Diamond Inspirational Quotes

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When you ask God for a gift, Be thankful if he sends, Not diamonds, pearls or riches, but the love of real true friends.
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Helen Steiner Rice
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Pressure makes diamonds
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George S. Patton Jr.
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A brother is like gold and a friend is like diamond. If gold cracks you can melt it and make it just like it was before. If a diamond cracks, it can never be like it was before.
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Ali ibn Abi Talib
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There are still some wonderful people left in this world! They are diamonds in the rough, but they're around! You'll find them when you fall down– they're the ones who pick you up, who don't judge, and you had to fall down to see them! When you get up again, remember who your true friends are!
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C. JoyBell C.
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I'm not afraid of dying. I'm afraid I'll never get a chance to live!
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A.A. Bell (Diamond Eyes (Mira Chambers #1))
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One day they'll realize they lost a diamond while playing with worthless stones.
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Turcois Ominek
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Why had he assumed time was some sort of infinite resource? Now the hourglass had busted open, and what he’d always assumed was just a bunch of sand turned out to be a million tiny diamonds.
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Tommy Wallach (We All Looked Up)
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Think of what starlight And lamplight would lack Diamonds and fireflies If they couldn’t lean against Black. . . .
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Mary O'Neill (Hailstones and Halibut Bones)
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We become so absorbed in our flaws and faults that we forget that it is better to be a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. To have flaws is beauty in itself, a fact so frightening that we hurry to hide them from sight and tarnish the whole in the process of comparing ourselves to others.
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Forrest Curran (Purple Buddha Project: Purple Book of Self-Love)
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Light is in both the broken bottle and the diamond.
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Mark Nepo (The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have)
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The further I wake into this life, the more I realize that God is everywhere and the extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary. Light is in both the broken bottle and the diamond, and music is in both the flowing violin and the water dripping from the drainage pipe. Yes, God is under the porch as well as on top of the mountain, and joy is in both the front row and the bleachers, if we are willing to be where we are.
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Mark Nepo (The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have)
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As the earth dies your spirit will bloom; as the world fades your soul will rise and glisten. Amongst the dehydrated crevices of a desert earth you will stumble upon your diamonds; in between the dry skulls and cracked bones you will find your sapphires.
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C. JoyBell C.
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We have different forms assigned to us in the school of life, different gifts imparted. All is not attractive that is good. Iron is useful, though it does not sparkle like the diamond. Gold has not the fragrance of a flower. So different persons have various modes of excellence, and we must have an eye to all.
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William Wilberforce
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Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond.
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Kahlil Gibran
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Remember diamonds are created under pressure so hold on, it will be your time to shine soon.
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Sope Agbelusi
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Which path do you intend to take, Nell?' said the Constable, sounding very interested. 'Conformity or rebellion?' Neither one. Both ways are simple-minded - they are only for people who cannot cope with contradiction and ambiguity.
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Neal Stephenson (The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer)
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If people want something to be wrong about youβ€” they are going to make things wrong about you. That is why it is my belief to never try and prove anything to anyone. Real diamonds belong to people who know how to spot a real diamond; they don’t belong to people who need to be convinced that they are real diamonds. It’s the idiots who need to be convinced of something that they cannot already see.
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C. JoyBell C.
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Tell her I'm sorry I sold the diamond, eh?" Sammy said. "I broke my promise. When she disappeared in Alaska... ah, so long ago, I finally used that diamond, moved to Texas as I always dreamed. I started my machine shop. Started my family! It was a good life, but Haze; was right. The diamond came with a curse. I never saw her again." "Oh, Sammy," Hazel said. "No, a curse didn't keep me away. I wanted to come back. I died!" The old man didn't seem to hear. He smiled down at the baby, and kissed him on the head. "I give you my blessing, Leo. First male great-grandchild! I have a feeling you are special, like Hazel was. You are more than a regular baby, eh? You will carry on for me. You will see her someday. Tell her hello for me.
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Rick Riordan (The Mark of Athena (The Heroes of Olympus, #3))
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That was what I wanted, but I don't need it to be gone. I can love you and I can love life and bear the pain all at the same time. I think the pain might even make the rest better, the way a good setting can make a diamond look better.
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Stephen King (Needful Things)
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[Christ] has accomplished your salvation. But He has not yet perfected your circumstances. Do not be confused in the two.
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Kristen Heitzmann (Sweet Boundless (The Diamond of the Rockies #2))
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Remember diamonds are created under pressure so hold on, it be your time to shine soon.
