Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it;… — Harry Mathews Copy Share Image
I confess I was surprised to find that so many men spent their whole day, ay, their whole lives almost, a-fishing. It… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I was only following orders," the Mayor mocks. "The refuge of scoundrels since the dawn of time. — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
Be your own lamps. Be your own shelters. Hang on to the truth as a lamp. Hang on to the truth as… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
For the righteous, the gospel provides a warning before calamity, a program for the crises, refuge for each disaster... The Lord has… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Surrender is the path to freedom through our unique authenticity, where we experience the flow of life not through the narrow lens… — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
The mind which is free from passions is a citadel, for man has nothing more secure to which he can fly for… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Breathing air is a liberating experience. It freed our ancestors from the constraints of staying wet or having to remain within easy… — Lyall Watson Copy Share Image
My bedroom is my sanctuary. It's like a refuge, and it's where I do a fair amount of designing - at least… — Vera Wang Copy Share Image
Hipsters seek refuge in church, Our Lady of Perpetual Subculture. There is some discussion as to whether or not they are still… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
It is my dream that the entire Tibetan plateau should become a free refuge where humanity and nature can live in peace… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“We held each other for a time in that hideaway, that unexpected sanctuary, while the city smoldered and the world went on… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
Superstition is the poetry of life. It is inherent in man's nature; and when we think it is wholly eradicated, it takes… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The photographic industry was the refuge of all the painters who couldn't make it, either because they had no talent or because… — Charles Baudelaire 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
There can be few fields of human endeavor in which history counts for so little as in the world of finance.Past experience,… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
A refuge is supposed to prevent what? The genes from flowing out of sight? This refuge idea won't stop insects from moving… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
Oh, how one wishes sometimes to escape from the meaningless dullness of human eloquence, from all those sublime phrases, to take refuge… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
Science has destroyed even the refuge of the inner life. What was once a sheltering haven has become a place of terror — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The Church has ever proved indestructible. Her persecutors have failed to destroy her; in fact, it was during times of persecution that… — Thomas Aquinas 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
Look not for refuge to anyone beside yourself. Heed fast to the truth as a lamp. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
