journey

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3c97597	Not all those who wander are lost.	travel wander quest lost journey	J.R.R. Tolkien
e68a351	It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.	travel journey	Ursula K. Le Guin
647c9de	We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.	travel inspirational seekers quest journey	anaïs nin
71d67f1	Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know. Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land.	self-reliance journey	Walt Whitman
beaa5d0	All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost.	tolkien travel wander shine wanderlust journey	J.R.R. Tolkien
4c566e7	Though the road's been rocky it sure feels good to me.	life inspirational journey	Bob Marley
1c6156b	For everything in this journey of life we are on, there is a right wing and a left wing: for the wing of love there is anger; for the wing of destiny there is fear; for the wing of pain there is healing; for the wing of hurt there is forgiveness; for the wing of pride there is humility; for the wing of giving there is taking; for the wing of tears there is joy; for the wing of rejection there is acceptance; for the wing of judgment there is grace; for the wing of honor there is shame; for the wing of letting go there is the wing of keeping. We can only fly with two wings and two wings can only stay in the air if there is a balance. Two beautiful wings is perfection. There is a generation of people who idealize perfection as the existence of only one of these wings every time. But I see that a bird with one wing is imperfect. An angel with one wing is imperfect. A butterfly with one wing is dead. So this generation of people strive to always cut off the other wing in the hopes of embodying their ideal of perfection, and in doing so, have created a crippled race.	human-race life-s-journey the-journey two-wings perfection people humanity inspirational-life inspirational-quotes life-and-living living inspiring life truth wisdom inspirational living-life flying imperfection flight wisdom-quotes perfect ancient wings journey	C. JoyBell C.
b59419b	The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday.	action letting-go change life inspirational journey	Steve Maraboli
fd11f86	We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.	inspirational excellence personal-growth judgment journey	Henry Ward Beecher
b186b38	Perfectly Imperfec	perfection relationships motivational life inspirational imperfection snowflakes journey	Steve Maraboli
bba24e7	...there ain't no journey what don't change you some.	travel inspirational journey	David Mitchell
ada07a2	It's funny how, in this journey of life, even though we may begin at different times and places, our paths cross with others so that we may share our love, compassion, observations, and hope. This is a design of God that I appreciate and cherish.	compassion motivational god hope life inspirational appreciation observation journey	Steve Maraboli
c6c7df5	So I learned two things that night, and the next day, from him: the perfection of a moment, and the fleeting nature of it.	loss relationships fiction life love epiphany journey	Margaret George
defa5cf	The desire to go home that is a desire to be whole, to know where you are, to be the point of intersection of all the lines drawn through all the stars, to be the constellation-maker and the center of the world, that center called love. To awaken from sleep, to rest from awakening, to tame the animal, to let the soul go wild, to shelter in darkness and blaze with light, to cease to speak and be perfectly understood.	love wanderlust journey	Rebecca Solnit
ada97dc	End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.	life end path journey	J.R.R. Tolkien
e5089c3	I have an idea that some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid certain surroundings, but they have always a nostalgia for a home they know not. They are strangers in their birthplace, and the leafy lanes they have known from childhood or the populous streets in which they have played, remain but a place of passage. They may spend their whole lives aliens among their kindred and remain aloof among the only scenes they have ever known. Perhaps it is this sense of strangeness that sends men far and wide in the search for something permanent, to which they may attach themselves. Perhaps some deep-rooted atavism urges the wanderer back to lands which his ancestors left in the dim beginnings of history.	home journey	W. Somerset Maugham
7d5cd7f	If you fuel your journey on the opinions of others, you are going to run out of gas.	motivational success happiness life inspirational gas fuel opinion journey	Steve Maraboli
f475993	"The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence.	spirituality transcendance exploration meditation infinite journey	Jules Verne
db08cbf	I love going out of my way, beyond what I know, and finding my way back a few extra miles, by another trail, with a compass that argues with the map...nights alone in motels in remote western towns where I know no one and no one I know knows where I am, nights with strange paintings and floral spreads and cable television that furnish a reprieve from my own biography, when in Benjamin's terms, I have lost myself though I know where I am. Moments when I say to myself as feet or car clear a crest or round a bend, I have never seen this place before. Times when some architectural detail on vista that has escaped me these many years says to me that I never did know where I was, even when I was home.	nature wanderlust journey	Rebecca Solnit
02ce2e4	We may run, walk, stumble. drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.	life inspirational purpose journey	Gloria Gaither
6b30158	Every journey conceals another journey within its lines: the path not taken and the forgotten angle.	travel sexing-the-cherry journey	Jeanette Winterson
7f4d4af	There is a wide world out there, full of pain, but filled with joy as well. The former keeps you on the path of growth and the latter makes the journey tolerable.	pain joy journey	R.A. Salvatore
a80529d	Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don't have to sit on it.	journey	Joyce Meyer
