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Quotes About Sanctuary

When I left the zoo and I sent my chimpanzees to the sanctuary in Florida and imagined what my chimpanzees went through for 18 years, I'm ashamed of myself.
~ Joe Exotic
Conscience is a sacred sanctuary where God alone may enter as judge.
~ Felicite Robert de Lamennais
Friendship is the allay of our sorrows, the ease of our passions, the discharge of our oppression, the sanctuary of our calamities, the counselor of our doubts, the clarity of our minds, the emission of our thoughts, the exercise and improvement of what we dedicate.
~ Jeremy Taylor
I have a lovely bath tub that feels like my sanctuary. I fill it up with a lavender bubble bath, read a magazine and just chill out.
~ Lisa Haydon
As far as favorite tunes, 'You Know You Know' is one, and why it is important is difficult to say. The rhythmic cycle is very interesting and challenging to play, since it can be considered three bars of 4/4 or four bars of 3/4. 'The Dance of Maya' is another, and I have to mention 'Sanctuary.'
~ John McLaughlin
There's nothing I like better than going to my apartment, closing the door, cooking my little dinner for one and just tuning out. My apartment really is my haven. It's a nest where I go to heal.
~ Tim Gunn
I still feel like five years old every time I step on the court. It's my sanctuary...I want to maintain the fun at all times.
~ Kane Waselenchuk
My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul.
~ Michel de Montaigne
The most regrettable consequence of the discontinuity in the record of American rationalist dissent is that its moral lessons must be relearned in every generation. It is telling that even so voracious a reader as Garrison was beyond the midpoint of his life when he discovered his spiritual ancestor Thomas Paine. When your own mind is your own church, it can take a very long time for future generations to make their way to the sanctuary.
~ Susan Jacoby
times of trouble, libraries are sanctuaries. They become town squares and community centers—even blood-draw locations.
~ Susan Orlean
The library is an easy place to be when you have no place you need to go and a desire to be invisible.
~ Susan Orlean
In times of trouble, libraries are sanctuaries.
~ Susan Orlean
Hatha is the sanctuary for those suffering every type of pain. It is the foundation for those practicing every type of Yoga.
~ Svatmarama
Everyone needs to be able to have their own space in which to be themselves.
~ Emily Osment
I love my shed. It's my space and my mess - and I know where everything is.
~ Debi Gliori
Sacred spaces can be created in any environment.
~ Christy Turlington
I have no house but glad to have a home.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
This body is the house of God.
~ Kamand Kojouri
I am going to build a fortress of books.Will you come inside and live with me?
~ Kamand Kojouri
Meadow's Waltz...the meadow had becomeher sanctuary of spiritoffering an escape from a painno child should ever endureforeboding clouds began...
~ Muse, Enigmatic Evolution
She has saved me from everything that is not here.
~ Charles Bukowski
nothing like a hot bath in a cold world.
~ Charles Bukowski
A cemetery is a history of people -a perpetual record of yesterday and sanctuary of peace and quiet today. A cemetery exists because crcrv life is worth loving and rc nrcnrbcrirli-alm111s. - WILLIAM GLADSTONE, PRIME MINISTER OF ENGLAND, 1890
~ Chris Enss
Not a minister, he said, but I do like churches. The way it feels inside. It feels good when you just sit there, like you're in a forest and everything's really quiet, except there's still this sound you can't hear.
~ Tim O'Brien