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Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.

The journey is part of the experience - an expression of the seriousness of one's intent. One doesn'...

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Anthony BourdainA Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines

Set out from any point. They are all alike. They all lead to a point of departure.

Take it all in all, I do not believe anybody on Earth has it worse than an Emperor penguin.

And if the worst, or best, happens, and Death comes for you in the snow, he comes disguised as Sleep...

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And time inherently creates a story. Things begin and they end. How they end is the story. Or maybe ...

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Arianna HuffingtonThrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being

Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.

I fear that I bore you with these details, but I have to let you see my little difficulties, if you ...

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The Journey of Reconciliation was organized not only to devise techniques for eliminating Jim Crow i...

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Definitions are vital starting points for the imagination. What we cannot imagine cannot come into b...

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I'm trying to write poems that involve beginning at a known place, and ending up at a slightly diffe...

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I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's ...

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I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and t...

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Though the road's been rocky it sure feels good to me.

Suffering, failure, loneliness, sorrow, discouragement, and death will be part of your journey, but ...

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Sluggish and sedentary peoples, such as the Ancient Egyptians-- with their concept of an afterlife j...

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A journey is a fragment of Hell.

Most of us do things for reasons that are more purely personal. For love, or for hate.

Whatever you are physically, male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy - all those things matte...

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It was so odd what brought out tenderness in people. It was never what you have expected.

Tessa: Are all vampires like that? Cold like that?Charlotte: Many of them have been alive a long tim...

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It is as great a thing to love as it is to be loved. Love is not something that can be wasted.

Their beauty had always seemed to him like the beauty of pressed flowers - lovely, but dead.

It's alright to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth you loving them. As...

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Will: I've never seen anyone get so excited over books before. You'd think they were diamonds.Tessa:...

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I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an o...

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It's time, Old Captain, lift anchor, sink!The land rots; we shall sail into the night;if now the sky...

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Charles BaudelaireFlowers of Evil and Other Works/Les Fleurs du Mal et Oeuvres Choisies : A Dual-Language Book (Dover Foreign Language Study Guides)

if you are going to try, go all the way.. Otherwise, don’t even start.. If you are going to try, go ...

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I have deeper journeys to take. Metaphysical journeys to see Christ. Shaman journeys. It's what I ha...

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They laid up in the shade of a rock shelf until past noon, scratching out a place in the gray lava d...

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They spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent altogether as is often the way ...

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I took the sleeper out of Glasgow, and as the smelly old train bumped out of Central Station and acr...

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Craig FergusonAmerican on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at ...

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To travel is to take a journey into yourself.

The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same ti...

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No wonder we cannot appreciate the really central Kafka joke: that the horrific struggle to establis...

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David Foster WallaceConsider the Lobster and Other Essays

...there ain't no journey what don't change you some.

When you win, the rules change, and you find you’ve lost

If patterns exist in our seemingly patternless lives — and they do — then the law of harmony insists...

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Every journey has a destination, known or unknown.

There will be something very wrong with any place we go.

It's only life. We all get through it.Not all of us complete the journey in the same condition. Alon...

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So many things in my continuing education are learned by going where I have to go and doing what I h...

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Dean KoontzOdd Interlude: A Special Odd Thomas Adventure

No single decision you ever made has led in a straight line to where you find yourself now. You peek...

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Deepak ChopraThe Book of Secrets: Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life

I'm honest about the journey I've been on, so I definitely don't take dating lightly anymore.

Maya Angelou was the voice of three generations. Her poetry spanned our journey, chronicled our hear...

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Trouble with a long journey like this,' continued the Captain, 'is that you end up just talking to y...

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Douglas AdamsThe Restaurant at the End of the Universe

The main thing that you have to remember on this journey is, just be nice to everyone and always smi...

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The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

I did not reach thee, But my feet slip nearer every day; Three Rivers and a Hill to cross, One Deser...

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It’s a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can tell y...

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But it's a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can te...

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The ocean is a central image. It is the symbolism of a great journey.

Through learning at my later date things I hadn't known, or had escaped or possibly feared realizing...

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The journey took about a week each way, and each day had my parents both in its grip. Riding behind ...

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My father knew our way mile by mile; by day or by night, he knew where we were. Everything that chan...

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Taking trips tore all of us up inside, for they seemed, each journey away from home, something that ...

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He found himself remembering how on one summer morning they two had started from New York in search ...

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Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and a...

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We belong far less to where we've come from than where we want to go.

My biggest fear is doing the same things 10 years from now. That would be a failure. It's something ...

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Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.

I took a part-time editing job to pay the rent. It was work I could do at home, but when suddenly I ...

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It's important for someone who could play the game - and win - to say: 'the game isn't worth shit.

After all, hope is a form of planning.

If you find yourself drawn to an event against all logic, go. The universe is telling you something.

It is far. But there is no journey upon this earth that a man may not make if he sets his heart to i...

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Perfection lies in fullness of journey. For this reason, never think you have arrived. Forget what l...

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Energies expended on sideshows, never on the main event. Where the hell was the main event? Was ther...

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A cell is just a room if you don't lock the door.

I feel like looking in the mirror when you brush your teeth, yes, I see lines, and then I smile and ...

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Friendship has always belonged to the core of my spiritual journey.

The journey from teaching about love to allowing myself to be loved proved much longer than I realis...

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One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking things.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

Whither will my path yet lead me? This path is stupid, it goes in spirals, perhaps in circles, but w...

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Then you don't know. You can't know what it feels like to meet a person and suddenly know without a ...

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And when long years and seasons wheeling brought around that point of time ordained for him to make ...

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On the way down the hill we walked three abreast in the cobblestone street, drunk and laughing and t...

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I go, but I always remember you.

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

I think you grow wherever God plants you. I hope I'm growing as a person of faith, as a Christian. T...

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...and for a great deal it seemed good to him, for in the music there were no flaws.

Few can see wither their road will lead them, till they comes to it's end. - Gimli

End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The gr...

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All that is gold does not glitter,Not all those who wander are lost.

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J. R. R. TolkienThe Fellowship of the Ring

Not all those who wander are lost.

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J. R. R. TolkienThe Fellowship of the Ring

It seemed like all the way to tomorrow and over it to the days beyond.

They were at the end of their journey, but as far as ever, it seemed, from the end of their quest.

End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.

Children are meant to grow up, and not to become Peter Pans. Not to lose innocence and wonder, but t...

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Cherish every moment with those you love at every stage of your journey.

To other Canadians who are on journeys to defeat cancer and to live their lives, I say this: please ...

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Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasan...

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I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That'...

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Every journey conceals another journey within its lines; the path not taken and the forgotten angle....

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Every journey conceals another journey within its lines: the path not taken and the forgotten angle.

You cannot disown what is yours. Flung out, there is always the return, the reckoning, the revenge, ...

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Jeanette WintersonWhy Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?