Top 100 Quotes About Your Place In The World
#1. He stood at the edge of town feeling very small, powerless. Night in the mountains could do that to you, reminding you of your place in the world and laughing at any sense of self-importance.
Michael Koryta
#2. One person can come along and change your life, and that being a misfit, as I was, doesn't mean you won't find friends and your place in the world.
Amy Hill Hearth
#3. Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live.
Mae Jemison
#4. If you have a sense of your place in the world, that's the best preparation for anything.
Casey Wilson
#5. Life is a journey- not only to see the world- to find yourself, your place in the world, and your happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#6. Maybe life is measured by the first time you question your place in the world and by the final answer you come up with.
Chris Dietzel
#7. Your home is within you, you carry your place in the world.
Kate Lord Brown
#8. You can have the platinum album, but when you still feel like you haven't quite found your place in the world - it kind of gives a crazy offset.
Kendrick Lamar
#9. Babyluv: If you need an anchor to hold your place in the world-not Boo'ya Moon but the one we shared, use the african. You know how to get it back. Kisses-at least a thousand, Scott
P.S. Everything the same. I love you.
Stephen King
#10. When you get older, you realize it's a lot less about your place in the world but your place in you. It's not how everyone views you, but how you view yourself
Natalie Portman
#11. Sometimes identity can be your salvation. It can be liberating to find your place in the world, but at some point, identity can hold you back.
Justin Simien
#12. Learn to be brave and adventurous because you'll never discover your place in the world, if you're too afraid to leave your own backyard.
Nina Guilbeau
#13. I think just because you're a mom, it doesn't negate - if anything, you're probably more enhanced - that you're a woman trying to find your place in the world.
Emma McLaughlin
#14. If you do not know your place in the world and the meaning of your life, you should know there is something to blame; and it is not the social system, or your intellect, but the way in which you have directed your intellect.
Leo Tolstoy
#15. To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world.
George Santayana
#16. You can keep waiting for somebody else to define you, or give you your place in the world, or you can decide that you're not just somebody's broken puppet anymore. Choose.
David Fury
#17. How wonderful to know your place in the world before you're even born.
Karen White
#18. What does it feel like? I ask myself. Like cold air in your lungs after too much warm air. Maybe this is how you feel when you find your place in the world.
Tarryn Fisher
#19. I come from a very critical culture. You know the Scots. They're always saying: 'Oh, no. It will never work. You'll never amount to anything. You've got to know your place in the world.'
Craig Ferguson
#20. When you're a young actor, and you're really fighting to have your place in the world - for me, anyway - it took a mental focus and energy and striving. It took a long time. And it was my whole life.
Mark Ruffalo
#21. You do find a lot of your time in the West kind of searching for your place in the world - your voice, your identity, like, who am I? Like, what is my reason for being here, you know? And in that same way who am I to be partnered with, you know?
Aasif Mandvi
#22. The orphan in children's literature allows the child protagonist to move the story forward themselves. I think that, however happy a family, every intelligent child thinks: 'How did I come to be born to these parents?' - it is about finding your place in the world.
Brian Selznick
#23. I want you to understand how people see you, and how your actions matter ... You must learn that your place in the world is important. You've been given the power to affect people, just as we all have, and it's important
no, vital
that you do the right thing with it.
Paige Harbison
#24. As it so happens, I like your mouth."
"It doesn't
"
"Challenge me?" He set the bottle down and moved to the end of the bed. "An outspoken woman makes the world a livable place. You have fire in you, and I would never put that out.
Dannika Dark
#25. My heart is so small it's almost invisible. How can You place such big sorrows in it? "Look," He answered, "your eyes are even smaller, yet they behold the world.
Rumi
#26. Evil exists in this world because it has its place. For had you never sat blindly through the darkness of night, your eyes wouldn't turn toward the sunrise to appreciate its warmth and illumination.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#27. The World's a dangerous place. It doesn't matter where you are, your'e always at risk of being approached by people who have no scruples about attacking, destroying, killing. And we never learn how to defend ourselves. We're all in the hands of those powerful than us.
