Where You Are Quotes - Page 4

• It is important that we know where we come from, because if you do not know where you come from, then you don't know where you are, and if you don't know where you are, you don't know where you're going. And if you don't know where you're going, you're probably going wrong.

  Terry Pratchett

  Important, Where We Come, Where You Come

  FaceBook post by Terry Pratchett from Aug 31, 2015

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• Funny, that no matter where you are in the world, there's always someone eager to help you destroy yourself.

  James St. James

  World, Matter, Helping

  James St. James (1999). “Party Monster: A Fabulous But True Tale of Murder in Clubland”, p.245, Simon and Schuster

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• But right now I’m here with you. And I want to know where you are, what you need, and what you want to do.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Needs, Want, Right Now

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.190, Simon and Schuster

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• There is no reason in the world why you should not be important where you are known. You have good sense, and a sweet temper, and I am sure you have a grateful heart, that could never receive kindness without hoping to return it. I do not know any better qualifications for a friend and companion.

  Jane Austen

  Sweet, Kindness, Grateful

  Jane Austen (2013). “Jane Austen Collection: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park, Emma, Persuasion, Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, Love and Friendship and Other Austin Works”, p.700, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I know one thing for certain; it is much harder to tell whether you are lost than whether you were lost, for, on many occasions, where you are going is exactly where you are. On the other hand, if you often find that where you've been is not at all where you should have gone, and, since it's much more difficult to find your way back from someplace you've never left, I suggest you go there immediately and then decide.

  Norton Juster

  Hands, Should Have, Way

  Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.101, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Feeling a little foolish over her confidences, Elizabeth glanced up at him with an embarrassed smile. “What is the most beautiful place you’ve ever seen?” Dragging his gaze from the beauty of the gardens, Ian looked down at the beauty beside him. “Any place,” he said huskily, “where you are.

  Judith McNaught

  Beautiful, Garden, Feelings

  Judith McNaught (1991). “Almost Heaven”, p.356, Simon and Schuster

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• What do they say about meeting a bear in the woods? Oh right, you shouldn't. And to make sure you don't, you should make a lot of noise so that they'll will know where you are and keep their distance because, supposedly, they're as nervous of us as we are of them. Which is all goo, except this bear doesn't seem the least bit nervous. He's giving me a look like I'm Goldilocks, ate his porridge, broke his chair, slept in his bed, and now it's payback time."- Widdershins

  Charles de Lint

  Distance, Giving, Bed

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• These days, it feels to me like you make a devil's pact when you walk into this country. You hand over your passport at the check-in, you get stamped, you want to make a little money, get yourself started... but you mean to go back! Who would want to stay? Cold, wet, miserable; terrible food, dreadful newspapers - who would want to stay? In a place where you are never welcomed, only tolerated. Just tolerated. Like you are an animal finally house-trained.

  Zadie Smith

  Country, Mean, Animal

  Zadie Smith (2001). “White Teeth”, p.413, Penguin UK

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• Where you are is who you are. The further inside you the place moves, the more your identity is intertwined with it. Never casual, the choice of place is the choice of something you crave.

  Frances Mayes

  Moving, Choices, Identity

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• It's not the job of this town to make me feel happy. It's not this town´s fault that I don't feel I fit in. It doesn't matter where you are in the world, because it's about where you are in your head. It's about the other world I inhabit. The world of dreams, hope, imagination, and memories. I'm happy up here, and because of that I'm happy up there too

  Cecelia Ahern

  Dream, Jobs, Memories

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• It is true that God may have called you to be exactly where you are. But, it is absolutely vital to grasp that he didn’t call you there so you could settle in and live your life in comfort and superficial peace.

  Francis Chan

  Live Your Life, Comfort, May

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.203, David C Cook

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• The problem with time, I've learned, whether it's those first two weeks I got to spend with you, or the final two months I got to spend with him, eventually time always runs out. I have no idea where you are out there in the world, John. But I understand that I lost the right to know these things long ago. No matter how many years go by, I know one thing to be as true as ever was - I'll see you soon then.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Running, Long Ago, Years

  "Fictional character: Savannah Curtis". "Dear John", www.imdb.com. 2010.

