Quotes about the trip
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“We thought we were being mature when we were only being safe. We imagined we were being responsible but were only being cowardly. What we called realism turned out to be a way of avoiding things rather than facing them.”

Julian Barnes book The Sense of an Ending

Source: The Sense of an Ending

Imagination

“By the way, only a real man can accept his feminine side."
"I don't know who fed you that line of garbage, but I can promise she's laughing at you right now.”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: The Darkest Seduction

“It has always been this way. Death is followed by birth. To reach paradise, man must pass through inferno. - Bertrand Zobrist”

Dan Brown book Inferno

Source: Inferno

Death, Birth

“The Way of Mastery is to break all the rules—but you have to know them perfectly before you can do this; otherwise you are not in a position to transcend them.”

Aleister Crowley (1875–1947) poet, mountaineer, occultist

Source: Magical and Philosophical Commentaries on The Book of the Law

“We drank our coffee the Russian way. That is to say we had vodka before it and vodka afterwards.”

Philip Sington (1962) British writer

Source: The Valley of Unknowing

Coffee

“You can’t protect yourself. No matter how safe you think you are. No matter how much precaution you take, the rodents always find a way in.’ (Kiara)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Born of the Night

Thinking

“Men and women, they were beautiful and wild, all a little violent under their pleasant ways and only a little tamed.”

Margaret Mitchell (1900–1949) American author and journalist

Source: Przemine̜ło Z Wiatrem

Women, Men, Beauty

“The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.”

Idries Shah (1924–1996) writer and Sufi teacher

Source: Sufi Thought and Action

Knowledge

“backing down can become a way of life”

Oliver James (1953) British psychologist

Life

“Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right.”

Marian Wright Edelman (1939) American children's rights activist

Failure, Learning

“Ah how shameless – the way these mortals blame the gods. From us alone they say come all their miseries yes but they themselves with their own reckless ways compound their pains beyond their proper share.”

Homér The Odyssey (Cowper)

Source: The Odyssey

God, Pain

“It is a paradox. Life is that way. God designed it that way. I believe I met him once. He was full of mischief.”

Christopher Pike (1954) American author Kevin Christopher McFadden

Source: Black Blood

Life, God

“The next time you're mad at me, talk to me,' he said. 'Don't shut me out. I don't like playing games. And by the way, I had a great time, too.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Last Song

Source: The Last Song

Game, Time, Madness

“Were the walls of our meat industry to become transparent, literally or even figuratively, we would not long continue to raise, kill, and eat animals the way we do.”

Michael Pollan book The Omnivore's Dilemma

Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (New York: The Penguin Press, 2006), p. 333.
Context: The industrialization — and brutalization — of animals in America is a relatively new, evitable, and local phenomenon: No other country raises and slaughters its food animals quite as intensively or as brutally as we do. No other people in history has lived at quite so great a remove from the animals they eat. Were the walls of our meat industry to become transparent, literally or even figuratively, we would not long continue to raise, kill, and eat animals the way we do.

Animals

“The only way to remove pain from death is to remove love from life.”

Richard Paul Evans (1962) American writer

Source: The Walk

Love, Life, Death, Pain

“Asking the head I have now to explain its own thinking is as pointless as dialing your own telephone number on your own telephone: Either way, you get an engaged signal. Or your own answer message, if you have that kind of phone system.”

Nick Hornby book A Long Way Down

Source: A Long Way Down

Thinking

“If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.”

Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist

Life, Thinking, Change

“…. maybe fear is God's way of saying, "Pay attention, this could be fun.”

Craig Ferguson (1962) Scottish-born American television host, stand-up comedian, writer, actor, director, author, producer and voice a…

Source: American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

God, Fear

“The masters of life know the way, for they listen to the voice within them, the voice of wisdom and simplicity, the voice that reasons beyond cleverness and knows beyond knowledge.”

