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• Here is the paradox of the thing we call freedom: the farther we wander from God and the more we try to break free from him, the more enchained we become. Every step we take away from Him leads us farther from the freedom of Jesus and closer to the cruelty of Cain.

  Steven James

  Jesus, Trying, Cain

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• If water stands motionless in a pool it grows stale and muddy, but when it moves and flows it becomes clear: so, too, man in his wanderings.

  Muhammad Asad

  Moving, Men, Water

  Muhammad Asad (1954). “The Road To Mecca”, p.57, The Book Foundation

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• Sometimes, if you want to be happy, you've got to run away to Bath and marry a punk rocker. Sometimes you've got to dye your hair cobalt blue, or wander remote islands in Sicily, or cook your way through Mastering the Art of French Cooking in a year, for no very good reason.

  Julie Powell

  Running, Art, Hair

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• We're all lost. The best chance we got is to wander this life with the people who matter.

  Kristen Ashley

  People, Matter, Chance

  Kristen Ashley (2016). “The 'Burg Box Set”, p.571, Rock Chick LLC

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• Travel does not exist without home....If we never return to the place we started, we would just be wandering, lost. Home is a reflecting surface, a place to measure our growth and enrich us after being infused with the outside world.

  Josh Gates

  Home, Growth, Doe

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• I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look at it, to find out about it, to discover who I might be inside it.

  Patrick Ness

  Waiting, Library, Looks

  "Patrick Ness slams library cuts". www.theguardian.com. June 23, 2011.

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• The dark is settling in. The sky glows yellow- pale- anemic from the city lights. The Tenderloin at night is a real horror show. Every 3 feet someone is accosting you with a plea for a handout or the offer of drug or sex. The men and women wander the streets and alleys with a threatening, violont want. Takers looking to take, hustlers looking to hustle, all trying to satisfy a craving that is parpatually unsatisfiable. And tonight I'm one of them.

  Nic Sheff

  Sex, Real, Dark

  Nic Sheff (2012). “Tweak: Growing up on Crystal Meth”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• Oh, wandering One, if you are in search of the greatest treasure, don't look outside. Look within, and seek That.

  Rumi

  Greatest Treasure, Looks, Ifs

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• We are here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place.

  Annie Dillard

  Journey, Hiking, Might

  Annie Dillard (2016). “Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters”, p.56, Canongate Books

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• People make interesting assumptions about the profession. The writer is a mysterious figure, wandering lonely as a cloud, fired by inspiration, or perhaps a cocktail or two.

  Sara Sheridan

  Lonely, Inspiration, Clouds

  "What Writers Earn: A Cultural Myth" by Sara Sheridan, www.huffingtonpost.co.uk. April 24, 2013.

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• Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.

  Rumi

  Journey, Garden, Hiking

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• It is a great art to saunter !

  Henry David Thoreau

  Art, Journey, Hiking

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.27, Yale University Press

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• Once in a lifetime, perhaps, one escapes the actual confines of the flesh. Once in a lifetime, if one is lucky, one so merges with sunlight and air and running water that whole eons, the eons that mountains and deserts know, might pass in a single afternoon without discomfort.

  Loren Eiseley

  Running, Journey, Air

  Loren Eiseley (2011). “The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature”, p.16, Vintage

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• In his larger forms, Schubert is a wanderer. He likes to move at the edge of the precipice, and does so with the assurance of a sleepwalker. To wander is the Romantic condition; one yields to it enraptured, or is driven and plagued by the terror of finding no escape. More often than not, happiness is but the surface of despair.

  Alfred Brendel

  Moving, Yield, Despair

  Alfred Brendel (2015). “Music, Sense and Nonsense: Collected Essays and Lectures”, p.167, Biteback Publishing

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• You wonder and you wonder until you wander out into Infinity, where - if it is to be found anywhere - Truth really exists.

  Marita Bonner

  Infinity, Wonder, Found

  Marita Bonner (1987). “Frye Street & environs: the collected works of Marita Bonner”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• The mind can wander while still focusing on one task.

  Herbert Benson

  Mind, Tasks, Stills

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• We searchers are ambitious only for life itself, for everything beautiful it can provide. Most of all we love and want to be loved. We want to live in a relationship that will not impede our wandering, nor prevent our search, nor lock us in prison walls; that will take us for what little we have to give. We do not want to prove ourselves to another or compete for love.

  James Kavanaugh

  Beautiful, Wall, Giving

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• To err is to wander, and wandering is the way we discover the world; and, lost in thought, it is also the way we discover ourselves. Being right might be gratifying, but in the end it is static, a mere statement. Being wrong is hard and humbling, and sometimes even dangerous, but in the end it is a journey, and a story.

  Kathryn Schulz

  Journey, Might, Way

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• Without spiritual landmarks, mankind wanders . . . Without the word of God, we walk in circles.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Spiritual, Circles, Landmarks

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• The sight of the huge world put mad ideas into me, as if I could wander away, wander forever, see strange and beautiful things, one after the other...

  C. S. Lewis

  Beautiful, Sight, Ideas

  C. S. Lewis (1980). “Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold”, p.102, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Four times I was honked at for having the temerity to proceed through town without the benefit of metal.

  Bill Bryson

  Journey, Hiking, Benefits

  Bill Bryson (2010). “A Walk In The Woods: The World's Funniest Travel Writer Takes a Hike”, p.167, Random House

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• Sometimes our thoughts and feelings are our most prized possessions... and then there are times to let go of your possessions and wander.

  Saul Williams

  Letting Go, Feelings, Sometimes

  Saul Williams (2012). “She”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

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• When I'm 70 I might be a man in a park just wandering around, speaking in tongues with kids throwing bread at me.

  Noel Fielding

  Funny, Kids, Humor

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• The feel of a good row stays with you hours afterward. Your muscles glow, your mind wanders from the papers on you desk and goes back, again and again, to that terrific power piece at the end of the workout when it felt as if you and the boat were flying, as if you legs were two cannons and your arms were two oars and the great lateral muscles of your back were pterodactyl wings and the brim of your baseball cap was a harpoon.

  Barry S. Strauss

  Baseball, Workout, Wings

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• He went, ever on the move, with the slow, shuffling step of wandering beggars who are nowhere at home.

  Stijn Streuvels

  Moving, Home, Steps

  Stijn Streuvels (2005). “The Path of Life”, p.34, 1st World Publishing

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