A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

Author: John Steinbeck

Author: John Steinbeck

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I am quite a relaxed person out of the car, but in the car I am aggressive, I never give up, I fight

Author: Heikki Kovalainen
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You can't eat straight A's.

Author: Maxine Hong Kingston
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He had the feeling that there was something physically behind his eyes, blocking the light.

Author: Jeffrey Eugenides
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When you truly love someone, his/her weaknesses are not meant to be discussed with other people, the

Author: Olaotan Fawehinmi
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Now, here is the point about the self: it is insatiable. It is always, always hankering. It is what

Author: Donald Barthelme
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I feed my mind by reading everyday as I feed myself by eating every day.

Author: Debasish Mridha
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The Governors Ball is like a big birthday party, and all these stars are like excited kids running a

Author: Sherry Yard
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If you're doing this because you feel like you have a burning desire to do it, then you'll find a wa

Author: Trisha Yearwood
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The argument is made that naming God is never really naming God but only naming our understanding of

Author: Peter Rollins
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Time for us began to be measured by moments when we spoke, and moments when we longed to speak again

Author: Richie Singh
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Its done.' Penteluck announced and scooped some onto a spoon for Zayne to drink.'No chance, you firs

Author: Keisha Keenleyside
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Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Author: Oliver Goldsmith
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Brooklyn was a dream. All the things that happened there just couldn't happen. It was all dream stuf

Author: Betty Smith
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I always find the mirror in the dressing room is where the best artists are.

Author: John Lydon
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When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is

Author: C.S. Lewis
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Laughter is the stubborn reward of grim times.

Author: Edward McPherson
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There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Author: Benjamin Franklin
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To live in a world where men do not love, where they cheat and are callous, is to sink into a preocc

Author: John Howard Griffin
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...required for good fiction: character, conflict, change through time. And if you're really blessed

Author: Ted Conover
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For if one is partly insane, one is also, juridically, partly sane, and if one is partly sane one is

Author: Robert Musil
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It was as if I were an oyster and somebody forced a grain of sand into my shell -- a grain of sand t

Author: Truman Capote
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Often you shall think your road impassable, sombre and companionless. Have will and plod along; and

Author: Mikhail Naimy
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Pope John Paul II once said as well, “Lebanon is a message more than it is a country.” Now this dive

Author: Rami Ollaik
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Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it; but

Author: George Berkeley
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If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I cou

Author: Emily Brontë
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You can only be fulfilled in life when you achieve your purpose

Author: Sunday Adelaja
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My son hit his head on a couch and pushed it away. He never went near that couch again. It is amazin

Author: E. Obeng-Amoako Edmonds
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Now if a man thus favoured died as he has lived, he will be just the one you are looking for: the on

Author: Herodotus
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Information had become a critical tool that you can use to raise your bar across every barrier towar

Author: Israelmore Ayivor
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I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also t

Author: Barry M. Goldwater
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Poetry's a thing that belongs to everyone.

Author: Natasha Trethewey
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It took me a couple of months to realize I was in love with her. Well, probably not to realize it. M

Author: M. Leighton
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The people of the future will say, meat-eaters in disgust and regard us in the same way that we rega

Author: Dennis Weaver
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The moment you exchange spontaneity with rules you've lost the edge of romance

Author: François Du Toit
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A true friend is the best possession.

Author: Anonymous
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Survival is the celebration of choosing life over death. We know we're going to die. We all die. But

Author: Laurence Gonzales
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The Mountains teach me to look up .. Rise up .. But by feats holding firmly to the ground ... My eye

Author: Sagar Gosavi
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But maybe that was what it meant to grow up and have the seemingly infinite possibility of childhood

Author: Martha Brockenbrough
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Love elevates the beauty of life

Author: Farshad Asl
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You have 100% control over yourself, and your life. It is up to you to stop giving your power away,

Author: B. Dave Walters
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I can remember staring at the orphanage and feeling envy.

Author: George Carlin
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The catch phrase for the day is 'Do an act of kindness. Help one person smile.'

Author: Harvey Ball
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I go to Ireland. Walk along an empty beach. When I do, I think of all the people who have walked the

Author: Nora Roberts
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If people love you, they will listen. If people trust you, they will follow.

Author: Alin Sav
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When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best - that is inspiration.

Author: Robert Bresson
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I come from a background of experimental music which mingled real sounds together with musical sound

Author: Ennio Morricone
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Judge tenderly, if you must. There is usually a side you have not heard, a story you know nothing ab

Author: Traci Lea LaRussa
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It astounds me that out of all the flowers in the garden, the rose would fall in love with the thorn

Author: H R Brock
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Taking action is the best source of inspiration.

