Quotes about the trip
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“A sure way of retaining the grace of heaven is to disregard outward appearances, and diligently to cultivate such things as foster amendment of life and fervour of soul, rather than to cultivate those qualities that seem most popular.”

Thomas à Kempis (1380–1471) German canon regular

Source: The Inner Life

Life, Soul, Appearance

“I hope you will grow up gentle and good, and never learn bad ways; do your work with a good will, lift your feet up well when you trot, and never bite or kick even in play.”

Anna Sewell book Black Beauty

Source: Black Beauty

Hope, Learning

“Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life.”

John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author

Muir's marginal note in volume I of Prose Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson (This volume is located at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Yale University. See Albert Saijo, "Me, Muir, and Sierra Nevada", in Reinhabiting a Separate Country: A Bioregional Anthology of Northern California, edited by Peter Berg, San Francisco, California: Planet Drum Foundation, 1978, pages 52-59, at page 55, and Frederick W. Turner, Rediscovering America: John Muir in His Time and Ours (1985), page 193.)
1870s

Life, Tree

“In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels. These two fundamentally different ways of knowing interact to construct our mental life.”

Daniel Goleman (1946) American psychologist & journalist

Source: Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ (1995), p. 8

Life, Feeling, Thinking, Sense

“i wondered if i would spend the rest of my life inventing complicated ways to depress myself..”

Miranda July (1974) American performance artist, musician and writer

Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You

Life

“The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.”

Malcolm X (1925–1965) American human rights activist

People, World, Freedom

“And this mess is so big
And so deep and so tall,
We cannot pick it up.
There is no way at all!”

Dr. Seuss book The Cat in the Hat

Source: The Cat in the Hat

“Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean.”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

Heart, Heartbreaking, Depressing

“Love is a one-way street. Love, like respect isn't something you get; it's something you give”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

Love

“The world is full of happiness, and plenty to go round, if you are only willing to take the kind that comes your way.”

Jean Webster book Daddy-Long-Legs

Source: Daddy-Long-Legs

Happiness, World

“It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

Source: The Critic as Artist

“But then, in his lifetime, Halt had often ignored what was technically legal. Technicalities didn't appeal to him. All too often, they simply got in the way of doing the right thing.”

John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower

Source: The Lost Stories

“I'd love to tell you I had some deep revelation on my way down, that I came to terms with my own mortality, laughed in the face of death, et cetera.

The truth? My only thought was: Aaaaggghhhhh!”

Rick Riordan book The Lightning Thief

Source: The Lightning Thief

Love, Death, Truth

“There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream -- whatever that dream might be.”

Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973) American writer

Love, Dreams, Heart, Sad

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities.”

Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books

Life, Reality

“It's so freeing, it's beautiful in a way, to have a great failure, there's nowhere to go but up.”

David Lynch (1946) American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor

Beauty, Failure

“Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end.”

Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) German philosopher

Source: Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals/On a Supposed Right to Lie Because of Philanthropic Concerns

Time, Personality

“In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.”

Viktor E. Frankl book Man's Search for Meaning

Source: Man's Search for Meaning

Suffering

“The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.”

Muhammad Ali (1942–2016) African American boxer, philanthropist and activist

Dreams, Good Night

“Neurosis is the way of avoiding nonbeing by avoiding being”

Paul Tillich book The Courage to Be

Source: The Courage to Be

“when a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies with it, a way of looking at the world.”

George Steiner (1929–2020) American writer

World, Understanding

“Tris: "I was reading."
Sandry: "You're always reading. The only way people can ever talk to you is to interrupt."
Tris: "Then maybe they shouldn't talk to me.”

Tamora Pierce Briar's Book

Source: Briar's Book

People, Reading

“The people who guard the rainbow don't like those who get in the way of the sun.”

Terry Pratchett book Going Postal

Source: Going Postal

People, Sun

“The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them down between the millstones of taxation and inflation.”

Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) Russian politician, led the October Revolution

John Maynard Keynes, paraphrase of Lenin Interview http://blog.skepticallibertarian.com/2013/04/15/fake-quote-files-v-i-lenin-on-inflation-and-taxation/ <br class="br">Misattributed