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• Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjöld, 1963.

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• Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Inspirational, Funny, Success

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• There are no footprints on the sea and no road-signs, not a single guard-stone or post, and no bends, only paths of light and dark from which to choose, the choice is always a difficult navigation and the storm's wingspan immeasurable as the depths and the horizon, but the sea holds you in its mighty hand your life is a sea-blue tale of love and death.

  Ase-Marie Nesse

  Life, Dark, Light

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• By looking up, by raising our eyes above our limited horizon, we are more likely to perceive the blessings hidden in affliction.

  David Steindl-Rast

  Thank You, Eye, Blessing

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• In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

  Henry Miller

  Witty, Ignorance, Knowledge

  Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.262, New Directions Publishing

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• There will always be those who feel more comfortable not venturing from the warmth of the hearth, but there are those who prefer to look out the window and wonder what is beyond the horizon.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Looks, Wonder, Window

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• So, transform yourself first… Because you are young and have dreams and want to do something meaningful, that in itself, makes you our future and our hope. Keep expanding your horizon, decolonize your mind, and cross borders.

  Yuri Kochiyama

  Meaningful, Dream, Mind

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• Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression.

  Sam Abell

  Light, Expression, Photographer

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• It’s amazing how things could change so quickly, in the blink of an eye. Maybe more miracles awaited on the horizon.

  Bryan Davis

  Eye, Miracle, Blink

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• I am grateful that my horizons were not narrowed at the outset.

  Jessye Norman

  Grateful, I Am Grateful

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• What breaks in daybreak? Is it the night? Is it the sun, cracked in two by the horizon like an egg, spilling out light?

  Margaret Atwood

  Night, Light, Eggs

  Margaret Atwood (2009). “The Year of the Flood”, p.22, Anchor

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• The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Inspirational, Eye, Leader

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• One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living.

  Dale Carnegie

  Life, Procrastination, Garden

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to stop worrying & start living”, p.22, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Education, Teacher, Powerful

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• In a last violent protest against the hopelessness of imminent death, I sensed my spirit piercing through the enveloping gloom. I felt it transcend that hopeless, meaningless world, and from somewhere I heard a victorious "Yes" in answer to my question of the existence of an ultimate purpose. At that moment a light was lit in a distant farmhouse, which stood on the horizon as if painted there, in the midst of the miserable gray of a dawning morning in Bavaria. "Et lux in tenebris lucet"-and the light shineth in the darkness.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Morning, Light, Darkness

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.37, Beacon Press

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• October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen.

  Hal Borland

  New Horizons, October, Leafs

  Hal Borland (2014). “This Hill, This Valley”, p.255, Open Road Media

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• Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.

  W. Eugene Smith

  Photography, Distance, Umpires

  W. Eugene Smith (1969). “W. Eugene Smith, his photographs and notes”

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• No monster vibration, no snake universe hallucinations. Many tiny jeweled violet flowers along the path of a living brook that looked like Blake's illustration for a canal in grassy Eden: huge Pacific watery shore, Orlovsky dancing naked like Shiva long-haired before giant green waves, titanic cliffs that Wordsworth mentioned in his own Sublime, great yellow sun veiled with mist hanging over the planet's oceanic horizon. No harm.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Flower, Snakes, Yellow

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• The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon.

  Henry Miller

  Artist, Literature, Sin

  Henry Miller (1961). “The Cosmological Eye”, p.168, New Directions Publishing

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• When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

  Thomas Paine

  Pain, Freedom, Patriotic

  Thomas Paine (1945). “The Complete Writings of Thomas Paine”

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• The wideness of the horizon has to be inside us, cannot be anywhere but inside us, otherwise what we speak about is geographic distances.

  Ella Maillart

  Distance, Talking, Speak

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• A weakened mind always sees everything through a black veil. The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is dark, which is why you see such a cloudy sky.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Dark, Sky, Soul

  Alexandre Dumas (1981). “The Count of Monte Cristo”

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• I need to broaden my horizons.

  Trevor Dunn

  Needs

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• To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

  James Russell Lowell

  Education, Knowledge, Desire

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• Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose film, only time enough to expose our hearts.

  Minor White

  Photography, Travel, Heart

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