Drifting Quotes

• A life without purpose is a languid, drifting thing; Every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let me make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is naught!

  Thomas a Kempis

  Inspirational, Gymnastics, Sound

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• Life's simple, you make choices and you don't look back.

  Sung Kang

  Simple, Choices, Looks

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• Every day you spend drifting away from your goals is a waste not only of that day, but also of the additional day it takes to regain lost ground.

  Ralph Marston

  Drifting Off, Goal, Waste

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• Drifting, without aim or purpose, is the first cause of failure.

  Napoleon Hill

  Purpose, Firsts, Causes

  Napoleon Hill (1997). “Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success”, p.86, Penguin

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• We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.

  Blaise Pascal

  Inspirational, Funny, Sailing

  Blaise Pascal, W. F. Trotter, T. S. Eliot (2003). “Pensees”, p.19, Courier Corporation

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• Here's one problem with drifting: you can't drift your way to the top of the mountain.

  Jim Rohn

  Mountain, Way, Problem

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• My life owes me. Like an overdose, I'm slowly
  Drifting into the arms of trouble, then trouble holds me

  K'naan

  Rap, Arms, Trouble

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• The moon and sun are travelers through eternity. Even the years wander on. Whether drifting through life on a boat or climbing toward old age leading a horse, each day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.

  Matsuo Basho

  Horse, Home, Moon

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• I sit where the leaves of the maple and the gnarled and knotted gum are circling and drifting around me.

  Alice Cary

  Gum, Maple

  Alice Cary, Phoebe Cary (1850). “Poems of Alice and Phoebe Carey ...”, p.140

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• There came a day when the clouds drifting along with the wind aroused a wanderlust in me, and I set off on a journey to roam along the seashores

  Matsuo Basho

  Journey, Clouds, Wind

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• Wakening from the dreaming forest there, the hazel-sprig sang under my tongue, its drifting fragrance climbed up through my conscious mind as if suddenly the roots I had left behind cried out to me, the land I had lost with my childhood - and I stopped, wounded by the wandering scent.

  Pablo Neruda

  Dream, Land, Roots

  Pablo Neruda (1986). “100 Love Sonnets: Cien sonetos de amor”, University of Texas Press

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• Not often in the story of mankind does a man arrive on earth who is both steel and velvet, who is as hard as rock and soft as drifting fog, who holds in his heart and mind the paradox of terrible storm and peace unspeakable and perfect.

  Carl Sandburg

  Peace, Heart, Men

  CARL SANDBURG (1954). “ABRAHAM LINCOLN: THE PRAIRIE YEARS AND THE WAR YEARS”

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• If you have no major purpose, you are drifting toward certain failure.

  Napoleon Hill

  Purpose, Certain, Majors

  Napoleon Hill (1997). “Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success”, p.91, Penguin

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• Didn't you tie the mittens on her feet (Wednesday Evening's) extra special nice? Yes--she is an extra special nice pigeon. She cries for pity when she wants pity. And she shuts her eyes when she doesn't want to look at you. And if you look deep in her eyes when her eyes are open you will see lights there exactly like the lights on the pastures and the meadows when the mist is drifting on a Wednesday evening just between the twilight and gloaming.

  Carl Sandburg

  Nice, Twilight, Eye

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• I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The woods do that to you, they always look familiar, long lost, like the face of a long-dead relative, like an old dream, like a piece of forgotten song drifting across the water, most of all like golden eternities of past childhood or past manhood and all the living and the dying and the heartbreak that went on a million years ago and the clouds as they pass overhead seem to testify (by their own lonesome familiarity) to this feeling.

  Jack Kerouac

  Dream, Wisdom, Song

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “Road Novels 1957-1960”

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• Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if youre not careful.

  Ian Mckellen

  Old Friends, Unseen, Architecture

  "Ian McKellen: 'I couldn't be a dad, I'm too selfish'". Mirror.co.uk Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. April 11, 2010.

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• The older you get, the more you realize that kindness is synonymous with happiness

  Lionel Barrymore

  Inspirational, Positive, Kindness

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• When in still air and still in summertime
  A leaf has had enough of this, it seems
  To make up its mind to go; fine as a sage
  Its drifting in detachment down the road.

  Howard Nemerov

  Summer, Air, August

  Howard Nemerov (1981). “The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov”, p.440, University of Chicago Press

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• I was born to catch dragons in their dens
  And pick flowers
  To tell tales and laugh away the morning
  To drift and dream like a lazy stream
  And walk barefoot across sunshine days.

  James Kavanaugh

  Dream, Morning, Flower

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• We are indeed drifting into the arena of the unwell.

  Bruce Robinson

  Arena, Stopped Clock

  Bruce Robinson (2015). “Withnail and I”, p.22, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The older you get, the more you learn.

  Martina Hingis

  Sports, Short Life, Life Is Short

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

  Beck

  Wind, Desert, World

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

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• Well, I would say that I'm just drifting. Here in the pool.

  Benjamin Day

  Pool, Wells

  "Fictional character: Benjamin Braddock". "The Graduate", www.imdb.com. 1967.

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• I thought everyone would be familiar with this figure: if I'd studied a thing in school I assumed it was general knowledge. I hadn't yet discovered that I lived in a sort of transparent balloon, drifting over the world without making much contact with it, and that the people I knew appeared to me at a different angle from the one at which they appeared to themselves; and that the reverse was also true. I was smaller to others, up there in my balloon, than I was to myself. I was also blurrier.

  Margaret Atwood

  School, People, Different

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• The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.

  Clarence Darrow

  Fate, Dirt, Sides

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “The Story of My Life”, p.411, Lulu.com

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