Center Of The World Quotes

• Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.

  John Burroughs

  Life, Stars, Opportunity

  John Burroughs (1908). “The Writings of John Burroughs: Leaf & tendrill”

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• Look underfoot. You are always nearer to the true sources of your power than you think. The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. Don't despise your own place and hour. Every place is the center of the world.

  John Burroughs

  Nature, Opportunity, Thinking

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• It is from the numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

  Robert Kennedy

  Change, Hope, Courage

  Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt

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• The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.

  John Burroughs

  Inspirational, Humor, Opportunity

  John Burroughs (1908). “The Writings of John Burroughs: Leaf & tendrill”

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• There are ways in, journeys to the center of life, through time; through air, matter, dream and thought. The ways are not always mapped or charted, but sometimes being lost, if there is such a thing, is the sweetest place to be. And always, in this search, a person might find that she is already there, at the center of the world. It may be a broken world, but it is glorious nonetheless.

  Linda Hogan

  Dream, Journey, Air

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• I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Kwanzaa, True Joy, Privilege And Responsibility

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• Every place is the center of the world.

  Black Elk

  Opportunity, Unity, World

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• Transportation is the center of the world! It is the glue of our daily lives. When it goes well, we don't see it. When it goes wrong, it negatively colors our day, makes us feel angry and impotent, curtails our possibilities.

  Robin Chase

  Color, Glue, World

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• I was born with a need to be the center of attention, and, of course, you're the center of the world when you're acting

  Julie Christie

  Acting, Needs, Attention

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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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• Unhappiness, I saw then, comes to each of us because we think ourselves at the center of the world, because we have the miserable conviction the we alone suffer to the point of unbearable intensity. Unhappiness is always to feel oneself imprisoned in one's own skin, in one's own brain.

  Jacques Lusseyran

  Thinking, Brain, Suffering

  Jacques Lusseyran (2016). “Against the Pollution of the I: On the Gifts of Blindness, the Power of Poetry, and the Urgency of Awareness”, p.143, New World Library

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• Salt and the center of the world have to be there, in that spot on the tablecloth.

  Julio Cortazar

  Food, Cooking, World

  Julio Cortazar (2016). “Hopscotch, Blow-Up, We Love Glenda So Much”, p.588, Everyman's Library

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• Mindfulness is loving all the details of our lives, and awareness is the natural thing that happens: life begins to open up, and you realize that you're always standing at the center of the world.

  Pema Chodron

  Details, Mindfulness, World

  Pema Chodron (2001). “The Wisdom of No Escape: And the Path of Loving Kindness”, p.35, Shambhala Publications

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• Everywhere is the center of the world. Everything is sacred.

  Black Elk

  Native American, World, Sacred

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• To preserve yourself as the center of the world, to stay your own best authority on everything, your own expert on all topics, infallible, omniscient. Always, every time of the month, forever: Use birth control.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Giving, Forever, Experts

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• For the perfect idler, for the passionate observer it becomes an immense source of enjoyment to establish his dwelling in the throng, in the ebb and flow, the bustle, the fleeting and the infinite. To be away from home and yet to feel at home anywhere; to see the world, to be at the very centre of the world, and yet to be unseen of the world, such are some of the minor pleasures of those independent, intense and impartial spirits, who do not lend themselves easily to linguistic definitions. The observer is a prince enjoying his incognito wherever he goes.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Travel, Home, Independent

  "The Painter of Modern Life".

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• The streetlight outside my house shines on tonight and I'm watching it like it could give me a vision. James ain't talked ever and he looks at that streetlight like it was a word and maybe like it was a verb. James wanted to streetlight me and make me bright and beautiful so all the moths and bats would circle me like I was the center of the world an held secrets.

  Sherman Alexie

  Beautiful, Shine On, Circles

  Sherman Alexie (1993). “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven”, Harper Perennial

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• Love is the bond between men, the way to teach and the center of the world.

  Jose Marti

  Love Is, Men, Ties

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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• If you want to live in Tennessee, God bless you, I wish for you a long life and starry evenings. But that is not where I want to live my life. I want to live my life in Carthage, in Athens. I want to live my life in Rome. I want to live my life in the center of the world. I want to live my life in Los Angeles.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Rome, Long, Wish

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter.

  Guy Debord

  Hype, Deceit, World

  "Panegyric (Volume 1)". Book by Guy Debord, 1989.

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• Elena had always felt like the center of her own world - who doesn't? The world arranged itself around her like petals around the stem of a flower. This way the meadows, that way the woodland. Over here, the baryn's estate, out there, the hills that hug the known world close and imply a world at beyond. She could never come up with the edge of a world, because it always kept going on beyond. She moved the center of the world as she walked. The world was balanced on her head.

  Gregory Maguire

  Life, Flower, Hug

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• I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the center of the world.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Acceptance, World, Blame

  W. Somerset Maugham (2013). “The Essential W. Somerset Maugham Collection”, p.1734, eBookIt.com

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• Every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human history.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Drama, Writing, Civilization

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• Man is always inclined to regard the small circle in which he lives as the center of the world and to make his particular, private life the standard of the universe and to make his particular, private life the standard of the universe. But he must give up this vain pretense, this petty provincial way of thinking and judging.

  Ernst Cassirer

  Giving Up, Men, Thinking

  Ernst Cassirer, Yale University. Louis Stern Memorial Fund (1944). “An Essay on Man: An Introduction to a Philosophy of Human Culture”, New Haven : Yale University Press ; London : H. Milford, Oxford University Press

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• People in London think of London as the center of the world, whereas New Yorkers think the world ends three miles outside of Manhattan.

  Toby Young

  Thinking, People, Three

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