Dwell Quotes

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Buddha

Future, Mind, Past

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.
Johnny Cash

Time, Failure, Mistakes

Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
Denis Waitley

Forward, Moving, Focus

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
Voltaire

Life, Power, Through

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.
George Bernard Shaw

Long, Cannot, Highest

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.
Oprah Winfrey

Understand, Path, Choose

It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.
Voltaire

God, Whether, Known

You must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.
Emmet Fox

Positive, Mind, Thought

Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action.
Orison Swett Marden

Life, Deep, Him

Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.
Richard Cecil

Life, Good, Best

I dwell in possibility.
Emily Dickinson

God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.
Saint Teresa of Avila

Good, God, Person

A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away.
William Wycherley

Night, Country, Away

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!
Joseph Addison

Love, Pain, Live

Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.
William Blake

Love, God, Mercy

A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.
Joseph Addison

True, Rather, Worth

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
J. K. Rowling

Dreams, Live, Forget

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
Jane Austen

Guilt, Misery, Pens

We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.
Lillian Hellman

Mistakes, Past, Remember

O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
William Cowper

Place, Solitude, Face

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.
Alexander Pope

She, Painful, Content

The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.
James Russell Lowell

Mind, Thoughts, Anywhere

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
Alexandre Dumas

Love, Together, Cannot

Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.
Brian Tracy

Experience, Whatever, Conscious

I can't dwell.
Kim Kardashian

Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place.
Ovid

Love, Together, Same

The government's view is that the best time to announce bad news, news that it doesn't want the public to dwell on is late on a Friday, when it will wind up in the Saturday papers, which if you were readers, then the week day editions. A holiday weekend is even better.
Bob Schieffer

Time, Best, Government

Eternal life and the invisible world are only to be sought in God. Only within Him do all spirits dwell. He is an abyss of individuality, the only infinite plenitude.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well.
Louisa May Alcott

Hard, Feelings, Thoughts

You must not allow yourself to dwell for a single moment on any kind of negative thought.
Emmet Fox

Yourself, Single, Thought

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