Journey Quotes - Page 36

• Impatience asks for the impossible, wants to reach the goal without the means of getting there. The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Mean, Goal, Want

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1990). “Preface and Introduction to The phenomenology of mind”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• Man makes one journey all his living days, Down through the realms of music and of art; Down through the halls of fame and glorious praise; Down through the tears and triumphs of the heart To some sweet woman waiting some place there. For her he builds his cities and makes war, Seeks gold and glorious wealth to store.

  John Updike

  Sweet, Art, War

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• O holy trust! O endless sense of rest! Like the beloved John To lay his head upon the Saviour's breast, And thus to journey on!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Trust, Beloved, Holy

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1855). “The Poetical Works of H.W. Longfellow ...”, p.77

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• Look at this vigorous plant that lifts its head from the meadow, See how its leaves are turned to the north, as true as the magnet; This is the compass-flower, that the finger of God has planted Here in the houseless wild, to direct the traveller's journey. Over the sea-like, pathless, limitless waste of the desert, Such in the soul of man is faith.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Flower, Men, Sea

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.359, Delphi Classics

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• If a man knows he will sooner or later be robbed upon a journey, he will have a bottle of the best in every inn, and look upon all his extravagances as so much gained upon the thieves.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Men, Looks, Extravagance

  1878 An Inland Voyage,'The Oise in Flood'.

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• Forgiving the men who killed my parents and brother was a process, a journey into deeper and deeper prayer.

  Immaculee Ilibagiza

  Brother, Prayer, Men

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• I am out of humanity's reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own.

  William Cowper

  Sweet, Humanity, Sound

  William Cowper (1824). “Poems”, p.172

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• I never was attached to that great sect, Whose doctrine is, that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress or a friend, And all the rest, though fair and wise, commend To cold oblivion, though it is in the code Of modern morals, and the beaten road Which those poor slaves with weary footsteps tread, Who travel to their home among the dead By the broad highway of the world, and so With one chained friend — perhaps a jealous foe, The dreariest and the longest journey go.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Marriage, Wise, Home

  'Epipsychidion' (1821) l. 149

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• The search for pleasure is circular, repetitive, atemporal. The variety seeking of the spectator, the thrill hunter, the sexually promiscuous, always ends in the same place. It has an end. It comes to the end and has to start over. It is not a journey and return, but a closed cycle, a locked room, a cell.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Cells, Starting Over, Hunters

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• The identification with the common lot which is the essential idea of Democracy becomes the source and expression of social ethics. It is as though we thirsted to drink at the great wells of human experience, because we knew that a daintier or less potent draught would not carry us to the end of the journey, going forward as we must in the heat and jostle of the crowd.

  Jane Addams

  Expression, Ideas, Democracy

  Jane Addams (2016). “Democracy and Social Ethics”, p.14, Youcanprint

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• The journey to true happiness and to happiness now is not a journey of physical distance or time; it is one of personal "self-recovery," where we remember and reconnect consciously to an inner potential for joy--a paradise lost--waiting to be found.

  Robert Holden

  Distance, Recovery, Self

  Robert Holden (2011). “Happiness Now!: Timeless Wisdom for Feeling Good Fast”, p.7, Hay House, Inc

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• Along the road of life are many pleasure resorts, but think not that by tarrying in them you will take more days to the journey. The day of your arrival is already recorded.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Thinking, Pleasure

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Epigrams by Ambrose Bierce”, p.13, e-artnow

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• The iron arc of the avoiding journey Curves back upon my weakness at the end; Whether the faint light spark against my face Or in the dark my sight hide from my sight, Centre and circumference are both my weakness.

  Stephen Spender

  Dark, Light, Sight

  Stephen Spender (1966). “World Within World: The Autobiography of Stephen Spender”, p.5, Univ of California Press

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• The birth of a child is the imprisonment of a soul. The soul must work its way out of prison, and, in doing so, provide itself with wings for a future journey. It is for each of us to determine whether our wings shall be those of an angel or a grub!

  William Gilmore Simms

  Children, Angel, Wings

  William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.26

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• Not only does a journey transport us over enormous distances, it also causes us to move a few degrees up or down in the social scale. It displaces us physically and also for better or for worse takes us out of our class context, so that the colour and flavour of certain places cannot be dissociated from the always unexpected social level on which we find ourselves in experiencing them.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Distance, Moving, Class

  Claude Levi-Strauss (2012). “Tristes Tropiques”, p.87, Penguin

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• Absolute peace in our world is an unattainable goal. But it is one towards which we must continue to journey, our eyes fixed on it as a traveller in a desert fixes his eyes on the one guiding star that will lead him to salvation.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Peace, Stars, Eye

  Aung San Suu Kyi's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. June 16, 2012.

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• If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over. Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.

  Anthony Trollope

  Falling In Love, Car, Mind

  Anthony Trollope (1862). “North America”, p.159

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• Even if this earth is only a vestibule, we ought undoubtedly to make such a use of its blessing that we are assisted rather than delayed in our journey.

  John Calvin

  Blessing, Use, Earth

  "Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life" by John Calvin, Baker Books, a division of Baker Publishing Group, Grand Rapids, Michingan, United States, (p. 84), December 1, 2004.

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• Science is an intellectual journey, and to me, it's not the destination, it's the journeyto get there. It's a way of thinking and it's an intellectual curiosity, a desire to know how the world works, and to know what the fundamental principles of the world are, and to know our place in it. I think once we stop asking questions like "what is the age of the universe," or "how are the instructions of DNA carried out on a microscopic level," once we stop asking questions like that, we're dead.

  Alan Lightman

  Thinking, Asking Questions, Dna

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• The effect of the people's agreeing that there must be central planning, without agreeing on the ends, will be rather as if a group of people were to commit themselves to take a journey together without agreeing where they want to go; with the result that they may all have to make a journey which most of them do not want at all.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  People, Together, Groups

  "The Road to Serfdom". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 5 : Planning and Democracy, 1940 - 1943.

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• Life is a journey, you know; and a lot of journeys, you go out, you come back.

  Cat Stevens

  Life Is A Journey, Life Is, Knows

  London Tonight Interview, ITV, December 08, 2009.

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• Courage is finding the inner strength and bravery required when confronting danger, difficulty, or opposition. Courage is the energy current behind all great actions and the spark that ignites the initial baby steps of growth. It resides deep within each of us, ready to be accessed in those moments when you need to forge ahead or break through seemingly insurmountable barriers. It is the intangible force that propels you forward on your journey.

  Cherie Carter-Scott

  Baby, Courage, Break Through

  Cherie Carter-Scott (1999). “If Life Is a Game, These Are the Rules: Ten Rules for Being Human as Introduced in Chicken Soup for the Soul”, p.104, Harmony

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• I guess it's a sequel to our story From the journey 'tween heaven and hell With half the time thinking of what might have been and half thinkin' just as well. I guess only time will tell.

  Harry Chapin

  Thinking, Heaven, Tweens

  Song: Sequel

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• I am on the longest, craziest journey of my life and loving every minute of it! Who would have known a few plants would take you around the world!

  Jack Williams

  World, Plant, Minutes

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• We tell each other stories so we can understand the world better and there's catharsis and we understand the models of what a hero could be and what the hero's journey as a human being is all about. But unfortunately, I think sometimes those stories too can be very prohibitive and confining.

  Chris Pine

  Hero, Thinking, Catharsis

  "'Into the Woods' Emily Blunt, Anna Kendrick, Chris Pine and James Corden on Love and Dating". Q&A from the New York press conference., cinemovie.tv. December 24, 2014.

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