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Patterns Quotes by Doris Lessing
- If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.
- For with my intuition I knew that this man was repeating a pattern over and over again: courting a woman with his intelligence and sympathy,…
- Perhaps it is not such a bad marriage after all? There are innumerable marriages where two people, both twisted and wrong in their depths, are…
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- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of… — Sai Baba
- As soon as we find ourselves working at being indispensable, rigging up a pattern of vulnerability in our loved ones, we know… — Germaine Greer
- Nature does not turn out her work according to a single pattern; she prides herself upon her power of variation... — Seneca the Younger
- We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving… — Henry Ward Beecher
- Woman was given to man as an helpmeet. That complementary association is ideally portrayed in the eternal marriage of our first parents… — Ezra Taft Benson
- Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action. — Constantin Brancusi
- The more living patterns there are in a place - a room, a building, or a town - the more it comes… — Christopher Alexander