Arriving Quotes - Page 4

• Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Illusion, Future Time, Desirable

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• Love After Love The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the other's welcome, and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was your self. Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life, whom you ignored for another, who knows you by heart. Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, the photographs, the desperate notes, peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life.

  Derek Walcott

  Heart, Wine, Mirrors

  Derek Walcott (2014). “The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013”, p.227, Macmillan

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• A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants. A good scientist has freed himself of concepts and keeps his mind open to what is. Thus the Master is available to all people and doesn't reject anyone. He is ready to use all situations and doesn't waste anything. This is called embodying the light. What is a good man but a bad man's teacher? What is a bad man but a good man's job? If you don't understand this, you will get lost, however intelligent you are. It is the great secret.

  Laozi

  Teacher, Jobs, Men

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• Self-knowledge is not the knowledge of a dead self, self-knowledge is the knowledge of the process of the self. It is an alive phenomenon. The self is not a thing, it is an event, it is a process. Never think in terms of things, the self is not there inside you just like a thing waiting in your room. The self is a process: changing, moving, arriving at new altitudes, moving into new planes, going deeper into new depths. Each moment much work is going on and the only way to encounter this self is to encounter it in relationship.

  Rajneesh

  Relationship, Moving, Thinking

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• You can drop a mouse down a thousand-yard mine shaft and, on arriving at the bottom, it gets a slight shock and walks away. A rat would probably be killed, though it can fall safely from the eleventh story of a building, a man is broken, a horse splashes.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Horse, Fall, Men

  "On Being the Right Size" by J. B. S. Haldane, 1926.

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• To realize that one is really alone, gives new courage to the person. Discovery of truth is a journey, a voyage on which one has to launch alone. You cannot impose the inquiry of truth in the heart of your partner. You cannot compel your partner to have the same intensity or the same depth of inquiry. So irrespective of where you are, the voyage has to be launched upon alone. Taking the inward journey and arriving at silence, is a voyage in solitude.

  Vimala Thakar

  Heart, Journey, Discovery

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• You don't suppose that the photo ops and the military convoys arriving at the same time were a coincidence, do you, Wolf ... Situation Room.

  Wolf Blitzer

  Military, Rooms, Coincidence

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• Woman's inaptitude for reasoning has not prevented her from arriving at truth; nor has man's ability to reason prevented him from floundering in absurdity.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Men, Reason, Floundering

  Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1905). “The Philistine: A Periodical of Protest”

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• Mastery is in the reaching, not in the arriving.

  Sarah Lewis

  Mastery, Reaching

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• In London it had seemed impossible to travel without the proper evening clothes. One could see an invitation arriving for an Embassy ball or something. But on the other side of Europe with the first faint tinges of faraway places becoming apparent and exciting, to say nothing of vanishing roads and extra weight, Embassy balls held less significance.

  Robert Edison Fulton, Jr.

  Europe, Clothes, Balls

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• Striving can be more important than arriving.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Important, Strive

  Marvin J. Ashton (1987). “Be of Good Cheer”, Deseret Book Co

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• One can't realize difficulty arriving at a momentous decision until one comes to do so.

  Aminu Kano

  Decision, Realizing, Difficulty

  Goddy Emeka Ejiofor, Aminu Kano (2002). “Mallam Aminu Kano: a political phenomenon”

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• How can a modern anthropologist embark upon a generalization with any hope of arriving at a satisfactory conclusion? By thinking of the organizational ideas that are present in any society as a mathematical pattern.

  Edmund Leach

  Hope, Math, Thinking

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• [In research on bacteria metabolism] we have indeed much the same position as an observer trying to gain an idea of the life of a household by careful scrutiny of the persons and material arriving or leaving the house; we keep accurate records of the foods and commodities left at the door and patiently examine the contents of the dust-bin and endeavour to deduce from such data the events occurring within the closed doors.

  Marjory Stephenson

  Science, Doors, Dust

  Marjory Stephenson (1939). “Bacterial metabolism”

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• I've never been in love... But I imagine it's similar to the feeling you get when you see your waiter arriving with your food

  Zach Galifianakis

  Feelings, Imagine, Waiter

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• You know, this is why I just don't answer the door (unless I know who's arriving). I don't want to fend off pint-sized salesfolk or tie-with-short-sleeved-shirt-wearing adults. But if you are going to answer the door in your own house, what's wrong with being armed? What makes people feel entitled to a kid-friendly greeting when they disturb random strangers in their homes?

  Ann Althouse

  Kids, Home, Ties

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• If you think peaceful thoughts, you'll feel peaceful emotions, and that's what you'll bring to every life situation. If you're attached to being right or absolutely need something in order to be at peace or successful, you'll live a life of striving yet never arriving.

  Wayne Dyer

  Successful, Thinking, Order

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Oct 30, 2015

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• Arriving at an acceptance of one's mortality is a process, not an epiphany.

  Atul Gawande

  Acceptance, Epiphany, Mortality

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• Set your goals-without goals you cannot measure your progress. But don’t become frustrated because there are no obvious victories. Remind yourself that striving can be more important than arriving.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Goal, Frustrated, Victory

  Marvin J. Ashton (1987). “Be of Good Cheer”, Deseret Book Co

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• It is the duty of men to judge men only by their actions. Our faculties furnish us with no means of arriving at the motive, the character, the secret self. We call the tree good from its fruits, and the man, from his works.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Mean, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2006). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems”, p.58, Bantam Classics

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• A method of painting is a natural growth out of a need. I want to express my feelings rather than illustrate them. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.

  Jackson Pollock

  Mean, Feelings, Growth

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• Come lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving, In the day, in the night, to all, to each, Sooner or later, delicate death.

  Walt Whitman

  Death, Night, Lovely

  'When lilacs last in the dooryard bloomed' st. 14

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• Winning does not always mean coming in first...real victory is in arriving at the finish line with no regrets because you know you've gone all out.

  Apolo Ohno

  Sports, Regret, Cancer

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• I avoid that bleak first hour of the working day during which my still sluggish senses and body make every chore a penance. I find that in arriving later, the work which I do perform is of a much higher quality.

  John Kennedy Toole

  Good Morning, Quality, Body

  John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.149, LSU Press

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• The woman dashed up the staircase toward the library's main doors. Arriving at the top of the stairs, she grabbed the handle and tried desperately to open each of the three giant doors. The library's closed, lady. But the woman didn't seem to care. She seized one of the heavy ring-shaped handles, heaved it backward, and let it fall with a loud crash against the door. Then she did it again. And again. And again. Wow, the homeless man thought, she must really need a book.

  Dan Brown

  Book, Fall, Men

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