Paulo Coelho
#28. Everybody is corrupted by hotel rooms. You can't help it. It's the only place in the world where you walk in and the first think you do is steal everything before you take your coat off.
Dylan Moran
#29. It's just really hard to remember your hometown isn't the only place in the world
Katie Cotugno
#30. It's hard enough being alive, trying to survive in the world and find your place in it, to do the things you need to do to get by, without wondering if the thing you just did, whatever it was, was worth someone having.
Neil Gaiman
#31. Within everyone there is a place, hidden deep inside, which yearns for 'that' kiss. You know the one I mean, the one that sends your senses reeling, leaving you breathless and when you break away, and finally regain your senses, you know you will never see the world in the same light...
Virginia Alison
#32. Human skin is porous; the world flows through you. Your senses are large pores that let the world in. By being attuned to the wisdom of your senses, you will never become an exile in your own life, an outsider lost in an external spiritual place that your will and intellect, have constructed.
John O'Donohue
#33. A young man's ambition is to get along in the world and make a place for himself-half your life goes that way, till you're 45 or 50. Then, if you're lucky, you make terms with life, you get released.
Robert Penn Warren
#34. Every teenager in the world feels like that, feels broken or out of place, different somehow, royalty mistakenly born into a family of peasants. The difference in your case is that it's true.
Cassandra Clare
#35. I got you here, like I promised I would. I wish ... I wish I could've seen your Eden, but this place isn't for me. It never was. I have to find my own place in the world."
Bending down, I brushed my lips to his. "Goodbye, Ezekiel,
Julie Kagawa
#36. The worst feeling in the world is the feeling of your heart breaking from the person who mend it in the first place.
Me
#37. When you fall, feel the pain. And then stand up. You were born for victory. And failure has no place in your world.
Robin Sharma
#38. The world is a wonderful place. What goes around comes around. Please help others to the best of your ability. In the long run you may be helping yourself only.
Pravin Agarwal
#39. If you don't have any money, it is still a simple process to create in your feelings an acknowledgement that what you do have is abundance and the world is, in fact an abundant place to be.
Stuart Wilde
#40. For people living in fear, moderation just doesn't cut it. And most of the people in my world are fearful. It's like keeping a piggy bank when you never empty your wallet in the first place.
Project Itoh
#41. The moon sets. The next day you wake up in sheets that smell of fabric conditioner. There is CNN. There is coffee. There is weather. There is your human face in the mirror. The world, you discover, is a place of appalling continuity.
Glen Duncan
#42. It liberates the vandal to travel-you never saw a bigoted, opinionated, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-conceited, almighty mean man in your life but he had stuck in one place since he was born and thought God made the world and dyspepsia and bile for his especial comfort and satisfaction.
Mark Twain
#43. With more money, you can take better care of yourself and leverage your passion and higher purpose in the world. Earn more, so you can give more of yourself and put your money to work for causes that make our world a better place.
John Assaraf
#44. Make time for prayer and reflection; try to understand your value as a man on earth but see, too, your proper place in the scheme of things. It may sound funny to say this, but I have come to see that we are all far more important and less important than we think.
Elizabeth Berg
#45. Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh & exciting - over & over announcing your place in the family of things.
Mary Oliver
#46. Heaven is huge. It's a world. It's not a flat place in the clouds with billowing fabric blowing around and baby angels sitting on clouds, dropping grapes in your mouth.
Paul Silway
#48. Claim your place in the sun and go forward into the light. The tools are there; the path is known; you simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead, and get with the programme of a living world and a re-empowerment of the imagination.
Terence McKenna
#49. have liked for him to say my name again, though. You know how it is when someone says your name really well, like it means something that makes the world a better place. In Louis Chen's case, he sometimes says my name as if it were a lesser-known word for bacon.
Helen Oyeyemi
#50. You understand your place in it, and you feel an incredible love for everyone and everything, and you're just sublimely happy, and then you're suddenly jolted back to reality, and you've got to deal with the world as it is
Larkin Grimm
#51. I thought of you with your hair silver as snow all through that cold, slow journey from Sirle. I felt you troubled deep within me, and there was no other place in the world I would rather have been than in the cold night riding to you. When you opened your gates to me, I was home.
