Quotes About Retreat

'Safe Harbor' is a state of mind... it's the place - in reality or metaphor - to which one goes in times of trouble or worry. It can be a friendship, marriage, church, garden, beach, poem, prayer, or song.

I have a place that I get to go to in the Bahamas. It's the only place that guarantees total anonymity and freedom.

My EP, 'Room 93,' was all about isolation - it was based on the idea of being in a hotel room and being totally alone with yourself or that other person.

put the car in "d" set the compass to "n" and get the "f"out of there

Seth Moulton (D-Mass.), a Marine who served four tours in Iraq, said, "The time to debate whether we stay in Afghanistan has passed, but there is still time to debate how we manage our retreat."

Shadow is ever besieged, for that is its nature. While darkness devours, and light steals. And so no one sees shadow ever retreat to hidden places, only to return in the wake of the war between dark and light.

The problem is the puer ever anticipates loss, disappointment, and suffering—which they foresee at the end of every experience, so they cut themselves off at the beginning, retreating almost at once in order to protect themselves.

Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big time vacation.

I'm going to be going to a secluded spot where no one can find me - NBC prime time.

I had 13 weeks off and I would pack up the family and drive to some mountain retreat where we could be together and fish all day. I loved it. I needed it.

She fled up the stairs to her room. But her room did not provide sanctuary enough. She needed to be quite alone. She needed to be somewhere where she could recollect herself and find some peace.

You cannot fail to enjoy yourself there and forget all your woes.

Here then I retreated, and lay down happy to have found a shelter, however miserable, from the inclemency of the season, and still more from the barbarity of man.

Such a man has a double existence: he may suffer misery, and be overwhelmed by disappointments; yet, when he has retired into himself, he will be like a celestial spirit that has a halo around him, within whose circles no grief or folly ventures.

take me where I may forget myself, my existence, and all the world.

should I feel kindness towards my enemies? No: from that moment I declared everlasting war against the species, and, more than all, against him who had formed me, and sent me forth to this insupportable misery. "The sun rose; I heard the voices of men, and knew that it was impossible to return to my retreat during that day.

El lugar fue mi retiro, y descansé feliz de haber hallado un refugio, por miserable que fuese, para protegerme de la inclemencia de la estación, y aún más de la barbarie del hombre.

Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are

Reading gives us someplace to go when we must stay where we are.

Longfellow smiled. A great part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, my dear Lowell, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Running away is pretty pathetic, but it's even worse getting caught.

She had a fondness for headphones and screens and ducking away.

what I'm like—except tonight." "Do you live here alone, like this, miles away from everything?" Wyatt pointed at the window. "I'm a couple of steps away from—everything." "What about people?" "I have guest rooms for the kind of people who come to see me on business. I want as many miles as possible between myself and all the other kinds.

If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order to survive, to protect some aspect of myself that was now in constant retreat.