90bac03	I tramp the perpetual journey My signs are a rain-proof coat, good shoes, and a staff cut from the woods, No friend of mine takes his ease in my chair, I have no chair, no philosophy, I lead no man to a dinner-table, library, exchange, But each man and each woman of you I lead upon a knoll, My left hand hooking you round the waist, My right hand pointing to landscapes of continents and the public road. Not I, not any one else can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself. It is not far, it is within reach, Perhaps you have been on it since you were born and did not know, Perhaps it is everywhere on water and on land. Shoulder your duds dear son, and I will mine, and let us hasten forth, Wonderful cities and free nations we shall fetch as we go. If you tire, give me both burdens, and rest the chuff of your hand on my hip, And in due time you shall repay the same service to me, For after we start we never lie by again. This day before dawn I ascended a hill and look'd at the crowded heaven, And I said to my spirit When we become the enfolders of those orbs, and the pleasure and knowledge of every thing in them, shall we be fill'd and satisfied then? And my spirit said No, we but level that lift to pass and continue beyond. You are also asking me questions and I hear you, I answer that I cannot answer, you must find out for yourself. Sit a while dear son, Here are biscuits to eat and here is milk to drink, But as soon as you sleep and renew yourself in sweet clothes, I kiss you with a good-by kiss and open the gate for your egress hence. Long enough have you dream'd contemptible dreams, Now I wash the gum from your eyes, You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life. Long have you timidly waded holding a plank by the shore, Now I will you to be a bold swimmer, To jump off in the midst of the sea, rise again, nod to me, shout, and laughingly dash with your hair.	son journey	Walt Whitman
3f9c401	"Her eyes were of different colors, the left as brown as autumn, the right as gray as Atlantic wind. Both seemed alive with questions that would never be voiced, as if no words yet existed with which to frame them. She was nineteen years old, or thereabouts; her exact age was unknown. Her face was as fresh as an apple and as delicate as blossom, but a marked depression in the bones beneath her left eye gave her features a disturbing asymmetry. Her mouth never curved into a smile. God, it seemed, had withheld that possibility, as surely as from a blind man the power of sight. He had withheld much else. Amparo was touched--by genius, by madness, by the Devil, or by a conspiracy of all these and more. She took no sacraments and appeared incapable of prayer. She had a horror of clocks and mirrors. By her own account she spoke with Angels and could hear the thoughts of animals and trees. She was passionately kind to all living things. She was a beam of starlight trapped in flesh and awaiting only the moment when it would continue on its journey into forever." (p.33)"	madness prayer depression god asymmetry atlantic blind-man blossom left-eye living-things nineteen-years-old power-of-sight clock tree sacraments bones starlight apple wind autumn colors smile questions mirror horror journey eyes	Tim Willocks
4af1955	The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only an adventurer; and his sons are born in exile.	travel metaphorical research journey	Ursula K. Le Guin
6af17ee	Memory is the basis of every journey.	stephen-king journey memory	Stephen King
84549d2	Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.	life road journey	Anne Carson
2d32374	The journey itself is going to change you, so you don't have to worry about memorizing the route we took to accomplish that change.	learning growth journey	Daniel Quinn
6382ca4	We are frightfully concerned with our own deaths, sometimes so much so that we forget the real purpose of our lives	living life purpose-of-living purpose-of-life journey	Brian L. Weiss
2e731c8	A journey, I reflected, is of no merit unless it has tested you.	text journey	Tahir Shah
5aa9eb4	"Will you remember this day, Gogol?" his father had asked, turning back to look at him, his hands pressed like earmuffs to either side of his head. "How long do I have to remember it?" Over the rise and fall of the wind, he could hear his father's laughter. He was standing there, waiting for Gogol to catch up, putting out a hand as Gogol drew near. "Try to remember it always," he said once Gogol reached him, leading him slowly back across the breakwater, to where his mother and Sonia stood waiting. "Remember that you and I made this journey, that we went together to a place where there was nowhere left to go."	remember journey	Jhumpa Lahiri
4013b18	It seemed like all the way to tomorrow and over it to the days beyond.	time travel journey	J.R.R. Tolkien
1dcaf24	For where thy treasure is, there also will thy heart be.	treasure spiritual inspirational holy-grail goal journey	Anonymous
b7f3bda	"It's time, Old Captain, lift anchor, sink! The land rots; we shall sail into the night; if now the sky and sea are black as ink our hearts, as you must know, are filled with light. Only when we drink poison are we well -- we want, this fire so burns our brain tissue, to drown in the abyss -- heaven or hell, who cares? Through the unknown, we'll find the new. ("Le Voyage")"	journey	Charles Baudelaire
5033d78	The whole thing was the precise opposite of what I figured it would be: slow and patient and quiet and neither particularly painful nor particularly ecstatic	the-fault-in-our-stars journey	John Green
df2128b	The goal of climbing big, dangerous mountains should be to attain some sort of spiritual and personal growth, but this won't happen if you compromise away the entire process.	individuality process journey	Yvon Chouinard
3d4f96f	"Go, " he said. "This is your journey, your battle. Be brave. Find your gift. Use it to save what you love."	faith love gifting journey	Lois Lowry
a5bd060	Most journeys have a clear beginning, but on some the ending is less well-defined. The question is, at what point do you bite your lip and head for home?	quest ending journey	Tahir Shah
2c374aa	Every nowhere is somewhere[...]	life inspirational journey	David Mitchell
fd3c002	I took the sleeper out of Glasgow, and as the smelly old train bumped out of Central Station and across the Jamaica Street Bridge, I stared out at the orange halogen streetlamps reflected in the black water of the river Clyde. I gazed at the crumbling Victorian buildings that would soon be sandblasted and renovated into yuppie hutches. I watched the revelers and rascals traverse the shiny wet streets. I thought of the thrill and danger of my youth and the fear and frustration of my adult life thus far. I thought of the failure of my marriage and my failures as a man. I saw all this through my reflection in the nighttime window. Down the tracks I went, hardly aware that I was going further south with every passing second.	divorce reflection danger failure journey	Craig Ferguson
