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Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion...

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A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

There was no desire in him for a state or condition, no picture in his mind of the thing to be when ...

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John SteinbeckCup of Gold: A Life of Sir Henry Morgan

...many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased. I remember a man in Sali...

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John SteinbeckTravels with Charley: In Search of America

What I am mourning is perhaps not worth saving, but I regret its loss nevertheless.

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John SteinbeckTravels with Charley: In Search of America

...people don’t take trips—trips take people.

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John SteinbeckTravels with Charley: In Search of America

Curious how a place unvisited can take such hold on the mind so that the very name sets up a ringing...

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John SteinbeckTravels with Charley: In Search of America

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think youcontrol it.

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John SteinbeckTravels with Charley: In Search of America

You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are.

The sea is only the embodiment of asupernatural and wonderful existence.It is nothing but love and e...

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It was a fine feeling indeed to be standing up there like that, with the sound of summer all around ...

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The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey ...

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It's funny, leaving a place, ain't it?" he said. "You never do know when you'll get back.

I think it's my adventure, my trip, my journey, and I guess my attitude is, let the chips fall where...

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The journey is the treasure.

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Lloyd AlexanderThe Golden Dream of Carlo Chuchio

It's hard to leave the only place you've known.

Go, " he said. "This is your journey, your battle. Be brave. Find your gift. Use it to save what you...

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A journey is time suspended.

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Louis L'AmourEducation of a Wandering Man

Our life is a journey, through winter and night, We look for our way, in a sky without light. (Song ...

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Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

We don't receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for u...

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You learn to write by reading and writing, writing and reading. As a craft it's acquired through the...

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If, years later, I do use the slit detector to observe which way the electron went, it will mean tha...

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Marcus du SautoyThe Great Unknown: Seven Journeys to the Frontiers of Science

Betsy dreamed about going away from Deep Valley, but she didn't for a moment suspect that around a b...

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Wouldn't take nothing for my journey now.

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Maya AngelouWouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

I do not start with a full knowledge of the facts; the whole attraction of writing history is to edu...

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Diyar-e-Ishq Mein Apna Maqam Paida Kar,Naya Zamana, Naye Subah-o-Sham Paida Kar;Khuda Agar Dil-e-Fit...

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Khuda tujhe kisi toofaan se aashna karde,Ke tere behr ki maujon men iztiraab naheenMay God grant you...

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Muhammad IqbalZarb-e-Kaleem: Armagan-e-Hijaz

Since we launched the original 'Pop Idol' in England, I've remained close with Simon Fuller. Working...

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With the passage of days in this godly isolation [desert], my heart grew calm. It seemed to fill wit...

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A verbal trap; after the end there is nothing, since if there were something, the end would not be t...

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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

Hope, like the gleaming taper’s light, adorns and cheers our way; and still, as darker grows the nig...

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When you walk on the face of a world, then forgiveness comes.

The point isn't to win the game. The point is to play a beautiful game. (paraphrased)

Journey with me to a true commitment to our environment. Journey with me to the serenity of leaving ...

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Men dream more about coming home than about leaving.

Then we got into a labyrinth, and, when we thought we were at the end,came out again at the beginnin...

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In the Church, and in the journey of faith, women have had and still have a special role in opening ...

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Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right.

There is a wide world out there, full of pain, but filled with joy as well. The former keeps you on ...

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Of all the crowns that Bruenor had worn or would, none was more important than that of Father.

When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. It's a journey towards simplicity, tow...

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Even the juncture in history and the zeitgeist we live in is something we choose, setting the scene ...

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The things that come to us easily, our propensities, are carried on a deep subconscious level into o...

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Hip-hop...has been the proverbial key that’s opened the door for me to roam this breathtaking planet...

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Raquel CepedaBird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

This thing I am feeling, I’m almost certain, is the closest I’ll ever come to standing somewhere in ...

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Raquel CepedaBird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

To me, travel is more valuable than any stupid piece of bling money can buy.

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Raquel CepedaBird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

When we illuminate the road back to our ancestors, they have a way of reaching out, of manifesting t...

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Raquel CepedaBird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

Individually, every grain of sand brushing against my hands represents a story, an experience, and a...

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Raquel CepedaBird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

Transformation is a process, and as life happens there are tons of ups and downs. It's a journey of ...

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Phædrus wrote a letter from India about a pilgrimage to holy Mount Kailas, the source of the Ganges ...

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Robert M. PirsigZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

The future was becoming past, everything vanished into the void, and reaching back to grasp for some...

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But the artist began to have misgivings as the wall underwent its transformation. Bigger than any pa...

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It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new r...

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As a boy, reading was my religion. It helped me to discover my soul. Later, writing helped me to rec...

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Ruskin BondThe Lamp is Lit: Leaves from a Journal

Among the great struggles of man-good/evil, reason/unreason, etc.-there is also this mighty conflict...

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Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

A journey into space is the greatest adventure I can imagine.

From my earliest youth, I have known that while one is obliged to plan with care the stages of one's...

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A journey is a dismal thing when there can be no homecoming.

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Stanisław LemThe Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy

Memory is the basis of every journey.

It's in The Lord of the Rings, I think, where one of the characters says that "way leads on to way";...

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So we found the end of our journey.So we stood, alive in the river of light,Among the creatures of l...

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The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which ...

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Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path .. A thing whic...

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The geographical pilgrimage is the symbolic acting out an inner journey. The inner journey is the in...

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A 'Magik' session is a journey through different stages of emotions and the 'Search for Sunrise' is ...

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I learnt a lot in government, and I've learnt a lot since leaving government. The kind of journey of...

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I think everyone understands grief, the journey it takes us on, whether it's the death of a loved on...

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Sometimes people are very predictable: they want a kitten in June, for example, and come the first o...

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It's not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful plac...

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A fantasy is a journey. It is a journey into the subconscious mind, just as psychoanalysis is. Like ...

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The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only...

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It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.

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Ursula K. Le GuinThe Left Hand of Darkness

Success is about dedication. You may not be where you want to be or do what you want to do when you'...

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I have an idea that some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid certain su...

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The way through the worldIs more difficult to find than the way beyond it.

Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you.You must travel it by yourself.It is not far. It...

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I tramp the perpetual journeyMy signs are a rain-proof coat, good shoes, and a staff cut from the wo...

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If you could do it, I suppose, it would be a good idea to live your life in a straight line - starti...

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There comes . . . a longing never to travel again except on foot.

Until modern times, we focused a great deal of the best of our thought upon rituals of return to the...

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Wendell BerryThe Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

Darker and darker, he said; farther and farther yet. Death takes the good, the beautiful, and the yo...

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Sitting full in the moment, I practiced on the god-awful difficulty of just paying attention. It's a...

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Israel is no longer a people that dwells alone, and has to join the global journey toward peace, rec...

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In my own shire, if I was sadHomely comforters I had:The earth, because my heart was sore,Sorrowed f...

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The journey that I have undertaken, meeting people from all walks of life and learning from them, ha...

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I do think that travel can be part of a journey of inner maturation, but you've got to do it right.

Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.

Life may try to knock you down but be persistent with your passions - cultivate grit, resilience, te...

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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They ar...

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Anna QuindlenHow Reading Changed My Life

Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.