Quotes about the trip
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“The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.”

Hubert H. Humphrey (1911–1978) Vice-President of the USA under Lyndon B. Johnson

“Follow me,' Myrnin said. 'And do stay together. And by the way, this is the last time I go anywhere with you people. You are all insane.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Bite Club

People, Time

“We may run, walk, stumble. drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.”

Gloria Gaither (1942) American gospel songwriter, author & scholar

Chance, Flying

“There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.”

Alfred Korzybski (1879–1950) Polish scientist and philosopher

Life, Thinking

“You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.”

Wayne W. Dyer (1940–2015) American writer

Life, People

“People who cling to their illusions find it difficult, if not impossible, to learn anything worth learning: a people under the necessity of creating themselves must examine everything, and soak up learning the way the roots of a tree soak up water.”

James Baldwin (1924–1987) (1924-1987) writer from the United States

People, Tree, Learning, Water

“To be yourself requires extraordinary intelligence. You are blessed with that intelligence; nobody need give it to you; nobody can take it away from you. He who lets that express itself in its own way is a "Natural Man."”

U.G. Krishnamurti (1918–2007) Indian philosopher

Part 2: The Mystique of Enlightenment
The Mystique of Enlightenment (1982)
Source: The Mystique of Enlightenment: The Radical Ideas of U.G. Krishnamurti

Intelligence, Nature

“Feeling this way was a particular kind of horror, having the emotions without the memories.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy

Feeling, Memory

“Questioning the ostensibly unquestionable premises of our way of life is arguably the most urgent of services we owe our fellow humans and ourselves.”

Zygmunt Bauman book Globalizace: důsledky pro člověka

Source: Globalization: The Human Consequences

Life, Question

“I used to believe. I used to think that if I wanted it bad enough, wished hard enough, everything would work out the way It was supposed to. Destiny, like Susannah said.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: It's Not Summer Without You

Thinking

“I always thought when I got older that God would sort of come into my life in some way. He didn't. I don't blame him. If I was him I'd have the same opinion about me that he does.”

Cormac McCarthy book No Country for Old Men

Source: No Country for Old Men

Life, God

“I want to keep feeling the way I feel when I'm with you. Just tell me what I have to do. And give me some room to screw up. I've never done this before. There's a learning curve.”

Sylvia Day book Bared to You

Source: Bared to You

Feeling, Learning

“I make it a policy not to second-guess my instincts. Life's more fun that way.
~Train Heartnet”

Kentaro Yabuki (1980) Japanese manga artist

Source: Black Cat, Volume 01

Life, Training

“We all take a beating every day, you know, one way or another.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber

Source: The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber

“No one behind, no one ahead.
The path the ancients cleared has closed.
And the other path, everyone's path,
easy and wide, goes nowhere.
I am alone and find my way.”

Octavio Paz (1914–1998) Mexican writer laureated with the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature

“Because most Christians want it both ways. They want to be able to proudly declare they are believers in the Bible and yet simply ignore those parts they find too difficult or too inconvenient to believe.”

Dan Brown book The Lost Symbol

Source: The Lost Symbol

Parting

“If you want to kill me, despise me, hate me, and live in an unsightly way… Run, and cling to life, and then some day, when you have the same eyes as I do, come before me”

Masashi Kishimoto (1974) Japanese manga artist

Life, Hate

“Reading is an intelligent way of not having to think.”

Walter Moers book The City of Dreaming Books

Source: The City of Dreaming Books

Intelligence, Thinking, Reading

“When kids look up to great scientists the way they do to great musicians and actors, civilization will jump to the next level”

Brian Greene (1963) American physicist

“What I needed with all my starved and silent soul was just that particular way of shouting back at the world.”

Iris Murdoch book The Sea, the Sea

Source: The Sea, the Sea

World, Soul

“Declining from the public ways, walk in unfrequented paths.”

Pythagoras (-585–-495 BC) ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher

Symbol 5
The Symbols

“You can be known as Val or Babycakes.”
His gaze darkened. “My name is Valerius and I will not answer to Val.”
She shrugged. “Fine then, Babycakes, have it your way.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Seize the Night

“I feel like you can look inside me and see all the places I am odd or unusual and fit your heart around them, for you are odd and unusual in just the same way. We are the same.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

Feeling, Heart

“I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.”

Jeanette Winterson (1959) English writer

Source: Written on the Body

“… only the victims and survivors can truly comprehend the awfulness of that time and place; the rest of us live on the other side of the fence, staring through from our own comfortable place, trying in our own clumsy ways to make sense of it all.”

John Boyne (1971) Irish novelist, author of children's and youth fiction

Source: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

Sense, Time

“… sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger than to people one knows. Why is that?"
“Probably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as he wishes to think we are.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Shadow of the Wind

Source: The Shadow of the Wind

People, Feeling, Thinking

“Music is what I always turn to when I'm feeling a certain way. It's my reason for everything.”