6c17360	Children are meant to grow up, and not to become Peter Pans. Not to lose innocence and wonder, but to proceed on the appointed journey: that journey upon which it is certainly not better to travel hopefully than to arrive, though we must travel hopefully if we are to arrive.	hope growing-up innocence journey	J.R.R. Tolkien
bf0c71f	Previous journeys had taught me the danger of taking too much stuff.	danger journey	Tahir Shah
fd716cd	They laid up in the shade of a rock shelf until past noon, scratching out a place in the gray lava dust to sleep, and they set forth in the afternoon down the valley following the war trail and they were very small and they moved very slowly in the immensity of that landscape. Come evening they hove toward the rimrock again and Sproule pointed out a dark stain on the face of the barren cliff. It looked like the black from old fires. The kid shielded his eyes. The scalloped canyon walls rippled in the heat like drapery folds.	violence landscape desert journey	Cormac McCarthy
892e317	The first rule of an expedition is that everyone should stick together.	quest rule journey	Tahir Shah
3f231b6	A journey of observation must leave as much as possible to chance. Random movement is the best plan for maximum observation	travel observation journey	Tahir Shah
620da52	He also learned to regard each port of call as part of the journey and not as destination. Every voyage begins when you do.	journey children-s-books	E.L. Konigsburg
4e97e62	The only real voyage consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes; in seeing the universe through the eyes of another, one hundred others-in seeing the hundred universes that each of them sees. Marcel Proust, translated by Kiyotesong	wonder optimism landscape open-heart open-mind seeking journey	Rob Brezsny
20d9d3c	When you walk on the face of a world, then forgiveness comes.	world life forgiveness journey	Orson Scott Card
4a61431	Language and hearing are seated in the cerebral cortex, the folded gray matter that covers the first couple of millimeters of the outer brain like wrapping paper. When one experiences silence, absent even reading, the cerebral cortex typically rests. Meanwhile, deeper and more ancient brain structures seem to be activated--the subcortical zones. People who live busy, noisy lives are rarely granted access to these areas. Silence, it appears, is not the opposite of sound. It is another world altogether, literally offering a deeper level of thought, a journey to the bedrock of the self.	experiences silence reading world activated bedrock busy cerebral-cortex deeper gray-matter structures subcortical hearing sound brain noisy language ancient self thought journey	Michael Finkel
43d03d8	On the way down the hill we walked three abreast in the cobblestone street, drunk and laughing and talking like men who knew they would separate at dawn and travel to the far corners of the earth.	stroll drunk journey	Hunter S. Thompson
08a4b38	The ability to tell a good route from a terrible one is a valuable skill when leading an expedition. Unfortunately for us all, it was a skill I did not possess.	expedition navigation skill journey	Tahir Shah
07c3127	Fatalism accounts for life as a whole. Whatever happens can be fit within the large generality of individuation, or my journey, or growth. Fatalism comforts, for it raises no questions. There's no need to examine just how events fit in.	individuation journey	James Hillman
997b487	"Out ahead of them, Arkady began something very like a marching song, chanting lines answered by the other ferals, their voices ringing out across the sky, each to each. Temeraire added his own to the chorus, and little Iskierka began to scrabble at his neck, demanding, "What are they saying? What does it mean?" "We are flying home," Temeraire said, translating. "We are all flying home."	teammates home journey	Naomi Novik
624ef2c	There's nothing like a pack of mules to give one a sense of entourage.	travel mules journey	Tahir Shah
9dafa6b	Onzi, shcho biaga ot uchastta si, mozhe niakoi den da otkrie, che samo e izbral po-priaka p'teka.	life inspirational path journey	J.R.R. Tolkien
87d2be4	Sail far. Sail fast.	travel quest sail fire-and-blood sea journey	George R.R. Martin
d04ed42	For me, a journey to Damascus is an amazing hunt from beginning to end, a slice through layers of history in search of treasure.	travel history journey	Tahir Shah
13929f3	They were at the end of their journey, but as far as ever, it seemed, from the end of their quest.	quest journey	J.R.R. Tolkien
ac1a4db	I've heard that when you're in a life-or-death situation, like a car accident or a gunfight, all your senses shoot up to almost superhuman level, everything slows down, and you're hyper-aware of what's happening around you. As the shuttle careens toward the earth, the exact opposite is true for me. Everything silences, even the screams and shouts from the people on the other side of the metal door, the crashes that I pray aren't bodies, the hissing of rockets, Elder's cursing, my pounding heartbeat. I feel nothing--not the seat belt biting into my flesh, not my clenching jaw, nothing. My whole body is numb. Scent and taste disappear. The only thing about my body that works is my eyes,and they are filled with the image before them. The ground seems to leap up at us as we hurtle toward it. Through the blurry image of the world below us, I see the outline of land--a continent. And at once, my heart lurches with the desire to know this world, to make it our home. My eyes drink up the image of the planet--and my stomach sinks with the knowledge that this is a coastline I've never seen before. I could spin a globe of Earth around and still be able to recognize the way Spain and Portugal reach into the Atlantic, the curve of the Gulf of Mexico, the pointy end of India. But this continent--it dips and curves in ways I don't recognize, swirls into an unknown sea, creating peninsulas in shapes I do not know, scattering out islands in a pattern I cannot connect. And it's not until I see this that I realize: this world may one day become our home,but it will never be the home I left behind.	earth travel discovery life godspeed elder amy-martin beth-revis shades-of-earth shuttle planet mission crash home journey	Beth Revis
