Center Quotes

“I don't judge people.
It blurs out the center of my attention,
my focus,
myself.”
― Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident], Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

“You can't get attention of one who focused on himself.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“I am still the center sister. But I see it differently now. There has to be a middle. Without it, nothing can truly be whole. Because it is not just the space between, but also what holds everything together.”
― Sarah Dessen, Just Listen

“From the moment of my birth, I lived with pain at the center of my life. My only purpose in life was to find a way to coexist with intense pain.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“His world looked like a storm. I was going to be its center.”
― Kiera Cass, Happily Ever After

“You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go. Don’t ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body.”
― Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“The self-esteem of western women is founded on physical being (body mass index, youth, beauty). This creates a tricky emphasis on image, but the internalized locus of self-worth saves lives. Western men are very different. In externalizing the source of their self-esteem, they surrender all emotional independence. (Conquest requires two parties, after all.) A man cannot feel like a man without a partner, corporation, team. Manhood is a game played on the terrain of opposites. It thus follows that male sense of self disintegrates when the Other is absent.”
― Antonella Gambotto-Burke, The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide

“Murder is a dream because lack is the center of both.”
― Kathy Acker, My Mother: Demonology

“How do we accomplish this matter of gathering life together in God? We must begin primarily by refocusing our attention keeping our minds and hearts directed toward God. The essence of the centered life is attention to God in all we think, say and do. It is the growing realization of His presence in our most down-to-earth living.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, God's Joyful Surprise: Finding Yourself Loved

“we need not avoid our active lives, but simply bring to them a new vision and shift of gravity. for in the center we are rooted in god's love. in such a place there is no need for striving and impatience and dashing about seeking approval.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, God's Joyful Surprise: Finding Yourself Loved

“Suddenly, and for the first time, he was at the center of his own life, living it and loving it.”
― Mary Balogh, A Secret Affair

“The Earth is cylindrical, three times as wide as it is deep, and only the upper part is inhabited. But this Earth is isolated in space, and the sky is a complete sphere in the center of which is located, unsupported, our cylinder, the Earth, situated at an equal distance from all the points of the sky.”
― Anaximander of Miletus

“Pure in heart means to be sing-hearted... to will one thing- God. All (Jesus)'s moments flowed from His single-heartedness, from His intimacy with God. That was His core. Christianity is full of paradoxes and this is one of the strangest. When we are centered in God alone, we are able to relate to more of life and the world, and find more meaning in them. In some way a centered life becomes wider and fuller. To form one's life around this single perspective enables us to deal with more problems, not fewer, embrace more of life, not less of it. One reason is that we're not so divided, overwhelmed or bogged down by trivia and confusion.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, God's Joyful Surprise: Finding Yourself Loved

“I was a black center in the middle of all the nature. I was nothing, but I could do anything.”
― James Franco

“Quick, nervy and jumpy -yet to the children she was as constant as a staff, a tree that can be counted on not to pull up its root and shift in the night. She was the tree that grew in the centre of their lives and in whose shade they lived.”
― Anita Desai, Clear Light of Day

“Where you stumble, there lies your treasure. The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for. The damned thing in the cave, that was so dreaded, has become the center.”
― Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

“[D]idn't Aristarchus and the Pythagoreans propose heliocentrism in ancient times? If only they had prevailed, we might have had Real Science millennia sooner. What was their evidence?

Well, you see, fire is nobler than earth and the center is a nobler position. So fire has to be in the center. QED.

There are many names for this sort of thinking, but "scientific" is not one of them.”
― Michael Flynn

“Rule #1 - Put God at the center of everything. Rule #2 – Repeat. Rule #3 – Repeat after repeating.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The crust of the Earth floats around its own axis, for the cosmos is not without magnetic directions.”
― Aristw

“Neutrality always swallows all things mighty. The path of least resistance ensures all forks in the road are made comfortable descents into a mediocre valley of oblivion, an oblivion where nothing of note happens, where the audacity of uncomfortable choice is checked by the rank vanilla stank of stagnant stasis. In God's heaven, taking a hard stance is the heinous act of a heretic. Abandon all autonomy ye who enter here. Days of remembrance are reserved only for those who take a stand.”
― Lil Low-Cu$$'t, The Swarm

“Transformations happen when the center of your life is to be a giver.”
― Richie Norton

“Collect yourself. Gather yourself. Center yourself.”
― Adrienne Posey

“Proficiency in martial arts is the practice of keeping centered and skillfully responsive under the direst of circumstances: the threat of physical harm.”
― Shannon Lee, Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee

“When work is at the center and home and family is on the fringe, your entire life can fall apart at the drop of a downsizing. Structure your life in such a way that home is at the center and work is on the fringe to protect you and your family.”
― Richie Norton

“If you are on the center then you are off balance.”
― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

“You've been going round and round—haven't you? Round and round! You didn't know you were going somewhere, but you were! Like a paper boat in a whirlpool—round and round! And now you've arrived at the center!”
― Richard Sala, The Chuckling Whatsit

“French parents don’t just think these separations are good for parents. They also genuinely believe that they’re important for kids, who must understand that their parents have their own pleasures. “Thus the child understands that he is not the center of the world, and this is essential for his development,” the French parenting guide Votre Enfant explains.”
― Pamela Druckerman, Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting

“I was the original Florida Power & Light manager of their DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center.”
― Steven Magee

“I have made my passions, creativity, and hobbies the center of my universe. I will continue to prioritize this regardless of the life phases I enter.”
― Robin S. Baker

“Self is the archetypal center of our psyche, the Archetype of Inner Order that brings peace and harmony to our parts congregating around it. Self is also the archetypal field of our heart, radiating intuitive wisdom and unconditional love. And above all, Self is the angelic aspect of our psyche, calling us to the highest manifestation of our individuated wholeness.”
― Aion Farvahar, Internal Family Systems (IFS) Tips and Practice Skills: An Unofficial Guidebook for IFS Therapists and Practitioners