Quotes About Retreat

Whenever I'm out, I have a bit of a yearning to be in my house, to be able to shut the door on the world.

I stay home. It's the best place to be alone. There is hardly any walk-through traffic.

Writing is an amazing place to hide, to go into the rabbit hole, and pull the trap door down over your head.

A corner is important. It provides privacy and an anchor and lets you exist independently of the room.

The Germans evacuated Naples on October 1, 1943. During an Allied raid the previous September, hundreds of citizens had walked away and begun living in the caves outside the city. The Germans in their retreat bombed the entrance to the caves, forcing the citizens to stay underground. A typhus epidemic broke out. In the harbour scuttled ships were freshly mined underwater.

a cross between a spa/retreat and a gym, where people can experience psychedelics

Katherine MacLean, the former Hopkins researcher who wrote the landmark paper on openness, hopes someday to establish a "psychedelic hospice," a retreat center somewhere out in nature where not only the dying but their loved ones can use psychedelics to help them let go—the patient and the loved ones both.

And now, dear sister, I must leave this house or the retreating army will make me a prisoner in it by filling up the road I am directed to take.

All my work, really, is based on my brothers and sisters. I had so many adventures with them and a big part of the work is to recreate those. It's easy for me to be around a lot of people, because I can retreat. I can watch everything.

To escape and sit quietly on the beach - that's my idea of paradise.

At times when I am myself sitting at a retreat, and at the end I get into my car to drive away, I watch my hand move forward to turn on the radio. When I can be mindful, I notice the fact that I actually don't want in that moment to listen to the news or hear some music.

The principal means of acquiring an ardent love of Christ are mental prayer, Communion, mortification, retirement.

On gray days, when it's snowing or raining, I think you should be able to call up a judge and take an oath that you'll just read a good book all day, and he'd allow you to stay home.

AÈ™ vrea s? m? retrag într-o gutuie. Ar mirosi frumos acolo. ?i, pe urm?, acolo aÈ™ fi liniÈ™tit.

a quiet large house with no interruptions, phone, or visitors;

The fog surrounding the boy retreated when Eli stopped not ten feet from him.

I am running away but I prefer to call it a strategic retreat.

rusticating.

After all, people previously invoked God to explain all sorts of natural phenomena we later explained, and each time God had to retreat further back into the unknown. Today God is often found retreating to lighting the blue touch-paper that started the universe going or fine-tuning its fundamental forces. Such a God is fast running out of places to refuge.

She was backing away from him now. Don't go, was his first panicked thought. Followed by: Hurry up.

Parecía especializarse en causas perdidas. Perderlas primero y después largarse atrás como un loco.

Los libros van siendo el único lugar de la casa donde todavía se puede estar tranquilo.

Pedacinho por pedacinho, desliguei-a. Vi luzes se apagando uma após a outra. Observei o espaço Cansino retroceder. Primeiro sumiram as galáxias, logo em seguida as estrelas, e então: trevas, somente o fundo das minhas pálpebras.

Why fight with an enemy who flees way at the mere twang of our bow