Your Room Quotes

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  You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

  Franz Kafka

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  "The Zürau Aphorisms". Book by Franz Kafka, 1931.

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• Simply wait, be quiet, still The world will freely offer itself to you.

  Franz Kafka

  Suicide, Suicidal, Solitary Life

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• Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

  Muhammad Ali

  Basketball, Kindness, Fighting

  Twitter post from May 26, 2010

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  Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.

  Sylvia Plath

  Rooms, Prison

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• I just think if you're 44 years old and you're not smarter than you were when you were 35 years old or 25 years old, just stay in your room.

  Keith Olbermann

  Thinking, Years, Rooms

  "Making Up Hard to Do for Olbermann" by Bob Wolfley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, February 16, 2003.

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• To never see a fool you lock yourself in your room and smash the looking-glass.

  Carl Sandburg

  Glasses, Rooms, Fool

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.490, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When you stay in your room and rage or sneer or shrug your shoulders, as I did for many years, the world and its problems are impossibly daunting. But when you go out and put yourself in real relation to real people, or even just real animals, there’s a very real danger that you might end up loving some of them. And who knows what might happen to you then?

  Jonathan Franzen

  Real, Animal, Years

  FaceBook post by Jonathan Franzen from Apr 06, 2012

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• Whoever you are, go out into the evening, leaving your room, of which you know every bit; your house is the last before the infinite, whoever you are.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  House, Leaving, Lasts

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1941). “Fifty Selected Poems with English Translations”

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• Practise love. Sitting alone in your room, be loving. Radiate love. Fill the whole room with your love energy.

  Rajneesh

  Energy, Sitting, Rooms

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• Unclog your mind. Unclog your room. Arrange your room in a way you wish your mind would be.

  Yoko Ono

  Mind, Wish, Would Be

  FaceBook post by Yoko Ono from Oct 12, 2013

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• I was not a rebellious teenager. I was a sit-in-your-room teenager.

  Samantha Shannon

  Teenager, Rooms, Rebellious

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• When I sleepwalk into your room, and pick you up, and hold you up in the moonlight, you cling to me hard, as if clinging could save us. I think you think I will never die, I think I exude to you the permanence of smoke or stars, even as my broken arms heal themselves around you.

  Galway Kinnell

  Stars, Thinking, Broken

  Galway Kinnell (1973). “The Book of Nightmares”, p.49, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When you observe that the fire in your room is getting dull, you do not always put on more coal, but simply stir with the poker; so God often uses the black poker of adversity in order that the flames of devotion may burn more brightly.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Adversity, Fire, Flames

  Arthur W. Pink (2001). “A. W. Pink's Studies in the Scriptures”, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• I can look at a photo and the dimensions of any piece and tell you if it's going to sit well with the four other pieces in your room.

  Nate Berkus

  Dimensions, Looks, Pieces

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• From the shadow of domes in the city of domes,
  A snowflake, a blizzard of one, weightless, entered your room
  And made its way to the arm of the chair where you, looking up
  From your book, saw it the moment it landed. That's all
  There was to it.

  Mark Strand

  Book, Cities, Shadow

  Mark Strand (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.344, Knopf

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• It's the same things your whole life. 'Clean up your room!', 'Stand up straight!', 'Pick up your feet!', 'Take it like a man!', 'Be nice to your sister!', 'Don't mix beer and wine, ever!'. Oh yeah, 'Don't drive on the railroad track!'

  Philip Connors

  Nice, Wine, Beer

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• The poisonous serpent of afflictions is sleeping in your mind; just as if a black viper were asleep in your room. You must use the hook of precepts to quickly remove it. When the sleeping snake is gone, then you can rest at ease.

  Gautama Buddha

  Life, Buddhist, Sleep

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• Once you understand this way, you will be able to make your room alive; you will be able to design a house together with your family; a garden for your children; places where you can work; beautiful terraces where you can sit and dream.

  Christopher Alexander

  Beautiful, Dream, Children

  Christopher Alexander (1979). “The Timeless Way of Building”, p.7, New York : Oxford University Press

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• I do not know why there is this difference, but I am sure that God keeps no one waiting unless He sees that it is good for him to wait. When you do enter your room, you will find that the long wait has done you some kind of good which you would not have had otherwise. But you must regard it as waiting, not as camping. You must keep on praying for light: and of course, even in the hall, you must begin trying to obey the rules which are common to the whole house. And above all you must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best by its paint and paneling.

  C. S. Lewis

  Light, Doors, Differences

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• But Noah, you're not supposed to do this, and I can't let you. So go back to your room." Then smiling softly and sniffling and shuffling some papers on the desk, she says: "Me, I'm going downstairs for some coffee. I won't be back to check on your for a while, so don't do anything foolish." She rises quickly, touches my arm, and walks toward the stairs. She doesn't look back, and suddenly I am alone. I don't know what to think. I look at where she had been sitting and see her coffee, a full cup, still steaming, and once again I learn that there are good people in the world.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Coffee, Thinking, People

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• I should have proposed that night in your room." "I should have let you.

  Kiera Cass

  Night, Should Have, Rooms

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• Like all mothers, mother nature will tuck you safely into bed at night only to come into your room two hours later in a scary mask and threaten you with a nail

  Greg Evigan

  Mother, Night, Two

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• If you want to observe anger in its entirety, you will have to observe it alone, in the privacy of your room. Then alone can you see it in its fullness, for then there are no limitations. This is why I advise the pillow meditation to certain people, so that they can observe their anger fully.

  Rajneesh

  Anger, People, Meditation

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• When you left on Saturday, I felt a horrible void, I saw you everywhere, on the beach, in your room, in the garden: impossible for me to get used to the idea that you had left.

  Camille Claudel

  Beach, Garden, Ideas

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• Manuel will show you to your rooms - if you're lucky.

  John Cleese

  Funny, Sarcastic, Lucky

  John Cleese, Connie Booth (2001). “The Complete Fawlty Towers”

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