“Always in these matters desiring rather to be taught than to teach.”
Gabriel Biel (1418–1495) German canon regular and scholar
Lectio 53.
Expositio Canonis Missae
“To me it is always the people rather than the places that matter.”
Source: Desert, Marsh and Mountain (1979), p. 122.
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Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist
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The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XXIV - The Life of the World to Come
“It is quality rather than quantity that matters.”
Non refert quam multos sed quam bonos habeas.
Seneca the Younger (-4–65 BC) Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist
Source: Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XLV: On sophistical argumentation, Line 1
Tim Hurson (1946) Creativity theorist, author and speaker
Think Better: An Innovator's Guide to Productive Thinking
“Home is not a place, but rather, the people you love”
Jodi Picoult (1966) Author
Source: Between the Lines
Cao Cao (155–220) Chinese warlord during the Eastern Han Dynasty
Statement to Chen Gong after falsely killing Lü Boshe and his household. Source: Romance of the Three Kingdoms. An adaptation of the Sanguo Zhi new 2010.
likely intentional misquote by the novel of the quote「宁我负人，毋人负我」above to add character to the story.
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Cheryl Strayed book Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Variant: Alone had always felt like an actual place to me, as if it weren't a state of being, but rather a room where I could retreat to be who I really was.
Source: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail