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• Those whose purpose does not match yours are not wrong; they have their mission, and finding their own purposeful way may involve many detours and acts that seem destructive.

  Wayne Dyer

  Doe, Purpose, May

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• Along the (writing) way accidents happen, detours get taken... But these are not "divine" accidents; I don't believe in those. I believe you have constructive accidents en route through a novel only because you have mapped a clear way. If you have confidence that you have a clear direction to take, you always have confidence to explore other ways; if they prove to be mere digressions, you'll recognize that and make the necessary revisions. The more you know about a book, the freer you can be to fool around. The less you know, the tighter you get.

  John Irving

  Believe, Book, Taken

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• It is always possible to approach a goal by a detour.

  Theodor Reik

  Goal, Approach

  Theodor Reik (2002). “Love and Lust: On the Psychoanalysis of Romantic and Sexual Emotions”, p.267, Transaction Publishers

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• In the '60s, my father, Wally Amos, had been a talent agent and a personal manager before taking a major career detour in 1975, when he opened a store selling chocolate chip cookies.

  Shawn Amos

  Father, Careers, Chocolate

  "Cookies & Milk: Scenes From a ‘70s Hollywood Childhood" by Shawn Amos, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 19, 2011.

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• Failure does not exist. Once you hit the construction zone road blocks, follow the detour signs to get back to ur original path.

  Behdad Sami

  Block, Doe, Path

  Twitter post from Aug 15, 2014

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• In the beginning, I had considered these stops on my journey as interruptions - but I'm coming to understand that perhaps these detours are my journey.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Journey, Interruptions, My Journey

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• We plan our lives in long, unbroken stretches that intersect our dreams the way highways connect the city dots on a road map. But in the end we learn that life is lived in the side roads, alleys, and detours.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Dream, Cities, Long

  Richard Paul Evans (2012). “Miles to Go: The Second Journal of the Walk Series”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error.

  Hermann Hesse

  Errors, Self, Siddhartha

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.9, Om Books International

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• Being in the neighborhood and the poverty stricken environment that I grew up in, I took a detour. I gravitated towards some of the individuals that did a lot of the wrong things with the right intentions.

  Kevin Gates

  Poverty, Environment, Intention

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• I don't see love as some perfect happily ever after thing like it is in books and movies. It's more like a bumpy road filled with potholes...and detours. Sometimes we even veer off into the ditch. But the places that road will take you, the things you'll experience, are worth all of the uncertainty.

  Melissa Brown

  Book, Perfect, Bumpy Roads

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• The cross is not a detour or a hurdle on the way to the kingdom, nor is it even the way to the kingdom; it is the kingdom come.

  John Howard Yoder

  Kingdoms, Way, Crosses

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• It's funny how you can intensely investigate one very particular thing, and then it can lead you to other things through links and stuff like that. It's like you're going on this selective, very precise detour. But then it is strange because with it being so quick, there must be a difference.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Differences, Links, Stuff

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The really happy woman is the one who can enjoy the scenery when she has to take a detour. Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but rather a manner of traveling.

  Samuel Johnson

  States, Enjoy, Happy Woman

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• If you believe the disappointments - if you believe the disappointments in the last few years are a detour and not our destiny, then I'm asking for your vote.

  Mitt Romney

  Disappointment, Believe, Destiny

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• The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.[make the best of what is necessary...if you can't have what you love, love what you have...as there are lovable or at least positive aspects in everything, because anything could be worse]

  James Jeans

  Gratitude, Lovable, Aspect

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• Do we have a guide to help us choose the right and avoid dangerous detours? I have tried to pattern my life after the Master. Whenever I have a difficult decision to make, I have looked at that picture and asked myself, "What would He do?" Then I try to do it. We can never go wrong when we choose to follow the Savior.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Agency, Decision, Trying

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• Live every day to fulfill your personal mission. God has a reason for whatever season you are living through right now. A season of loss or blessing? A season of activity or hibernation? A season of growth or incubation? You may think you're on a detour, but God knows the best way for you to reach your destination.

  Barbara Johnson

  Loss, Blessing, Thinking

  Barbara Johnson (2000). “Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around”, p.54, Zondervan

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• Life isn't always easy and we are never guaranteed that things will always go smoothly…It progresses with an almost constant series of challenges, but these obstacles are just detours that we have to take in order to meet our ultimate goals. No matter what sort of adversity or challenge you might face, you can always believe that, with hope, it can be conquered and, in the end, you will be stronger for it.

  Brooke Ellison

  Believe, Adversity, Order

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• I've been lonely for so long. And I've been hurt so deeply. If only I could have met you again a long time ago, then I wouldn't have had to take all these detours to get here.' Tengo shook his head. 'I don't think so. This way is just fine. This is exactly the right time. For both of us. [...] We needed that much time.... to understand how lonely we really were.

  Haruki Murakami

  Lonely, Hurt, Thinking

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• Sometimes -- she knows this from her own life -- to get to the other side, you must travel through grief. No detours are possible.

  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

  Grief, Sides, Sometimes

  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (2014). “Oleander Girl: A Novel”, p.276, Simon and Schuster

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• If my false figures came near to the facts, this happened merely by chance ... These comments are not worth printing. Yet it gives me pleasure to remember how many detours I had to make, along how many walls I had to grope in the darkness of my ignorance until I found the door which lets in the light of the truth ... In such manner did I dream of the truth.

  Johannes Kepler

  Dream, Wall, Ignorance

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• Secure web servers are the equivalent of heavy armoured cars. The problem is, they are being used to transfer rolls of coins and cheques written in crayon by people on park benches to merchants doing business in cardboard boxes from beneath highway bridges. Further, the roads are subject to random detours, anyone with a screwdriver can control the traffic lights, and there are no police.

  Gene Spafford

  Light, Bridges, People

  Simson Garfinkel, Gene Spafford (1997). “Web Security & Commerce”, O'Reilly Media

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• From the reader's point of view, punctuation provides a map for one who must otherwise drive blindly past the by-ways, intersections, and detours of a writer's thought.

  Mina P. Shaughnessy

  Writing, Past, Views

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• No matter how many detours and adjustments it made, the caravan moved toward the same compass point. Once obstacles were overcome, it returned to its course, sighting on a star that indicated the location of the oasis.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Stars

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

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• The right way to wholeness is made up of fateful detours and wrong turnings.

  Carl Jung

  Fate, Destiny, Way

  Carl Gustav Jung, Murray Stein (1999). “Jung on Christianity”, p.184, Princeton University Press

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