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Sope Agbelusi
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Transmutation: β€’ Grapes must be crushed to make wine β€’ Diamonds form under pressure β€’ Olives are pressed to release oil β€’ Seeds grow in darkness Whenever you feel crushed, under pressure, pressed, or in darkness, you’re in a powerful place of transformation/transmutation.
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Lalah Delia
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I don't understand this irony - valuable things like cars, gold, diamond are made up of hard materials but most valuable things like money, contracts and books are made up of soft paper.
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Amit Kalantri
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Stars do not hide from darkness. Roses do not hide from thorns. Diamonds do not hide from pressure.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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I think the truth is that we are in love with the fantasy of being that one person who could inspire, arouse, or affect someone who is so untouchable to the rest of the world.Β  It makes us feel special; like we’re the diamond in the rough, the one in a million, the one that everyone else couldn’t be, and do what everyone else couldn’t do.Β  Imagine being that significant to someone?Β  To never have to doubt that he loves you, or needs you, or more importantly, wants you more than any other.
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Christine Zolendz (Brutally Beautiful (Beautiful, #1))
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Us. All regrets, left them in the sea, smiling at life as if it was a beautiful dream, because if one thing is certain, clearing the strange foreigh steam. Like the diamond ring that fits in your finger, we are stronger as a steel linker
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Lucia Ohanian
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A diamond earns its sparkle from the pressure it endures.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Diamond being the toughest thing known to us is also the most prettiest object
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Peiyansh Shah
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You were never born with a silver spoon in your mouth. Don't think that way. You were born with a diamond spoon in your palm. Carry it by your own hand. Now, feed yourself
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Israelmore Ayivor
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Diamonds know their value, that is why they hide deep where few can find them.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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From the mud of adversity grows the lotus of joy
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Carolyn Marsden (The Buddha's Diamonds)
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Your rebel soul shines like a diamond pulled from dust: bright, clear and flawless.
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Jay Long
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The fact that you can't see how much you're worth makes you worth so much more." She opened her mouth once, her brow bunched, but nothing came out. She didn't know the words to ask. I continued. "A diamond doesn't know how much it's worth; it's just beautiful because it exists.
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Shelly Crane (The Other Side of Gravity (Oxygen, #1))
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Begin where you are and what you are.
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Russell H. Conwell (Acres of Diamonds)
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Days are worth silver. Months are worth gold. Years are worth diamonds. Eternity is priceless treasure.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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When diamonds boast that they can't be crushed, let 'em go, 'cause dreams don't turn to dust.
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Owl City
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Believe in your dreams and when people doubt you, prove them wrong.
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Sky Diamond
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Without a whole lot of pressure, a diamond is just a piece of coal.
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Miriam Darnell
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Be patient my little wild one, wondrous things take time. A pearl is hidden before it’s refined. A diamond’s luster is dull before revealing brilliant magnificent breathtaking shine.
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Melody Lee (Vine: Book of Poetry)
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That unknown is a diamond in a universe of dirt. Uncertainty. Unpredictability. It is when you turn your emotions into art. It is BTS and the Sistine Chapel and Rumi's poetry and Ross Geller on the stairs yelling, 'Pivot.' Every creation great and small, they are our diamonds.
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Hank Green (A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor (The Carls, #2))
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She’s beautiful to look at, she’s new, she’s clean, and perfectly cut. But then you get up and look closely and see that she’s not real. She’s a fake. She doesn't glimmer like a natural diamond or hold the beauty and unbreakable strength of a real diamond. She’s just a manufactured piece of glass. Not the real deal. And sooner or later, that pig headed owner is gonna realize that fake diamonds can never pass for the real ones, no matter how much you wish they would.
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Bink Cummings (The Diary of Bink Cummings: Vol 2 (MC Chronicles, #2))
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Subhuti, someone might fill innumerable worlds with the seven treasures and give all away in gifts of alms, but if any good man or any good woman awakens the thought of Enlightenment and takes even only four lines from this Discourse, reciting, using, receiving, retaining and spreading them abroad and explaining them for the benefit of others, it will be far more meritorious. Now in what manner may he explain them to others? By detachment from appearances-abiding in Real Truth. -So I tell you- Thus shall you think of all this fleeting world: A star at dawn, a bubble in a stream; A flash of lightening in a summer cloud, A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream. When Buddha finished this Discourse the venerable Subhuti, together with the bhikshus, bhikshunis, lay-brothers and sisters, and the whole realms of Gods, Men and Titans, were filled with joy by His teaching, and, taking it sincerely to heart they went their ways.
