Where You Are Quotes - Page 20

• The difference between an admirer and a follower still remains, no matter where you are. The admirer never makes any true sacrifices. He always plays it safe. Though in words, phrases, songs, he is inexhaustible about how highly he prizes Christ, he renounces nothing, gives up nothing, will not reconstruct his life, will not be what he admires, and will not let his life express what it is he supposedly admires.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Song, Giving Up, Sacrifice

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• I do not like a high-organized church. I think that as soon as the congregation reaches a level of one hundred or so people, it is time to build a new church. As soon as the congregation gets to the point where you are not on fairly intimate terms with every other person in that church, then you have become a theater where people can attend services. I do not think you can attend a church service. Service is not something which is there to be viewed as if it were a play or a movie.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Thinking, Church Service, Play

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• Evil is relative…You can’t hang a sign on it. You can’t touch it or taste it or cut it with a sword. Evil depends on where you are standing, pointing your indicting finger.

  Glen Cook

  Cutting, Evil, Taste

  Glen Cook (1992). “The Black Company: The First Novel of 'The Chronicles of The Black Company'”, p.281, Macmillan

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• She looked at him gravely. "You cannot call back the river that has already flowed past you, Ruith. All you can do is be grateful for where you are in it.

  Lynn Kurland

  Grateful, Past, Rivers

  Lynn Kurland (2011). “Spellweaver”, p.108, Penguin

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• Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are.

  Rumi

  Rocks, Wildflowers, Littles

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• Where you come from does matter -- but not nearly as much as where you are headed.

  Jodi Picoult

  Travel, Doe, Where You Come

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• Mitchell Sanders was right. For the common soldier, at least, war has the feel-the spiritual texture-of a great ghostly fog, thick and permanent. There is no clarity. Everything swirls. The old rules are no longer binding, the old truths no longer true. Right spills over into wrong. Order blends into chaos, love into hate, ugliness into beauty, law into anarchy, civility into savagery. The vapors suck you in. You can't tell where you are, or why you're there, and the only certainty is overwhelming ambiguity.

  Tim O'Brien

  Spiritual, Hate, War

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.78, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• Are you happy here?" I said at last. He considered this for a moment. "Not particularly," he said. "But you're not very happy where you are, either.

  Donna Tartt

  Lasts, Moments, Said

  Donna Tartt (1993). “The Secret History: A Novel”, Ballantine Books

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• If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing.

  Saint Augustine

  Change, Leadership, Learning

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• Where you are born should not dictate your potential as a human being.

  Roméo Dallaire

  Born, Should, Humans

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• Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge.

  Martin Luther

  Faith, Where You Are Going, Discipleship

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• What am I coming for?" he repeated, looking straight into her eyes. "You know that I have come to be where you are," he said; "I can't help it.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Eye, Helping, Said

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna karenina (Arcadia Classics)”, p.132, Leo Tolstoy

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• God doesn't care nearly as much about where you have been as He does about where you are and, with His help, where you are willing to go.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Doe, Care, Helping

  Twitter post from Dec 31, 2015

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• No matter where it is in the sky... No matter where you are in the world... the moon is never bigger than your thumb. -John

  Nicholas Sparks

  Moon, Sky, Thumbs

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• Look at me, Emma." Her eyes are full, the lids heavy. "Graham," she breathes. "I need you to hear me." Cradling her head in my hands, thumbs sweeping her tears away, I stare into her eyes. "I belong to you. There is no one else. All I want is to be where you are.

  Tammara Webber

  Eye, Hands, Tears

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• Dying doesn't end anything - it just changes where you are

  Charles de Lint

  Dying, Ends

  Charles de Lint (2002). “The Onion Girl”, p.383, Macmillan

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• As he was about to climb yet another dune, his heart whispered, "Be aware of the place where you are brought to tears. That's where I am, and thats where your treasure is.

  Paulo Coelho

  Heart, Tears, Treasure

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• Why am I going?" he repeated, looking straight into her eyes. "You know that I am going in order to be where you are," said he. "I cannot do otherwise." "Not a word, not a movement of yours will I ever forget, nor can I.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Eye, Order, Movement

  Leo Tolstoy (2012). “Anna Karenina”, p.93, Courier Corporation

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• May today be peace within. May you trust your highest power that you are exactly where you are meant to be... May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith. May you use those gifts that you have received, and pass on the love that has been given to you... May you be content knowing you are a child of God... Let this presence settle into your bones, and allow your soul the freedom to sing, dance, praise, and love. It is there for each and every one of you.

  Mother Teresa

  Children, Knowing, Soul

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• The problem with time, I've learned, whether it's those first two weeks I got to spend with you, or the final two months I got to spend with him, eventually time always runs out. I have no idea where you are out there in the world, John. But I understand that I lost the right to know these things long ago. No matter how many years go by, I know one thing to be as true as ever was - I'll see you soon then.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Running, Long Ago, Years

  "Fictional character: Savannah Curtis". "Dear John", www.imdb.com. 2010.

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• The great gift of a spiritual path is coming to trust that you can find a way to true refuge. You realize that you can start right where you are, in the midst of your life, and find peace in any circumstance. Even at those moments when the ground shakes terribly beneath you—when there’s a loss that will alter your life forever—you can still trust that you will find your way home. This is possible because you’ve touched the timeless love and awareness that are intrinsic to who you are.

  Tara Brach

  Spiritual, Home, Loss

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• I think that it is very important if you know what you want, understand where you are heading towards, and try your best to get it. It is only when we use our hearts to do it, and fall in love with what we are doing, then can we really get real determination.

  Emma Watson

  Falling In Love, Determination, Real

  FaceBook post by Emma Watson from Aug 28, 2012

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• No matter where you are right now, no matter far along you are on your own path, don't wait to "have it all" to celebrate. You're never going to figure it all out. Make being happy your business, all along the way. Life can't be one long, tough haul, with a little party at the end. What good is that? Life should be punctuated with celebrations and you have to build them into your time because being happy isn't easy.

  Bethenny Frankel

  Party, Long, Waiting

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• Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Tactics And Strategy

  Sun Tzu (2016). “The Art of War”, p.7, Xist Publishing

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