Desert Quotes

• On your journey to your dream, be ready to face oasis and deserts. In both cases, don't stop

  Paulo Coelho

  Motivational, Moving On, Encouraging

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jun 26, 2014

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• The house, the stars, the desert -- what gives them their beauty is something that is invisible!

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Stars, Giving, House

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• The desert tells a different story every time one ventures on it.

  Robert Edison Fulton, Jr.

  Different, Stories, Venture

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• When you're in the desert, you look into infinity.... It makes you feel terribly small, and also in a strange way, quite big.

  David Lean

  Looks, Way, Infinity

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• You can't fight the desert... you have to ride with it.

  Louis L'Amour

  Fighting, Acceptance

  Louis L'Amour (2003). “The Lonely Men”, p.41, Bantam

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• Desert, in generally, is a very good place to find yourself. Or lose yourself.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Finding Yourself, Losing Yourself, Very Good

  Source: www.columbusalive.com

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• I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Silence, Gleam, Sand

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• What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Beauty, Beautiful, Beach

  "The Little Prince". Book by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, April, 1943.

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• Men had always been the reciters of poetry in the desert.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Men

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The English Patient”, p.240, Vintage

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• A desert is a place without expectation.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Expectations

  Nadine Gordimer (2012). “Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1950-2008”, p.313, A&C Black

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• Simplicity is the heart of everything. If you look to the desert, apparently the desert is very simple but it's full of life, it's full of hidden places and the beauty is that it looks simple but it's complex in the way that it expresses the soul of the world or God.

  Paulo Coelho

  Heart, Simple, Simplicity

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• The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Silence, Deep Thought, Body

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• A forest is mystery but the desert is truth. Life pared to the bone.

  Keith Miller

  Forests, Mystery, Bones

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• Let the desert wind cool your aching head. Let the weight of the world - drift away instead

  Beck

  Wind, World, Weight

  Song: The Golden Age, Album: Sea Change, 2002

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• Magic of the shadows can best be seen in the deserts.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Magic, Shadow

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• Let those desert places in our hearts bloom.

  Pope Francis

  Heart

  Pope Francis's Urbi Et Orbi Message, w2.vatican.va. March 31, 2013.

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• In the desert you become a discoverer. You discover your soul, which had been submerged in vain pursuits, which had been lost in the coils and toils of modern life. You discover your kinship with nature and man, which is evoked by the naturalness and the gentle humanity of the natives of the desert, and you will also discover God.

  Ameen Rihani

  Men, Humanity, Over You

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• I will fill myself with the desert and the sky. I will be stone and stars, unchanging and strong and safe. The desert is complete; it is spare and alone, but perfect in its soltitude. I will be the desert.

  Kiersten White

  Strong, Stars, Sky

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• In the empire of desert, water is the king and shadow is the queen.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Kings, Queens, Water

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• Without water the desert is nothing but a grave.

  Mildred Cable

  Water, Graves

  Mildred Cable, Francesca French (1944). “The Gobi Desert”

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• The desert wears... a veil of mystery. Motionless and silent it evokes in us an elusive hint of something unknown, unknowable, about to be revealed. Since the desert does not act it seems to be waiting -- but waiting for what?

  Edward Abbey

  Waiting, Doe, Hints

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.241, Simon and Schuster

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• The desert is an ideal illusion of a blank slate - so much mystery in endless layers is hidden underneath its bright, pseudo-sterile surface.

  Vera Nazarian

  Layers, Pseudo, Mystery

  Source: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com

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• The ideal person is he who, in the midst of the greatest silence and solitude, finds the intensest activity, and in the midst of the intensest activity finds the silence and solitude of the desert.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiration, Practice, Silence

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.39, Manonmani Publishers

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• The desert is no longer a landscape, it is a pure form produced by the abstraction of all others.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Landscape, Form, Pure

  Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.127, Verso

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• The desert is a capricious lady, and sometimes she drives men crazy.

  Paulo Coelho

  Crazy, Men, Sometimes

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

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