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Gautama Buddha (Diamond Sutra)
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She could afford anything, she could give anything, but she could not share a moment of her life with anybody. She was a beautiful and a glamorous diamond with an astronomical price tag, but to a crude reality β€” she was still a stone, a living stone. Nothing else but a stone in an aesthetic sense.
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Ravindra Shukla (A Maverick Heart: Between Love and Life)
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There are blue diamonds born to the world and given to those who only want glass crystals. There are blue roses born to the world yet given to those who only want daisies. Blue diamond, don't cry because they want glass crystals. Blue rose, don't bleed because they see only the daisies. You were formed in the bedroom of the gods, you were conceived in the garden of the eternal!
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C. JoyBell C.
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Your body is made of the same elements that lionesses are built from. Three quarters of you is the same kind of water that beats rocks to rubble, wears stones away. Your DNA translates into the same twenty amino acids that wolf genes code for. When you look in the mirror and feel weak, remember, the air you breathe in fuels forest fires capable of destroying everything they touch. On the days you feel ugly, remember: diamonds are only carbon. You are so much more.
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Curtis Ballard
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You know what turns dirt into diamonds?" "Pressure. Weight. Heat..." "The geological equivalent of torture.
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Laura Argiri (The God in Flight)
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Hicham LM Kamelionaire
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I didn't wait for Luck. I raced after it with a truck.
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A.A. Bell (Diamond Eyes (Mira Chambers #1))
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Wine had to be grapes first. Diamonds had to be rocks first. Butterflies had to be caterpillars first. Rainbows had to be storms first.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Each time we bow to the feet of anything we find riveting, the mind rises to be surprised with new crowning diamonds of creativity.
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Curtis Tyrone Jones
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Before you hate pressure, remind yourself that is where diamonds are made.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Your cruelties and mistakes may look damning to you, but that is not what I see. Every human conversation is more elegant and complex than the entire solar system that contains it. You have no idea how marvelous you are, but I am not only here to protect what you are now, I am here to protect what you will become. I can't tell you what that might be because I don't know. That unknown is a diamond in a universe of dirt. Uncertainty. Unpredictability. It is when you turn your emotions into art. It is BTS and the Sistine Chapel and Rumi's poetry and Ross Geller on the stairs yelling, 'Pivot.' Every creation great and small, they are our diamonds. And what you may be in two hundred years, we can guess with fair accuracy. What you are in two thousand . . . Oh, my friends . . . my best friends, you cannot know.
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Hank Green (A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor (The Carls, #2))
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A star will shine in the midst of darkness. A flower will bloom in the midst of dirt. A camel will flourish in the midst of drought. A diamond will form in the midst of pressure. A champion will rise in the midst of hardship.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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True greatness is often unrecognized.
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Russell H. Conwell (Acres of Diamonds)
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Reality is the lifeblood that makes a work pulse with energy. Reality itself is entertainment!
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Hirohiko Araki (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Part 4β€”Diamond is Unbreakable, Vol. 3)
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When we have graciously endured every adversity, we become like a shining diamond.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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You were beautifully and wonderfully created with the skin of diamonds, so if you do break, you are still valuable.
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Courtney Brooks (S.H.E. Serenity, Hope, & Encouragement: For Daily Motivation)
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The most abundant and most precious of things: Thoughts and Dreams, can be found in every corner yet as precious as diamonds.
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StridingDream
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Writing is like a lump of coal. Put it under enough pressure and polish it enough and you might just end up with a diamond. Otherwise, you can burn it to keep warm.
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A.J. Dalton
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Knowledge is the value of a diamond but wisdom is the beauty and light it reflects.
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Debasish Mridha
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When you see yourself in a shattered mirror, don't think of it as the broken pieces of yourself. Think of it as all of the pieces that make up you.
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Blaque Diamond
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Everyone has their own purpose on this earth. It's up to you to figure out what your purpose in life is. No one can make that decision for you.
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Blaque Diamond
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You do not know which knock would shatter the rock enveloping your diamond.
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Janneker Lawrence Daniel
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Be a Diamond Studded Unicorn Unbreakable & Unique
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Coco . (Unicorn Psychosis)
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When a rock transforms into a diamond, lesser stones will not speak of its beauty, but speak of its unpolishedness.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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So rest and relax and grow stronger, Let go and let God share your load, Your work is not finished or ended, You’ve just come to β€œa bend in the road”. β€œWhen you ask God for a gift, be thankful if He sends, not diamonds, pearls or riches, but the love of real true friends.” β€œIt takes a Mother’s Love to make a house a home, a place to be remembered, no matter where we roam.” β€œWhen you are in troubled and worried and sick at heart And your plans are upset and your world falls apart, Remember God’s ready and waiting to share The burden you find much to heavy to bear– So with faith, β€œLet Go and Let GOD” lead your way.
