Place Quotes

“There are billions of people in this world that don’t believe or act exactly as we do. It is not our place to reject them, only accept them. Again, we don’t have to agree with everything they believe or do, but we do need to love and accept who they are.”
― Daniel Willey

“If God loves the world, might that not be proved in my own love for it? I prayed to know in my heart His love for the world, and this was my most prideful, foolish, and dangerous prayer. It was my step into the abyss. As soon as I prayed it, I knew that I would die. I knew the old wrong and the death that lay in the world. Just as a good man would not coerce the love of his wife, God does not coerce the love of His human creatures, not for Himself or for the world or for one another. To allow that love to exist fully and freely, He must allow it not to exist at all. His love is suffering. It is our freedom and His sorrow. To love the world as much even as I could love it would be suffering also, for I would fail. And yet all the good I know is in this, that a man might so love this world that it would break his heart.”
― Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow

“My home will never be a place, but a state of mind, which I find through my music.”
― Charlotte Eriksson

“They say: 'Seek wisdom while you have the strength, or you may lose the strength without gaining wisdom.”
― Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

“He said that I have to remember that even though I've changed a lot in here, I'm going back to a world that hasn't changed”
― Michael Thomas Ford, Suicide Notes

“He was lonely because he could imagine himself as anything but himself and as anywhere but where he was. His competitiveness and self-centeredness cut him off from any thought of shared life. He wanted to have more because he thought that having more would make him able to live more, and he was lonely because he never thought of the sources, the places, where he was going to get what he wanted to have, or of what his having it might cost others. It was loneliness that sometimes even he felt; you could see it. A self-praiser has got to accept a big loneliness in order to accept a little credit.”
― Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow

“I told the students that they were at the age when they might begin to choose places that would sustain them the rest of their lives, that places were more reliable than human beings, and often much longer-lasting, and I asked them where they felt at home.”
― Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby

“Never underestimate the significance of the little things done out of a large heart of love.”
― Elizabeth George

“The heart is the place where our life gets its direction.”
― Jim George, A Man After God's Own Heart: Devoting Your Life to What Really Matters

“You may say that I am just another outdated old man complaining about progress and the changes of time. But, you see, I have well considered that possibility myself, and am prepared o submit to correction by anybody who cares about a community, who can show me how the world is improved by that community's dying.”
― wendell berry, Jayber Crow

“It is a dangerous position to be in when you can't see, can't hear and won't listen...”
― Stella Payton

“Half asleep and half awake, I became lost in a deep span of my version of a perfect world. A place I wanted so desperately to reach, but would never find except from within the catacombs of my mind.
A place where the sun rose in the west and set in the east, where the mountains bowed to the wind like trees, and the rain sprinkled up from the ground below and onto the clouds above.
A place where no one hurt or lost, or felt any tinge of desperation.
A place where heartbeats were the only words needed, and music floated on the wind like dust.
A place where no place was home. Where a single person could be the only sustenance needed to survive.
A place where there were no yesterdays or todays, only tomorrows. A place for me to find solace, an escape from the real world I was forced to live in.”
― Katlyn Charlesworth, The Tomorrows

“Regardless of how beautiful the world could be; when you have no place in it, it is always ugly.”
― M.F. Moonzajer

“Therefore, the places in which we have experienced daydreaming reconstitute themselves in a new daydream, and it is because our memories of former dwelling-places are relived as day-dreams that these dwelling-places of the past remain in us for all time.”
― Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space

“It is not only the viability and variety of the seed that makes the harvest look plumpy. Sometimes, the soil must value the value of the seed. When the soil is not supportive, the seed's value becomes a waste!”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“At least the tears on my desk wipe away the dust that's covered this place”
― Andrew Boddie

“As you search for a person, place, or thing, be prepared to continue your quest, should the end result not yield your desired outcome. Enjoy the process and you’ll avoid disappointment…!”
― James A. Murphy, The Waves of Life Quotes and Daily Meditations

“I loved this place. You could prop up the bar and watch the world go by; no one made you talk or expected anything of you”
― Tim Relf, Stag

“Maybe it was this place, this strange, ramshackle, warm-hearted place, that had given his wife that air of laughing, welcoming life. Because here she bloomed. With him she had faded and he had faded with her. Yet here she was, his Jane again.
His hope. And he had never, ever wanted to hope again.”
― Amanda McCabe, The Runaway Countess

“It's hard to love a place that's outlawed smoking but finds it perfectly acceptable to serve raw fish in a bath of chocolate.”
― David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day

“If wisdom is a place, you should be the wisest one to live there..”
― Munia Khan

“It takes a lot of grace and maturity to simply forgive, but a lot of healing takes place when you do.”
― Elizabeth George

“Who you are in Christ is far more important and meaningful than whatever has taken place in your past.”
― Elizabeth George, A Woman's Walk with God

“A place to live is not a place to stay
A place to stay is not a living place”
― Munia Khan

“Your place in history depends on what you do for others, not what others do for you.”
― Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

“Apalachicola is an historic coastal town with many old homes of distinction and a small center of town that is invaded by the exit of traffic from a concrete bridge that soars ungraciously over Towhead Island, turns abruptly north, and deposits confused motorists in the middle of town on Market Street.”
― M.W.Gordon

“Oyster Bay, Florida,is a diminutive settlement plodding along the path to ghost town status.”
― M.W.Gordon

“Everybody has a place.”
― Trebor Healey, A Horse Named Sorrow

“All events and experiences are local, somewhere. And all human enhancements of events and experiences -- all the arts -- are regional in the sense that they derive from immediate relation to felt life.
It is this immediacy that distinguishes art. And paradoxically the more local the feeling in art, the more all people can share it; for that vivid encounter with the stuff of the world is our common ground.
Artists, knowing this mutual enrichment that extends everywhere, can act, and praise, and criticize, as insiders -- the means of art is the life of all people. And that life grows and improves by being shared. Hence, it is good to welcome any region you live in or come to, or think of, for that is where life happens to be, right where you are.”
― William Stafford

“The place you live has powers on your fate!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan