“Sometimes your place is not something you find, but something you have when you need it.”
Libba Bray (1964) American teen writer
Variant: When you’re in love, sometimes you have to swallow your pride, and sometimes you have to keep your pride. It’s a balance. But when the relationship is right, you find the balance.
Source: Something Borrowed
“Sometimes your place is not something you find, but something you have when you need it.”
Libba Bray (1964) American teen writer
Sarojini Naidu (1879–1949) Indian politician, governor of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh from 1947 to 1949
"But this must transcend even national borders and extend to humanity because if ideas be only for the prosperity of your country, it would end where it began, by being a prophet to your own community and very probably to your own self.
In another lecture in Madras now (Chennai) quoted in "Selected Letters, Gandhi -Sarojini Naidu Correspondence, Preface".
Poetry
“Stop all this weeping, swallow your pride
You will not die, it’s not poison”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, Highway 61 Revisited (1965), Tombstone Blues
“Sometimes you find your path, sometimes it finds you.”
Max Brooks book World War Z
Source: World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
Bono (1960) Irish rock musician, singer of U2
"Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own"
Lyrics, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (2004)