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Quotes.
We enjoy including wonderful quotations throughout the site. We know that many
of you love to ponder on them further, so we're placing them all here on these pages,
and will add the new ones each month. Choose a group to read related quotes:


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  Krishnamurti   "There is no path to truth . . . you must set out on the uncharted sea and the uncharted sea is yourself."
  Albert Camus   "I know with certainly that a man's work is nothing but a long journey to recover, through the detours
  of art, the two or three simple and great images which first gained access to his heart."
  J Bolen   "Past experience is compost."
  Samuel Beckett   "I have never in my life been on my way anywhere, but simply on my way."
  Anonymous   "Even the longest journey begins with a single step."
  Unknown   "There is no path. The path is made by walking."
  Delmar Holdgrafer   "People go too fast through the world. They don't notice things. They don't appreciate what they have,
  what is right around them."
  Unknown   "A straight line is the quickest way to the wrong place."
  Georgia O'Keefe   "In the evening I go up in the desert and spend hours watching the sun go down, just enjoying it, and
  every day I go out and watch it again. I draw some and there is a little painting, and so the days go by."
  Michelangelo   "My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness."
  Jonathan Swift   "May you live all the days of your life."
  Samuel Butler   "To do great work a man must be idle as well as very industrious."
  Marcel Proust   "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."
  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi   "Only direct control of experience, the ability to derive moment-by-moment enjoyment from everything
  we do, can overcome the obstacles to fulfillment."
  Anonymous   "Don't worry if you fall flat on your face: at least you're moving forward."
  Mickey Hart   "Adventures don't begin until you get into the forest. That first step is an act of faith."
  Peter London   "Starting out in a new direction requires faith. Faith is knowing that we are not lost even when there are
  no external signs to tell us where and how we should proceed."
  Jesse Winchester   "If you are gonna walk on thin ice you might as well dance."
  Eric Maisel   "So we must beg ourselves to let in our own experiences."
  Robert Frost   "You have freedom when you are easy in your harness."
  E. L. Doctorow   "You start from nothing and learn as you go."
  Larry Klein on Joni Mitchell   "She wrote the map as she drove."
  The Carpenters   "We've only just begun, white lace and promises, a kiss for luck and we're on our way."
  Abraham Lincoln   "The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time."
  Henri Fredrick Amiel   "Life is short and we never have too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling
  the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind."
  Unknown   "We cannot change the direction of the wind, but we can adjust our sails."
  Mary Webb   "If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path."
  Ellen Langer   "Focusing hyper vigilantly on tree branches makes you vulnerable to other dangers on the trail."
  American Heritage Dictionary   "Quest: the act or an instance of pursuing something; a search."
  Chogyam Trungpa   "We must continue to open in the face of tremendous opposition. No one is encouraging us to open
  and still we must peel away the layers of the heart."
  Viktor Frankel   "This is the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
  to choose one's own way."
  Unknown   "The word "should" has no practical value, either you do it or you don't."
  Unknown   "Sometimes holding on makes you stronger; sometimes it is letting go."
  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe   "We are shaped and fashioned by what we love."
  Henry David Thoreau   "Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify."
  Albert Einstein   "Three Rules of Work:
 1. Out of clutter find simplicity;
 2. From discord find harmony;
 3. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
  Marcel Proust    "The real voyage consists not of seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."
  Cicely Tyson    "Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew."
  Forest Gump   "My momma always said life is like a box of chocolates. You never know quite what you're gonna get."
  Eric Maisel   "I will learn to choose effortlessly and effectively, without a lot of pain and wasted motion."
  Sharon Daloz Parks   "When we don't know where we're going we can't have vision. We must have clarity of purpose."
  Alvaro Castagnet    "At the end of the day, the only thing that counts is your insight, your reaction, and the way you convey   your feelings towards the subject."
  Claude Monet   "It is difficult to stop in time because one gets carried away. But I have that strength, it is the only
  one I have."
  Proverb   "All's well that ends well."
  Leonard Cohen     "There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in."
  Fred Astaire     "The higher up you go, the more mistakes you’re allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them,
   it’s considered your style."
  Viktor Frankl   "What man actually needs is not a tensionless state, but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him."
  Edvard Munch    "In my art I have tried to explain to myself life and its meaning. I have also tried to help others clarify their lives."
  Carl Jung    "As far as we can discern, the soul purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of being."
  Kate Seredy    "Each thing she learned became a part of herself, to be used over and over in new adventures."
  Pema Chodren     "We don’t set out to save the world; we set out to wonder how other people are doing and to reflect on how our actions affect other people’s hearts."
  Pablo Neruda    " If we were not so single-minded about keeping our lives moving, and for once could do nothing, perhaps a huge silence might interrupt this sadness of never understanding ourselves."
  Lao Tzu   "A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving."
  Miriam Beard   "Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living."
  Henry Miller   "One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things."
  Marian Wright Edelman   "We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make."
  Cesar Chavez   "Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sake and for our own."
  Desmond Tutu   "The fundamental law of human beings is interdependence. A person is a person through other persons."
  Oscar Wilde   "Expect the unexpected."
  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe   "Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes."
  George Bernard Shaw   "A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell."
     

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