Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. It is a choice… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
The Impartial Friend: Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Writing has always been a sanctuary or a refuge for me, any time I'm stressed or anxious or worried I find that… — Christopher Paul Curtis Copy Share Image
Anger is the common refuge of insignificance. People who feel their character to be slight, hope to give it weight by inflation:… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I don't know what compassionate conservative means. Does it mean cutting kids out of after school programs, Does it mean drilling in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We pray for the many brothers and sisters who seek refuge far from their native lands, who seek a home where they… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I write about nuclear tests in Refuge - "The Clan of One-Breasted Women." With so many of the women in my family… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Voting, we might even say, is the next to last refuge of the politically impotent. The last refuge is, of course, giving… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
We can find true refuge within our own hearts and minds-right here, right now, in the midst of our moment-to-momen t lives.… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
High SQ demands the most intense personal integrity. It demands that we stand open to experience, that we recapture our ability to… — Danah Zohar Copy Share Image
Sitting in the darkness of the cinema, I got to see another world. This imaginary world was a refuge for many of… — Mano Khalil Copy Share Image
These studies are a spur to the young, a delight to the old: an ornament in prosperity, a consoling refuge in adversity;… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Don't drink on an empty stomach: the main point of the refreshment is the enhancement of food. Don't drink if you have… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If you follow the will of God, you know that in spite of all the terrible things that happen to you, you… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
In order to live fully we may need to look deeply at our own suffering and at the suffering of others. In… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
The ghetto was not only a place of refuge for a persecuted minority but a great experiment in peace, in self-discipline and… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
In the kind of New England I'm from, you are expected to stay and marry somebody from New England - well, Maine,… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
A garden, you know, is a very usual refuge of a disappointed politician. Accordingly, I have purchased a few acres about nine… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
These (literary) studies are the food of youth, and consolation of age; they adorn prosperity, and are the comfort and refuge of… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
We should start by allowing drilling in Alaska's National Wildlife Refuge. It can provide billions of barrels of recoverable oil and trillions… — Mac Thornberry Copy Share Image
No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots. — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
I felt the tributaries of his veins, wished to enter into his bloodstream, travel there, dissolved and bodiless, to take refuge in… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
I hate gold. It does not pay a dividend, it has no value, and you can't work out what it should or… — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
“The all-victorious Christ is like a great rock in a weary land, to whose shelter we may flee in every time of… — J.R. Miller Copy Share Image
While endangering one of the most pristine areas in the world, drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge would do nothing to… — Tom Daschle Copy Share Image
Jesus Your name is a shelter for the hurting, Your name is a refuge for the weak, only Your name can redeem… — Lincoln Brewster Copy Share Image
Goodness is a perpetual quantity, all penetrating, all searching, impartial, noble, a comfort in distress, a refuge to the weak, a tower… — Joseph Parker Copy Share Image
When, in 1913, in a desperate attempt to rid art of the ballast of objectivity, I took refuge in the form of… — Kazimir Malevich Copy Share Image
Sex is the refuge of the mindless. And the more mindless the woman, the more deeply embedded in the male "culture," in… — Valerie Solanas Copy Share Image
I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing. When you're going through a period of unhappiness, a… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
My hope is in you, Lord. Be my refuge, for You are my strength… Into Your hands, Lord, I commend my spirit.… — Bernadette Soubirous Copy Share Image
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave from the terror of flight… — Francis Scott Key Copy Share Image
If cowardice were not so completely a coward as to be unable to look steadily upon the effects of courage, he would… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
“If you were the gateway for refuge in times of trouble and you were isolated the gateway shut to your face in… — Kamaran Ihsan Salih Copy Share Image
What they [Jim deMint and the oil lobby] do care about is the precedent. If they open up ANWR (Arctic National Wildlife… — Barbara Boxer Copy Share Image
They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings steal a little and they throw you in jail.… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Superstition belongs to the essence of mankind and takes refuge, when one thinks one has suppressed it completely, in the strangest nooks… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
When my parents were liberated, four years before I was born, they found that the ordinary world outside the camp had been… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image