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Helen Steiner Rice
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The diamond does not need to prove its worth. It is in fact the person who must teach him/herself to recognise the worth of real diamonds. A person must study this in school. A diamond does not go to school to learn how to prove its worth. It is the person who must go to school in order to recognise the worth of a diamond. Dear diamonds everywhere, stop trying to go to school. The worthy will recognise your worth.
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C. JoyBell C.
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It seems logical to suppose that history's pattern reflects innate differences among people themselves. Of course, we're taught that it's not polite to say so in public. We see in our daily lives that some of the conquered peoples continue to form an underclass, centuries after the conquests or slave imports took place. We're told that this too is to be attributed not to any biological shortcomings but to social disadvantages and limited opportunities. Nevertheless, we have to wonder. We keep seeing all those glaring, persistent differences in peoples' status. We're assured that the seemingly transparent biological explanation for the world's inequalities as of A.D. 1500 is wrong, but we're not told what the correct explanation is. Until we have some convincing, detailed, agreed-upon explanation for the broad pattern of history, most people will continue to suspect that the racist biological explanation is correct after all. That seems to me the strongest argument for writing this book.
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Jared Diamond (Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies)
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A true diamond never over shadows... it's the brilliance of the subtle shine that's the most attractive.
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Dena Tyson (Xceptance)
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Dirt does not diminish a diamond's beauty.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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When there is an openness to fear, where can it be found?
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Gangaji (The Diamond in Your Pocket: Discovering Your True Radiance)
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Though the heart may be cracked wide, pain can still seep in.
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Rachelle Rea Cobb (The Sound of Diamonds (Steadfast Love, #1))
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I didn't wait for Luck. I tore after it with a truck.
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A.A. Bell (Diamond Eyes (Mira Chambers #1))
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Greatest gift that we can give is not a piece of diamond, but our unconditional love.
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Debasish Mridha
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Throwing dirt at a diamond does not diminish its value.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Life tried to crush her, but only succeeded in creating a diamond.
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John Mark Green
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Gold and diamonds are not out there it is inside your mind. You can create it with thoughtfulness and becoming kind.
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Debasish Mridha
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You cannot trust a man with your money who cannot take care of his own.
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Russell H. Conwell (Acres of Diamonds)
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If for instance the sentiment possessing for the moment the empire of our mind is sorrow, will not the genius sharpen the sorrow and the sorrow purify the genius? Together, will they not be like a cut diamond for which language is only the wax on which they stamp their imprint? I believe that genius, thus awakened, has no need to seek out details, that it scarcely pauses to reflect, that it never thinks of unity: I believe that the details come naturally without search by the poet, that inspiration takes the place of reflection and as for unity, I think there is no unity so perfect as that which results from a heart filled with a single idea...The nature of genius is related to that of instinct; it's operation is both simple and marvelous.
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Charlotte BrontΓ«
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In my heart, a live fire Like the morning sun Burning my mind, to purify the soul That is my love. In my dream a burning desire Like the lights from a diamond Make my life ever precious That is my love. my mind an ever longing As the moon longing for night Make the night dreams of desire That is my love.
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Debasish Mridha
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When the world throws rocks at you, turn them into diamonds.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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The more you get past pain, the more it goes from coal to diamond.
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Jodi Picoult (Salem Falls)
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A heart of gold is more precious than a necklace of diamonds.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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A muddied diamond is better than an unsullied pebble.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Curiosity is the fire of desires that burns the dust to reveal the diamond.
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Debasish Mridha
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Discover the diamonds in everyday life.
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Lailah Gifty Akita
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find the diamond in you
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nainu
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Diamonds are formed in pressure; that is why God allows you to go through difficult times.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Create memories every day. You will grow a diamond on the way.
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Debasish Mridha
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In my dream a burning desire Like the lights from a diamond Make my life ever precious That is my love.
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Debasish Mridha
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Appreciate every breath you take. Someone else didn't get to take another breath today.
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Blaque Diamond
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He filled her ears with lies Her eyes with the tears He filled her heart with pain Her mind with confusions She is stuck in the dark mess And forgot She is a diamond shining bright - The Diamond Got Stuck.
