Residence Quotes

• Your mind is your servant, your body is your vehicle and your soul is your residence.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Inspirational, Bhajans, Soul

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• If I am happy inside, then I live in paradise no matter where my residence is.

  Mac Anderson

  Inspirational, Paradise, Matter

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• The voices in my head, which I used to think were just passing through, seem to have taken up residence.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Taken, Thinking, Voice

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Success, Spiritual, Wisdom

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• You are not at home where your residence are but where you are understood.

  Christian Morgenstern

  Home, Where You Are, Understood

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• Meanwhile, my residence within the Federal lines, and my acquaintance with so many of the officers, the origin of which I have already mentioned, enabled me to gain much important information as to the position and designs of the enemy.

  Belle Boyd

  Design, Enemy, Important

  Belle Boyd (1865). “Belle Boyd in Camp and Prison”, p.76

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• You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul

  Erin Morgenstern

  Soul, Stories, May

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.386, Random House

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• Though many schizophrenics become curiously attached to their delusions, the fading of the nondelusional world puts them in loneliness beyond all reckoning, a fixed residence on a noxious private planet they can never leave, and where they can receive no visitors.

  Andrew Solomon

  Depression, Loneliness, Fading

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity”, p.296, Simon and Schuster

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• If there is a soul, what is it, and where did it come from, and where does it go? Can anyone who is guided by his reason possibly imagine a soul independent of a body, or the place of its residence, or the character of it, or anything concerning it? If man is justified in any belief or disbelief on any subject, he is warranted in the disbelief in a soul. Not one scrap of evidence exists to prove any such impossible thing.

  Clarence Darrow

  Character, Independent, Men

  Clarence Darrow (1995). “Why I Am an Agnostic and Other Essays”

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• When a king sets himself to bandy against the highest court and residence of all regal powers, he then, in the single person of a man, fights against his own majesty and kingship.

  John Milton

  Kings, Fighting, Men

  John Milton (1847). “The Prose Works of John Milton”, p.517

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• There has never been evidence that people from these [banned] countries are disproportionately likely to commit terrorist acts. We have sent chaos to the airports. We have offended the world. We have derailed the administration. We have done it in such an incompetent way, the administration has, that people with perfectly legal residence have been widely inconvenienced.

  David Brooks

  Country, Airports, People

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Sick people, particularly those with serious conditions, greatly prefer the company of their friends and family to residence in a hospital or nursing home.

  David Mixner

  Home, Nursing, People

  "Millions of Lives Will Be Changed By Home Health Care Cuts" by David Mixner, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 28, 2010.

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• This place is the Devil, or at least his principal residence, they call it the University, but any other appellation would have suited it much better, for study is the last pursuit of the society; the Master eats, drinks, and sleeps, the Fellows drink, dispute and pun, the employments of the undergraduates you will probably conjecture without my description.

  Lord Byron

  Sleep, College, Devil

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.2475, Delphi Classics

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• I suffered most inconvenience from the difficulty of getting news from the civilised world down river, from the irregularity of receipt of letters, parcels of books and periodicals, and towards the latter part of my residence from ill health arising from bad and insufficient food.

  Henry Walter Bates

  Book, Rivers, Ill Health

  Henry Walter Bates (1873). “The Naturalist on the River Amazons: A Record of Adventures, Habits of Animals, Sketches of Brazilian and Indian Life, and Aspects of Nature Under the Equator, During Eleven Years of Travel”, p.253

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• Travel is an attitude, a state of mind. It is not residence, it is motion.

  Paul Theroux

  Attitude, Mind, States

  Paul Theroux (2001). “The Best American Travel Writing 2001”, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A good place to start is with the kids ... One of the great founding principles of our country was that children would not be punished for the mistakes of their parents. It is time to provide an opportunity for legal residence and citizenship for those who were brought to this country as children and who know no other home.

  Eric Cantor

  Country, Children, Mistake

  "Eric Cantor: Dreamers 'Should Receive Pathway To Citizenship'" by Elise Foley, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 02, 2013.

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• Books are living things and their task lies in their vows of silence. You touch them as they quiver with a divine pleasure. You read them and they fall asleep to happy dreams for the next 10 years. If you do them the favor of understanding them, of taking in their portions of grief and wisdom, then they settle down in contented residence in your heart.

  Pat Conroy

  Dream, Lying, Grief

  FaceBook post by Pat Conroy from Oct 15, 2013

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• First, an angel is spiritually present at whatever place in physical space happens to be occupied by the body on which it acts. It can be present at that place without leaving Heaven which is its spiritual residence.

  Mortimer Adler

  Spiritual, Angel, Space

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• A man must generally get away some hundreds or thousands of miles from home before he can be said to begin his travels. Why not begin his travels at home? Would he have to go far or look very closely to discover novelties? The traveler who, in this sense, pursues his travels at home, has the advantage at any rate of a long residence in the country to make his observations correct and profitable. Now the American goes to England, while the Englishman comes to America, in order to describe the country.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Travel, Home

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.86, Yale University Press

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• I cannot but regard it as a kindness in those who have the steering of me that, by the want of pecuniary wealth, I have been nailed dawn to this my native region so long and steadily, and made to study and love this spot of earth more and more. What would signify in comparison a thin and diffused love and knowledge of the whole earth instead, got by wandering? The traveler's is but a barren and comfortless condition. Wealth will not buy a man a home in nature-house nor farm there. The man of business does not by his business earn a residence in nature, but is denaturalized rather.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Travel, Kindness, Home

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• I was a tried seaman when, for the first time, I set foot upon the soil of my country, and took up my residence where my people had lived for over two hundred years.

  John Sergeant Wise

  Country, Time, Years

  John Sergeant Wise, Paul Dennis Sporer (2005). “End of an Era: The Last Days of Traditional Southern Culture as Seen Through the Eyes of a Young Confederate Soldier”, p.6, Anza Publishing

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• After a quarter of a century of personal experience and professional observation, I have come to understand that peace of mind is the true goal of the considered life. I know now that the sum of all other possessions does not necessarily add up to peace of mind; on the other hand, I have seen this inner tranquility flourish without the material supports of property or even the buttress of physical health. Peace of mind can transform a cottage into a spacious manor hall; the want of it can make a regal residence an imprisoning shell.

  Joshua L. Liebman

  Peace, Hands, Goal

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• When I was in high school and college, my other real focus was, actually, fiction writing. So in college, I had done all these seminars with these various writers-in-residence.

  Lily Rabe

  Real, Writing, School

  "Lily Rabe’s Master Class". Interview with Alexandria Symonds, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 15, 2011.

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• When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous.

  Norman MacCaig

  Edinburgh, Ridiculous, Euthanasia

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• I began working within the streets of Harlem, where, after graduating from Yale [University, New Haven, CT], I became the artist in residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem [New York, NY]. I wanted to know what that was about. I would actually pull people from off of the streets and ask them to come to my studio.

  Kehinde Wiley

  New York, Artist, Museums

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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