Benjamin Hoff book The Tao of Pooh

Source: The Tao of Pooh

Life, Wisdom, Knowledge

“We all have to find our own ways to say good-bye.”

Sherman Alexie book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Source: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

“The way to find out about our place in the universe is by examining the universe and by examining ourselves - without preconceptions, with as unbiased a mind as we can muster.”

Carl Sagan (1934–1996) American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science educator

Universe

“By the way, I know about the kiss." Then the door clicks shut behind him.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

Kiss

“It is the same with anything - you have to learn through your own experience, paying your own way. You can't learn it from a book.”

Haruki Murakami book Sputnik Sweetheart

Source: Sputnik Sweetheart

Books, Learning

“Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business.”

Dave Barry (1947) American writer

Business, Nature

“Burned and squashed to death in a silver vat of soup. There must be worst ways to go. But not many.”

Jonathan Stroud book Ptolemy's Gate

Source: Ptolemy's Gate

Death

“When carrying a jar of honey to give to a friend for his birthday, don't stop and eat it along the way.”

A.A. Milne (1882–1956) British author

Source: Pooh's Little Instruction Book

Birthday, Birthday

“Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of devotion.”

Jane Austen book Mansfield Park

Source: Mansfield Park

Time

“No' is golden. 'No' is the kind of power the good witch wields. It's the way whole, healthy, emotionally evolved people manage to have relationships with jackasses while limiting the amount of jackass in their lives.”

Cheryl Strayed book Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

Source: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

People

“If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.”

Sue Monk Kidd book The Secret Life of Bees

Source: The Secret Life of Bees

Personality

“Well, sometime Mr —— git on me pretty hard. I have to talk to Old Maker. But he my husband. I shrug my shoulders. This life soon be over, I say. Heaven last all ways.

You ought to bash Mr —— head open, she say. Think bout heaven later.”

Alice Walker book The Color Purple

Source: The Color Purple

Life, Thinking

“I tried to communicate happiness in that word, but I don't know if it came out that way. All I was feeling was despair. And envy. Envy so thick and so black I felt like I was choking on it.”

Jenny Han book To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Feeling, Communication, Envy, Despair

“Some women waited for a night in shining armor. She, apparently, had ended up with a knight in black jeans and leather, who wanted to chase her down and have his evil way with her.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Bayou Moon

Women, Evil, Waiting, Night

“If you could figure out how to live with family then you'd gone a long way toward finding your peace.”

Ben Fountain book Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

Source: Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

Family, Peace

“Sometimes there's not a better way. Sometimes there's only the hard way.”

Mary E. Pearson (1955) young-adult fiction writer

Source: The Fox Inheritance

“My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

Feeling

“Language, she said, was just our way to explain away the wonder and glory of the world. To deconstruct. To dismiss. She said people can't deal with how beautiful the world really is. How it can't be explained and understood.”

Chuck Palahniuk (1962) American novelist, essayist

People, World, Beauty

“I was yours once 'till death if you'd cared to keep me, but I'm someone else's now - I can't hang about whining forever - and he's mine in a way that shocks you, but why don't you stop being shocked, and attend to your own happiness?”

E.M. Forster book Maurice

Source: Maurice

Death, Happiness

“He reached out and lightly touched her hair. There’s no way, he thought. I’m sunk. And my heart hasn’t beat the same since she walked into town.”

Robyn Carr American writer

Source: Virgin River

Heart

“For a woman the objective is often a committed relationship also known as the destination. For a men roadtrip on the way to the destination is often the more fun.”

Sherry Argov (1977) American writer

Source: Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl—A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship

Men

“It’s funny," I said. "It’s very funny. And it’s a lot of fun, too, to be in love."

"Do you think so?" her eyes looked flat again.

"I don’t mean fun that way. In a way it’s an enjoyable feeling."

"No," she said. "I think it’s hell on earth.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Sun Also Rises

Source: The Sun Also Rises

Love, Feeling, Hell, Thinking

“… Fan fiction is a way of the culture repairing the damage done in a system where contemporary myths are owned by corporations instead of owned by the folk.”

