Quotes About Dwelling Places

#1. He reminds us that true renunciation is mental, not necessarily physical. We are not required to disown our husbands or wives and turn our children out of doors. We must only try to realize that they are not really ours; to love them as dwelling-places of Brahman, not as mere individuals.

Swami Vivekananda

#2. Theologian Stephen Crites says sacred stories are like dwelling places - like booths or tabernacles. We don't tell these stories as much as we inhabit them.

Sarah Arthur

#3. The dwelling places of Europe have an air of inheritance, or cumulative possession - a hive occupied by generations of bees.

John Updike

#4. Therefore, the places in which we have experienced day dreaming reconstitute themselves in a new daydream, and it is because our memories of former dwelling-places are relived as day-dreams these dwelling-places of the past remain in us for all the time.

Gaston Bachelard

#5. The flow of the river is ceaseless; and its water is never the same.
The foam that floats in the pools
Now gathering, now vanishing
Never lasts long. So it is with man
and all his dwelling places on this earth.

Kamo No Chomei

#6. It's a dangerous mission. You could die out there. You could go on forever.

Tess Gallagher

#7. (The city is being) destroyed by thugs who in a very senseless way are trying to tear down what so many have fought for, tearing down businesses, tearing down or destroying property, things that we know will impact our community for years.

Stephanie Rawlings-Blake

#8. I should be so lucky to be a misfit. I aspire to be a misfit.

Claire Danes

#9. When you're in the closet, you feel like the sky will fall down if anyone finds out. A lot of the fear is self-generated.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

#10. I obviously read and adore traditional fiction. I teach traditional fiction; I also teach all kinds of not-so-traditional fiction.

Heidi Julavits

#11. Yoga is all about what you do, actually do, for yourself. Every competitor that is there is there for themselves.

Rajashree Choudhury

#12. The weak-minded choose to hate," she said. "It's the least painful thing to do, isn't it?

Yiyun Li

#13. Stressful jobs, loveless marriages, bad food-most people kill themselves slowly every day.

Arthur Nersesian

#14. We like to say that love is what unites us; however it's fear that we all share.

Lynn Weingarten

#15. This new subterfuge is, of course, calculated to deceive the simple and innocent into thinking that the matter is settled.

Martin Luther