80ec1c0	Phaedrus wrote a letter from India about a pilgrimage to holy Mount Kailas, the source of the Ganges and the abode of Shiva, high in the Himalayas, in the company of a holy man and his adherents. He never reached the mountain. After the third day he gave up, exhausted, and the pilgrimage went on without him. He said he had the physical strength but that physical strength wasn't enough. He had the intellectual motivation but that wasn't enough either. He didn't think he had been arrogant but thought that he was undertaking the pilgrimage to broaden his experience, to gain understanding for himself. He was trying to use the mountain for his own purposes and the pilgrimage too. He regarded himself as the fixed entity, not the pilgrimage or the mountain, and thus wasn't ready for it. He speculated that the other pilgrims, the ones who reached the mountain, probably sensed the holiness of the mountain so intensely that each footstep was an act of devotion, an act of submission to this holiness. The holiness of the mountain infused into their own spirits enabled them to endure far more than anything he, with his greater physical strength, could take.	faith soul-searching mindfulness mountains devotion journey insight	Robert M. Pirsig
52266ce	I climb behind the steering wheel... I drive off immediately without once looking back; it's a long journey but it leads to freedom.	freedom switzerland road-trip movies journey	Corinne Hofmann
6b9862c	"It's funny, leaving a place, ain't it?" he said. "You never do know when you'll get back."	funny-idea getting-back going-somewhere leaving-a-place never-know thought-to-ponder missed ride leaving leave traveling home thought journey	Larry McMurtry
6b7b7ed	Bridges are meant to connect They're meant to defy drops and distances, but occasionally we lose our way.... we fall off, we drive off, we consider jumping. -Razor aka. Thomas Turner pg. 410	self-realization journey	Katie McGarry
48ee5a4	A fantasy is a journey. It is a journey into the subconscious mind, just as psychoanalysis is. Like psychoanalysis, it can be dangerous; and it will change you.	literature psychoanalysis journey	Ursula K. Le Guin
7fc4bb5	Some individuals have the courage to make it, even feel the need to do so; for them the quest is a necessity, not an option. Most people setting out on such journeys are never heard from again, but part of the romance of any field lies in keeping the dream alive, in not settling for what is familiar and comfortable.	dream leadership motivation motivational success inspirational journeys journey	Gino Segre
427d291	If hot food is they key to maintaining an expedition's stamina, then low grade gut-rot alcohol is the key to sustaining its sense of pleasure.	expedition sustenance alcohol food journey pleasure	Tahir Shah
f9bd70a	My journey to the land of the Shuar tribe had taught me the importance of practical gifts.	shuar tribe gifts journey	Tahir Shah
d716fd0	As far as Samson was concerned I was just another foreigner in pursuit of a lunatic quest.	question journey lunatic	Tahir Shah
5558bfa	When I am about to embark on a difficult journey, I comfort myself by reading the accounts of the great nineteenth-century travellers, men like Stanley, Burton, Speke, Burckhardt and Barth.	reading travel-writers journey	Tahir Shah
f776923	A man went to knock on the king's door and said, Give me a boat	island journey	José Saramago
2bb69f0	But to live in the world at all is to be committed to some kind of a journey... On a turning earth, in a mechanically revolving universe, there is no place to stand still. Neither the destination nor the point of departure are important. People often find themselves midway on a journey they had no intention of taking and that began they are not exactly sure where.	journey	William Maxwell
e850f11	I go, but I always remember you.	love journey memory	Isabel Allende
0840a55	Oh, I thought of calling it Journeyings in Germany. It sounds well, and would be correct. Or Jottings from German Journeyings--I haven't quite decided yet... (Minora)	german german-garden minora garden journey	Elizabeth von Arnim
69dd7de	I'm not scared of death, it's the suffering that bothers me--and I know I can help that. It's the journey, not the outcome, that I can change, if that makes sense.	death-quotes ivie journey	J.R. Ward
c812a16	It seems [...] that the Native American 'brain smasher' and the ancient Egyptian goddess in the vignette from the Fifth Hour of the Duat both serve exactly the same function, namely, the annihilation and permanent destruction of unworthy souls on the afterlife journey. There are differences in the traditions, to be sure, as one would expect if they descended from a remote common ancestor many millennia ago and then evolved separately, but the fundamental similarities of the role are unmissable. A further point arising from this material has to do with the more general issue of the trials and tribulations faced by the soul on its postmortem journey. That the precise character of these obstacles should vary between ancient Egypt and ancient Native America is only to be expected. Even so, the striking similarities in the core structure of the 'story'--physical death, a journey of the soul on land, a leap to the sky involving Orion followed by a further journey with perils and challenges to be faced, through the valley of the Milky Way--all argue for some as yet unexplained connection.	religion source orion souls tradition journey	Graham Hancock
d1f3278	For there is a new place for those who are willing, who are able, who are strong. We are going west. There is, I believe, a new world somewhere waiting. The moon that shines here will shine there, but here the land is broken and there it is whole.	new-world journey	Kathryn Lasky
2eaabb5	And that would be my method of locomotion, the Lion concluded. Not diplomas earned, but friendships bungled. Campaigns aborted. Errors in judgment and public humiliations.	life locomotion journey	Gregory Maguire
fcb423a	Que cada uno de tus actos sea tu ultima batalla sobre la tierra	inspirational-life journey	Carlos Castaneda
a61d4ab	Not only was the constellation of Orion part of the Moundville story [of Native Americans], not only was a journey to the realm of the dead part of it, too, but now I knew also that a series of trials would have to be faced on that journey, that the Milky Way was involved and, last but by no means least, that Moundville itself had been thought of as an image, or copy, of the realm of the dead on earth. Every one of these were important symbols, concepts, and narratives in the ancient Egyptian funerary texts that I'd been fascinated by for more than 20 years. It would be striking to find even two of them together in a remote and unconnected culture, but for them all to be present in ancient North America in the same way that they were present in ancient Egypt, and serving the same ends, was a significant anomaly.	orion narratives symbols realm trials legacy journey	Graham Hancock
1f0cb53	Of all the crowns that Bruenor had worn or would, none was more important than that of Father.	inspirational emotional journey	R.A. Salvatore

