Thursday, March 09, 2006

Quotes 2

" Here are some more quotes that resonate with me.

And the day came when the risk it took to remain;
tight inside the bud was more painful than the
risk it took to blossom"
- Anais Nin

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
- Helen Keller

When one is pretending the entire body revolts.
- Anais Nin

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The perspective, to say the least changes only with the journey.
- James Baldwin

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
- Albert Einstein

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway to the human spirit.
- Helen Keller

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.
- Amelia Earhart

Travel is fatal to prejudice.
- Mark Twain

There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
- Jawaharlal Nehru

It is not the goal but the way there that matters, and the harder the way the more worthwhile the journey.
- Wilfred Thesiger

One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world's end somewhere.
- Willa Cather

The real voyageof discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware.
- Martin Buber

The journeys that matter most to me are those that we take into ourselves, to discover who we are. What journeys do you take?" I whisper.

Are you listening?

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