Strolling Quotes - Page 2

• I believe in the magic of books. I believe that during certain periods in our lives we are drawn to particular books--whether it's strolling down the aisles of a bookshop with no idea whatsoever of what it is that we want to read and suddenly finding the most perfect, most wonderfully suitable book staring us right in the face. Unblinking. Or a chance meeting with a stranger or friend who recommends a book we would never ordinarily reach for. Books have the ability to find their own way into our lives.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Believe, Book, Ideas

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  People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle.

  Nhat Hanh

  Motivational, Buddhist, Children

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• Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 16

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• Just put one foot in front of the other.

  Austin Peck

  Running, Perseverance, Hiking

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• Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking.

  Antonio Machado

  Travel, Time, Journey

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• I was walking in the park and this guy waved at me. Then he said, 'I'm sorry, I thought you were someone else.' I said, 'I am.'

  Demetri Martin

  Funny, Sorry, Humor

  "Demetri Martin: Wry comic originally planned to be a lawyer". Interview with Chad Jones, www.sfgate.com. May 7, 2014.

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• To live in the present moment is a miracle.

  Nhat Hanh

  Miracle, Moments, Live In The Present

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2005). “Touching Peace: Practicing the Art of Mindful Living”, p.1, Parallax Press

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• We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.

  Thomas Browne

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Journey

  'Religio Medici' (1643) pt. 1, sect. 15

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• The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on earth

  Linji Yixuan

  Water, Miracle, Earth

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• I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Sarcastic, Humorous

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• I dressed and went for a walk - determined not to return until I took in what Nature had to offer.

  Raymond Carver

  Journey, Hiking, Return

  Raymond Carver (2015). “Ultramarine: Poems”, p.12, Vintage

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• For, as I think I have said, I can only meditate when I am walking. When I stop I cease to think; my mind only works with my legs.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Journey, Thinking, Hiking

  "The Confessions".

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• Walking is a virtue, tourism is a deadly sin.

  Bruce Chatwin

  Travel, Journey, Hiking

  Bruce Chatwin (1990). “What Am I Doing Here?”, p.103, Penguin

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• For observing nature, the best pace is a snail's pace.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Pace, Trekking, Snail

  Edwin Way Teale (1987). “Circle of the seasons: the journal of a naturalist's year”, Olympic Marketing Corp

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• I'm the walkingest girl around. I like to work at it - really get my heart pounding.

  Amy Yasbeck

  Girl, Sarcastic, Heart

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• I was the world in which I walked.

  Wallace Stevens

  Journey, Hiking, World

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.90, Vintage

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• For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Bears, Reputation, Doubtful

  "Hermann and Dorothea". Poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, VII. 93, October 1797.

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• Today is one of those excellent January partly cloudies in which light chooses an unexpected part of the landscape to trick out in gilt, and then the shadow sweeps it away. You know you're alive. You take huge steps, trying to feel the planet's roundness arc between your feet.

  Annie Dillard

  Journey, Feet, Hiking

  Annie Dillard (2016). “The Abundance”, p.101, Canongate Books

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• Now shall I walk or shall I ride? 'Ride,' Pleasure said; 'Walk,' Joy replied.

  W. H. Davies

  Life, Hiking, Joy

  William Henry Davies, “The Best Friend”

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• The fight for free space-for wilderness and for public space-must be accompanied by a fight for free time to spend wandering in that space. Otherwise the individual imagination will be bulldozed over for the chain-store outlets of consumer appetite, true-crime titillations, and celebrity crises.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Fighting, Journey, Hiking

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• The world belongs to the energetic.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Work

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.123

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• Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.

  John Muir

  Inspirational, Life, Nature

  Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 1898

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• Walking I am unbound, and find that precious unity of life and imagination, that silent outgoing self, which is so easy to loose, but which a high moments seems to start up again from the deepest rhythms of my own body. How often have I had this longing for an infinite walk - of going unimpeded, until the movement of my body as I walk fell into the flight of streets under my feet - until I in my body and the world in its skin of earth were blended into a single act of knowing.

  Alfred Kazin

  Journey, Feet, Hiking

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• It is not talking but walking that will bring us to heaven.

  Matthew Henry

  Journey, Talking, Hiking

  Matthew Henry (2016). “Bible Commentary - James”, p.21, Bible Study Books

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• I haven't got any special religion this morning. My God is the God of Walkers. If you walk hard enough, you probably don't need any other god.

  Bruce Chatwin

  Morning, Journey, Fog

  Bruce Chatwin (2003). “In Patagonia”, p.59, Penguin

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