Josh Groban (1981) American musician and actor

Inside Connection, February 2004
Variant: I can only say so much about how I feel. Music is what I always turned to when I was feeling a certain way. It's been my reason for everything.

Music, Feeling

“Open yourself to an encounter with heaven, be as a little child. Release your desire to the winds of the universe. Trust your angels to catch your wish and bring it to you in a delightfully surprising way.”

Doreen Virtue (1958) American writer

Universe, Angels

“Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.”

Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer

“Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values.”

Ellen DeGeneres (1958) American stand-up comedian, television host, and actress

People, Help

“Don't talk to my sister that way." Nico said. His voice quivered, but I was impressed that he had the guts to say anything at all. — Percy”

Rick Riordan book The Titan's Curse

Source: The Titan's Curse

Sister

“Soon you give up, don't look for her anymore, either in the town or at night or in the daytime.
Even so you have managed to live that love in the only way possible for you. Losing it before it happened.”

Marguerite Duras book The Malady of Death

Source: The Malady of Death

Love, Night

“… you have to learn where your pain is. You have to burrow down and find the wound, and if the burden of it is too terrible to shoulder, you have to shout it out; you have to shout for help… And then finally, the way through grief is grieving.”

Jane Hamilton (1957) American novelist

Pain, Learning, Help

“Structural dissatisfaction: Returning to circumstances that once pleased you, after having experienced a more thrilling or opulent way of life, and finding that you can no longer tolerate them.”

Jennifer Egan A Visit from the Goon Squad

Source: A Visit from the Goon Squad

Life

“Yield to temptation… it may not pass your way again!”

Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) American science fiction author

“How still,
How strangely still
The water is today,
It is not good
For water
To be so still that way.

~ "Sea Calm”

Langston Hughes (1902–1967) American writer and social activist

Water, Sea

“He caught me to him and cupped my cheek in one hand. “I want to keep feeling the way I feel when I’m with you. Just tell me what I have to do.”

Sylvia Day book Bared to You

Source: Bared to You

Feeling

“I would really like to know", he said with genuine curiosity. "The next time I kill someone, I'd like to do it in a way that doesn't freak you out.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Burn for Me

Time

“It took a lot of women like that, a lot of women who said "I'm not going to do what you expect me to do, because you have no idea what I'm capable of. I'm going to get dirty and use tools and live the way I want" to move the world forward.”

Maureen Johnson (1973) writer from the USA

Source: The Last Little Blue Envelope

Women, World, Idea

“Why do you do these things to yourself? Not just what you did to the window, but the way you talked to Clary. What are you punishing yourself for? You can't help how you feel.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

Feeling, Help

“And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.”

Carson McCullers (1917–1967) American writer

Source: The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories

Love, Truth, Secret

“Michael had once read to her how God had cast a man and woman out of paradise. Yet, for all their human faults and failures. God had shown them the way back in.”

Francine Rivers (1947) American writer

Source: Redeeming Love

God, Failure, Reading

“You want to protect your child from pain, and what you get instead is life, and grace; and though theologians insist that grace is freely given, the truth is that sometimes you pay for it through the nose. And you can't pay your child's way.”

Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist

Source: Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

Life, Pain, Truth

“I knew you'd kiss me."
"How?" I say. Because I didn't know myself.
"Because I am in pain," He say's. "That's the only way I get your attention.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

Pain, Kiss

“There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth. Not going all the way, and not starting.” Siddhrtha Gautama”

Seth Godin (1960) American entrepreneur, author and public speaker

Source: Poke the Box

Truth

“You put yourself out there in the truest way you can and hope others do the same. You'll connect or you won't, but you did what you could.”

Chris Crutcher book Deadline

Source: Deadline

Hope

“I don't feel that way anymore," Nico muttered. "I mean… I gave up on Percy. I was young and impressionable, and I-I don't…”

Rick Riordan book The House of Hades

Source: The House of Hades

Feeling

“The older I get, the more I see how much motivations matter. The Zune was crappy because the people at Microsoft don’t really love music or art the way we do. We won because we personally love music.”

Walter Isaacson book Steve Jobs

Source: Steve Jobs

Love, People, Art, Music

“Romance isn't in my repertoire, Eva. But a thousand ways to make you come are. Let me show you.”

Sylvia Day book Bared to You

Source: Bared to You

“She was desperate and she was choosey at the same time and, in a way, beautiful, but she didn’t have quite enough going for her to become what she imagined herself to be.”

Charles Bukowski book Factotum

Variant: She was desperate and she was choosey
at the same time and, in a way, beautiful, but she didn't have quite enough going for her to become what
she imagined herself to be.
Source: Factotum

Beauty, Imagination, Time

“The way I see it, anyone who's proud of their country is either a thug or just hasn't read enough history yet.”

Richard K. Morgan (1965) British writer

Source: Thirteen

History, Reading, Country

“Science is a way to call the bluff of those who only pretend to knowledge. It is a bulwark against mysticism, against superstition, against religion misapplied to where it has no business being.”