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Jyoti Patel (The Curved Rainbow)
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I don't believe there's ever been a 'good' first draft, but there's a reason for that: they don’t have to be. First drafts are part of the process; they're the rough diamond on their way to being cut and polished. It takes a while to get them to shine.
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Morgan Wright (Calendar for Writers: 2019-2020: A Two-Year Notebook for Your Creative Writing)
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You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may tread me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I'll rise. Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom? 'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells Pumping in my living room. Just like moons and like suns, With the certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I'll rise. Did you want to see me broken? Bowed head and lowered eyes? Shoulders falling down like teardrops, Weakened by my soulful cries. Does my haughtiness offend you? Don't you take it awful hard 'Cause I laugh like I got gold mines Diggin' in my own back yard. You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I'll rise. Does my sexiness upset you? Does it come as a surprise That I dance like I've got diamonds At the meeting of my thighs? Out of the huts of history's shame I rise Up from a past that's rooted in pain I rise I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and swelling I bear in the tide. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear I rise Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise.
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Maya Angelou
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Using time, pressure and patience, the universe gradually changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls, and coal into diamonds. You’re being worked on too, so hang in there. Just because something isn’t apparent right now, doesn’t mean it isn’t happening. It’s not until the end do you realize, sometimes your biggest blessings were disguised by pain and suffering. They were not placed there to break you, but to make you.
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John Geiger
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I think that there are definitely a handful of women in the world that were born of grace, so miraculously mild and terribly true... and nobody understands them. They end up trying to make men love them, when that’s the last thing they should be trying to do! A diamond belongs to those who can recognise what it is, not to those who need convincing. Yes, only a few know what a diamond looks and feels like, but, what's the rush anyway?
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C. JoyBell C.
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The horizon was indistinguishable from the inky black, which fell upon the desert like a sorcerer’s mantle shot through with diamonds. The stars were so tiny, so far away, and yet, at the moment, with her fingers curled around his, he almost felt as though he could reach up and snag one by the tail.
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V.S. Carnes
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His Consciousness To Glorious Wisdom of Love To the Profound Heart Sound To Great Awareness of the enlightened few To Limitless Space of Compassion To Alertness of Bliss and Emptiness To the Mind riding on the wind of Light To Amitaba and Amideva To Milarepa and Baba Ji To you my Father and Mother Whose Merge brought me here To experience The Diamond Being Within the Primordial Consciousness of One
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Nataőa Pantović (Art of 4 Elements (AoL Mindfulness, #2))
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If I Ain't Got You" Some people live for the fortune Some people live just for the fame Some people live for the power Some people live just to play the game Some people think that the physical things Define what's within And I've been there before But that life's a bore So full of the superficial [Chorus:] Some people want it all But I don't want nothing at all If it ain't you, baby If I ain't got you, baby Some people want diamond rings Some just want everything But everything means nothing If I ain't got you Some people search for a fountain That promises "forever young" Some people need three dozen roses And that's the only way to prove you love them Hand me the world on a silver platter And what good would it be? With no one to share With no one who truly cares for me [Chorus:] If I ain't got you with me, baby So nothing in this whole wide world don't mean a thing If I ain't got you with me, baby
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Alicia Keys
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Body Prayer We must hunker down into the β€œBody of Hope and Resurrection” (Philippians 3:9–11; 1 Corinthians 15:44) and pray also from below and from within, on a cellular and energetic level tooβ€”or the attitude of prayer does not last or go deep. You are not thinking your prayer as much as energetically feeling your prayer. You pay attention from the bottom up and from the inside out. Rest into the Body of Christ energy instead of trying to pull an Infinite God into your finite world. Your body itself receives and knows, and is indeed β€œa temple” (1 Corinthians 3:16–17) where God dwells in the Spirit. Walking meditation, yoga, and breathing exercises are all helpful here. Body prayer actually works much more quickly and more naturally than thought prayer alone. Body prayer is what we have tried to do with inspiring music, body gestures, and all sacraments, so this is not a new idea. It is what many are seeking in tai chi, pilgrimages, prayer beads, chanting, repeating the Jesus Prayer until it prays itself in us and through us, and so on. To β€œpray from the clay” will also move you to the shared level of prayer. You will know that β€œyou” are not doing the prayer, but you are falling into the unified field, and the Body of Christ is now praying through you (Romans 8:26–27) and with you. It becomes β€œour” prayer, and not just my prayer. Now you pray not so much to Christ as much as through Christ, and you will know experientially that you are Christ's Body too.
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Richard Rohr (Immortal Diamond: The Search for Our True Self)