Arrivals Quotes

• We can't deter people fleeing for their lives. They will come. The choice we have is how well we manage their arrival, and how humanely.

  Antonio Guterres

  People, Choices, Humanity

  "U.N. Refugee Chief: Europe's Response to Mediterranean Crisis Is 'Lagging Far Behind'". time.com. April 23, 2015.

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• Unconscious of your story, you are in its grasp; but with consciousness, an alchemical process begins: The solidity of the complex dissolves and you can open up to the arrival of a new archetype, the birth of a new cycle of life. In the shadow, then, lies our myth and our fate.

  Connie Zweig

  Life, Lying, Fate

  Connie Zweig, Steven Wolf (2009). “Romancing the Shadow: A Guide to Soul Work for a Vital, Authentic Life”, p.314, Wellspring/Ballantine

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• In the novel or the journal you get the journey. In a poem you get the arrival.

  May Sarton

  Journey, Novel, Journal

  May Sarton, Earl G. Ingersoll (1991). “Conversations with May Sarton”, p.119, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I think, that after the arrival of the mechanical clock we see an explosion in scientific thinking and scientific discovery.

  Nicholas G. Carr

  Thinking, Discovery, Clock

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Happiness is a myth we seek,
  If manifested surely irks;
  Like river speeding to the plain,
  On its arrival slows and murks.
  For man is happy only in
  His aspiration to the heights;
  When he attains his goal, he cools
  And longs for other distant flights.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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• With the arrival of humans, it has been said, the universe has suddenly become conscious of itself. This, truly, it the greatest mystery of all.

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

  Mystery, Consciousness, Said

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• When I think of all the things that tossed my journey off its track, I realize something incredibly important: Life's setbacks only changed my path and the timing of my arrival. They never changed my destination.

  John Foley

  Journey, Thinking, Track

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• Please stop waiting for a better and more appropriate time to become happy and focus on the moment you live in. Happiness is not an arrival, it is the journey itself. Many people seek for happiness above the height of human beings, some below. Yet, happiness is exactly at the exact height of human beings.

  Confucius

  Journey, People, Focus

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• The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wise, Wisdom, Events

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• The arrival of the unforeseen reveals the depths of one's heart.

  William P. Young

  Heart, Depth, Unforeseen

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• The journey, not the arrival, matters; the voyage, not the landing.

  Paul Theroux

  Journey, Matter, Voyages

  Paul Theroux (2014). “The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A laborer might last ten years or so before expiring. But individual workers in the death camp of sugar were survived by their culture, which was constantly re-Africanized by fresh arrivals. To that plantation culture, the music of our hemisphere owes no small debt.

  Ned Sublette

  Years, Lasts, Culture

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• Make space in your life for the inevitable arrival of what you want.

  Danielle LaPorte

  Space, Want, Inevitable

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• The return from the walk, and the arrival of tea, should be exactly coincident, and not later than a quarter past four.

  C. S. Lewis

  Past, Tea, Four

  C. S. Lewis (1966). “Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life”, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Oh, Spring is surely coming, Her couriers fill the air; Each morn are new arrivals, Each night her ways prepare; I scent her fragrant garments, Her foot is on the stair.

  John Burroughs

  Spring, Night, Air

  John Burroughs (1906). “Bird and Bough”

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• Arrival = Prison, and the artist must never be a prisoner.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Prison, Artist

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• Samuel Beckett's 'Waiting for Godot,' billed as 'the laugh sensation of two continents,' made its American debut at the Coconut Grove Playhouse, in Miami, Florida, in 1956. My father, Bert Lahr, was playing Estragon, one of the two bowler-hatted tramps who pass the time in a lunar landscape as they wait in vain for the arrival of a Mr. Godot.

  John Lahr

  Father, Florida, Two

  "Panic Attack". www.newyorker.com. May 18, 2009.

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• A first novel should be brash and ambitious, and announce the arrival of a new talent.

  Stuart Woods

  Ambitious, Firsts, Talent

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• In the beginning, before the arrival of the white men, I had considered myself neutral. I had wanted neither side to win, neither the army nor the rebels. As it turned out, both sides lost.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Army, Winning, Men

  V. S. Naipaul (2012). “A Bend in the River”, p.52, Pan Macmillan

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• The modern woman is the curse of the universe. A disaster, that's what. She thinks that before her arrival on the scene no woman ever did anything worthwhile before, no woman was ever liberated until her time, no woman really ever amounted to anything.

  Adela Rogers St. Johns

  Thinking, Feminism, Modern Woman

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• Miracles never cease to amaze me. I expect them, but their consistent arrival is always delightful to experience.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Inspirational, Positive, Optimistic

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• One of the joys our technological civilization has lost is the excitement with which seasonal flowers and fruits were welcomed; the first daffodil, strawberry or cherry are now things of the past, along with their precious moment of arrival. Even the tangerine -- now a satsuma or clementine -- appears de-pipped months before Christmas.

  Derek Jarman

  Flower, Past, Civilization

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