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Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place. -- Margaret Drabble
I think for me, home needs to be a sanctuary. I need to feel like I've escaped the day when I get home. -- Bella Heathcote
Because my business life is so busy, my home is really my sanctuary. That is where I reflect and spend quality time with my girls. -- Rachel Roy
Remember, the entrance door to the sanctuary is inside you. -- Rumi
Do not look for a sanctuary in anyone except your self. -- Gautama Buddha
Our listening creates a sanctuary for the homeless parts within another person. -- Rachel Naomi Remen
Sex is the sacred song of the soul; Sex is the sanctuary of Self. -- Aleister Crowley
Be sanctuaries of respect for life, proclaiming the sacredness of every human life from conception to natural death -- Pope Francis
Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself -- Hermann Hesse
When the Mass is being celebrated, the sanctuary is filled with countless angels, who adore the Divine Victim immolated on the altar. -- Saint John Chrysostom
I have always felt that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats the last sanctuary of the terminally inept. -- Neil Gaiman
A man's heart may have a secret sanctuary where only one woman may enter, but it is full of little anterooms which are seldom vacant. -- Helen Rowland
Music is a place to take refuge. It's a sanctuary from mediocrity and boredom. It's innocent and it's a place you can lose yourself in thoughts, memories and intricacies. -- Lisa Gerrard
Libraries aren't in the real world, after all. They're places apart, sanctuaries of pure thought. In this way I can go on living on the moon for the rest of my life. -- Paul Auster
Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life. -- Hermann Hesse
God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, and the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in his arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos; he will set them above their betters. -- H. L. Mencken
A place of solitude offers a retreat from the opposing forces and diverse demands of living, an entry into a state of peace and unity. Mind and body can retire from confusion and conflict to a sanctuary of clarity and harmony -- Anthony Lawlor
We strain to listen to the ghosts and echoes of our inexpressibly wise past, and we have an obligation to maintain these places, to provide these sanctuaries, so that people may be in the presence of forces larger than those of the moment. -- Ken Burns
Stories are compasses and architecture, we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them, and to be without a story is to be lost in the vastness of a world that spreads in all directions like arctic tundra or sea ice. -- Rebecca Solnit
[Providences] often puzzle and entangle our thoughts, but bring them to the Word, and your duty will be quickly manifested. "Until I went into the sanctuary of God, then understood I their end" (Ps. 73:17). And not only their end, but his own duty, to be quiet in an afflicted condition and not envy their prosperity. -- John Flavel
Sanctuary is for lovers, not fighters, this season. -- Janet Morris
Sanctuary, home of the Howlers and stragglers of the Were universe. (Damien) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Civilizations fall because the people inside the Sanctuary throw open the gates. -- Bill Whittle
the Sanctuary was reserved for the rich and elite--those with fortunes, not soldiers of fortune. -- Drew Karpyshyn
What would killing the Elders result in?" "Panic? Fear? Three empty parking spaces in the Sanctuary? -- Derek Landy
Sanctuary cities are a lot like hitchhiking. And the abstract, it feels really good until you feel dead. -- Greg Gutfeld
Something awful is always going to happen, Arton. It's Sanctuary. You're a Stepson. Awful is a big part of your job. -- Janet Morris
If cities have souls, Sanctuary's was troubled long before Tempus got here, and will be troubled long after he and his are gone. -- Janet Morris
Save a life this Thanksgiving, and join me in starting a new tradition by adopting a turkey instead of eating one through Farm Sanctuary's Adopt-A-Turkey Project. -- Ellen DeGeneres
As I age I am grateful to find that a silence has begun to gather in me, coexisting with my tempers and my fears, unchanged by my joys or my pain. Sanctuary. Connected to the Silence everywhere. -- Rachel Naomi Remen