Author: Amit Kalantri
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Perfection can mask imperfection.

Author: Khang Kijarro Nguyen
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As much as I enjoy a fight, I cannot always indulge myself, and just now I had more weighty matters

Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
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The last night of retreat, after Mass, the hundreds of them sat by candlelight in the huge gymnasium

Author: Jenny Bravo
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Marriage is called all sorts of things, a haven, and a refuge, and a crowning glory, and a state of

Author: Agatha Christie
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Christians are called to be history makers on the earth.

Author: Sunday Adelaja
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I knew it was a day of endings, one way or another.

Author: Chris Howard
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It is always yesterday, tomorrow, and 3 years ago today. It is always your birthday. It is always th

Author: Unknown
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Always be open to inspiration. You never know where it may come from. Begin with an open mind, end w

Author: Sheri Fink
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The phrase *You complete me* is nonsensical. A couple is a *we* … not a complete *me.*

Author: Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Oh! you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general. You never see fault in any bo

Author: Jane Austen
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I love the song 'I Hope You Dance' by Lee Ann Womack. I was going to write that song, but someone be

Author: Maya Angelou
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I'm calling my book series the 'with God series.' And this next 'with God' book is Friendship with G

Author: Neale Donald Walsch
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Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life

Author: Richard M. DeVos
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One English nobleman and statesman read and reread a particular work of literature because it was "t

Author: Barbara W. Tuchman
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Are we praying?" "If you have to ask, you probably aren't.

Author: Allan Dare Pearce
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I'm trying to be a working actor. I'm not in pursuit of fame. I'm not trying to be in the kinds of f

Author: Sarah Gadon
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The word is my weapon. FIRE!

Author: Ljupka Cvetanova
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It’s such a relief to know these are universal truths for so many of us in the adoption triad. Gosh,

Author: Paula Gruben
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There’s no sin problem. Jesus settled that. There’s just a sinner problem. Get the sinner to Jesus,

Author: Kenneth E. Hagin
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Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.

Author: Linus Pauling
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As long as you hate, there will be people to hate.

Author: George Harrison
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Work. Don't Think. Relax.

Author: Ray Bradbury
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.

Author: John Muir
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With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of t

Author: William Wordsworth
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Characters are the lifeblood of anygood book.

Author: Craig Hart
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No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means.

Author: Maimonides
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Whatever her name was, she was pretty. She had a thick, careless braid of chestnut hair, a quick smi

Author: Lynne Rae Perkins
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You like my quotes..., because of what???You know me??You think that you understand me... or why??

Author: Deyth Banger
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The great obstacle to communication is the tendency to constantly evaluate or moralize with others,

Author: Stephen Covey
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How I treat a brother or sister from day to day, how I react to the sin-scarred wino on the street,

Author: Brennan Manning
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The truest family is the family of faith.

Author: Unknown
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Texting is a lot like an answering machine. If you don't want to talk to somebody, it's like screeni

Author: Pat Gillick
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I've been in Chicago for every Christmas of my life.

Author: Jane Lynch
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How could any Lord have made this world?... there is no reason, order, justice: but suffering, death

Author: Virginia Woolf
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One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards.--"Wanda

Author: Ouida
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So what do you want?" asked Myrtle."I want to help evolution."Evolution did not fill Faith with the

Author: Frances Hardinge
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Daily dance is my delight.

Author: Unknown
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We do remember once we were wrong sacrificing everything for idols and stones likewise today for gho

Author: M.F. Moonzajer
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God created everyone uniquely and for a purpose, and not to be on this earth as a passive spectator

Author: Sunday Adelaja
Quote #77101

I've always believed that a person is smart. It's people that are stupid.

Author: Marilyn Manson
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We can only trust God to change hearts and lives, and let Him use us to stand up for Him, and to lov

Author: Teresa Schultz
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Real men are advocates for women's rights.

Author: Basia Christ
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We've all done things we'd rather keep in the dark. It's only by shedding light on them that our dem

Author: Michelle Moran
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The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.

Author: Douglas Coupland
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Maybe silent hurting is the new Mid-Western love

Author: Daniel Bailey
Quote #39868

Does trust have to be earned. Or is it simply a matter of faith?

Author: Nicholas Sparks
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With 'The Social Network,' I got into it at first because frankly I thought there was a cool courtro

Author: Aaron Sorkin
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Hold your venomDo you recognise the instinctin me, fellow scorpion?

Author: Kiera Woodhull
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Purr more, hiss less

Author: Linda C. Marchman
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Forgiveness can help you to be sane.

Author: Bryant McGill