Where You Are Quotes (page 12)

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• success
• goals
• achievement

Success is about enjoying what you have and where you are, while pursuing achievable goals. Bo Bennett

• goals
• bridge
• problem

Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach. Earl Nightingale

• best
• kindness
• be kind

Do the best that you can in the place where you are, and be kind. Scott Nearing

• thinking
• lost
• doctor

I think that I had better go, Holmes."Not a bit, doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my Boswell. Arthur Conan Doyle

• change
• die
• end

Dying doesn't end anything - it just changes where you are Charles de Lint

• training
• stands
• place

Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train. Morihei Ueshiba

• love
• value
• society

In a society where you are taught to love everything, what value does that place on love? Marilyn Manson

• country
• wonder
• thinking

I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Bill Bryson

• god
• thoughts
• favorite

I thought about one of my favorite Sufi poems, which says that God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly around the spot where you are standing right now. I was never not coming here. This was never not going to happen. Elizabeth Gilbert

• green
• difficult
• greening

Going to Walden is not so easy a thing As a green visit. It is the slow and difficult Trick of living, and finding it where you are. Mary Oliver

• love
• writing
• being love

To know that one does not write for the other, to know that these things I am going to write will never cause me to be loved by the one I love (the other), to know that writing compensates for nothing, sublimates nothing, that it is precisely there where you are not--this is the beginning of writing. Roland Barthes

• than
• heartbeat
• heartbeats

The only place that I wanna be is where you are, cause any more than a heartbeat away is just too far. Keith Urban

• walking
• wanting
• lively

my feet will want to walk to where you are sleepingbut. I shall go on living. Pablo Neruda

• hand
• busy
• business

Now, Bill, sit where you are," said the beggar. "If I can't see, I can hear a finger stirring. Business is business. Hold out your right hand. Boy, take his right hand by the wrist and bring it near my right."We both obeyed him to the letter, and I saw him pass something from the hollow of the hand that held his stick into the palm of the captain's, which closed upon it instantly. Robert Louis Stevenson

• reading
• book
• rough

GOING TO WALDENIt isn't very far as highways lie. I might be back by nightfall, having seen. The rough pines, and the stones, and the clear water. Friends argue that I might be wiser for it. They do not hear that far-off Yankee whisper: How dull we grow from hurrying here and there! Many have gone, and think me half a fool. To miss a day away in the cool country. Maybe. But in a book I read and cherish, Going to Walden is not so easy a thing. As a green visit. It is the slow and difficult.... Mary Oliver