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• Mountaineering is a relentless pursuit. One climbs further and further yet never reaches the destination. Perhaps that is what gives it its own particular charm. One is constantly searching for something never to be found.

  Hermann Buhl

  Giving, Relentless, Charm

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• To one degree or another we all struggle with selfishness. Since it is so common, why worry about selfishness anyway? Because selfishness is really self-destruction in slow motion. No wonder the Prophet Joseph Smith urged, "Let every selfish feeling be not only buried, but annihilated" (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 178). Hence annihilation - not moderation - is the destination! . . . Meekness is the real cure, for it does not merely mask selfishness but dissolves it!

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Selfish, Real, Struggle

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• Where no paths exist, a man strays only when he misses his destination. There is no crime, no transgression, no sin save foolishness or incompetence, and no obscenity save the tyranny of custom.

  R. Scott Bakker

  Men, Missing, Path

  R. Scott Bakker (2008). “The Darkness that Comes Before: The Prince of Nothing, Book One (The Prince of Nothing)”, p.241, The Overlook Press

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• A friend of mine says that perfection is a road, not a destination.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Perfection, Mines

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• Idea is to constantly raise the bar, push the boundaries. Fitness is ultimately a journey, not a destination.

  Gul Panag

  Journey, Ideas, Bars

  Twitter post from Feb 5, 2013

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• Often what may appear as a detour in life is actually the most direct and empowering path to your destination.

  James Arthur Ray

  Life, Empowering, May

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• It's not getting from A to B. It's not the beginning or the destination that counts. It's the ride in between...This train is alive with things that should be seen and heard. It's a living, breathing something -- you just have to want to learn its rhythm.

  David Baldacci

  Breathing, Alive, Want

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• The problem with making an extrinsic reward the only destination that matters is that some people will choose the quickest route there, even if it means taking the low road. Indeed, most of the scandals and misbehavior that have seemed endemic to modern life involve shortcuts.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Mean, People, Modern Life

  Daniel H. Pink (2010). “Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us”, p.51, Canongate Books

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• A basic cause of murmuring is that too many of us seem to expect that life will flow ever smoothly, featuring an unbroken chain of green lights with empty parking places just in front of our destinations!.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Light, Unbroken, Green

  Neal A. Maxwell (1999). “One More Strain of Praise”, Deseret Book Company

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• My person was hideous and my stature gigantic. What did this mean? Who was I? What was I? Whence did I come? What was my destination? These questions continually recurred, but I was unable to solve them.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Mean, Solve, Persons

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.99, Wordsworth Editions

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• Love is a dangerous thing. It comes in disguise to change our life... Lust is the deceiver. Lust wrenches our lives until nothing matters except the one we think we love, and under that deceptive spell we kill for them, give all for them, and then, when we have what we have wanted, we discover that it is all an illusion and nothing is there. Lust is a voyage to nowhere, to an empty land, but some men just love such voyages and never care about the destination. Love is a voyage too, a voyage with no destination except death, but a voyage of bliss.

  Bernard Cornwell

  Love Is, Men, Thinking

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• The secret is planning your work and working your plan. If you don't know where you are going, how will you know when you arrive? You can't stumble upon your destination.

  Jack White

  Secret, Planning, Where You Are

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• Life is a journey, not a destination; there are no mistakes, just chances we've taken.

  India.Arie

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Song: A Beautiful Day

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• Commandments and covenants of God are like navigational instructions from celestial heights and will lead us safely to our eternal destination. It is one of beauty and glory beyond understanding. It is worth the effort. It is worth making decisive corrections now and then staying on course.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Effort, Understanding, Covenant

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• The destination is a happy life, an accomplished life that doesn't end with death but with eternal life.

  Angelo Scola

  Happy Life, Ends, Accomplished

  "Milan Cardinal Scola quotes Kerouac to youthful flock as speculation on papal chances swirl", www.foxnews.com. March 6, 2013.

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• There is nothing -- absolutely nothing -- half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. In or out of 'em, it doesn't matter. Nothing seems really to matter, that's the charm of it. Whether you get away, or whether you don't; whether you arrive at your destination or whether you reach somewhere else, or whether you never get anywhere at all, you're always busy, and you never do anything in particular; and when you've done it there's always something else to do, and you can do it if you like, but you'd much better not.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Somewhere Else, Sailing, Nautical

  Kenneth Grahame (1988). “My Dearest Mouse: 'The Wind in the Willows' Letters”, Viking Press

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• It will be politics that determines the material welfare of future generations: the pace at which we advance toward "our destination of economic bliss," andnperhaps, whether we continue to advance at all.

  Eban Goodstein

  Climate, Generations, Pace

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• While the high-level climate talks pursue their stately progress towards some ill-defined destination, down in the trenches there is an undercurrent of suppressed panic in the conversations. The tipping points seem to be racing towards us a lot faster than people thought.

  Gwynne Dyer

  People, Racing, Progress

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• Love is a sensation caused by temptation when a guy sticks his location into a girl's destination to increase the population for the next generation. Do you understand my explanation or do you need a demonstration?

  A. J. McLean

  Girl, Love Is, Guy

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• Do not start a story unless you have an ending in mind. You can change the story's ending if you wish, but you should always have a destination.

  Gene Wolfe

  Writing, Mind, Wish

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• To begin with the end in mind means to start with a clear understanding of your destination. It means to know where you're going so that you better understand where you are now and so that the steps you take are always in the right direction.

  Stephen Covey

  Mean, Understanding, Mind

  Stephen R. Covey (2004). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• I do not repudiate any of my paintings but there isn't one of them that I would not redo differently, if I had it to redo. My destination is always the same but I work out a different route to get there.

  Henri Matisse

  Work Out, Different, Painting

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• The experiences are so innumerable and varied, that the journey appears to be interminable and the Destination is ever out of sight. But the wonder of it is, when at last you reach your Destination you find that you had never travelled at all! It was a journey from here to Here.

  Meher Baba

  Spiritual, Travel, Journey

  "The Everything and the Nothing". Book by Meher Baba, 1963.

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• No. The purpose is not the destination but the journey itself. Only those who understand this simple truth can experience true happiness.

  Amish Tripathi

  Simple, Journey, Purpose

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• In Australia’s biggest cities, public transport is generally slow, expensive, not especially reliable and still hideous drain on the public purse. Part of the problem is inefficient, overmanned, union-dominated government run train and bus systems. Mostly though, …there just aren’t enough people wanting to go from a particular place to a particular destination at a particular time to justify any vehicle larger than a car, and cars need roads.

  Tony Abbott

  Running, Government, Cities

  "Battlelines". Book by Tony Abbott, 2009.

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