Wander Quotes - Page 31

• Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

  Graham Greene

  Dumb, Would Be, Literature

  'The Quiet American' (1955) pt. 1, ch. 3

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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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• It was so much fun to have the freedom to wander America, with no assignments. For 25 or 30 years I never had an assignment. These were all stories I wanted to do myself.

  Charles Kuralt

  Fun, America, Years

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• A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Journey, Men, Cities

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• I grew up in New Hampshire. My closest neighbor was a mile away. The deer and the raccoons were my friends. So I would spend time walking through the woods, looking for the most beautiful tropical thing that can survive the winter in the woods in New Hampshire.

  Steven Tyler

  Friends, Beautiful, Winter

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• Remember that breath walking - as with any meditation technique - should not be pursued with a grim determination to 'get it right.' The point is to cultivate openness, relaxation and awareness, which can include awareness of your undisciplined, wandering mind.

  Andrew Weil

  Determination, Meditation, Relaxation

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• I think I should get a bigger between-the-song persona, so then I'm not wandering around the stage like some mad old auntie that's saying hello to people and falling over.

  Florence Welch

  Song, Fall, Thinking

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• Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.

  Walt Whitman

  Freedom, Journey, Hiking

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• I danced a lot when I was younger, and I've always had decent, shapely legs and thought it's now or never. I mean, when you're pushing 40, are you really going to wander around in a dress that's midthigh length?

  Kate Winslet

  Mean, Dresses, Now Or Never

  "Kate Winslet Looks Ahead" by Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. July 8, 2009.

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• I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.

  Steven Wright

  Love, Dream, Funny Inspirational

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• From time to time, it is worth wandering around the fuzzy border regions of what you do, if only to remind yourself that no human activity is an island.

  Julian Baggini

  Islands, Borders, Wandering Around

  "Great minds don't think alike" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. August 4, 2008.

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• A: The soul wanders in the dark, until it finds love. And so, wherever our love goes, there we find our soul. Q: It always happens? A: If we're lucky. And if we let ourselves be blind. Q: Instead of watching out? A: Instead of always watching out.

  Mary Zimmerman

  Dark, Finding Love, Soul

  Mary Zimmerman, David R. Slavitt (2002). “Metamorphoses: A Play”, p.76, Northwestern University Press

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• Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.

  A.C. Grayling

  Littles, Eccentric, Way

  "The Heart of Things".

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• I see a vision of a great rucksack revolution thousands or even millions of young Americans wandering around with rucksacks, going up to mountains to pray, making children laugh and old men glad, making young girls happy and old girls happier, all of 'em Zen Lunatics who go about writing poems that happen to appear in their heads for no reason and also by being kind and also by strange unexpected acts keep giving visions of eternal freedom to everybody and to all living creatures.

  Gary Snyder

  Girl, Children, Writing

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• Families will not be broken. Curse and expel them, send their children wandering, drown them in floods and fires, and old women will make songs of all these sorrows and sit on the porch and sing them on mild evenings.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Song, Children, Fire

  "Housekeeping". Book by Marilynne Robinson, 1980.

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• Follow the wandering, the distraction, find out why the mind has wandered; pursue it, go into it fully. When the distraction is completely understood, then that particular distraction is gone. When another comes, pursue it also.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Mind, Gone, Distraction

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1991). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti”, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company

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• Suppose I was to tell you that it's just beauty that's calling me, the beauty of the far off and unknown, the mystery and spell which lures me, the need of freedom of great wide spaces, the joy of wandering on and on----in quest of the secret which is hidden over there----beyond the horizon?

  Eugene O'Neill

  Space, Joy, Secret

  Eugene O'Neill (1996). “Beyond the Horizon”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult! The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude; to lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation. The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.

  Kate Chopin

  Sea, Voice, Seductive

  1899 The Awakening, ch.6.

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• If the soul cannot find its jacket. it is condemned to an eternity of wandering--naked and alone

  Anne Fadiman

  Soul, Naked, Eternity

  Anne Fadiman (1998). “The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures”, p.5, Macmillan

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• Though I am old with wandering Through hollow lands and hilly lands, I will find out where she has gone, And kiss her lips and take her hands; And walk among long dappled grass, And pluck till time and times are done The silver apples of the moon, The golden apples of the sun.

  William Butler Yeats

  Kissing, Moon, Hands

  "The Song of Wandering Aengus" l. 19 (1899)

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• Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.

  David Hume

  Reading, Journey, Thinking

  David Hume (1888). “Letters of David Hume to William Strahan”

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• Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.

  Matsuo Basho

  Moon, Night, Ponds

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• Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born.

  Matthew Arnold

  Two, World, Born

  "Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse" l. 85 (1855)

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• Yes, my mind was wandering. I wished I were there with someone who could bring peace to my heart someone with whom I could spend a little time without being afraid that i would lose him the next day. With that reassurance, the time would pass more slowly. We could be silent for a while because we'd know we had the rest of our lives together for conversation. I wouldn't have to worry about serious matters, about difficult decisions and hard words.

  Paulo Coelho

  Heart, Next Day, Worry

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• He suddenly recalled from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split then in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking one another. Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.

  Milan Kundera

  Plato, Philosophy, Love Is

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