Where You Are Quotes - Page 6

• No matter where you are or who you're with, don't forget to smile. A smile makes the world go round. It becomes your strength and confidence in this world. Because that's the secret to true beauty.

  Jo Ah-ra

  Drama, Secret, True Beauty

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• The desire to go home that is a desire to be whole, to know where you are, to be the point of intersection of all the lines drawn through all the stars, to be the constellation-maker and the center of the world, that center called love. To awaken from sleep, to rest from awakening, to tame the animal, to let the soul go wild, to shelter in darkness and blaze with light, to cease to speak and be perfectly understood.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Stars, Home, Sleep

  Rebecca Solnit (2008). “Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics”, p.167, Univ of California Press

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• No matter where it is in the sky... No matter where you are in the world... the moon is never bigger than your thumb. -John

  Nicholas Sparks

  Moon, Sky, Thumbs

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• And then, just as Wilbur was settling down for his morning nap, he heard again the thin voice that had addressed him the night before. "Salutations!" said the voice. Wilbur jumped to his feet. "Salu-what?" he cried. "Salutations!" repeated the voice. "What are they, and where are you?" screamed Wilbur. "Please, please, tell me where you are. And what are salutations?" "Salutations are greetings," said the voice. "When I say 'salutations,' it's just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning.

  E. B. White

  Morning, Night, Naps

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• It’s wherever you are. If it’s tapped into any of your senses, it knows where you are and what you’re doing.” Oh no, I thought, my spirits sinking. I hadn’t considered that. Did that mean nothing I did was ever anymore? “Even in the bathroom?” the Gasman’s eyes widened with surprise.

  James Patterson

  Mean, Eye, Spirit

  James Patterson (2010). “Maximum Ride Boxed Set #1”, p.186, Hachette UK

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• The purpose of dancing isn't to end up at a particular spot on the floor. The purpose of dancing - and of life - is to enjoy every moment and every step, regardless of where you are when the music ends.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Dancing

  "Inspiration: Your Ultimate Calling". Book by Wayne Dyer, February, 2006.

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• 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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• Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge.

  Martin Luther

  Faith, Where You Are Going, Discipleship

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• So I have just one wish for you – the good luck to be somewhere where you are free to maintain the kind of integrity I have described, and where you do not feel forced by a need to maintain your position in the organization, or financial support, or so on, to lose your integrity. May you have that freedom.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Integrity, Good Luck, Organization

  Richard P. Feynman (2010). “"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character: Adventures of a Curious Character”, p.346, W. W. Norton & Company

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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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• The truth is that you can divide your heart in all sorts of interesting ways - a little here, a little there, most banked at home, some of it coined out for a flutter. But love cleaves through the mind's mathematics. Love's lengthways splits the heart in two - the heart where you are, the heart where you want to be. How will you heal your heart when love has split it in two?

  Jeanette Winterson

  Home, Heart, Two

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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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• Are you happy here?" I said at last. He considered this for a moment. "Not particularly," he said. "But you're not very happy where you are, either.

  Donna Tartt

  Lasts, Moments, Said

  Donna Tartt (1993). “The Secret History: A Novel”, Ballantine Books

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• I don't hold with paddlin' with the occult," said Granny firmly. "Once you start paddlin' with the occult you start believing in spirits, and when you start believing in spirits you start believing in demons, and then before you know where you are you're believing in gods. And then you're in trouble." "But all them things exist," said Nanny Ogg. "That's no call to go around believing in them. It only encourages 'em.

  Terry Pratchett

  Believe, Ems, Nannies

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• It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you’re doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It’s what you think of it. Two people may in the same place doing the same thing, and yet one may be miserable and the other happy. Why? Because of a different mental attitude.

  Dale Carnegie

  Attitude, Thinking, Two

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• The difference between an admirer and a follower still remains, no matter where you are. The admirer never makes any true sacrifices. He always plays it safe. Though in words, phrases, songs, he is inexhaustible about how highly he prizes Christ, he renounces nothing, gives up nothing, will not reconstruct his life, will not be what he admires, and will not let his life express what it is he supposedly admires.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Song, Giving Up, Sacrifice

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• I do not like a high-organized church. I think that as soon as the congregation reaches a level of one hundred or so people, it is time to build a new church. As soon as the congregation gets to the point where you are not on fairly intimate terms with every other person in that church, then you have become a theater where people can attend services. I do not think you can attend a church service. Service is not something which is there to be viewed as if it were a play or a movie.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Thinking, Church Service, Play

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• Evil is relative…You can’t hang a sign on it. You can’t touch it or taste it or cut it with a sword. Evil depends on where you are standing, pointing your indicting finger.

  Glen Cook

  Cutting, Evil, Taste

  Glen Cook (1992). “The Black Company: The First Novel of 'The Chronicles of The Black Company'”, p.281, Macmillan

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• She looked at him gravely. "You cannot call back the river that has already flowed past you, Ruith. All you can do is be grateful for where you are in it.

  Lynn Kurland

  Grateful, Past, Rivers

  Lynn Kurland (2011). “Spellweaver”, p.108, Penguin

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