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Man cannot live without some knowledge of the purpose of life. If he can find no purpose in life he creates one in the inevitability of death.
There's no mastery to be had. You love the attempt. You don't master a story any more than you master a river. You feel lucky to canoe down it.
During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.
ONE OF THE UNSETTLING THINGS about my journey, mentally, physically, and emotionally, was that I wasn’t sure when or where it was going to end.
I look at my cancer journey as a gift: It made me slow down and realisethe important things in life and taught me to not sweat the small stuff.
May we live here like strangers and make the world not a house, but an inn, in which we sup and lodge, expecting to be on our journey tomorrow.
People involved in the inner journey discover the value of the feminine, the spiritually receptive and inclusive aspect of human consciousness.
I'd like to think I am taking people on a journey; I am not just entertaining people, but giving them something to think about when they leave.
What scientists are attached to is journeys into the unknown and discovering things that are completely unexpected and baffling and surprising.
Nothing on my trip thus far was as I expected which shows you that rather than simply read about the United States you have to log the journey.
Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science.
I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned that this is not a dress rehearsal, and that today is the only guarantee you get.
To me, ultimate happiness is a journey, not a destination. It's not somewhere you end up, it's making choices every day to make yourself happy.
I'll always push myself because that's the journey of life. We do go through things. Some of it's incredibly great and some of it's really bad.
Home and journey together constitute the creative polarity of the heart, the two dimensions we must cultivate if we want to 'develop the heart.
If you're any kind of artist, you make a miraculous journey, and you come back and make some statements in shapes and colors of where you were.
Nobody said it's going to be easy. You have to dig into yourself. Think about your family. Think about the journey itself. THINK IN THE MOMENT.
One of the main points about travelling is to develop in us a feeling of solidarity, of that oneness without which no better world is possible.
The knowledge of the realm of death makes it possible for the shaman to move freely back and forth and mediate these journeys for other people.
The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.
I think any kind of hiatus one takes in an artistic journey is going to make a huge difference. The pause will inform the choices that you make.
There came a day when the clouds drifting along with the wind aroused a wanderlust in me, and I set off on a journey to roam along the seashores
I think that you can sort of have your own personal journey and you know, you can just kind of apply that to whatever characters you're playing.
John Kennedy led us on a journey to discover the moon. Obama needs to lead us on a journey to rediscover, rebuild and reinvent our own backyard.
At no time are we ever in such complete possession of a journey, down to its last nook and cranny, as when we are busy with preparations for it.
When you are introduced to the clarity inside of you, to the simplicity inside of you, to that beauty inside of you, the journey of life begins.
Every journey that is successful has culs-de-sac and speed bumps. I carry a wisdom gene through my life through the good, the bad, and the ugly.
When you retire, it's a place in life, a part of the journey. You just don't quit work; you develop an attitude where you can do what you please
A good actor knows exactly what the camera wants, what the sound wants, where to find the light and how to tell a good through line and journey.
Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
We had thought that we were human beings making a spiritual journey; it may be truer to say that we are spiritual beings making a human journey.
All through school, I was losing hundreds of pounds in school, so that's a journey - that's an old journey. I'm tired of that. I know that road.
As I went walking That ribbon of highway I saw above me The endless skyway I saw below me The lonesome valley This land was made for you and me.
O pity the dead that are dead, but cannot make the journey, still they moan and beat against the silvery adamant walls of life's exclusive city.
If there is one thing I have learned on this incredible journey we call life, it is this: the sign of a truly successful individual is humility.
It's definitely been a long, long... long, long, long, long, long journey since I was selling burnt CD's out of my backpack in downtown Oakland.
The English literary movement at the end of the 18th century was obviously due in great part, if not mainly, to the renewed practice of walking.
On every journey you take, you are met with options. At every fork in the road, you make a choice. These are the decisions that shape your life.
The highest treason, the meanest treason, is to deny the holiness of this little blue planet on which we journey through the cold void of space.
Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.
I became an actress and studied human emotions so that I could give the gift of feelings to my son. This is what my whole journey has been about.
If we get above the individualized soul's journey, you will see that we are all one. We are all one light. In that sense, we are all enlightened.
Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it.
love of learning is the most necessary passion ... in it lies our happiness. It's a sure remedy for what ails us, an unending source of pleasure.
God, I just love 'A Journey to the End of the Millennium,' by A. B. Yehoshua. My favorite novel by an American Jew is probably 'Humboldt's Gift.'
There's no way to become great overnight, but in the marathon of success, it takes a lot of intention to see you through each day of the journey.
The paths by which people journey toward happiness lie in part through the world about them and in part through the experience of their own soul.
Endure the journey that you take to reach your top moment. You might not get there right now but when you do, remember what you did to get there.
Success is not arriving at the summit of a mountain as a final destination. It is a continuing upward spiral of progress. It is perpetual growth.
The possibilities were endless. Battles would be fought. Wonders revealed. Many journeys. Many lands. Many joys. Many sorrows. But stories all...