Not all those who wander are lost.

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

travel journey

Ursula K. Le Guin

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

travel inspirational seekers quest journey

anaïs nin

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Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know. Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land.

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Walt Whitman

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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. Tolkien

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

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Bob Marley

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For everything in this journey of life we are on, there is a right wing and a left wing: for the wing of love there is anger; for the wing of destiny there is fear; for the wing of pain there is healing; for the wing of hurt there is forgiveness; for the wing of pride there is humility; for the wing of giving there is taking; for the wing of tears there is joy; for the wing of rejection there is acceptance; for the wing of judgment there is grace; for the wing of honor there is shame; for the wing of letting go there is the wing of keeping. We can only fly with two wings and two wings can only stay in the air if there is a balance. Two beautiful wings is perfection. There is a generation of people who idealize perfection as the existence of only one of these wings every time. But I see that a bird with one wing is imperfect. An angel with one wing is imperfect. A butterfly with one wing is dead. So this generation of people strive to always cut off the other wing in the hopes of embodying their ideal of perfection, and in doing so, have created a crippled race.

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C. JoyBell C.

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The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday.

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Steve Maraboli

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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

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Henry Ward Beecher

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Steve Maraboli

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

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David Mitchell

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It's funny how, in this journey of life, even though we may begin at different times and places, our paths cross with others so that we may share our love, compassion, observations, and hope. This is a design of God that I appreciate and cherish.

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Steve Maraboli

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So I learned two things that night, and the next day, from him: the perfection of a moment, and the fleeting nature of it.

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Margaret George

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The desire to go home that is a desire to be whole, to know where you are, to be the point of intersection of all the lines drawn through all the stars, to be the constellation-maker and the center of the world, that center called love. To awaken from sleep, to rest from awakening, to tame the animal, to let the soul go wild, to shelter in darkness and blaze with light, to cease to speak and be perfectly understood.

love wanderlust journey

Rebecca Solnit

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

life end path journey

J.R.R. Tolkien

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I have an idea that some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid certain surroundings, but they have always a nostalgia for a home they know not. They are strangers in their birthplace, and the leafy lanes they have known from childhood or the populous streets in which they have played, remain but a place of passage. They may spend their whole lives aliens among their kindred and remain aloof among the only scenes they have ever known. Perhaps it is this sense of strangeness that sends men far and wide in the search for something permanent, to which they may attach themselves. Perhaps some deep-rooted atavism urges the wanderer back to lands which his ancestors left in the dim beginnings of history.

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W. Somerset Maugham

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If you fuel your journey on the opinions of others, you are going to run out of gas.

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Steve Maraboli

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"The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence.

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Jules Verne

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I love going out of my way, beyond what I know, and finding my way back a few extra miles, by another trail, with a compass that argues with the map...nights alone in motels in remote western towns where I know no one and no one I know knows where I am, nights with strange paintings and floral spreads and cable television that furnish a reprieve from my own biography, when in Benjamin's terms, I have lost myself though I know where I am. Moments when I say to myself as feet or car clear a crest or round a bend, I have never seen this place before. Times when some architectural detail on vista that has escaped me these many years says to me that I never did know where I was, even when I was home.

nature wanderlust journey

Rebecca Solnit

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We may run, walk, stumble. drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.

life inspirational purpose journey

Gloria Gaither

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

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Jeanette Winterson

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There is a wide world out there, full of pain, but filled with joy as well. The former keeps you on the path of growth and the latter makes the journey tolerable.

