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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.

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