Quotes and Sayings About Journey
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Baseball is about homecoming. It is a journey by theft and strength, guile and speed, out around first to the far island of second, where foes lurk in the reefs and the green sea suddenly grows deeper, then to turn sharply, skimming the shallows, making for a shore that will show a friendly face, a color, a familiar language and, at third, to proceed, no longer by paths indirect but straight, to home.
-- A. Bartlett GiamattiSource : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1998). “A Great and Glorious Game: Baseball Writings of A. Bartlett Giamatti”, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
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When the journey's over/There'll be time enough to sleep.
-- A. E. HousmanSource : 'A Shropshire Lad' (1896) no. 4
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In very clear and available language, this book details how to recognize the inner critic and how to deal effectively with it. Byron Brown's presentation is useful for any individual who wishes to be free from the inner suffering and coercion of this ancient foe of our humanity, but it is specifically directed to those interested and engaged in the inner journey toward realization and enlightenment.
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Each one of us has our own evolution of life, and each one of us goes through different tests which are unique and challenging. But certain things are common. And we do learn things from each other's experience. On a spiritual journey, we all have the same destination.
-- A. R. Rahman -
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I have known men to hazard their fortunes, go long journeys halfway about the world, forget friendships, even lie, cheat, and steal, all for the gain of a book.
-- A. S. W. Rosenbach -
I have the time needed to support the album and tour.
-- Aaliyah -
The journey that I have undertaken, meeting people from all walks of life and learning from them, has been my biggest achievement.
-- Aamir Khan -
The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
-- Abraham CowleySource : Abraham Cowley, Thomas Sprat (1710). “The Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley ...: Consisting of Those which Were Formerly Printed, and Those which He Design'd for the Press, Publish'd Out of the Author's Original Copies ; with The Cutter of Coleman-street”, p.179
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My journey began with a single pencil. While traveling through India in 2006, I asked a boy begging on the streets, 'If you could have anything in the world, what would you want?' and he answered me with two words: 'A pencil.' Luckily, I had one in my pocket, and in the second it took me to give it to him, a defining dream was born.
-- Adam Braun -
Every story, each poem that a person shares, each voice that speaks against menstrual taboo, inspires me.
-- Additi Gupta -
After a prosperous, but to me very wearisome, voyage, we came at last into port. Immediately on landing I got together my few effects; and, squeezing myself through the crowd, went into the nearest and humblest inn which first met my gaze.
-- Adelbert von ChamissoSource : Theodor Storm, Adelbert von Chamisso, Adalbert Stifter (2005). “Famous German Novellas of the 19th Century”, p.36, Mondial
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The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.
-- Adlai E. StevensonSource : "Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time" by Laurence J. Peter, (p. 508), 1977.
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The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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With so many scientific achievements we know so little of where we came from and where we are going. But we know even less of the most important discovery of all – Love. Only love can accept our differences as we journey through life. And only love can allow space for our growth.
-- Akiane Kramarik -
I define spirituality as a search for love, beauty, happiness and wisdom. Spirituality is a journey that we never finish.
-- Akiane Kramarik -
Life is the journey between darkness of the womb and darkness of the grave.
-- Ala Bashir -
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Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships or trains.
-- Alain de Botton -
Instead of bringing back 1600 plants, we might return from our journeys with a collection of small unfêted but life-enhancing thoughts.
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The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects. However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.
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I dont drive around London much. Any journey around Islington involves hundreds of speed bumps that seem to tear the bottom of your car off.
-- Alan Davies -
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It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
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Interestingly, it's as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey, the embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.
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A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
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Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our destiny can never be predicted in advance.
-- Alan HirschSource : Jeffrey Stepakoff (2011). “The Orchard: A Novel”, p.13, Macmillan
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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors--is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling. This great road has no final destination. The journey itself is the reward.
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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 -
Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
-- Alan PatonSource : Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.98, Simon and Schuster
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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.
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Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival. When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house. But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.
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I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word: a journey.
-- Alan RickmanSource : "Alan Rickman: Truly, deeply appealing". articles.latimes.com. November 20, 2011.
