Best Retreats Quotes
53 Retreats quotes by 45 unique authors
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In monasteries, seminaries, retreats and synagogues, they fear hell and seek paradise. Those who know the mysteries of God never let that seed be planted…
— Omar Khayyam
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The life of Dumas is not only a monument of endeavour and success, it is a sort of labyrinth as well. It abounds in pseudonyms…
— William Ernest Henley
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Man is about to be an automaton; he is identifiable only in the computer. As a person of worth and creativity, as a being with…
— William O. Douglas
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A revolution does not march a straight line. It wanders where it can, retreats before superior forces, advances wherever it has room, attacks whenever the…
— Mao Zedong
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There are few retreats, that can escape the penetrating eye of avarice.
— Thomas Clarkson
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These (literary) studies are the food of youth, and consolation of age; they adorn prosperity, and are the comfort and refuge of adversity; they are…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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How readily the bluebirds become our friends and neighbors when we offer them suitable nesting retreats!
— John Burroughs
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Men seek retreats for themselves, houses in the country, sea-shores, and mountains; and thou too art wont to desire such things very much. But this…
— Marcus Aurelius
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I like the idea of going to one of those retreats where you don't speak - like, silence for five days.
— Madonna Ciccone
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Peace is purchased from strength. It's not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.
— Benjamin Netanyahu
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My earliest experiences in meditation were in a context of intensive retreats.
— Sharon Salzberg
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He domesticated and developed the native wild flowers. He had one hill-side solidly clad with that low-growing purple verbena which mats over the hills of…
— Willa Cather
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In Europe life retreats out of the cold, and exquisite fireside myths have resulted—Balder, Persephone—but [in India] the retreat is from the source of life,…
— E. M. Forster
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Utopia lies at the horizon. When I draw nearer by two steps, it retreats two steps. If I proceed ten steps forward, it swiftly slips…
— Eduardo Galeano
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Is there some particular reason that you're here?" ... "Not this again." "Not what again?" said Clary. "Every time I annoy him, he retreats into…
— Cassandra Clare
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How can the mind take hold of such a country? Generations of invaders have tried, but they remain in exile. The important towns they build…
— E. M. Forster
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There are moments in life when a man retreats defensively, when he must give ground, when he must surrender less important positions in order to…
— Milan Kundera
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Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherised upon a table; Let us…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Sorrow is not a raven perched persistently above a chamber door. Sorrow is a thing with teeth, and while in time it retreats, it comes…
— Dean Koontz
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Any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die.
— Frank Herbert
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He who retreats lives longer.
— Michael Scott
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Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, / The muttering retreats / Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels / And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells:…
— John Green
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She was struggling, as she always had struggled, not to show what she could do but to hide what she couldn't do. A life made…
— Bernhard Schlink
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Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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To have the management of the mind is a great art, and it may be attained in a considerable degree by experience and habitual exercise...Let…
— Samuel Johnson
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