I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.
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I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.
Every stone here sweats with suffering, I know that. I have never looked at them without a feeling of anguish. But deep in my heart I know that the most wretched among you have seen a divine face emerge from their darkness. That is the face you are asked to see.
I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow, the million moving shapes and cul-de-sacs of shadow. There was shadow in bureau drawers and closets and suitcases, and shadow under houses and trees and stones, and shadow at the back of people's eyes and smiles, and shadow, miles and miles and miles of it, on the night side of the earth.
Inside the peach, there is a stone.
Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones To keep you warm.
How does it feel, how does it feel to be without a home, like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone.
All is forgotten in the stone halls of the dead. These are the rooms of ruin where the spiders spin and the great circuits fall quiet, one by one.
may came home with a smooth round stone as small as a world and as large as alone.
Miami is a melting pot in which none of the stones melt. They rattle around.
The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as offensive as the brickbat. They at once sought for the journalist, found him, developed him, and made him their industrious and well-paid servant. It is greatly to be regretted, for both their sakes.
I asked for bread, and I got a stone in the shape of a pedestal.
I will write a book one day about how I feel about every aspect of Emily Stone. She's a full genius. She has found her genius and is giving it all so fully and beautifully. I think everyone who works with her, brushes shoulders with her, or even makes eye contact with her, gets a shot of sunshine.
Temples are more than stone and mortar. They are filled with faith and fasting. They are built of trials and testimonies. They are sanctified by sacrifice and service.
In this culture, God is not the highest entity; mukti or liberation is the highest goal. We are willing to use God as a stepping stone, if needed.
All loves should be simply stepping stones to the love of God. So it was with me; and blessed be his name for his great goodness and mercy.
Voting is the foundation stone for political action.
Don't throw stones at your neighbors, if your own windows are glass.
Genius, like gold and precious stones, _x000D_ is chiefly prized because of its rarity.
The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age.
Grain by grain, a loaf. Stone upon stone, a palace.
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