Strolling Quotes

• Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going to fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

  Eddie Cantor

  Life, Missing You, Retirement

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• All walking is discovery. On foot we take the time to see things whole.

  Hal Borland

  Time, Journey, Discovery

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• I stroll along serenely, with my eyes, my shoes, my rage, forgetting everything.

  Pablo Neruda

  Eye, Journey, Shoes

  Pablo Neruda (2015). “I Explain a Few Things: Selected Poems”, p.15, Macmillan

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• All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Happiness, Exercise

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• There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.

  Guy Gavriel Kay

  Journey, Destiny, Hiking

  "Tigana". Book by Guy Gavriel Kay, 1990.

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• Nothing like a nighttime stroll to give you ideas.

  J. K. Rowling

  Ideas, Giving, Most Inspiring

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• To live in the present moment is a miracle. The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green Earth in the present moment, to appreciate the peace and beauty that are available now.

  Nhat Hanh

  Time, Appreciate, Water

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2005). “Touching Peace: Practicing the Art of Mindful Living”, p.1, Parallax Press

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• An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Good Morning, Nature, Get Well Soon

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.107, BookBaby

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• Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.

  Rumi

  Journey, Garden, Hiking

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• Take a walk on the wild side.

  Lou Reed

  Journey, Wild Side, Hiking

  "Walk on the Wild Side" (song) (1972)

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• Walks. The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird.

  Jules Renard

  Hiking, Bird, Mind

  Jules Renard (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.266, Tin House Books

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• The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

  Joseph Joubert

  Anger, Hiking, Long Walks

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• [Walking] is the perfect way of moving if you want to see into the life of things. It is the one way of freedom. If you go to a place on anything but your own feet you are taken there too fast, and miss a thousand delicate joys that were waiting for you by the wayside.

  Elizabeth von Arnim

  Taken, Moving, Journey

  Elizabeth von Arnim (2016). “The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen”, p.3, Elizabeth von Arnim

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• Streets crowded with people strolling, or sitting at outdoor cafes. And always, talking, gesturing, singing, laughing. I liked Rome immediately.Everybody was a performer.

  Kirk Douglas

  Funny, Humorous, Italian

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  You never know what's around the corner. It could be everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you've climbed a mountain.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Perseverance, Journey, Feet

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• It is one of the blessings of wilderness life that it shows us how few things we need in order to be perfectly happy.

  Horace Kephart

  Happy, Blessing, Journey

  Horace Kephart (1910). “The Book of Camping and Woodcraft: A Guidebook for Those who Travel in the Wilderness”

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• Of all exercises, walking is the best.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Life, Exercise, Journey

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.13, Modern Library

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• We are here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place.

  Annie Dillard

  Journey, Hiking, Might

  Annie Dillard (2016). “Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters”, p.56, Canongate Books

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• I travel not to go anywhere, but to go.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Journey, Hiking, Sauntering

  Travels with a Donkey "Cheylard and Luc" (1879)

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• The longest journey begins with a single step.

  Patanjali

  Lost Love, Journey, Hiking

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• The true charm of pedestrians does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking.

  Mark Twain

  Lying, Talking, Hiking

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• I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.

  John Muir

  Nature, Flower, Adventure

  John Muir, Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1979). “John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir”, p.427, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• Walks work for me. I enter some arena that is neither conscious or unconscious.

  Mary Oliver

  Arena, Conscious, Walks

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• There is nothing better than strolling down the beach the way God made you.

  Bruce Willis

  Beach, Way, Made

  "Hanging Loose, Willis". www.mirror.co.uk. April 14, 2006.

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• In a city where you walk around, it's impossible to plan your day and your life as accidents will happen, you'll overhear things, bump into people, and take unexpected turns.

  Jason Schwartzman

  Journey, Cities, Hiking

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

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