Quotes About Refuge

Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment.

We ought to be providing protective sanctuaries for the Kurdish rebels. That means finding some places where they can come and to which we will then be able to provide food and water and medical help.

As Tara walked down the corner past the vacant lot that once was the unofficial refuge for kids on the street in Halifax, she realized just how far they had both travelled from that dark end of the street, just how far they had travelled from the front steps of Hell's Hotel.

My last refuge, my books: simple pleasures, like finding wild onions by the side of the road, or requited love.

It's so easy to get caught up in the demands of life. And we all take refuge at times in routines and recliners and 'usual' anything!

A surprising number of teens I meet in rougher schools around the country find refuge in novels and creative writing. It's not always the usual suspects either, the high achievers.

Es la humanidad pura la que me da cobijo.

The home is the center of life - a refuge from the grind of work, pressure of school, menace of the streets, a place to be ourselves.

The city - as the theater of experience, the refuge, the hiding place - has, in turn, been replaced by an abstraction, the fast lane. In the fast lane, the passive observer reduces everything - streets, people, rock lyrics, headlines - to landscape. Every night holds magical promises of renewal. But burnout is inevitable, like some law of physics.

I don't know what I would've done without it. I really struggled in school with reading and writing. Art was my refuge - my way of speaking, of dealing with my own issues and connecting with the world.

En la casa? No es un lugar seguro para vivir

Till den som söker tillflykt hos en som är rädd och svag, nynnar jag en vaggsång mellan natt och dag

My last refuge, my books: simple pleasures, like finding wild onions by the side of a road, or requited love.

Books had been her means of escape; now they would be her refuge.

an avoidance of confrontation and a sustaining refuge in the comforts of family life.

an avoidance of confrontation and a sustaining refuge in the comforts of family life. The realization that everyone is in the same boat, under siege by bad government

I take refuge in the Buddha," that means I take refuge in the courage and the potential of fearlessness, of removing all the armor that covers this awakeness of mine. I am awake; I will spend my life taking this armor off. Nobody else can take it off because nobody else knows where all the little locks are, nobody else knows where it's sewed up tight, where it's going to take a lot of work to get that particular iron thread untied.

Taking refuge is the way that we begin cultivating the openness and the goodheartedness that allow us to be less and less dependent.

Taking refuge in the buddha means that you are willing to spend your life acknowledging or reconnecting with your awakeness, learning that every time you meet the dragon you take off more armor, particularly the armor that covers your heart.

Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.

I think art must be the place where you are protected from the logic of the outside world.

When art find no temple open, it takes refuge in the workshop.

London clubland divides itself between the St James's refuge for toffs, and the Conquest of Cool, for the arts and media.

I am thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets, the refuge of art. And this is the only immortality you and I may share, my Lolita.