Carl Sagan book The Demon-Haunted World

Source: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Religion, Business, Knowledge, Science

“It took him forever to get to downtown Vancouver although Tony had to admit that saving the world by public transportation was a particularly Canadian way to do things.”

Tanya Huff (1957) Canadian fantasy author

Source: Smoke and Shadows

World

“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.”

John Steinbeck book Travels with Charley: In Search of America

Pt. 1
Travels With Charley: In Search of America (1962)
Source: Travels with Charley: In Search of America

Marriage, Thinking

“One way isn't better than the other; they're just different.”

Emily Giffin (1972) American writer

Source: Love the One You're With

“my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways" from the book of Isaiah”

Mitch Albom (1958) American author

Source: Have a Little Faith: A True Story

Books

“Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round.”

David Lodge book The British Museum Is Falling Down

The British Museum Is Falling Down ([1965] 1983), ch. 4, p. 56. ISBN 0140062149

Life, Children, Sex, Literature

“She had a certain way of looking at life which he took as a personal offense.”

Henry James book The Portrait of a Lady

Source: The Portrait of a Lady

Life, Personality

“Not everything Jace did was insane and suicidal, she reminded herself. It just seemed that way.
-Clary, pg.46”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

Suicide

“One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.”

Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)

Variant: There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.

Soul

“Nothing is more important than that you see and love the beauty that is right in front of you, or else you will have no defense against the ugliness that will hem you in and come at you in so many ways.”

Neal Stephenson book Anathem

Part 2, Apert; Orolo to Raz
Source: Anathem (2008)

Love, Beauty

“What's the good news?
-Pardon?
-You said the bad news is we're going the wrong way.
-There isn't any good news. Just because there's bad news doesn't mean there's good news, too.”

David Benioff book City of Thieves

Source: City of Thieves

“Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.”

Joseph Campbell (1904–1987) American mythologist, writer and lecturer

Religion

“Sometimes I find the best way of getting from one place to another is simply to erase everything and begin again.”

Norton Juster book The Phantom Tollbooth

Source: The Phantom Tollbooth

“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) English poet, author

Source: Selected Poems

love, Cute, Romantic, Valentine's Day

“Art makes nothing happen in a way that makes something happen.”

Ali Smith book How to Be Both

Source: How to Be Both

Art

“There is a simple way to package information that, under the right circumstances, can make it irresistible. All you have to do is find it.”

Malcolm Gladwell (1963) journalist and science writer

Source: The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

“Having the courage to take the steps we always wanted to take is the only way of showing that we trust in God.”

Paulo Coelho book Brida

Source: Brida

God, Courage

“They say suicides and murderers go to Hell. If so, I will know my way around, because I've been there for the last eight years.”

Stephen King book Full Dark, No Stars

Source: Full Dark, No Stars

Hell, Suicide

“life is to be lived. if you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.”

Katharine Hepburn (1907–2003) film, stage, and television actress

Life, Support

“If a thing is right it can be done, and if it is wrong it can be done without; and a good man will find a way.”

Anna Sewell book Black Beauty

Source: Black Beauty

“I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.”

Harry Truman (1884–1972) American politician, 33rd president of the United States (in office from 1945 to 1953)

Interview http://books.google.com/books?id=r03gAAAAMAAJ&q=%22I+have+found+the+best+way+to+give+advice+to+your+children+is+to+find+out+what+they+want+and+then+advise+them+to+do+it%22&pg=PA104#v=onepage with Margaret Truman, sitting in for host Edward R. Murrow, on Person to Person, CBS Television ( 27 May 1955 http://www.tv.com/shows/person-to-person/may-27-1955-1040725/)

Graduation, Children

“The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.”

Wally Lamb (1950) american novelist

Source: The Hour I First Believed

“This cat is looking at me with judgment.”“He’s not,” said Jules. “That’s just his face.”“You look at me the same way,” Mark said, glancing at Julian. “Judgy face.”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

Cats

“The figure in the doorway ducked; the brick hit the wall, and Luke straightened up and looked at her curiously. I hope when we're married, that's not the way you greet me every day when I come home, he said.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

Hope, Home

“Just because life is hard and always ends in a bad way doesn't mean that all stories have to. Even if that's what they tell us in school and the New York Book Review.”

James Patterson book Sundays at Tiffany's

Source: Sundays at Tiffany's

Life, Books, School

“I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.”

Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960) American folklorist, novelist, short story writer

Search, Reality

“One more drink and you're dead. This is no way to talk to a suicide head.”

Charles Bukowski book Notes of a Dirty Old Man

Source: Notes of a Dirty Old Man

Drink, Suicide, Dead

“The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.”

Harriet Beecher Stowe book Uncle Tom's Cabin

Source: Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), Ch. 40 The Martyr
Context: The longest day must have its close — the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

Hope, Good Night, Night