Wander Quotes - Page 5

• I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

  Mark Twain

  Travel, Hate, Memorable

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.1919, GENERAL PRESS

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• Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Inspirational, Travel, Adventure

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  Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.

  Lawrence Block

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

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• I see my path, but I don't know where it leads.

  Rosalia de Castro

  Travel, Adventure, Hiking

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• The voice of the sea is seductive, never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander in abysses of solitude.

  Kate Chopin

  Sea, Voice, Seductive

  Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.300

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• I was a fantastic student until ten, and then my mind began to wander.

  Grace Paley

  Mind, Students, Fantasy

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• Indeed it is better to postpone, lest either we complete too little by hurrying, or wander too long in completing it.

  Tertullian

  Long, Littles, Completing

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• When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.

  Jack Abbott

  Night, Subjectivity, Ghost

  Jack Henry Abbott (1982). “In the belly of the beast: letters from prison”, Vintage

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• Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.

  Georges Bataille

  Dream, Knowing, Giving

  Georges Bataille (1985). “Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939”, p.24, U of Minnesota Press

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• It’s funny. When you leave your home and wander really far, you always think, ‘I want to go home.’ But then you come home, and of course it’s not the same. You can’t live with it, you can’t live away from it. And it seems like from then on there’s always this yearning for some place that doesn’t exist. I felt that. Still do. I’m never completely at home anywhere.

  Danzy Senna

  Home, Thinking, Want

  Danzy Senna (2013). “From Caucasia, with Love”, p.315, A&C Black

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• Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.

  Peter Høeg

  Inspirational, Travel, Adventure

  Peter Høeg (2010). “Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel”, p.339, Macmillan

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• We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves.

  Pico Iyer

  Travel, Next, This World

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• All the pathos and irony of leaving one's youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveller learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.

  Paul Fussell

  Wise, Travel, Joy

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• Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you've never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground.

  Judith Thurman

  Travel, Adventure, Dreamer

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• Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends

  Cesare Pavese

  Travel, Home, Strangers And Friends

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• If you don t know where you are, a map won't help.

  Watts Humphrey

  Baseball, Goals Dreams, Yankees

  Watts S. Humphrey (1989). “Managing the Software Process”, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel

  Paul Fussell

  Travel, Leaving, Around The World

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• Sometimes I feel that I am destined always to be offstage whenever the main action occurs. That God has made me the victim of some cosmic practical joke, by assigning me little more than a walk-on part in my own life. Or sometimes I feel that my role is simply to be a spectator to other people's stories, and always to wander away at the most important moment, drifiting into the kitchen to make a cup of tea just as the denouement unfolds.

  Jonathan Coe

  People, Kitchen, Tea

  Jonathan Coe (2001). “The rotters' club”

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• I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it.

  Rosalia de Castro

  Travel, Adventure, Hiking

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• All that is gold does not glitter,
  Not all those who wander are lost;
  The old that is strong does not wither,
  Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
  
  From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
  A light from the shadows shall spring;
  Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
  The crownless again shall be king.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Faith, Strong, Kings

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.127, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Government! Three-fourths parasitic and the rest stupid fumbling - oh, Harshaw concluded that man, a social animal, could not avoid government, any more than an individual could escape bondage to his bowels. But simply because an evil was inescapable was no reason to term it "good." He wished that government would wander off and get lost! (96)

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Stupid, Animal, Men

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• A vagrant is everywhere at home.

  Martial

  Home, Journey, Hiking

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• Nature brings us back to absolute truth whenever we wander.

  Louis Agassiz

  Absolute Truth, Absolutes

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• In order not to end up like the masses out there who are merely wandering and unsure of their goals and dreams, your objective must be clear. When your purpose is clear, your life will have meaning.

  T. B. Joshua

  Dream, Order, Goal

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