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Crumbling Quotes

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Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It's seeing through the facade of pretence. It's the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true.
Adyashanti

Authors on Crumbling Quotes: Robert Greene Elizabeth Gilbert Edith Wharton Kristin Hannah Marcus Aurelius Philip James Bailey Julie Orringer Macklemore Jenna Morasca Simone de Beauvoir Adyashanti Marcus Garvey Pope Francis Michael Schur J. K. Rowling Jerry Saltz Sinclair B. Ferguson Isobel Miller Kuhn Billy Graham Abbi Glines Moby J. K. Bharavi Joe Lieberman Nicholas D'Agosto Yoko Ono Abraham Coles Lucy Maud Montgomery Mahatma Gandhi P. E. Cleator John Dryden Robert Payne Haruki Murakami Sandra Cisneros
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While our world is shaking and crumbling, we need to realize that one thing will never change, and that is God. He is the same today as he was ten million years ago, and will be the same ten million years from today.
Billy Graham

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…So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky
John Dryden

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I think the world is crumbling when I have a bad game.
Tyson Chandler

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For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.
Philip James Bailey

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We all want things to stay the same. Settle for living in misery because we are afraid of change, of things crumbling to ruins. Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.
Elizabeth Gilbert

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Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.
Elizabeth Gilbert

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When things fall apart in your life, you feel as if your whole world is crumbling. But actually it’s your fixed identity that’s crumbling. And as Chögyam Trungpa used to tell us, that’s cause for celebration.
Pema Chodron

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Death is the end of all life in the individual or the thing; if physical, the crumbling of the body into dust from whence it came. He who lives not uprightly, dies completely in the crumbling of the physical body, but he who lives well, transforms himself from that which is mortal, to immortal.
Marcus Garvey

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Part of the heartache of all missionary work is the bright promising convert who turns out to be a mere puffball, crumbling like a macaroon under the least pressure.
Isobel Miller Kuhn

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An education is like a crumbling building that needs constant upkeep with repairs and additions.
Edith Wharton

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Being a caretaker is, and never will be, an easy job; in fact, it is that hardest job in the world and many times a thankless job. You have to be the pillar of strength even when you feel like you are crumbling to pieces inside.
Jenna Morasca

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[Religion is a way of reconstructing] what has come to feel like a crumbling moral framework in the life of our nation.
Joe Lieberman

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The day had been spent in the expectation of these hours, and now they were crumbling away, becoming, in their turn, another period of expectancy...It was a journey without end, leading to an indefinite future, eternally shifting just as she was reaching the present.
Simone de Beauvoir

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Remember that you are not saved by increased levels of holiness, however desirable it is that you should reach them. ...It is Christ who saves us-through faith. Your faith is a poor and crumbling thing, as is your spiritual service. Jesus Christ alone is qualified and able to save you because of what He has done.
Sinclair B. Ferguson

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'Untitled' is a time machine that can transport you to 1992, an edgy moment when the art world was crumbling, money was scarce, and artists like Tiravanija were in the nascent stages of combining Happenings, performance art, John Cage, Joseph Beuys, and the do-it-yourself ethos of punk. Meanwhile, a new art world was coming into being.
Jerry Saltz

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There is a dysfunctional strangeness to Los Angeles that doesn't exist in any other western city. The roads are crumbling, no-one knows what they're doing, the city government barely works.
Moby

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Bricks are crumbling in places, and the front door is so swollen you have to push hard to get in
Sandra Cisneros

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It was as if I were writing letters to hold together the pieces of my crumbling life.
Haruki Murakami

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Even this nation (the US) will be on the very verge of crumbling to pieces and tumbling to the ground, and when the Constitution is upon the brink of ruin, this people will be the staff upon which the nation shall lean, and they shall bear the Constitution away from the very verge of destruction.
Joseph Smith, Jr.

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Today the cities dominate and drain the villages so that they are crumbling to ruin.
Mahatma Gandhi

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The old rules are crumbling and nobody knows what the new rules are...so make up your own rules.
Neil Gaiman

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a fortress against ideas and against the Shuddering insidious shock of the theory-vendors The little sardine men crammed in a monster toy Who tilt their aggregate beast against our crumbling Troy.
Louis MacNeice

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Winter broke off, finally, a long ash crumbling at the end of a cigarette, burned out, weak and emptied.
Gregory Galloway

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Light may earth's crumbling sand be laid on thee, that dogs may dig thy bones up easily
Marcus Aurelius

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I'm an insomniac lately. It's one of the many prizes you find in the Cracker Jack box of a crumbling [relationship].
Kristin Hannah

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She was the rock in a world that was crumbling
Abbi Glines

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You have major labels that are willing to take unconventional approaches because the old model is crumbling in front of us.
Macklemore

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It was like love, he thought, this crumbling chapel: it has been complicated, and therefore perfected, by what time had done to it
Julie Orringer

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Both could feel the relationship crumbling to pieces beneath the weight of everything that Gavin refused to say.
J. K. Rowling

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In a weird way, it's not different from any other kind of joke-telling. You make those calculations about jokes about celebrities: is this a fair hit or not? The stakes were higher because the whole world was crumbling around us, but in terms of joke-telling, it's all about feel.
Michael Schur

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Eternity! How know we but we stand On the precipitous and crumbling verge Of Time e'en now, Eternity below?
Abraham Coles

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On Mars, the crumbling remains of ancient civilizations may be found, mutely testifying to the one-time glory of a dying world.
P. E. Cleator

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The information walls are completely crumbling.
Robert Greene

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I did not break up the Beatles. You can't have it both ways. If you're going to blame me for breaking the Beatles up, you should be thankful that I made them into myth rather than a crumbling group.
Yoko Ono

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The friendship of the bad is like the shade of some precipitous bank with crumbling sides, which, falling, buries him who is beneath.
J. K. Bharavi

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To a large extent, the political walls are crumbling.
Robert Greene

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You know that thing when you're not asleep but you're not awake, and you can't move your body? I had that kind of nightmare, and I felt like all my teeth were crumbling in my mouth. Now I have this fear of all my teeth being knocked out of my mouth somehow!
Nicholas D'Agosto

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Plum puffs can't minister to a mind diseased or a world that's crumbling to pieces
Lucy Maud Montgomery

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Historically the first philosopher to enquire deeply into the nature of corruption in society was Ibn Khaldun (1322-1406), whose wandering life was largely spent in the northern littoral of Africa at a time when kingdoms and sultanates were crumbling.
Robert Payne

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We have begun a throw away culture. This tendency is seen on the level of individuals and whole societies; and it is being promoted! In circumstances like these, solidarity, which is the treasure of the poor, is often considered counterproductive, opposed to the logic of finance and the economy. While the income of a minority is increasing exponentially, that of the majority is crumbling.
Pope Francis

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None could guess my confusion, my host of deluded illusions and elusive delusions! A mantle of marble hiding a crumbling core of sandstone. See how they stare at me, wondering, all wondering, at my secret wellspring of wisdom...' Let's kill him,' Crokus muttered, 'if only to put him out of our misery.
Steven Erikson