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• You make me tremendously happy to hold me undivided - to let me be the artist, as it were, and yet not forgo the man, the animal, the hungry, insatiable lover. No woman has ever granted me all the privileges I need - and you, why you sing out so blithely, so boldly, with a laugh even - yes, you invite me to go ahead, be myself, benture anything. I adore you for that. That is where you are truly regal, a woman extraordinary. What a woman you are! I laugh to myself now when I think of you. I have no fear of your femaleness.

  Henry Miller

  Artist, Animal, Men

  Anaïs Nin, Henry Miller (1989). “A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We're right here on this very spot. Besides, being lost is never a matter of not knowing where you are; it's a matter of not knowing where you aren't - and I don't care at all about where I'm not.

  Norton Juster

  Knowing, Care, Matter

  Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.98, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• my feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping but I shall go on living.

  Pablo Neruda

  Broken Heart, Sleep, Feet

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• Begin where you are and such as you are, without aiming mainly to become of more worth, and with kindness aforethought, go about doing good.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Kindness, Doing Good

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Walden; Or, Life in the Woods”, p.48, Courier Corporation

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• Well, when one's lost, I suppose it's good advice to stay where you are until someone finds you.

  Lewis Carroll

  Advice, Lost, Wells

  "Fictional character: Alice". "Alice in Wonderland", 1951.

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• What is an adventure? That depends on where you are starting from. Little girls in your country, they hide in the gap between the washing machine and the refrigerator and they make believe they are in the jungle, with green snakes and monkeys all around them. Me and my sister, we used to hide in a gap in the jungle, with green snakes and monkeys all around us, and make believe that we had a washing machine and a refrigerator. You live in a world of machines and you dream off things with beating hearts. We dream of machines, because we see where beating hearts have left us.

  Chris Cleave

  Girl, Dream, Country

  Chris Cleave (2010). “Little Bee: A Novel”, p.211, Simon and Schuster

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• It’s not that you have to achieve anything, it’s that you have to get away from where you are.

  Marguerite Duras

  Achieve, Get Away

  Marguerite Duras (2011). “The Lover”, p.23, Pantheon

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• Why am I going?" he repeated, looking straight into her eyes. "You know that I am going in order to be where you are," said he. "I cannot do otherwise." "Not a word, not a movement of yours will I ever forget, nor can I.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Eye, Order, Movement

  Leo Tolstoy (2012). “Anna Karenina”, p.93, Courier Corporation

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• As he was about to climb yet another dune, his heart whispered, "Be aware of the place where you are brought to tears. That's where I am, and thats where your treasure is.

  Paulo Coelho

  Heart, Tears, Treasure

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• Dying doesn't end anything - it just changes where you are

  Charles de Lint

  Dying, Ends

  Charles de Lint (2002). “The Onion Girl”, p.383, Macmillan

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• No matter where you are right now, no matter far along you are on your own path, don't wait to "have it all" to celebrate. You're never going to figure it all out. Make being happy your business, all along the way. Life can't be one long, tough haul, with a little party at the end. What good is that? Life should be punctuated with celebrations and you have to build them into your time because being happy isn't easy.

  Bethenny Frankel

  Party, Long, Waiting

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• The great gift of a spiritual path is coming to trust that you can find a way to true refuge. You realize that you can start right where you are, in the midst of your life, and find peace in any circumstance. Even at those moments when the ground shakes terribly beneath you—when there’s a loss that will alter your life forever—you can still trust that you will find your way home. This is possible because you’ve touched the timeless love and awareness that are intrinsic to who you are.

  Tara Brach

  Spiritual, Home, Loss

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• It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Twitter post from Dec 19, 2015

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