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• Grief is perhaps an unknown territory for you. You might feel both helpless and hopeless without a sense of a 'map' for the journey. Confusion is the hallmark of a transition. To rebuild both your inner and outer world is a major project.

  Anne Grant

  Grief, Journey, Confusion

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• When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Single

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.67, A&C Black

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• The map of the world is always changing; sometimes it happens overnight. All it takes is the blink of an eye, the squeeze of a trigger, a sudden gust of wind. Wake up and your life is perched on a precipice; fall asleep, it swallows you whole.

  Anderson Cooper

  Fall, Eye, Wind

  Anderson Cooper (2009). “Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.

  Saint Augustine

  Heart, Men, Hair

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• You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.

  Mary Schmich

  Movie, Gambling, Two

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• What I need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface. Perspective is necessary. Otherwise there are only two dimensions. Otherwise you live with your face squashed up against a wall, everything a huge foreground, of details, close-ups, hairs, the weave of the bedsheet, the molecules of the face. Your own skin like a map, a diagram of futility, criscrossed with tiny roads that lead nowhere. Otherwise you live in the moment. Which is not where I want to be.

  Margaret Atwood

  Wall, Two, Hair

  FaceBook post by Margaret Atwood from Jul 25, 2012

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• There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.

  Meryl Streep

  Family, Negotiation, Enormous

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found in structure, and structure alone.

  Alfred Korzybski

  World, Links, Territory

  Alfred Korzybski (1958). “Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics”, p.61, Institute of GS

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• I think it puts baseball back on the map as a sport. It's America's pastime and just look at everyone coming out to the ballpark. It has been an exciting year.

  Mark McGwire

  Sports, Baseball, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The art of biography is different from geography. Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.

  E. C. Bentley

  Art, Different, Biographies

  'Biography for Beginners' (1905) introduction

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• When you love someone, truly love them, you lay your heart open to them. You give them a part of yourself that you give to no one else, and you let them inside a part of you that only they can hurt-you literally hand them the razor with a map of where to cut deepest and most painfully on your heart and soul. And when they do strike, it’s crippling-like having your heart carved out.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hurt, Heart, Cutting

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• So geographers, in Africa maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er uninhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns

  Jonathan Swift

  Elephants, Savages, Want

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• The most promising words ever written on the maps of human knowledge are terra incognita, unknown territory.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Territory, Humans, Written

  Daniel J. Boorstin (2011). “The Discoverers”, p.16, Vintage

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• Buddha left a road map, Jesus left a road map, Krishna left a road map, Rand McNally left a road map. But you still have to travel the road yourself

  Stephen Levine

  Jesus, Life And Love, Krishna

  Stephen Levine, Ondrea Levine (2012). “Who Dies?: An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying”, p.18, Anchor

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• You'll learn more about a road by traveling it than by consulting all the maps in the world.

  Ray Kroc

  World, Consulting

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• Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Inspiration, Learning, People

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.47, Bantam

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• I'm never sad when a friend goes far away, because whichever city or country that friend goes to, they turn the place friendly. They turn a suspicious-looking name on the map into a place where a welcome can be found. Maybe the friend will talk about you sometimes, to other friends that live around him, and then that's almost as good as being there yourself. You're in several places at once! In fact, my daughter, I would even go so far as to say that the further away your friends, and the more spread out they are the better your chances of going safely through the world.

  Helen Oyeyemi

  Daughter, Country, Cities

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• If one looks at the map of the world, it's difficult to find Iraq, and one would think it rather easy to subdue such a small country.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Thinking, Iraq

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• No one church has all the answers or the perfect map to the Promised Land, and I prefer to work out my own faith and my own convictions in the seclusion of my own mind.

  Charley Pride

  Land, Work Out, Perfect

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• I've got a little baby, I made him...He doesn't speak, he's 2...He's a slow learner, he's only got 2 words...car and map...I'm slightly worried he's trying to escape. If his next word is passport we are in serious trouble!

  Michael McIntyre

  Witty, Baby, Car

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• A map in the hands of a pilot is a testimony of a man's faith in other men; it is a symbol of confidence and trust. It is not like a printed page that bears mere words, ambiguous and artful, and whose most believing reader - even whose author, perhaps - must allow in his mind a recess for doubt. A map says to you, 'Read me carefully, follow me closely, doubt me not.' It says, 'I am the earth in the palm of your hand. Without me, you are alone and lost.

  Beryl Markham

  Believe, Men, Hands

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.272, Open Road Media

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• The world is not in your books and maps, it's out there.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Book, Earth Day, World

  "Fictional character: Gandalf". "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey", www.imdb.com. 2012.

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• Our destiny is not mapped out for us by some exterior power; we map it out for ourselves. What we think and do in the present determines what shall happen to us in the future.

  Christian D. Larson

  Destiny, Thinking, Determine

  Christian D. Larson (2009). “Your Forces and How to Use Them”, p.72, The Floating Press

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• A map is not a journey.

  Phyllis A. Whitney

  Journey

  Phyllis A. Whitney (1988). “Guide to Fiction Writing”, Writer

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• My clothes are most comfortable as well as practical. I wear navy blue slacks and a long sleeve shirt topped with my lettered tunic. Along the edge of my tunic, both front and rear, are partitioned compartments which are hemmed up to serve as pockets. These hold all my possessions which consist of a comb, a folding toothbrush, a ball point pen, a map, some copies of my message and my mail.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Clothes, Blue, Long

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