My Journey Quotes - Page 6

It is certainly true that cooking is therapeutic, creative and all those other faintly creepy self-helpish words. I would love to tell you that learning to cook was part of my journey toward actualization. I would love to tell Oprah this. I would love to tell Oprah this while weeping. But I learned to cook for a much simpler reason: in the abject hope that people would spend time with me if I put good things in their mouth. It is, in other words (like practically everything else I do), a function of my desperation for emotional connection and acclaim.

Steve Almond

Emotional, Journey, Self

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As a gender variant visual artist I access 'technologies of gender' in order to amplify rather than erase the hermaphroditic traces of my body. I name myself. A gender abolitionist. A part time gender terrorist. An intentional mutation and intersex by design, (as opposed to diagnosis), in order to distinguish my journey from the thousands of intersex individuals who have had their 'ambiguous' bodies mutilated and disfigured in a misguided attempt at 'normalization'. I believe in crossing the line as many times as it takes to build a bridge we can all walk across.

Del LaGrace Volcano

Believe, Technology, Journey

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Embrace what makes you unique, even if it makes others uncomfortable. i didn't have to become perfect because I've learned throughout my journey that perfection is the enemy of greatness.

Janelle Monae

Unique, Journey, Greatness

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My journey is so similar to everyone elses journey, because we all are human. We all have been defeated by the powers of darkness, and we all find redemption in the light of Christ.

Ted Dekker

Journey, Light, Darkness

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Possibly I want to bring my acting into the cooking, blending the two together. What I love is cooking for other people and seeing them enjoy what I have created for them. And same thing goes for acting. I have even tried to make some Chinese dishes before. It's very difficult. That's probably why eating at authentic Chinese restaurants is part of my journey here.

Jeremy Miller

Journey, Love Is, Two

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My life is about my journey, and your life is about your journey. You are completely unqualified to draw my map, and I am completely unqualified to draw yours. I hope you'll let me know all about the path you've found, so that I may judge it for myself against my own path, and have the freedom to choose between the two. But please don't try and drag me from my path on to yours, and I will be sure to return the favor.

Derek R. Audette

Life, Journey, Two

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My journey has been that of a character actor.

Harry Carey, Jr.

Character, Journey, Actors

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

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I knew that if I allowed fear to overtake me, my journey was doomed. Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story from the one women are told. I decided I was safe. I was strong. I was brave. Nothing could vanquish me.

Cheryl Strayed

Strong, Journey, Brave

Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found”, p.50, Atlantic Books Ltd

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I'm different than most people...when I cross the finish line of a big race, I see that people are ecstatic, but I'm thinking about what I'm going to do tomorrow. It's as If my Journey is everlasting and there is no finish line

David Goggins

Journey, Thinking, Race

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But one of the big lessons I have learned from my journey is you can’t please everyone, so don’t try.

Chris Colfer

Journey, Trying, Lessons

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Things might not go as planned, but at the end of the day it’s up to me to take those risks and do what I love most. And I don’t owe anybody an explanation. My journey is my journey.

Janelle Monae

Journey, Risk, The End Of The Day

"Going Androidgenous With Janelle MonÃ¡e". Interview with Victoria Rossi, www.motherjones.com. November 29, 2010.

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My journey as a player is complete.

Rickey Henderson

Player, Journey

Major League Baseball Hall of Fame Induction Speech, delivered 26 July 2009, Cooperstown, OH

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All I wanted was to live a life where I could be me, and be okay with that. I had no need for material possessions, money or even close friends with me on my journey. I never understood people very well anyway, and they never seemed to understand me very well either. All I wanted was my art and the chance to be the creator of my own world, my own reality. I wanted the open road and new beginnings every day.

Charlotte Erickson

Art, New Beginnings, Journey

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I think an art collection is a lot like a diary. Your taste evolves with time. I try to never sell anything, because its part of my journey.

Delphine Arnault

Art, Thinking, Journey

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When I first found out I had HIV, I had to find somebody who was living with it, who could help me understand my journey and what I was going to have to deal with day-to-day. I found out that a person named Elizabeth Frazier was living with AIDS at the time, and so I called her up, and she took a meeting with me.

Magic Johnson

Journey, Hiv, Aids Day

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

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I am deeply moved by the warmth and courage of the Canadian people which I felt so strongly during my recent visit to your country. Your support of the struggle against apartheid restored me in my journey home and reassured me that many just people around the world are with us.

Desmond Tutu

Country, Struggle, Home

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I was not offended, my love. An insult is like a drink; it affects one only if accepted. And pride is too heavy baggage for my journey.

Robert A. Heinlein

Pride, Journey, Baggage

Robert A. Heinlein (2007). “Glory Road”, p.136, Macmillan

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As for me, I used to be a bird
with a gentle white womb,
someone cut my throat
just for laughs,
I don’t know.
As for me, I used to be a great albatross
and whirled over the seas.
Someone put an end to my journey,
without any charity in the tone of it.
But even stretched out on the ground
I sing for you now
my songs of love.

Alda Merini

Song, Cutting, Journey

Alda Merini (2016). “Love Lessons: Selected Poems of Alda Merini”, p.51, Princeton University Press

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because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.

Alan Paton

Stars, Lying, Journey

Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.159, Simon and Schuster

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Peace be with you," I said, and as I turned to resume my journey with Coyote, I added under my breath, "and asskicking be with me.

Kevin Hearne

Journey, Coyotes, Said

Kevin Hearne (2011). “Hexed: The Iron Druid Chronicles, Book Two”, p.75, Del Rey

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With every year that I grow older, I also draw closer to (my loved ones) to the day when we will once again be together. So I march through the deepening shadows, serene and unafraid, because I know that at the end of my journey they will be waiting for me.

Tess Gerritsen

Journey, Years, Waiting

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People who thought of my journey as a physical ordeal or an act of courage... missed the point. Courage and physical endurance were no more than useful items of equipment for me, like facility with languages or immunity to hepatitis. The goal was comprehension, and the only way to comprehend the world was by making myself vulnerable to it so that it could change me. The challenge was to lay myself open to everybody and everything that came my way. The prize was to change and grow big enough to feel one with the whole world.

Ted Simon

Journey, Goal, People

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