I don't get to do a lot of fight scenes on 'Sanctuary,' but I'm a trained fighter; I've been doing martial arts for years and, you know, I'm very active physically; I used to be a circus performer. -- Ryan Robbins
Our Animal Sanctuary initiative has many layers. We are aiming to create a place where abandoned and bullied creatures come together with bullied youth. We feel that bullies have leadership abilities, albeit these abilities are totally skewed and misdirected. -- Ian Somerhalder
One Divine Moment In The Sweet Sanctuary Of this shade We heard the birds The leaves in the breeze And waves as they played And in one divine moment We felt our hearts melt Suddenly we knew How nature Prayed -- silent lotus
The Sanctuary at Two Rivers offers a much needed escape or retreat from the fast paced, modern lifestyle we have all become accustomed to, with its exquisite beauty, serenity, and raw nature. Costa Rica was the perfect place for developing such an important project. -- Perrey Reeves
There is no sanctuary of virtue like home. -- Edward Everett
Do not let your ambitions become a sanctuary for your failures. -- Bryant H. McGill
I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life. -- Lady Gaga
Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully. -- Julie Burchill
If we could make our house a home, and then make it a sanctuary, I think we could truly find paradise on Earth. -- Alexandra Stoddard
Psychotherapy is a sanctuary; it is a battleground; it is a place I have been psychotic, neurotic, elated, confused, and despairing beyond belief. -- Kay Redfield Jamison
May we have communion with God in the secret of our hearts, and find Him to be to us as a little sanctuary. -- Charles Spurgeon
A charity donkey is where you sponsor a donkey in a sanctuary and give them three pounds a month to have some donkey nuts or something. -- Richard C. Armitage
My bedroom is my sanctuary. It's like a refuge, and it's where I do a fair amount of designing - at least conceptually, if not literally. -- Vera Wang
Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press. -- Hugo Black
There's an inherent thing in me where, if things are going too smooth, I'll sabotage the hell out of them, just to make the music more of a sanctuary. -- Daniel Johns
Each of us has an inner room where we can visit to be cleansed of fear-based thoughts and feelings. This room, the holy of holies, is a sanctuary of light. -- Marianne Williamson
I am a crazy online shopper. My husband always jokes, 'Another box arrived!' Airplanes used to be my sanctuary for reading books, but now I have to peruse Gilt sales. -- Lisa Ling
The undisturbed coastal plain is home to a wide variety of plants and animals and is the only wilderness sanctuary in North America that protects a complete range of the arctic ecosystem. -- Dan Lipinski
I bought my own home in 2004. It's a sanctuary for my family and a place of peace and calm. It's key for anyone committed to leadership and success to avoid the noise and focus on their best opportunities. -- Robin S. Sharma
In the future, IKEA will become an ever more spiritual sanctuary. In the future, your dream life will increasingly look like Google street view. Everyone will be feeling the same way as you, and there's some comfort to be found there. -- Douglas Coupland
I think Donald Trump taps into an anger that I hear every day. People are angry that a commonsense thing like securing the border or ending sanctuary cities is somehow considered extreme. It's not extreme; it's common sense. We need to secure the border. -- Carly Fiorina
I have this sensation of being in flight all the time, but being on stage is like creating a sanctuary in which you can completely lose yourself. The bits of your personality that you keep under wraps in ordinary life, you can let them run free. -- Florence Welch
The more brutal it gets in the working world, the more appealing the prospect of having someone at home creating a sanctuary becomes. Increasingly couples, particularly with children, are making that tough choice, with one or other partner electing to embrace domestic duties while the other brings home the cash. -- Mariella Frostrup
After spending time with the rescued turkeys at Farm Sanctuary's shelter and seeing how similar they are to my furry companion animals at home, I knew I needed to do everything in my power to protect these friendly and curious birds from the daily pain and suffering they endure on factory farms. -- Ginnifer Goodwin
