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Dwelling-place and food are useful for life but give it no significance: the immediate goals of the housekeeper are only means, not true ends.

Dwelling-place and food are useful for life but give it no significance: the immediate goals of the housekeeper are only means, not true ends.

Simone de Beauvoir
Mean, Dwelling Place, Giving
Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage

I wonder about the trees. Why do we wish to bear Forever the noise of these More than another noise So close to our dwelling place?

Robert Frost
Music, Dwelling Place, Tree
Robert Frost (2012). “The Road Not Taken and Other Poems”, p.49, Courier Corporation

Asks the Possible of the Impossible, "Where is your dwelling-place?" "In the dreams of the Impotent," comes the answer.

Rabindranath Tagore
Dream, Dwelling Place, Answers
Rabindranath Tagore (2011). “The Jewel that is Best: Collected Brief Poems”, p.16, Penguin Books India

Solitude is the natural dwelling place of truth…It is there you will wrestle. It is there you will be tested by fire and by darkness.

Michael O'Brien
Fire, Dwelling Place, Darkness

Heaven and earth, all the emperors, kings, and princes of the world, could not raise a fit dwelling-place for God; yet, in a weak human soul, that keeps His Word, He willingly resides.

Martin Luther
Kings, Dwelling Place, Heaven
Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.24

Culture makes the whole world our dwelling place; our palace in which we take our ease and find ourselves at one with all things.

John Lancaster Spalding
Dwelling Place, Culture, Ease
John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

Only the Holy Spirit can purify the intellect, for unless a greater power comes and overthrows the despoiler, what he has taken captive will never be set free (cf. Lk. 11:21-22). In every way, therefore, and especially through peace of soul, we must make ourselves a dwelling-place for the Holy Spirit.

Diadochos of Photiki
Christian, Taken, Dwelling Place

Among archetypal images, the Sacred Tree is one of the most widely know symbols on Earth. There are few cultures in which the Sacred Tree does not figure: as an image of the cosmos, as a dwelling place of gods or spirits, as a medium of prophecy and knowledge, and as an agent of metamorphoses when the tree is transformed into human or divine form or when it bears a divine or human image as its fruit or flowers.

Christopher McDowell
Flower, Dwelling Place, Tree

The university is the archive of the Western mind, it's the keeper of the Western culture, ... the guardian of our heritage, the teacher of our teachers, ... the dwelling place of the free mind.

Adlai E. Stevenson
Teacher, Science, Dwelling Place

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