Patricia A. McKillip
#52. And if you ever feel yourself losing your way again,Cooper,and find that you just can't get your shit together,just reach out and love someone.Love is the most adult action anyone can ever carry out in this emotionally-stunted world,and once you love,the rest will fall into place.It has to.
Seth King
#53. Every person in the world has to figure out what the right place for them is. It's okay to be afraid, as long as you don't allow the fear to take over your life.
Leigh Hershkovich
#54. If you grow up in a place, and you're small, even if the place is itself also small, it's huge to you. It's what's out there: it's the world outside of your door.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#55. Where your going is the only place in the world where the geese chase you!
Ian Malcolm
#56. Appeal to all scholars of stupidity in the world. Come to Italy, this country has the highest rate of morons of the universe, especially among political, bureaucratic, judicial, religious, intellectual, artistic, and mass media members, so it is the best place to develop your own field research.
William C. Brown
#57. But what was I but a scared child lost in a strange world? How could I replace all that been lost? Where was my place in the world?
Patrick Carman
#58. Your long-term happiness and fulfillment depend on your ability to fulfill your soul's unique purpose and to fill the place in the world that only you can fill, making the contribution that only you can make.
Rod Stryker
#59. New York was the toughest place in the world if you couldn't afford your rent. On the other hand, if you could afford not only your own rent but the rent of a thousand other people, New York was the greatest city in the universe.
Kami Garcia
#60. There is always something good and unique in the life of every woman so put those talents and wisdom to good use today, by so doing you will make your world a better place than you met it.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#61. My main objective in writing is to open the minds of my readers, to say 'the world can be a wonderful place - its possibilities are open to you and your imagination'.
Gary Crew
#62. As you go through your list of things to do for the day, make sure to remind yourself that you are a cool, hot, unique and wonderful human being, as loving as you are lovable, and that your place in this world makes many, many, many people smile. In short, you rock!
Scott Stabile
#63. Don't be in a hurry about finding your work in the world for yourself - you are not old enough to judge for yourself yet; but just look about you in the place you find yourself in, and try to make things a little better and honester there.
Thomas Hughes
#64. Concentrate your narrative energy on the point of change. This is especially important for historical fiction. When your character is new to a place, or things alter around them, that's the point to step back and fill in the details of their world.
Hilary Mantel
#65. Back in the day, when I started, you were still allowed to make mistakes. You got to make your mistakes in public, in a way. I think the world was a more forgiving place when I started my career, in the sense that we got time and space to develop as a writer.
Val McDermid
#66. Put away your worries, the world is a good and perfect place. It is in fact very easy.
Douglas Adams
#67. You create your own life by how you see the world and your place in it;
Ken Robinson
#68. So forget this cruel world
Where I belong
I'll just sit and wait
And sing my song.
And if one day you should see me in the crowd
Lend a hand and lift me
To your place in the cloud.
Nick Drake
#69. Evelyn Waugh: How do you get your main pleasure in life, Sir William?
Sir William Beveridge: I get mine trying to leave the world a better place than I found it.
Waugh: I get mine spreading alarm and despondency and I get more satisfaction than you do.
Evelyn Waugh
#70. Finding your place as an artist is the hardest thing. You come out of college with what feels like a Mickey Mouse degree that qualifies you for nothing in the real world.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
#71. Doing the things you hate is living in a world of sin. Hell is staying in the place Jesus saved you from. That is, to live on your own, without God.
J.R. Rim
#72. You move your life across the country and make a commitment to a place, and to a genre, and then you realize that neither the place nor the genre might be what you thought they were going to be, or that the world you thought you were going to find in school doesn't actually exist.
John D'Agata
#73. If your motives aren't clean, money itself becomes evil. But When we don't have money enough evil, the world tells us we're losers. So what determines our place in society is not how much kindness is in our hearts but how much evil is in our wallet.
Todd McFarlane
#74. The transformation of the world takes place in your heart.
Bryant McGill
#75. The world is a huge place. How will you know where you fit in unless you explore beyond your comfort zone?