We're here so that Afghanistan does not once again become a sanctuary for transnational extremists the way it was when al-Qaeda planned the 9/11 attacks in the Kandahar area, conducted the initial training for the attackers in training camps in Afghanistan before they moved on to Germany and then to U.S. flight schools. -- David Petraeus
I have never suffered under any delusion that saving the whales in the Antarctic sanctuary would be easy, but the one thing I am certain of is that I and my passionate crew of international volunteers will never quit defending life in the seas from poachers, no matter what consequences we must endure to do so. -- Paul Watson
The core of the person is what he or she loves, and that is bound up with what they worship - that insight recalibrates the radar for cultural analysis. The rituals and practices that form our loves spill out well beyond the sanctuary. Many secular liturgies are trying to get us to love some other kingdom and some other gods. -- Dallas Willard
Silence is the sanctuary of prudence. -- Baltasar Gracian
I take sanctuary in an honest mediocrity. -- Jean de la Bruyere
Love is the ultimate revelation, the final sanctuary. -- Toyohiko Kagawa
There is no sanctuary of virtue like a home. -- Edward Everett
Preserve, within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reverie. -- Ellen Glasgow
Everyone, in some small sacred sanctuary of the self, is nuts. -- Leo Rosten
I think that banning sanctuary cities should be upheld in court. -- Greg Abbott
Federal funding for cities who consider themselves sanctuary cities should be reduced. -- Mitt Romney
My mind is the only sanctuary that has not been stolen from me. -- Christopher Paolini
Worshipers never leave church...we carry our sanctuary with us wherever we go. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
I am sacred when you love me. I am your sanctuary, you are mine. -- Vanna Bonta
The heart of a good man is the sanctuary of God in this world. -- Suzanne Curchod
God tells us to make a sanctuary of our thoughts in which He can dwell. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
Art offers sanctuary to everyone willing to open their Hearts as well as their Eyes. -- Nikki Giovanni
Even when in the midst of disturbance, the stillness of the mind can offer sanctuary. -- Stephen Richards
Finding a sanctuary, a place apart from time, is not so different from finding a faith. -- Pico Iyer
When you're an actress you've got to keep your body as your sanctuary and your muscles. -- Paz de la Huerta
Old age is, so to speak, the sanctuary of ills: they all take refuge in it. -- Antiphanes
Oh! Duty is an icy shadow. It will freeze you. It cannot fill the heart's sanctuary. -- Augusta Jane Evans
In my prayers I never said I needed a home. I said I wanted a sanctuary. -- Mary Anne Radmacher
In the gentle evening freeze, by the whispering shady trees I will find sanctuary in the Lord. -- Van Morrison
The genius of art finds sanctuary among children and madmen to survive.That is who we are. -- Marilyn Manson
We need to fix Washington, D.C. and states need to fix their sanctuary policies. That's the problem. -- Russell Pearce
The first rule of Evernight is that any vampire who seeks sanctuary must be given a place." -Charity -- Claudia Gray
I will cancel every illegal Obamacare executive order. I will cancel all federal funding to sanctuary cities. Out. -- Donald Trump
Poetry absolves spirituality from the dividedness of religions and provides us with a sanctuary that excludes no one. -- Vanna Bonta
To find love I must enter into the sanctuary where it is hidden, which is the mystery of God. -- Thomas Merton
Satire has been a sanctuary historically monopolized by progressives, originally used as a discreet tool against Western religious fundamentalism. -- Maajid Nawaz
Meadow's Waltzthe meadow had becomeher sanctuary of spiritoffering an escape from a painno child should ever endureforeboding clouds began -- Muse
In business be as able as you can, but do not be cunning; cunning is the dark sanctuary of incapacity. -- Lord Chesterfield
Jesus is the sanctuary every time we gather with other believers. We need that truth to soak into our hearts. -- Lysa TerKeurst
As long as there is a Southern Ocean whale sanctuary, Sea Shepherd crew will continue to patrol and defend it. -- Paul Watson
Meadow's Waltz...the meadow had becomeher sanctuary of spiritoffering an escape from a painno child should ever endureforeboding clouds began... -- Muse
To me extremism is targeting endangered whales in a whale sanctuary in violation of a moratorium. That, to me, is extreme. -- Paul Watson
