Quotes About Sanctuary

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.

All gardeners live in beautiful places, because they make them so.

shouldn't even be going inside—it's for medicine cats and Clan leaders only

Everyone should cultivate a secret garden.

Memory and time, both immaterial, are rivers with no banks and constantly merging. Both escape our will, though we depend on them. Measured but measured by whom or by what? The one is inside, the other, outside or so it seems, but is that true? Time seems also buried deep in us but where? Memory is right here, in the head, but it can exit, abandon that head, leave it behind, disappear. Memory, a sanctuary of infinite patience.

In thinking of home, we have to move beyond considering home as a physical address. We have to start asking what home feels like. My

Before the Best Friends team got out on the water on their own, they spent several days ferrying already-rescued pets from the Jefferson Parish shelter, an official city facility, to the St. Francis Animal Sanctuary in Tylertown. It was clear to Troy that most of these animals had never seen the inside of a shelter before: "Their eyes seemed to be saying to me, 'Where am I? And where are my people?

There's nothing quite as good as folding up into a book and shutting the world outside.

bathroom—if you

Incredibly, Klaus Barbie, the Butcher of Lyon, finds sanctuary with the OSS.

If I want to be alone, some place I can write, I can read, I can pray, I can cry, I can do whatever I want - I go to the bathroom.

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.

I long for, not a writer's retreat - I can write in any situation - but a reader's retreat.

Behind our unremarkable front door waits the little world of our own making, a place of safety, exploration, comfort, and love.

Islands are emblematic not only of solitude but of refuge and sanctuary, the way a small boat is an island in rough seas.

Almost daily I return to the high country. Mountain is shoulder: I rub against it and step forward. The hinge squeals, an arm lifts, a rock wall slides, and for a moment the mountain's inner sanctum is revealed.

Libraries for me have always had a cathedral-like ambiance, a hushed sanctuary where learning is revered, where we the people elevate books and education to the level of the religious.

Have you ever stayed at the Four Seasons Hotel in Mumbai? I'd warmly recommend it. It's super luxurious, and right next door, there's a classic slum. So you can do a quick slum tour and get back to your sanctuary without any inconvenience but with some excellent snaps.

Where's the CNN town hall for sanctuary cities?

Being home is like a vacation to me, so I'm trying to get my home together.

Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be h

How much I can learn from a tree! The tree is my church, the tree is my temple, the tree is my mantra, the tree is my poem and my prayer.

To me, nature is sacred. Trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals.

No wonder the hills and groves were God's first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther off and dimmer seems the Lord himself.