Threads Of Life Quotes by Martha Ostenso, J. R. R. Tolkien, Maya Lin, Hermann Hesse, Laozi, Don McLean and many others.

But one had to go back to the beginning of things, always. Trace the thread of life – find the knot – untangle it.
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.
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.
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.
Life and death are one thread.
Each thread of life that you leave, will spin around your deeds and dictate your needs.
For Fate has wove the thread of life with pain,
And twins ev’n from the birth are Misery and Man!
And twins ev’n from the birth are Misery and Man!
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.
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.
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.
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.
Life and death are one thread,
the same line viewed from different sides.
the same line viewed from different sides.
Women prevent the threads of life from being broken. The finest minds have always understood the peacemaking role of women.
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.
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.