Where You Are Quotes - Page 19

• When there is a start to be made, don't step over! Start where you are.

  Edgar Cayce

  New Beginnings, Addiction, Steps

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• Hell is not fire and brimstone, not a place where you are punished for lying or cheating or stealing. Hell is wanting to be something and somewhere different from where you are.

  Stephen Levine

  Appreciation, Cheating, Lying

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• The same thinking that has led you to where you are is not going to lead you to where you want to go.

  Albert Einstein

  Military, Thinking, Want

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• Simply be who you are, do what you do best, be where you are called by joy, and let life work its magic on your behalf.

  Alan Cohen

  Joy, Be Who You Are, Magic

  Alan Cohen (2006). “Relax Into Wealth: How to Get More by Doing Less”, p.144, Penguin

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• I think that whenever soul is present, it's because what you're doing, whom you're with, where you are, evokes love without your thinking about it. You are totally absorbed in the place of person or event, without ego and without judgment.

  Jean Shinoda Bolen

  Love, Marriage, Thinking

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• The spiritual quest is a journey without distance. You travel from where you are right now To where you have always been. From ignorance to recognition.

  Anthony de Mello

  Spiritual, Distance, Ignorance

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “Heart of the Enlightened: A Book of Story Meditations”, p.178, Image

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• Relaxation means allowing yourself to fall into a state where you are not doing anything, because if you are doing something, tension will continue. It is a state of non-doing. You simply relax and you enjoy the feeling of relaxation. Relax into yourself, just close your eyes, and listen to all that is happening all around. No need to feel anything as distraction. The moment you feel it is a distraction, you are denying God. This moment God has come to you as a bird. Don't deny.

  Rajneesh

  Fall, Mean, Eye

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• The best place to succeed is where you are with what you've got.

  Charles R. Schwab

  Positive, Success, Succeed

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• Creativity is about play and a kind of willingness to go with your intuition. It's crucial to an artist. If you know where you are going and what you are going to do, why do it? I think I learned that from the artists, from my grandmother, from all the creative people I've spent time with over the years.

  Frank Gehry

  Fun, Creativity, Grandmother

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• It's so important to know where you are.

  Jim Valvano

  Basketball, Important, Knows

  Arthur Ashe Courage Award Acceptance Address, delivered 3 March 1993

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• You should really know what the complete natural world of your region is and know what all its interactions are and how you are interacting with it yourself. This is just part of the work of becoming who you are, where you are.

  Gary Snyder

  Becoming Who You Are, World, Natural

  Gary Snyder, William Scott McLean (1980). “The Real Work: Interviews & Talks, 1964-1979”, p.16, New Directions Publishing

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• It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you’re doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It’s what you think of it. Two people may in the same place doing the same thing, and yet one may be miserable and the other happy. Why? Because of a different mental attitude.

  Dale Carnegie

  Attitude, Thinking, Two

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• I belong to you. There is no one else. All I want is to be where you are.

  Tammara Webber

  Want

  Tammara Webber (2014). “Between the Lines: The Complete Series”, p.582, Tammara Webber

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• To know that one does not write for the other, to know that these things I am going to write will never cause me to be loved by the one I love (the other), to know that writing compensates for nothing, sublimates nothing, that it is precisely there where you are not--this is the beginning of writing.

  Roland Barthes

  Writing, Doe, Causes

  Roland Barthes (1990). “A lover's discourse: fragments”, Penguin Books

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• Where you are is who you are. The further inside you the place moves, the more your identity is intertwined with it. Never casual, the choice of place is the choice of something you crave.

  Frances Mayes

  Moving, Choices, Identity

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• The truth is that you can divide your heart in all sorts of interesting ways - a little here, a little there, most banked at home, some of it coined out for a flutter. But love cleaves through the mind's mathematics. Love's lengthways splits the heart in two - the heart where you are, the heart where you want to be. How will you heal your heart when love has split it in two?

  Jeanette Winterson

  Home, Heart, Two

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• If you no longer live, if you my beloved, my love, if you have died, all the leaves will fall in my breast, it will rain in my soul night and day, the snow will burn my heart, I shall walk with frost and fire and death and snow, my feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping, but I shall live

  Pablo Neruda

  Rain, Fall, Heart

  Pablo Neruda, “The Dead Woman”

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• These days, it feels to me like you make a devil's pact when you walk into this country. You hand over your passport at the check-in, you get stamped, you want to make a little money, get yourself started... but you mean to go back! Who would want to stay? Cold, wet, miserable; terrible food, dreadful newspapers - who would want to stay? In a place where you are never welcomed, only tolerated. Just tolerated. Like you are an animal finally house-trained.

  Zadie Smith

  Country, Mean, Animal

  Zadie Smith (2001). “White Teeth”, p.413, Penguin UK

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• What do they say about meeting a bear in the woods? Oh right, you shouldn't. And to make sure you don't, you should make a lot of noise so that they'll will know where you are and keep their distance because, supposedly, they're as nervous of us as we are of them. Which is all goo, except this bear doesn't seem the least bit nervous. He's giving me a look like I'm Goldilocks, ate his porridge, broke his chair, slept in his bed, and now it's payback time."- Widdershins

  Charles de Lint

  Distance, Giving, Bed

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• Feeling a little foolish over her confidences, Elizabeth glanced up at him with an embarrassed smile. “What is the most beautiful place you’ve ever seen?” Dragging his gaze from the beauty of the gardens, Ian looked down at the beauty beside him. “Any place,” he said huskily, “where you are.

  Judith McNaught

  Beautiful, Garden, Feelings

  Judith McNaught (1991). “Almost Heaven”, p.356, Simon and Schuster

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• I know one thing for certain; it is much harder to tell whether you are lost than whether you were lost, for, on many occasions, where you are going is exactly where you are. On the other hand, if you often find that where you've been is not at all where you should have gone, and, since it's much more difficult to find your way back from someplace you've never left, I suggest you go there immediately and then decide.

  Norton Juster

  Hands, Should Have, Way

  Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.101, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• There is no reason in the world why you should not be important where you are known. You have good sense, and a sweet temper, and I am sure you have a grateful heart, that could never receive kindness without hoping to return it. I do not know any better qualifications for a friend and companion.

  Jane Austen

  Sweet, Kindness, Grateful

  Jane Austen (2013). “Jane Austen Collection: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park, Emma, Persuasion, Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, Love and Friendship and Other Austin Works”, p.700, Lulu Press, Inc

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• So I have just one wish for you – the good luck to be somewhere where you are free to maintain the kind of integrity I have described, and where you do not feel forced by a need to maintain your position in the organization, or financial support, or so on, to lose your integrity. May you have that freedom.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Integrity, Good Luck, Organization

  Richard P. Feynman (2010). “"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character: Adventures of a Curious Character”, p.346, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Any problems that may occur have ultimately been caused by you, because you are responsible for where you are and what you are doing there.

  Garth Stein

  Responsibility, May, Problem

  Garth Stein (2008). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, Harper

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• The past stays on you the way powdered sugar stays on your fingers. Some people can get rid of it but it’s still there, the events and things that pushed you to where you are now.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Past, People, Events

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.203, Random House

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