“Books had been her means of escape; now they would be her refuge.” — Trenton Lee Stewart Copy Share Image
“Life is a love story, with every character yearning for permanent refuge in someone's heart.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Look not for refuge to anyone beside yourself. Heed fast to the truth as a lamp. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Teaching is the last refuge of feeble minds with a classical education. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
What every Englishman thinks about patriotism, the last refuge of a scoundrel. — Coco Chanel Copy Share Image
It was good, really, that this external world still existed, if only as a place of refuge. — Patrick Süskind Copy Share Image
How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge? — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without… — Gilbert Parker Copy Share Image
We all need a place that is safe and wholesome enough for us to return for refuge. In Buddhism, that refuge is… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
My prayer became 'May I find peace... May I love this life no matter what.' I was seeking an inner refuge, an… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
To revenge reasonable incredulity by refusing evidence, is a degree of insolence with which the world is not yet acquainted; and stubborn… — Samuel Johnson 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
Gaming has been resorted to by the affluent as a refuge from ennui. It is a mental dram, and may succeed for… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
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
Religion pervades intensely the whole frame of society, and is according to the temper of the mind which it inhabits, a passion,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley 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
Every so often a disappearance is in order. A vanishing. A checking out. An indeterminate period of unavailability. Each person, each sane… — John Murray Copy Share Image
When I was about seven, one or two people encouraged me, and art became an enormous and important refuge. By adolescence, I… — John Berger Copy Share Image
“The house on a tiny island can only take refuge in one place when there is a big storm at sea: The… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
While I am watching the birds I believe I am comparatively immune from the assaults of life. The very indifference to humanity… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
The glorious Vishnu is the sole refuge of mortals. He is Infinite Light, Love and Wisdom. He resides in the hearts of… — Sivananda Copy Share Image
Let us not forget that violence does not live alone and is not capable of living alone: it is necessarily interwoven with… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Idiot. Above her head was the only stable point in the cosmos, the only refuge from the damnation of the panta rei,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
When, and how, and at what stage of our development did spirituality and our strange notions of religion arise? the need for… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
It has always been the habit of Catholic in danger and in troublous times to fly for refuge to Mary, and to… — Pope Leo X 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
It's perfectly OK that there are certain people who do not accept Islam at all. Therefore, to announce that I am a… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
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
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
Most of us need to be reminded that we are good, that we are lovable, that we belong. If we knew just… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
