Maps Quotes - Page 2

• Map out your future - but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Travel, Future, Journey

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• The map of what we call reality is an ever-shifting mosaic of ideas.

  Marcelo Gleiser

  Reality, Ideas, Mosaics

  Marcelo Gleiser (2014). “The Island of Knowledge: The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning”, p.14, Basic Books

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• A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.

  Oscar Wilde

  Doe, World, Utopia

  "The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde".

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• Fate never promises to tell you everything up front. You aren't always shown the path in life you're supposed to take. But if there was one thing she'd learned in the past few weeks, it was that sometimes, when you're really lucky, you meet someone with a map.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Fate, Past, Promise

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• I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process.

  C. S. Lewis

  Grief, Sorrow, States

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.29, Faber & Faber

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• There's no map to human behaviour.

  Bjork

  Behaviour, Humans, Human Behaviour

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• If geography is prose, maps are iconography.

  Lennart Meri

  Iconography, Geography, Prose

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• Regular maps have few surprises: their contour lines reveal where the Andes are, and are reasonably clear. More precious, though, are the unpublished maps we make ourselves, of our city, our place, our daily world, our life; those maps of our private world we use every day; here I was happy, in that place I left my coat behind after a party, that is where I met my love; I cried there once, I was heartsore; but felt better round the corner..., things of that sort, our personal memories, that make the private tapestry of our lives.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Memories, Party, Cities

  Alexander McCall Smith (2007). “Love Over Scotland”, p.356, Anchor

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• Our children long for realistic maps of the future that they can be proud of. Where are the cartographers of human purpose?

  Carl Sagan

  Children, Hero, Long

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• I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it.

  Steven Wright

  Life, Witty, Humorous

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• ...to look at the stars always makes me dream, as simply as I dream over the black dots of a map representing towns and villages. Why, I ask myself, should the shining dots of the sky not be as accessible as the black dots on the map of France?

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Dream, Stars, Future

  Vincent van Gogh, Mark Roskill (1997). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh”, p.272, Simon and Schuster

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• I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Art, Thinking, Feelings

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• If I had lady-spider legs, I would weave a sky where the stars lined up. Matresses would be tied down tight to their trucks, bodies would never crash through windshields. The moon would rise above the wine-dark sea and give babies only to maidens and musicians who had prayed long and hard. Lost girls wouldn't need compasses or maps. They would find gingerbread paths to lead them out of the forest and home again. They would never sleep in silver boxes with white velvet sheets, not until they were wrinkled-paper grandmas and ready for the trip.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Girl, Baby, Stars

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• A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias.

  Oscar Wilde

  Country, Land, Humanity

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.1051, Wordsworth Editions

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• Begin to look at maps with the narcotic tingle of possibility.

  Rolf Potts

  Looks, Possibility, Narcotics

  Rolf Potts (2002). “Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel”, p.17, Ballantine Books

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• The time you want the map... is before you enter the woods

  Brendon Burchard

  Business, Want, Woods

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• Crimson flames tied through my ears Rollin' high and mighty traps Pounced with fire on flaming roads Using ideas as my maps "We'll meet on edges, soon," said I Proud 'neath heated brow. Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now. Half-wracked prejudice leaped forth "Rip down all hate," I screamed Lies that life is black and white Spoke from my skull. I dreamed Romantic facts of musketeers Foundationed deep, somehow. Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.

  Bob Dylan

  Rip, Lying, Hate

  Song: My Back Pages

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• We had been everywhere. We had really seen nothing. And I catch myself thinking today that our long journey had only defiled with a sinuous trail of slime the lovely, trustful, dreamy, enormous country that by then, in retrospect, was no more to us than a collection of dog-eared maps, ruined tour books, old tires, and her sobs in the night — every night, every night — the moment I feigned sleep.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Country, Dog, Book

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated”, p.253, Vintage

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• Please stop waiting for a map. We reward those who draw maps, not those who follow them.

  Seth Godin

  Funny, Waiting, Rewards

  Seth Godin (2015). “Poke The Box: When Was the Last Time You Did Something for the First Time?”, p.27, Penguin

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• Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.

  Les Brown

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

  Muhammad Ali

  Change, Money, War

  Twitter post from Dec 13, 2010

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• It is not down in any map; true places never are.

  Herman Melville

  Nature, Travel, Home

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.57

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• The world can doubtless never be well known by theory: practice is absolutely necessary; but surely it is of great use to a young man, before he sets out for that country, full of mazes, windings, and turnings, to have at least a general map of it, made by some experienced traveler.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Country, Men, Practice

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.140, Oxford University Press

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• We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Peace, Volcanoes, Feminism

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.160, Grove Press

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• Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.

  Ben Stein

  Done, Planning

  Ben Stein (2010). “How Successful People Win: Using Bunkhouse Logic to Get What You Want in Life”, p.71, ReadHowYouWant.com

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