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Letter "R" » rays
«Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.»
Author: Alexander Graham Bell
(Educator, Inventor)
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Focus,
Work
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at hand, concentrate, rays, work at
«How have I been able to live so long outside Nature without identifying myself with it? Everything lives, moves, everything corresponds; the magnetic rays, emanating either from myself or from others, cross the limitless chain of created things unimpeded; it is a transparent network that covers the world, and its slender threads communicate themselves by degrees to the planets and stars. Captive now upon earth, I commune with the chorus of the stars who share in my joys and sorrows.»
Author: Gerard de Nerval
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commune, corresponds, covers, degrees, emanate, identifying, in chorus, rays, the Chorus, transparent, unimpeded
«Be glad today. Tomorrow may bring tears. Be brave today. The darkest night will pass. And golden rays will usher in the dawn.»
«Instead of studying for finals, what about just going to the Bahamas and catching some rays? Maybe you'll flunk, but you might have flunked anyway; that's my point.»
«I will greet this day with love in my heart. For this is the greatest secret of success in all ventures. Muscles can split a shield and even destroy life itself but only the unseen power of love can open the hearts of man. And until I master this act I will remain no more than a peddler in the marketplace. I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend upon its force... my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day.»
Author: Og Mandino
(Essayist, Psychologist)
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coldest, greet, Hearts of, liken, make love, marketplace, marketplaces, melt, muscles, open secret, peddler, Power of Love, rays, shield, soften, softened, softening, softens, split, splits, splitting, split up, The Marketplace, The Unseen, unseen, ventures, with love
«Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.»
Author: Walter Benjamin
(Essayist, Theologian, Writer)
| Keywords:
gloss, glosses, invisibly, prophetically, rays, text, The Book of Life, ultraviolet
«A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked?»
Author: Anais Nin
(Author)
| Keywords:
accompanied, bird, coffee, fire escape, flutter, fluttered, fluttering, flutters, leaf, rays, settled, supported, the fire, The Task, This Morning, walked
«Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly--they'll go through anything. You read and you're peirced.»
«Line in nature is not found; Unit and universe are round; In vain produced, all rays return; Evil will bless, and ice will burn»
« God is the Sun and when His rays fall upon your heart, not impeded by the clouds of egoism, the lotus blooms and the petals unfold.»
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