Where You Are Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are.

  Rumi

  Rocks, Wildflowers, Littles

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• Where you come from does matter -- but not nearly as much as where you are headed.

  Jodi Picoult

  Travel, Doe, Where You Come

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• Mitchell Sanders was right. For the common soldier, at least, war has the feel-the spiritual texture-of a great ghostly fog, thick and permanent. There is no clarity. Everything swirls. The old rules are no longer binding, the old truths no longer true. Right spills over into wrong. Order blends into chaos, love into hate, ugliness into beauty, law into anarchy, civility into savagery. The vapors suck you in. You can't tell where you are, or why you're there, and the only certainty is overwhelming ambiguity.

  Tim O'Brien

  Spiritual, Hate, War

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.78, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing.

  Saint Augustine

  Change, Leadership, Learning

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• Where you are born should not dictate your potential as a human being.

  Roméo Dallaire

  Born, Should, Humans

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• The past stays on you the way powdered sugar stays on your fingers. Some people can get rid of it but it’s still there, the events and things that pushed you to where you are now.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Past, People, Events

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.203, Random House

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• Any problems that may occur have ultimately been caused by you, because you are responsible for where you are and what you are doing there.

  Garth Stein

  Responsibility, May, Problem

  Garth Stein (2008). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, Harper

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• I belong to you. There is no one else. All I want is to be where you are.

  Tammara Webber

  Want

  Tammara Webber (2014). “Between the Lines: The Complete Series”, p.582, Tammara Webber

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• To know that one does not write for the other, to know that these things I am going to write will never cause me to be loved by the one I love (the other), to know that writing compensates for nothing, sublimates nothing, that it is precisely there where you are not--this is the beginning of writing.

  Roland Barthes

  Writing, Doe, Causes

  Roland Barthes (1990). “A lover's discourse: fragments”, Penguin Books

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• 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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• You should think about your character. Know where you are changing, how you will be changed, what cannot be changed back again.

  Amy Tan

  Character, Thinking, Should

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• If you no longer live, if you my beloved, my love, if you have died, all the leaves will fall in my breast, it will rain in my soul night and day, the snow will burn my heart, I shall walk with frost and fire and death and snow, my feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping, but I shall live

  Pablo Neruda

  Rain, Fall, Heart

  Pablo Neruda, “The Dead Woman”

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• Water has a memory and carries within it our thoughts and prayers. As you yourself are water, no matter where you are, your prayers will be carried to the rest of the world.

  Masaru Emoto

  Prayer, Memories, Water

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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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• I think that it is very important if you know what you want, understand where you are heading towards, and try your best to get it. It is only when we use our hearts to do it, and fall in love with what we are doing, then can we really get real determination.

  Emma Watson

  Falling In Love, Determination, Real

  FaceBook post by Emma Watson from Aug 28, 2012

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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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• Go where you are wanted and stray from where you aren't. Surround yourself with positive people and environments.

  Demi Lovato

  Stay Strong, Self Esteem, People

  Demi Lovato (2013). “Staying Strong: 365 Days a Year”, p.9, Macmillan

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• How to do meditation, many people ask. Don't do anything, just go into thoughtless awareness. Try to go to the thoughtless awareness. If you can get into that condition of thoughtless awareness, you've done your job because that's the point where you are with the truth, with the reality, with the joy, with everything that is so fundamental.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Jobs

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• Your life is a sacred journey. It is about change, growth, discovery, movement, transformation, continuously expanding your vision of what is possible, stretching your soul, learning to see clearly and deeply, listening to your intuition, taking courageous challenges at every step along the way. You are on the path... exactly where you are meant to be right now... And from here, you can only go forward, shaping your life story into a magnificent tale of triumph, of healing, of courage, of beauty, of wisdom, of power, of dignity, and of love.

  Caroline Adams Miller

  Wisdom, Yoga, Healing

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• "No, you should stay right where you are, or my estranged brother and I will settle our difference by seeing who can break more of your bones." Tod glanced at him, brows raised. "You want to settle our differences?" Nash frowned. "No, I want to break every bone in his body, and I didn't think you'd let me do it alone." Tod nodded. "Good call."

  Rachel Vincent

  Brother, Thinking, Differences

  "Before I Wake". Book by Rachel Vincent, 2011.

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• I think that I had better go, Holmes." "Not a bit, doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my Boswell.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Thinking, Doctors, Lost

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.166, Race Point Pub

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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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