A Quote by John Ruskin

Life is a magic vase filled to the brim, so made that you cannot dip from it nor draw from it; but it overflows into the hand that drops treasures into it. Drop in malice and it overflows hate; drop in charity and it overflows love.

John Ruskin

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John Ruskin
English - Writer
February 8, 1819 - January 20, 1900

Imagine two years worth of stuff that you've been holding on to and everything just keeps piling up to the point where the pot just overflows. You know what happens when a pot overflows? It hits the side of the pan and it hits the fire and the fire just explodes.

Robert Covington

History overflows time. Love overflows the allowance of the world. All the vessels overflow, and no end or limit stays put. Every shakable thing has got to be shaken. In a sense, nothing that was ever lost in Port William ever has been replaced. In another sense, nothing is ever lost, and we are compacted together forever, even by our failures, our regrets, and our longings.

Wendell Berry

We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim - objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Oscar Wilde

There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

One of God's main purposes for your life is to fill you with so much of His love that it overflows onto others.

Stormie Omartian

Life is bigger than processes and overflows and dwarfs them.

Dale Carnegie

When love overflows and is expressed through every word and deed, we call it compassion. That is the goal of religion.

Mata Amritanandamayi

The cistern contains: The fountain overflows.

William Blake

Everything that is superfluous overflows from the full bosom.

Horace

When a companion's heart of itself overflows, the best one can do is to do nothing.

Herman Melville

Hindi naman ako mataba eh. In fact I'm so sexy that it overflows.

Miriam

Religion is not a method, it is a life, a higher and supernatural life, mystical in its root and practical in its fruits; a communion with God, a calm and deep enthusiasm, a love which radiates, a force which acts, a happiness which overflows.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Mark Twain said (particularly about Pink Marsh): "I have been reading him again, and my admiration overflows all limits. ... How effortless the limning! It is as if the work did itself, without help of the master's hand."

George Ade

Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.