For Mantle, the Yankees' locker room was a sanctuary, a safe haven where he was understood, accepted and, when necessary, exonerated. -- Jane Leavy
Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die -- William Cowper
Music I discovered that night, was a sanctuary, a safe place to hide, a place where scars didn't matter, they didn't exist. -- Len Vlahos
Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary It is, perpetually, a dangerous place -- Margaret Drabble
have a mind so quiet, that you can hear doves whispering as they rest their wings in the rafters your silent sanctuary -- Kate Mullane Robertson
Basketball is my refuge, my sanctuary. I go back to being a kid on the playground. When I get here, it's all good. -- Kobe Bryant
My bedroom is my sanctuary. It's the only place in the house that has a beautiful lush shag rug, which is my favorite. -- Evangeline Lilly
Despair itself if it goes on long enough, can become a kind of sanctuary in which one settles down and feels at ease. -- Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
The most powerful State in the world, which up to now was relatively protected from terrorist violence, is no longer an inviolable sanctuary. -- Omar Bongo
May Thy Love shine forever on the sanctuary of my devotion. And may I be able to awaken Thy love in all hearts. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
In worship an increased power steals its way into the heart sanctuary, an increased compassion grows in the soul. To worship is to change. -- Richard J. Foster
You are going to hear how he [Donald Trump] is going to address the 11 million, and some other issues as well, including sanctuary cities. -- Kellyanne Conway
Home is a sanctuary for me and the place where I can relax. Everyone should have the right to a safe and secure home. -- Corinne Bailey Rae
She was my sacred angel that I could never violate. Reira was my sanctuary. I needed something solid like that in this dirty, disappointing world. -- Ai Yazawa
A mother's love is a sanctuary, Where our soul can find sweet rest, From the struggle and the tension, Of life's fast and futile quest. -- Helen Steiner Rice
In every heart there is a room, A sanctuary safe and strong, To heal the wounds from lovers past, Until a new one comes along -- Billy Joel
A church is in a bad way when it banishes laughter from the sanctuary and leaves it to the cabaret, the nightclub and the toastmasters. -- Helmut Thielicke
I think it's ridiculous. I'm very much opposed to sanctuary cities. They breed crime, there's a lot of problems. If we have to, we'll defund. -- Donald Trump
Things don't get tough in the studio. Sometimes things get tough outside the studio and going in the studio is a relief, a sanctuary, therapy. -- Mark Kostabi
The cemetery is my sense of comfort, my sanctuary in a world of darkness, the one piece of light that i have in my life. -- Jessica Sorensen
The high-ceilinged rooms, the little balconies, alcoves, nooks and angles all suggest sanctuary, escape, creature comfort. The reader, the scholar, the browser, the borrower is king. -- David McCord
Giving to others selflesly and anonymously, radiating light throughout the world and illuminating your own darkness, your virtue becomes a sanctuary for yourself and all beings. -- Laozi
A home is a kingdom of it's own in the midst of the world, a stronghold amid life's storms and stresses, a refuge, even a sanctuary. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The library is every child's lighthouse. It is every person's sanctuary. It is every town and county's fortress in the face of ignorance, intrusion and bad behavior. -- Amy Bloom
Marriage is to me apostasy, profanation of the sanctuary of my soul, violation of my manhood, sale of my birthright, shameful surrender, ignominious capitulation, acceptance of defeat. -- George Bernard Shaw
A laboratory of natural history is a sanctuary where nothing profane should be tolerated. I feel less agony at improprieties in churches than in a scientific laboratory. -- Louis Agassiz
Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press -- Hugo Black
God's mercy is a holy mercy, which knows how to pardon sin, not to protect it; it is a sanctuary for the penitent, not for the presumptuous. -- Edward Reynolds
I have met with many of the great parents who lost their children to sanctuary cities and open borders. So many people, so many, many people. So sad. -- Donald Trump

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