Where You Are quotes
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"If you don't like who you are and where you are, don't worry about it because you're not stuck either with who you are or where you are. You can grow. You can change. You can be more than you are."
"You can't really know where you are going until you know where you have been."
"If you would truly bring peace to the world, identify with that place within you where you are Peace."
"You can get to where you want to be from wherever you are-but you must stop spending so much time noticing and talking about what you do not like about where you are."
"Authentic freedom is actually the freedom of knowing who you are, why you are here, your purpose in life and where you are going when you leave here."
"Your real "country" is where you're heading, not where you are."
"Decide where you are going and how you are to get there. Then make a start from where you now stand."
"Well, when one's lost, I suppose it's good advice to stay where you are until someone finds you."
"Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you, but you the place, and this only by doing that which is great and noble."
"Appear at points which the enemy must hasten to defend; march swiftly to places where you are not expected."
"The beauty of meditation is that you never know where you are, where you are going, what the end is."
"The place where you are now is vital. The path toward victory opens from where you stand."
"Whenever you are immersed in compulsive thinking, you are avoiding what is. You don't want to be where you are. Here, Now."
"Perhaps to lose a sense of where you are implies the danger of losing a sense of who you are."
"You become what you believe. You are where you are today in your life based on everything you have believed."
"To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not / You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy."
"You have to adhere to a philosophy that the life unexamined is not worth living, because otherwise you're just living from day to day and you don't have any real sense of yourself or where you are."
"The place to observe nature is where you are."
"This is what I love about novels - both reading them and writing them. They jump into the abyss to be with you where you are."
"I understand that change is frightening for people, especially if there's nothing to go to. It's best to stay where you are. I understand that."
