#Sanctuary Quotes

“Lovers find secret places inside this violent world where they make transactions with beauty.”

“I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I'll be okay. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me. So I have a special place for every library, in my heart of hearts.”

“Home is a refuge not only from the world, but a refuge from my worries, my troubles, my concerns. I like beautiful things around me. I like to be beautiful because it delights my eyes and my soul is lifted up.”

“Home is the place you can go when you're whipped.”

“Basketball is my refuge, my sanctuary. I go back to being a kid on the playground. When I get here, it's all good.”

“Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.”

“Where is your bliss station? You have to try to find it.”

“You must have a place to which you can go in your heart, your mind, or your house, almost every day, where you do not owe anyone and where no one owes you - a place that simply allows for the blossoming of something new and promising.”

“You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don't know what was in the newspapers that morning a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be.”

“The home is a tryst-the place where we retire and shut the world out.”