Yoko Ono Quotes

'Safe Harbor' is a state of mind... it's the place - in reality or metaphor - to which one goes in times of trouble or worry. It can be a friendship, marriage, church, garden, beach, poem, prayer, or song.

I am the reassurance that they have not changed. In an upside down world, with all the rules being rewritten as the game goes on and spectators invading the pitch, it is good to feel that some things and some people seem to stay just as they were.

I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather than the highs and the lows.

I like stability.

What I love about going home is that, if I turn my phone off or don't open my computer, nothing's changed. Obviously, the world has changed for me, but home looks and feels exactly the same.

Nothing will make a place feel unlike home like chaos.

An island of surety in a changing world.

Round and round the questions flew, until finally I found myself standing at the open door of a bookshop. It’s natural in times of great perplexity, I think, to seek out the familiar, and the high shelves and long rows of neatly lined-up spines were immensely reassuring. Amid the smell of ink and binding, the dusty motes in beams of strained sunlight, the embrace of warm, tranquil air, I felt that I could breathe more easily.

I'm happy that I have my family, and I'm happy that I had Virginia, where I grew up, to retreat to any time I felt overwhelmed. Whenever there were times when I felt like the rug was being pulled out from under me and I was floating in this crazy space, I would stop and go back to that neighborhood and realize nothing's changed, really.

I like predictability because I know what I'm getting into.

Of all the things a body loves, predictability is one of them.

I wanted to get that sense of peace and even boredom that comes with long familiarity.

I saw him... at peace in my armchair. I remember wishing he could stay in peace like that forever. I had a feeling of easing his burden with my strength.

Where there's tea there's hope.

I feel happy and secure when I'm on my bed with a good book... I forget everything which is terrible in our world.

Running was like the friend that never left. It was just always there.

I guess I crave stability.

I like consistency. If you've had a childhood like mine, you want some things you can rely on to stay the same.

You can have some stable things in life, and so long as you're not away from those things for too long, they can help keep you grounded.

They shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree, and none shall make them afraid.

Don’t worry. We have one at home just like him.

I've gotten to a place where I really am just settled. Really.

It always just feels good going back home. It feels like nothing has changed. Seeing my room, the views. It, like, grounds you.

I always miss any kind of constant, especially now that I'm a film-maker who travels all the time. I'm always tempted to go to Catholic churches, although I despise the religion. But you want to go there just because it's the one thing in your life that's never changed.

There's something about this place, about Madison and Wisconsin and the Midwest, that's really comforting, ... Malcolm in the Middle.