Where You Are Quotes - Page 34

• I exist in two places, here and where you are.

  Margaret Atwood

  Two

  Margaret Atwood (1987). “Selected Poems, 1965-1975”, p.200, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Simon I've been trying to call you, but it seems like your phone is turned off. I don't know where you are right now. I don't know if Clary's already told you what happened tonight. But I have to go to Magnus's and I'd really like you to be there. I'm scared for my brother. I never ask you for anything, Simon, but I'm asking you now. Please come. Isabelle. Simon let the letter fall from his hand. He was out of the apartment and on his way down the steps before it had even hit the floor.

  Cassandra Clare

  Brother, Fall, Phones

  Cassandra Clare (2015). “City of Lost Souls”, p.155, Simon and Schuster

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• Because God is with you all the time, no place is any closer to God than the place where you are right now.

  Rick Warren

  Spiritual, Godly, God Is With You

  "The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?". Book by Rick Warren, 2002.

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• That’s why it is important to enjoy the journey not just the destination. In this world, we will never arrive at a place where everything is perfect and we have no more challenges. As admirable as setting goals and reaching them maybe, you can’t get so focused on accomplishing your goals that you make the mistake of not enjoying where you are right now.

  Joel Osteen

  Mistake, Journey, Perfect

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• The view changes from where you are standing. Words can wound, and wounds can heal. All of these things are true.

  Neil Gaiman

  Views, Heal, Standing

  Neil Gaiman (2010). “Fragile Things”, p.108, Hachette UK

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• You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Looks, Patterns, Make Sense

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

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• Why I'm not where you are ...

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, www.theguardian.com. April 1, 2005.

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• What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Forgiveness, Philosophy

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• No matter where you are in life . . . [y]ou always have a choice and the choice can be power.

  Blaine Lee Pardoe

  Choices, Matter, Moving On In Life

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• The cosmic humor is that if you desire to move mountains and you continue to purify yourself, ultimately you will arrive at the place where you are able to move mountains. But in order to arrive at this position of power you will have had to give up being he-who-wanted-to-move-mountains so that you can be he-who-put-the-mountain-there-in-the-first-place. The humor is that finally when you have the power to move the mountain, you are the person who placed it there--so there the mountain stays.

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  Ram Dass

  Giving Up, Moving, Order

  Ram Dass (1971). “Remember, Now be Here, Now Here be”

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• One of the special beauties of America is that it is the only country in the world where you are not advised to learn the language before entering. Before I ever set out for the United States, I asked a friend if I should study American. His answer was unequivocal. "On no account," he said. "The more English you sound, the more likely you are to be believed."

  Quentin Crisp

  Country, Travel, America

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• Early in the journey you wonder how long the journey will take and whether you will make it in this lifetime. Later you will see that where you are going is HERE and you will arrive NOW...so you stop asking.

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  Ram Dass

  Journey, Long, Asking

  Ram Dass (1971). “Remember, now be here, now here be”

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• But at the end of the day, the circumstances of your life what you look like, where you come from, how much money you have, what you've got going on at home that's no excuse ... Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up. No one's written your destiny for you. Here in America, you write your own destiny. You make your own future.

  Barack Obama

  Home, Writing, Destiny

  Barack Obama's back-to-school speech at Wakefield High School Arlington, Virginia, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2009.

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• To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not, You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy. In order to arrive at what you do not know You must go by a way which is the way of ignorance. In order to possess what you do not possess You must go by the way of dispossession. In order to arrive at what you are not You must go through the way in which you are not. And what you do not know is the only thing you know And what you own is what you do not own And where you are is where you are not.

  T. S. Eliot

  Ignorance, Order, Way

  Four Quartets "East Coker" pt. 3 (1940)

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• It's certainly not too late to change to the winning side. But you know, you also have the freedom to stay just where you are. That's what it means to be an American. That's the miracle of America. Freedom to believe means the freedom to believe the wrong thing, after all. Just as freedom of speech gives you the right to stay silent.

  Neil Gaiman

  Believe, Mean, Winning

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• I do not want you to follow me or anyone else; if you are looking for a Moses to lead you out of this capitalist wilderness, you will stay right where you are. I would not lead you into the promised land if I could, because if I led you in, some one else would lead you out.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Business, Land, Want

  "Debs: His Life, Writings and Speeches". Book edited by Stephen Marion Reynolds and Bruce Rogers (Life of Eugene V. Debs, p. 71), 1908.

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• *I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago... *So soon you will be in that part of the book where you are holding the bulk of the pages in your left hand, and only a thin wisp of the story in your right. *We get one story, you and I, and one story alone....It might be time for you to go. It might be time to change, to shine out.

  Donald Miller

  Book, Walking Away, Hands

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• Learn how to enjoy where you are on the way to where you're going.

  Joyce Meyer

  Motivational, Positive, Way

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• That moment - to this ... may be years in the way they measure, but it's only one sentence back in my mind - there are so many days when living stops and pulls up and sits and waits like a train on the rails. I pass the hotel at 8 and at 5; there are cats in the alleys and bottles and bums, and I look up at the window and think, I no longer know where you are, and I walk on and wonder where the living goes when it stops.

  Charles Bukowski

  Cat, Thinking, Years

  Charles Bukowski (2016). “On Love”, p.9, Canongate Books

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• How fast you are moving is more important than where you are.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Business, Moving, Important

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  Always believe in yourself. Do this and no matter where you are, you will have nothing to fear.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Believe, Matter, Believe In Yourself

  "Fictional character: Baron". "The Cat Returns", www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• The materialistic pattern of life is that where money predominates over everything. The non-materialistic life is that where money is just a means - happiness predominates, joy predominates; your own individuality predominates. You know who you are and where you are going, and you are not distracted. Then suddenly you will see your life has a meditative quality to it.

  Rajneesh

  Money, Mean, Joy

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• To become a better you, you must be positive towards yourself, develop better relationships, embrace the place where you are.

  Joel Osteen

  Relationship, Being Positive, Embrace

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• Farewell! O Gandalf! May you ever appear where you are most needed and least expected!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Farewell, May, Needed

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit: 75th Anniversary Edition”, p.308, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Time can also be a place.... Everything depends on where you are standing, on where you look or what you hear. The measure of it is found in consciousness itself.

  Frank Herbert

  Time, Looks, Consciousness

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.210, Penguin

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