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Let’s take a look at the
avarage grain of sand;
what does it look like
and how did it get there?

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Just take all the sand from all the oceans on Earth and take a grain of sand and paint it blue. That
represents Earth. Then put it with the rest of the sand.  Then you realize how small you are.
- Jared Lutkowski, a young astronomer

To see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wildflower... hold infinity in the palm of
your hand, and eternity in an hour...
- William Blake

Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things.
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
- W. Sadgarden

There are more stars known to exist right now than the total number of all the grains of sand
on every beach in the entire world. With those kinds of odds, it would seem downright naive
for someone to go to a beach in, say, some out-of-the-way inlet in Baffin Bay, stoop to pick up
only one tiny grain of sand, and declare that that grain alone was the only place where life
could exist.
- Hugh Downs

The last grain of sand broke the camel’s back.
- Proverb

If we begin to realize that we are purely grains of sand, specks of dust in the midst of the
universe, then the universe becomes inviting and inspiring. If we are grains of sand, then the
rest of the universe, all of space, all the room that there is, is ours, because we are not
obstructing anything other than our one grain of sand. Because we are grains of sand,
there is tremendous openness. Each of us is the emperor of the universe, the conqueror of the
whole universe. We each become the chakravartin, the universal monarch, simply because we
are grains of sand.

- From “Disappointment”, originally published in “The Tibet Journal”, Volume 2, No. 4 1997

The wise man can pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe. But the stupid man
will just lay down on some seaweed and roll around until he's completely draped in it. Then he'll
stand up and go, “Hey, I'm Vine Man.
- “Deeper Thoughts” by Jack Handy

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
- Jean-Paul

A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.
- Bible O.T. King James Version Proverbs 27:3

Who builds upon the mob builds upon sand. Who builds upon the people, builds upon sand.
- Italian Proverbs

Woman's love is writ in water, woman's faith is traced in sand.
- Sir Robert Aytoun (Ayton) of Kincaldie,
Lays of Scottish Cavaliers--Prince Edward at Versailles

History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription
moulders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, arches, pyramids, what are
they but heaps of sand; and their epitaphs, but characters written in the dust?
- Washington Irving, The Sketch Book - Westminster Abbey

The western tide crept up along the sand, and o'er and o'er the sand, and round and round the sand,
as far as eye could see the rolling mist came down and hid the land: And never home came she.
- Charles Kingsley, The Sands o' Dee (st. 2)

The little waves, with their soft, white hands, efface the footprints in the sands, and the tide rises,
the tide falls.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls

I saw the long line of the vacant shore, the sea-weed and the shells upon the sand, and the brown
rocks left bare on every hand, as if the ebbing tide would flow no more.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Tides

Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
- Jorge Luis Borges

Alone I walked on the ocean strand, a pearly shell was in my hand;
I stooped, and wrote upon the sand, my name, the year, the day.
As onward from the sport I passed, one lingering look behind I cast,
A wave came rolling high and fast, and washed my lines away.
- Hannah Flagg Gould, A Name in the Sand

A handful of red sand from the hot clime, of Arab deserts brought, within this glass becomes the
spy of Time, the minister of Thought.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Sand of the Desert in an Hour-Glass

Solid stone is just sand and water, and a million years gone by.
- Sand and water by Beth Nielsen Chapman

Often, from a grain of sand a mountain emerges. If you want to protect your inner peace,
Tranform the mountain into a grain of sand.
- Unknown

The Sphinx spoke only once, and the Sphinx said, “A grain of sand is a desert, and a desert
Is a grain of sand, and now let us all be silent again.” I heard the Sphinx, but I did not understand.
- Gibran Khalil Gibran

Even though my vote is like a single grain of sand on the beach, it’s my grain and it sparkles.
- Lynn Sislo, Reflections in D minor



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