"From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework, any other woman can surmise her thoughts."
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"The world hangs on a thin thread, and that is the psyche of man."
"On what slender threads do life and fortune hang."
"Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite another."
"Life is a thread that someone entangled."
"She who reconciles the ill-matched threads Of her life, and weaves them gratefully Into a single cloth – It’s she who drives the loudmouths from the hall And clears it for a different celebration."
"Most of the time-- 99 percent of the time-- you just don't know how and why the threads are looped together, and that's okay. Do a good thing and something bad happens. Do a bad thing and something good happens. Do nothing and everything explodes."
"The thread breakes, where it is weakest."