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R.A. Salvatore

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Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don't have to sit on it.

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Joyce Meyer

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I tramp the perpetual journey My signs are a rain-proof coat, good shoes, and a staff cut from the woods, No friend of mine takes his ease in my chair, I have no chair, no philosophy, I lead no man to a dinner-table, library, exchange, But each man and each woman of you I lead upon a knoll, My left hand hooking you round the waist, My right hand pointing to landscapes of continents and the public road. Not I, not any one else can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself. It is not far, it is within reach, Perhaps you have been on it since you were born and did not know, Perhaps it is everywhere on water and on land. Shoulder your duds dear son, and I will mine, and let us hasten forth, Wonderful cities and free nations we shall fetch as we go. If you tire, give me both burdens, and rest the chuff of your hand on my hip, And in due time you shall repay the same service to me, For after we start we never lie by again. This day before dawn I ascended a hill and look'd at the crowded heaven, And I said to my spirit When we become the enfolders of those orbs, and the pleasure and knowledge of every thing in them, shall we be fill'd and satisfied then? And my spirit said No, we but level that lift to pass and continue beyond. You are also asking me questions and I hear you, I answer that I cannot answer, you must find out for yourself. Sit a while dear son, Here are biscuits to eat and here is milk to drink, But as soon as you sleep and renew yourself in sweet clothes, I kiss you with a good-by kiss and open the gate for your egress hence. Long enough have you dream'd contemptible dreams, Now I wash the gum from your eyes, You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life. Long have you timidly waded holding a plank by the shore, Now I will you to be a bold swimmer, To jump off in the midst of the sea, rise again, nod to me, shout, and laughingly dash with your hair.

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Walt Whitman

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"Her eyes were of different colors, the left as brown as autumn, the right as gray as Atlantic wind. Both seemed alive with questions that would never be voiced, as if no words yet existed with which to frame them. She was nineteen years old, or thereabouts; her exact age was unknown. Her face was as fresh as an apple and as delicate as blossom, but a marked depression in the bones beneath her left eye gave her features a disturbing asymmetry. Her mouth never curved into a smile. God, it seemed, had withheld that possibility, as surely as from a blind man the power of sight. He had withheld much else. Amparo was touched--by genius, by madness, by the Devil, or by a conspiracy of all these and more. She took no sacraments and appeared incapable of prayer. She had a horror of clocks and mirrors. By her own account she spoke with Angels and could hear the thoughts of animals and trees. She was passionately kind to all living things. She was a beam of starlight trapped in flesh and awaiting only the moment when it would continue on its journey into forever." (p.33)"

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Tim Willocks

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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 an adventurer; and his sons are born in exile.

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Ursula K. Le Guin

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Memory is the basis of every journey.

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Stephen King

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Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.

life road journey

Anne Carson

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The journey itself is going to change you, so you don't have to worry about memorizing the route we took to accomplish that change.

learning growth journey

Daniel Quinn

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We are frightfully concerned with our own deaths, sometimes so much so that we forget the real purpose of our lives

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Brian L. Weiss

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A journey, I reflected, is of no merit unless it has tested you.

text journey

Tahir Shah

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"Will you remember this day, Gogol?" his father had asked, turning back to look at him, his hands pressed like earmuffs to either side of his head. "How long do I have to remember it?" Over the rise and fall of the wind, he could hear his father's laughter. He was standing there, waiting for Gogol to catch up, putting out a hand as Gogol drew near. "Try to remember it always," he said once Gogol reached him, leading him slowly back across the breakwater, to where his mother and Sonia stood waiting. "Remember that you and I made this journey, that we went together to a place where there was nowhere left to go."

remember journey

Jhumpa Lahiri

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

time travel journey

J.R.R. Tolkien

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For where thy treasure is, there also will thy heart be.

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Anonymous

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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 and sea are black as ink our hearts, as you must know, are filled with light. Only when we drink poison are we well -- we want, this fire so burns our brain tissue, to drown in the abyss -- heaven or hell, who cares? Through the unknown, we'll find the new. ("Le Voyage")"

journey

Charles Baudelaire

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The whole thing was the precise opposite of what I figured it would be: slow and patient and quiet and neither particularly painful nor particularly ecstatic

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John Green

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The goal of climbing big, dangerous mountains should be to attain some sort of spiritual and personal growth, but this won't happen if you compromise away the entire process.

individuality process journey

Yvon Chouinard

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

faith love gifting journey

Lois Lowry

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Most journeys have a clear beginning, but on some the ending is less well-defined. The question is, at what point do you bite your lip and head for home?

quest ending journey

Tahir Shah

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Every nowhere is somewhere[...]

life inspirational journey

David Mitchell

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I took the sleeper out of Glasgow, and as the smelly old train bumped out of Central Station and across the Jamaica Street Bridge, I stared out at the orange halogen streetlamps reflected in the black water of the river Clyde. I gazed at the crumbling Victorian buildings that would soon be sandblasted and renovated into yuppie hutches. I watched the revelers and rascals traverse the shiny wet streets. I thought of the thrill and danger of my youth and the fear and frustration of my adult life thus far. I thought of the failure of my marriage and my failures as a man. I saw all this through my reflection in the nighttime window. Down the tracks I went, hardly aware that I was going further south with every passing second.

