Quotes About Refuge

The entire universe is just a creation of thought. The play of the mind is just a creation of thought. Abandon the mind which is only thought. Take refuge in the changeless, O Rama, and surely find peace.

I nostri rifugi sono meno ambiziosi. Il sonno, giustamente detto riparatore, ne fa parte: ogni sera, spegnendo la luce, riguadagniamo l'utero e cerchiamo di rimediare alla catastrofe che ci ha espulso dal recinto divino.

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Psalm 46:1

Driven by fear, people run for security to mountains and forests, to sacred spots and shrines. But none of these can be a safe refuge, because they cannot free the mind from fear. —THE DHAMMAPADA

She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth.

The keep is the place where everyone holed up if the castle got invaded.

Como muchos después de ella, ante la incomodidad generada por Cumbres borrascosas, optó por refugiarse en el mito.

Now I know a refuge never grows From a chin in a hand in a thoughtful pose Gotta tend the earth if you want a rose

I quickly learned that a book carefully arranged before your face was a bulletproof shield, an asbestos wall, a cloak of invisibility. I learned to take refuge behind books, to become, as my mother and father called me, 'the absentminded professor-' They screamed at me, but I couldn't hear. I was reading. I was writing. I was safe.

So sind meine Berge nun mal: vereinen Heimatverbundenheit und Fernweh, sind Ort der Zuflucht und der Durchreise, ein Land, in dem Milch und Honig fließt, aber auch Blut. Weder Paradies noch Hölle. Fegefeuer.

The state of being frantic, overextended and distracted drives people away rather than drawing them in and inviting them to the refuge of your company.

My family and I were welcomed to Canada more than 40 years ago. We sought and obtained refuge in a liberal, modern, and secular society, and put the ugliness of genocidal religious hate and associated tribalism behind us - or so we thought.

For centuries, our country has welcomed people fleeing religious persecution, war and humanitarian crises to create a better future for themselves and their futures. With proper safeguards in place, we should offer refuge to some migrants with legitimate fears of persecution and violence.

If you look at the entrance halls of the skyscrapers of the 1920s and 1930s, they are very welcoming. They are public spaces with enormous amounts of display and marble and so on. They were havens off the street.

Safely welcoming those seeking refuge into our country is the right thing to do.

Before seeking refuge in London, Marx and Engels had taken part in a secret society called the "Communism League" which commissioned them to prepare the now famous (Rest assured that we didn't earn a penny from it…) COMMUNIST MANIFESTO

What is certainty but the refuge of those whose faith is not strong enough to entertain doubt.

He sought refuge in his books

The only safe place left is the dark.

Surely the heart is not a fitting place to house hatred. But where is its place? I don't know. That is one of the universe's Unknowns. It would seem that the God's truly delight in messing things up, for in not having created a particular spot to house hatred, they have provoked eternal chaos. Hatred us forever hunting down a refuge, poking it's nose where it shouldn't, taking over sites reserved for others, invariably forcing out love.

You have given me hope,and I curse you for it. I thought I had given up on such useless thoughts, but there it is, The last refuge of madmen and dreamers -Dr.Zhir, Star Trek:TNG:NightShade-

Cervantes's words, as "the shelter and refuge of Spain's desperadoes, the church of the lawless

safe haven of murderers, the native land and cover for cardsharps, the general lure for loose women

Religion has proved to be the refuge of so many scoundrels, one begins by doubting, and waits to be proven wrong. [The Language of Bees, chapter 30]