Sanctuary Quotes

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  Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself

  Hermann Hesse

  Positive, Being Yourself, Time

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.56, Om Books International

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• Remember, the entrance door to the sanctuary is inside you.

  Rumi

  Inspiring, Healing, Doors

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• A home is a kingdom of it's own in the midst of the world, a stronghold amid life's storms and stresses, a refuge, even a sanctuary.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Stress, Home, Storm

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011). “Letters Papers from Prison”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• A true home is one of the most sacred of places. It is a sanctuary into which men flee from the world's perils and alarms. It is a resting-place to which at close of day the weary retire to gather new strength for the battle and toils of tomorrow. It is the place where love learns its lessons, where life is schooled into discipline and strength, where character is molded.

  J.R. Miller

  Home, Character, Men

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• Our listening creates a sanctuary for the homeless parts within another person.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Compassion, Focus, Listening

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• A place of solitude offers a retreat from the opposing forces and diverse demands of living, an entry into a state of peace and unity. Mind and body can retire from confusion and conflict to a sanctuary of clarity and harmony

  Anthony Lawlor

  Confusion, Solitude, Unity

  Anthony Lawlor (1997). “A Home for the Soul: A Guide for Dwelling with Spirit and Imagination”, Clarkson Potter Publishers

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• Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.

  Hermann Hesse

  Life, Law, Tree

  Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”

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• Finding a sanctuary, a place apart from time, is not so different from finding a faith.

  Pico Iyer

  Different, Findings

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• Do not look for a sanctuary in anyone except your self.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Being Single, Self

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• Love is the ultimate revelation, the final sanctuary.

  Toyohiko Kagawa

  Love, Truth, Finals

  Toyohiko Kagawa (1960). “Kagawa, Japanese prophet: his witness in life and word”

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• We go to sanctuaries to remember the things we hold most dear, the things we cherish and love. And then-the great challenge-we return home seeking to enact this wisdom as best we can in our daily lives.

  William Cronon

  Home, Challenges, And Love

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• Deep within us all there is an amazing inner sanctuary of the soul, a holy place, a Divine Center, a speaking Voice. . . . Life from the Center is a life of unhurried peace and power. It is simple. It is serene. It is amazing. It is radiant.

  R. Kelly

  Simple, Self, Voice

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• It is in the home that we form our attitudes, our deeply held beliefs. It is in the home that hope is fostered or destroyed. Our homes are to be more than sanctuaries; they should also be places where God’s Spirit can dwell, where the storm stops at the door, where love reigns and peace dwells

  Thomas S. Monson

  Attitude, Home, Doors

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• Giving to others selflesly and anonymously, radiating light throughout the world and illuminating your own darkness, your virtue becomes a sanctuary for yourself and all beings.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Helping Others, Light

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• Worshipers never leave church...we carry our sanctuary with us wherever we go.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Church

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• I think for me, home needs to be a sanctuary. I need to feel like I've escaped the day when I get home.

  Bella Heathcote

  Home, Thinking, Needs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.

  Lady Gaga

  Reborn, My Own, I Can

  "Lady Gaga: Lording it". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2011.

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• Our danger is to think that happiness will come from outside of us, from the things we possess or the power of our group, and not from within us, from the inner sanctuary of our being.

  Jean Vanier

  Thinking, Groups, Danger

  Jean Vanier (2003). “Finding Peace”, p.53, A&C Black

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• In my prayers I never said I needed a home. I said I wanted a sanctuary.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Prayer, Home, Firefighter

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• My mind is the only sanctuary that has not been stolen from me.

  Christopher Paolini

  Fear, Mind, Eragon

  "Eragon (Inheritance Cycle, Book 1)". Book by Christopher Paolini, 2002.

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• Perhaps the most important thing we bring to another person is the silence in us, not the sort of silence that is filled with unspoken criticism or hard withdrawal. The sort of silence that is a place of refuge, of rest, of acceptance of someone as they are. We are all hungry for this other silence. It is hard to find. In its presence we can remember something beyond the moment, a strength on which to build a life. Silence is a place of great power and healing.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Life, Strength, Sympathy

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• Basketball is my refuge, my sanctuary. I go back to being a kid on the playground. When I get here, it's all good.

  Kobe Bryant

  Basketball, Kids, Being A Kid

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• Create all the happiness you are able to create: remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you to add something to the pleasure of others, or to diminish something of their pains. And for every grain of enjoyment you sow in the bosom of another, you shall find a harvest in your own bosom; while every sorrow which you pluck out from the thoughts and feelings of a fellow creature shall be replaced by beautiful peace and joy in the sanctuary of your soul.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Beautiful, Pain, Joy

  "Will this man make you happy?" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. June 24, 2008.

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• A man's heart may have a secret sanctuary where only one woman may enter, but it is full of little anterooms which are seldom vacant.

  Helen Rowland

  Love, Heart, Men

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• Stories are compasses and architecture, we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them, and to be without a story is to be lost in the vastness of a world that spreads in all directions like arctic tundra or sea ice.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Ice, Sea, Stories

  Rebecca Solnit (2013). “The Faraway Nearby”, p.5, Granta Books

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