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Craig Ferguson

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Children are meant to grow up, and not to become Peter Pans. Not to lose innocence and wonder, but to proceed on the appointed journey: that journey upon which it is certainly not better to travel hopefully than to arrive, though we must travel hopefully if we are to arrive.

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J.R.R. Tolkien

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Previous journeys had taught me the danger of taking too much stuff.

danger journey

Tahir Shah

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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 dust to sleep, and they set forth in the afternoon down the valley following the war trail and they were very small and they moved very slowly in the immensity of that landscape. Come evening they hove toward the rimrock again and Sproule pointed out a dark stain on the face of the barren cliff. It looked like the black from old fires. The kid shielded his eyes. The scalloped canyon walls rippled in the heat like drapery folds.

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Cormac McCarthy

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The first rule of an expedition is that everyone should stick together.

quest rule journey

Tahir Shah

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A journey of observation must leave as much as possible to chance. Random movement is the best plan for maximum observation

travel observation journey

Tahir Shah

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He also learned to regard each port of call as part of the journey and not as destination. Every voyage begins when you do.

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E.L. Konigsburg

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The only real voyage consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes; in seeing the universe through the eyes of another, one hundred others-in seeing the hundred universes that each of them sees. Marcel Proust, translated by Kiyotesong

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Rob Brezsny

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

world life forgiveness journey

Orson Scott Card

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Language and hearing are seated in the cerebral cortex, the folded gray matter that covers the first couple of millimeters of the outer brain like wrapping paper. When one experiences silence, absent even reading, the cerebral cortex typically rests. Meanwhile, deeper and more ancient brain structures seem to be activated--the subcortical zones. People who live busy, noisy lives are rarely granted access to these areas. Silence, it appears, is not the opposite of sound. It is another world altogether, literally offering a deeper level of thought, a journey to the bedrock of the self.

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Michael Finkel

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On the way down the hill we walked three abreast in the cobblestone street, drunk and laughing and talking like men who knew they would separate at dawn and travel to the far corners of the earth.

stroll drunk journey

Hunter S. Thompson

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The ability to tell a good route from a terrible one is a valuable skill when leading an expedition. Unfortunately for us all, it was a skill I did not possess.

expedition navigation skill journey

Tahir Shah

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Fatalism accounts for life as a whole. Whatever happens can be fit within the large generality of individuation, or my journey, or growth. Fatalism comforts, for it raises no questions. There's no need to examine just how events fit in.

individuation journey

James Hillman

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"Out ahead of them, Arkady began something very like a marching song, chanting lines answered by the other ferals, their voices ringing out across the sky, each to each. Temeraire added his own to the chorus, and little Iskierka began to scrabble at his neck, demanding, "What are they saying? What does it mean?" "We are flying home," Temeraire said, translating. "We are all flying home."

teammates home journey

Naomi Novik

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There's nothing like a pack of mules to give one a sense of entourage.

travel mules journey

Tahir Shah

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Onzi, shcho biaga ot uchastta si, mozhe niakoi den da otkrie, che samo e izbral po-priaka p'teka.

life inspirational path journey

J.R.R. Tolkien

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Sail far. Sail fast.

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George R.R. Martin

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For me, a journey to Damascus is an amazing hunt from beginning to end, a slice through layers of history in search of treasure.

travel history journey

Tahir Shah

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

quest journey

J.R.R. Tolkien

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I've heard that when you're in a life-or-death situation, like a car accident or a gunfight, all your senses shoot up to almost superhuman level, everything slows down, and you're hyper-aware of what's happening around you. As the shuttle careens toward the earth, the exact opposite is true for me. Everything silences, even the screams and shouts from the people on the other side of the metal door, the crashes that I pray aren't bodies, the hissing of rockets, Elder's cursing, my pounding heartbeat. I feel nothing--not the seat belt biting into my flesh, not my clenching jaw, nothing. My whole body is numb. Scent and taste disappear. The only thing about my body that works is my eyes,and they are filled with the image before them. The ground seems to leap up at us as we hurtle toward it. Through the blurry image of the world below us, I see the outline of land--a continent. And at once, my heart lurches with the desire to know this world, to make it our home. My eyes drink up the image of the planet--and my stomach sinks with the knowledge that this is a coastline I've never seen before. I could spin a globe of Earth around and still be able to recognize the way Spain and Portugal reach into the Atlantic, the curve of the Gulf of Mexico, the pointy end of India. But this continent--it dips and curves in ways I don't recognize, swirls into an unknown sea, creating peninsulas in shapes I do not know, scattering out islands in a pattern I cannot connect. And it's not until I see this that I realize: this world may one day become our home,but it will never be the home I left behind.