Henry Jenkins (1958) American media scholar

“No, you won her over. Gave up everything for her. Maybe that's the only way to convince her you love her.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

Love

“He closed his eyes. “I’m so tired, Tess,” he said. “I only wanted pleasant dreams for once.”
“That is not the way to get them, Will,” she said softly. “You cannot buy or drug or dream your way out of pain.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

Pain, Dreams

“But fates are connected in ways we don’t understand.”

Mitch Albom (1958) American author

Variant: Mankind is connected in ways it does not understand - even in dreams.
Source: The Time Keeper

Fate, Understanding

“This pool is a triumph of imagination. That's how you win at life, Gin. You have to imagine your way through. Never say something can't be done. There's always a solution, even if it's weird.”

Maureen Johnson (1973) writer from the USA

Source: The Last Little Blue Envelope

Life, Imagination

“His books were the closest thing he had to furniture and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs.”

Laura Hillenbrand book Seabiscuit: An American Legend

Source: Seabiscuit: An American Legend

Men, Books

“There is certainty in a ring.
The non-ending, the non-beginning.
The ongoing.
The way it holds on to you
not because it's fastened
or stretched or adhered.
It holds on
because it fits.”

David Levithan The Realm of Possibility

Source: The Realm of Possibility

“The Master said, “A true gentleman is one who has set his heart upon the Way. A fellow who is ashamed merely of shabby clothing or modest meals is not even worth conversing with.”
(Analects 4.9)”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

Heart, Clothes

“your handwriting. the way you walk. which china pattern you choose. it's all giving you away. everything you do shows your hand. everything is a self portrait. everything is a diary.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Diary

Source: Diary

“Pain is the body's way of ridding itself of weakness.”

Dean Karnazes (1962) American distance runner

Source: Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner

Pain

“I don't think you fully understand the public, my friend; in this country, when something is out of order, then the quickest way to get it fixed is the best way.”

Ken Kesey book One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Understanding, Thinking, Country

“Even though we both know that our loved one will never so much as look our way we can’t erase that small something within us that continues to hope in vain.”

Matsuri Hino Japanese manga artist

Love, Hope

“In a way fighting was just like using magic. You said the words, and they altered the universe. By merely speaking you could create damage and pain, cause tears to fall, drive people away, make yourself feel better, make your life worse.”

Lev Grossman The Magicians

Source: The Magicians

Life, Pain, People, Feeling

“Believing the lie that time will heal all wounds is just a nice way of saying that time deadens us.”

Jonathan Nolan (1976) British-American screenwriter, television producer, director and author

Source: Memento mori

Lie, Time

“All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways.”

Yann Martel book Life of Pi

Source: Life of Pi

Madness

“Philosophy is the toil which can never tire persons engaged in it. All ways are strewn with roses, and the farther you go, the more enchanting objects appear before you and invite you on.”

Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762) writer and poet from England

Appearance, Personality

“Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.”

Florence Nightingale (1820–1910) English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing

World, Time

“The way to achieve happiness is to try for perfection that is impossible to achieve, and spend the rest of your life trying to achieve it.”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Life, Perfection, Happiness

“I never could understand why some writers treat women as helpless. Every woman I know is strong in her own unique way.”

Terry Goodkind (1948) American novelist

Women, Understanding, Strong

“You will say that I am old and mad, was what Michaelangelo wrote, but I answer that there is no better way of being sane and free from anxiety than by being mad.”

David Markson book Wittgenstein's Mistress

Source: Wittgenstein's Mistress

Madness

“I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

For Friend

“When they give you lined paper, write the other way.”

Ray Bradbury book Fahrenheit 451

Misattributed
Variant: If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.
Source: Epigraph, in Fahrenheit 451 a translation of a statement by Juan Ramón Jiménez

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