Seattle

topic: Life, Lonely, Nature, Indian, Inspirational Earth

We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Color, Diversity, Matter, Inspirational Diversity, Inclusion

We don't accomplish anything in this world alone... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads form one to another that creates something.

- Sandra Day O'Connor

topic: Teamwork, Kwanzaa, Common Threads, People In Your Life, Threads Of Life

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.

- Simone Signoret

topic: Love, Marriage, Women, Husband To Be, Marriage Advice

Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.

- Richard P. Feynman

topic: Uplifting, Wisdom, Nature, Threads Of Life, Tapestry

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

- Laozi

topic: Inspirational, Sympathy, Death, Threads Of Life, Different Sides

Life and death are one thread.

- Laozi

topic: Life And Death, Thread, Different Sides, Threads Of Life, Both Sides

Although the threads of my life have often seemed knotted, I know, by faith, that on the other side of the embroidery there is a crown..

- Corrie Ten Boom

topic: Crowns, Embroidery, Sides, Threads Of Life

Each thread of life that you leave, will spin around your deeds and dictate your needs.

- Don McLean

source: Song: Dreidel, Album: Don McLean

topic: Needs, Deeds, Adages, Threads Of Life

Women prevent the threads of life from being broken. The finest minds have always understood the peacemaking role of women.

- Mikhail Gorbachev

topic: Peace, Broken, Mind, Threads Of Life, Peacemaking

Brain surgeons are dealing with the very last thread of life, and they have to be very confident, but I think they tend to remember their failures rather than their successes, and that must be very hard. Who do you share that failure with? That's why their personal lives are often disastrous.

- James Nesbitt

topic: Thinking, Brain, Lasts, Threads Of Life, Brain Surgeons

The things a man has heard and seen are threads of life, and if he pull them carefully from the confused distaff of memory, any who will can weave them into whatever garments of belief please them best. I too have woven my garment like another, but I shall try to keep warm in it, and shall be well content if it do not unbecome me.

- William Butler Yeats

source: William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.222, Penguin

topic: Memories, Confused, Men, Threads Of Life

For Fate has wove the thread of life with pain, And twins ev'n from the birth are Misery and Man!

- Homer

topic: Life, Pain, Fate, Threads Of Life

A soul that is ruined in the bud will frequently return to the springtime of its beginning and its promise-filled childhood, as though it could discover new hopes there and retie the broken threads of life. The shoots grow rapidly and eagerly, but it is only a sham life that will never be a genuine tree.

- Hermann Hesse

source: Hermann Hesse (2013). “Beneath the Wheel: A Novel”, p.132, Macmillan

topic: Broken, Childhood, Tree, Threads Of Life, New Hope

I also wanted remembering the past relevant to the present. Some people wanted me to put the names in alphabetical order. I wanted them in chronological order so that a veteran could find his time within the panel. It's like a thread of life.

- Maya Lin

topic: Past, Order, Names, Alphabetical Order, Threads Of Life