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Beth Revis

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Phaedrus wrote a letter from India about a pilgrimage to holy Mount Kailas, the source of the Ganges and the abode of Shiva, high in the Himalayas, in the company of a holy man and his adherents. He never reached the mountain. After the third day he gave up, exhausted, and the pilgrimage went on without him. He said he had the physical strength but that physical strength wasn't enough. He had the intellectual motivation but that wasn't enough either. He didn't think he had been arrogant but thought that he was undertaking the pilgrimage to broaden his experience, to gain understanding for himself. He was trying to use the mountain for his own purposes and the pilgrimage too. He regarded himself as the fixed entity, not the pilgrimage or the mountain, and thus wasn't ready for it. He speculated that the other pilgrims, the ones who reached the mountain, probably sensed the holiness of the mountain so intensely that each footstep was an act of devotion, an act of submission to this holiness. The holiness of the mountain infused into their own spirits enabled them to endure far more than anything he, with his greater physical strength, could take.

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Robert M. Pirsig

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I climb behind the steering wheel... I drive off immediately without once looking back; it's a long journey but it leads to freedom.

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Corinne Hofmann

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

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Larry McMurtry

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Bridges are meant to connect They're meant to defy drops and distances, but occasionally we lose our way.... we fall off, we drive off, we consider jumping. -Razor aka. Thomas Turner pg. 410

self-realization journey

Katie McGarry

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A fantasy is a journey. It is a journey into the subconscious mind, just as psychoanalysis is. Like psychoanalysis, it can be dangerous; and it will change you.

literature psychoanalysis journey

Ursula K. Le Guin

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Some individuals have the courage to make it, even feel the need to do so; for them the quest is a necessity, not an option. Most people setting out on such journeys are never heard from again, but part of the romance of any field lies in keeping the dream alive, in not settling for what is familiar and comfortable.

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Gino Segre

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If hot food is they key to maintaining an expedition's stamina, then low grade gut-rot alcohol is the key to sustaining its sense of pleasure.

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Tahir Shah

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My journey to the land of the Shuar tribe had taught me the importance of practical gifts.

shuar tribe gifts journey

Tahir Shah

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As far as Samson was concerned I was just another foreigner in pursuit of a lunatic quest.

question journey lunatic

Tahir Shah

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When I am about to embark on a difficult journey, I comfort myself by reading the accounts of the great nineteenth-century travellers, men like Stanley, Burton, Speke, Burckhardt and Barth.

reading travel-writers journey

Tahir Shah

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A man went to knock on the king's door and said, Give me a boat

island journey

José Saramago

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But to live in the world at all is to be committed to some kind of a journey... On a turning earth, in a mechanically revolving universe, there is no place to stand still. Neither the destination nor the point of departure are important. People often find themselves midway on a journey they had no intention of taking and that began they are not exactly sure where.

journey

William Maxwell

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I go, but I always remember you.

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Isabel Allende

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Oh, I thought of calling it Journeyings in Germany. It sounds well, and would be correct. Or Jottings from German Journeyings--I haven't quite decided yet... (Minora)

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Elizabeth von Arnim

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I'm not scared of death, it's the suffering that bothers me--and I know I can help that. It's the journey, not the outcome, that I can change, if that makes sense.

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J.R. Ward

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It seems [...] that the Native American 'brain smasher' and the ancient Egyptian goddess in the vignette from the Fifth Hour of the Duat both serve exactly the same function, namely, the annihilation and permanent destruction of unworthy souls on the afterlife journey. There are differences in the traditions, to be sure, as one would expect if they descended from a remote common ancestor many millennia ago and then evolved separately, but the fundamental similarities of the role are unmissable. A further point arising from this material has to do with the more general issue of the trials and tribulations faced by the soul on its postmortem journey. That the precise character of these obstacles should vary between ancient Egypt and ancient Native America is only to be expected. Even so, the striking similarities in the core structure of the 'story'--physical death, a journey of the soul on land, a leap to the sky involving Orion followed by a further journey with perils and challenges to be faced, through the valley of the Milky Way--all argue for some as yet unexplained connection.

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Graham Hancock

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For there is a new place for those who are willing, who are able, who are strong. We are going west. There is, I believe, a new world somewhere waiting. The moon that shines here will shine there, but here the land is broken and there it is whole.

new-world journey

Kathryn Lasky

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And that would be my method of locomotion, the Lion concluded. Not diplomas earned, but friendships bungled. Campaigns aborted. Errors in judgment and public humiliations.

life locomotion journey

Gregory Maguire

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Que cada uno de tus actos sea tu ultima batalla sobre la tierra

inspirational-life journey

Carlos Castaneda

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Not only was the constellation of Orion part of the Moundville story [of Native Americans], not only was a journey to the realm of the dead part of it, too, but now I knew also that a series of trials would have to be faced on that journey, that the Milky Way was involved and, last but by no means least, that Moundville itself had been thought of as an image, or copy, of the realm of the dead on earth. Every one of these were important symbols, concepts, and narratives in the ancient Egyptian funerary texts that I'd been fascinated by for more than 20 years. It would be striking to find even two of them together in a remote and unconnected culture, but for them all to be present in ancient North America in the same way that they were present in ancient Egypt, and serving the same ends, was a significant anomaly.

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Graham Hancock

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

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R.A. Salvatore