Katie McGarry
#76. Then I reached down into myself and managed to say, 'you should celebrate, your birthday should be celebrated, because the world's a better place with you in it.' May you continue to pile on the years, but with more pleasure from now on.
Helen Simpson
#77. America was the worst place in the world in which to fail, fall sick, get old or die, because then your problems had crystallised into the unforgivable sin. Failure.
Evelyn Anthony
#78. You can grow grapes in almost any part of the world. You just have to develop your palate enough to realize wine is an expression of the place where you make it. You don't have to take over the world; just be an artist and express your area.
Maynard James Keenan
#79. Do you still think the world is vast? That if there is a conflagration in one place it does not have a bearing on another, and that you can sit it out in peace on your veranda admiring your absurd petunias?
Anna Politkovskaya
#80. There is enormous pressure on you to take a place in the story your culture is enacting in the world - any place at all.
Daniel Quinn
#81. The most sacred place in the world is your mind. Guard it ferociously.
Rick Beneteau
#82. I remind mothers everywhere of the sanctity of your calling. No other can adequately take your place. No responsibility is greater, no obligation more binding than that you rear in love and peace and integrity those whom you have brought into the world.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#83. No such thing as the world becoming an easy place to save your soul in.
John Keats
#84. I loved you then. I love you now. I'll love you tomorrow. And if you walk away from me, not one damn woman in the world will ever take your place. No one ever has. I had to learn, Dallas. It took some time. Please, just let go, forgive me, and let me love you.
Kate Stewart
#85. We always felt divine in this place, tasting a desired view of the world, knowing a voracious appetite for the love that dare not speak its name, my soul sewn to your soul. Our fortunate embroidery.
Lisa O'Donnell
#86. Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you're forced back on your own imagination.
Stephen King
#87. All you decent, well-meaning gentlemen, let me ask you, have you any idea what sort of place the world is becoming all around you? The days when you could act out of your noble instincts are over. Except of course, you here in Europe don't yet seem to know it.
Kazuo Ishiguro
#88. Hollywood is probably the most active centre of film-making in the world, but it's also a very difficult place in which to find your voice ... It was also a far more civilised industry in Ireland.
Lenny Abrahamson
#89. Some people aren't just people, but a place - a whole world. Sometimes you find someone you could live in for the rest of your life.
Caitlin Moran
#90. Peace dies when the framework is ripped apart. When there is no longer a place that is yours in the world. When you know no longer where your friend is to be found.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#91. One's lover is one's partner in observing and understanding the world. Marriage is a place where joint narratives are composed. If the lover is a liar then all your joint observations are unreliable. You will have to start all over again.
Philippa Gregory
#92. [Optimism] is not about providing a recipe for self-deception. The world can be a horrible, cruel place, and at the same time it can be wonderful and abundant. These are both truths. There is not a halfway point; there is only choosing which truth to put in your personal foreground.
Sonja Lyubomirsky
#93. As a senior at Princeton, I felt like the whole world was open to me. In our country, that's not a given. We aspire to be a place of equal opportunity, and yet where you're born determines your prospects.
Wendy Kopp
#94. Put a little love in your heart, and the world will be a better place.
Jackie DeShannon
#95. Life is not about changing the external circumstances, to please your internal world, rather life is to change your internal circumstances so that you can accept, whatever takes place in the external world.
Roshan Sharma
#96. To shut your eyes is to guess nothing of blindness. Beneath your world of skies and faces and buildings exists a rawer and older world, a place where surface planes disintegrate and sounds ribbon in shoals through the air.
Anthony Doerr
#97. God save you, my brethren, with all your -isms and schisms! I am a citizen of the world, and a man of Weimer. I have established myself by culture in this choice society; and if anyone knows a better place, let him go to it.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#98. A child is your legacy. What better thing can you do in life than put a really good person in the world who's going to make it a better place?
Alexis Stewart
#99. You matter because you are you and there is no other person in this world who could ever take your place.
Heather Wolf
#100. The world is such a big place; staying in one town your whole life, is like never leaving your house.
Chris Geiger
