Quotes about the trip
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“If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.”

Emile Zola (1840–1902) French writer (1840-1902)

As quoted in Dreyfus : His Life and Letters‎ (1937) edited by Pierre Dreyfus, p. 175.

Truth

“I love the way that each book—any book—is its own journey. You open it, and off you go….”

Sharon Creech (1945) American writer of children's novels

Love, Books

“It starts with this: put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down there to write, remind yourself why it isn't in the middle of the room. Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Life, Art, Support, Time

“The only way love can last a lifetime is if it's unconditional. The truth is this: love is not determined by the one being loved but rather by the one choosing to love.”

Stephen Kendrick book The Love Dare

Source: The Love Dare

Love, Truth

“Some of it's magic and some of it's tragic but I had a good life all the way.”

Jimmy Buffett (1946) American singer–songwriter and businessman

Variant: Some of its magic, some its tragic, but I've had a good life along the
way.

Life

“Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combatting the forces of evil… prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon…”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

alt.fan.pratchett (30 May 1998) http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.pratchett/msg/31c9fbae84e0fc8c <br class="br">Usenet

Death, Evil

“Whenever we cannot love in the old, human way… God can give us the perfect way.”

Corrie ten Boom (1892–1983) Dutch resistance hero and writer

Source: The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom

Love, God, Perfection

“How can you spend hours every day trying in small ways to figure out who you are, then have a near-stranger give you a sentence of yourself that says it better than you ever could?”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List

“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Reading

“If I kept saying it; if I kept reaching out. My accident really taught me just one thing: the only way to go on is to go on. To say 'I can do this' even when you know you can't.”

Stephen King book Duma Key

Source: Duma Key

“If chess has any relationship to film-making, it would be in the way it helps you develop patience and discipline in choosing between alternatives at a time when an impulsive decision seems very attractive.”

Stanley Kubrick (1928–1999) American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and editor

Decision, Time, Help, Patience

“Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

Life, Art, Support

“Tell the story as if it were only of interest to the small circle of your characters, of which you may be one. There is no other way to put life into the story.”

Horacio Quiroga (1878–1937) Uruguayan playwright, poet, and short story writer

Life

“Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you'll be a mile away and have his shoes.”

Steve Martin (1945) American actor, comedian, musician, author, playwright, and producer

Shoe, Funny

“Why do you treat me as they do, as though I were exactly what I want to be. Why do we treat people that way?”

William Gaddis book The Recognitions

Source: The Recognitions

People

“I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart. Our story has three parts: a beginning, a middle, and an end. And although this is the way all stories unfold, I still can't believe that ours didn't go on forever.”

Nicholas Sparks book Dear John

John Tyree, Prologue, p. 4
Source: 2000s, Dear John (2006)

Love, Parting

“To tell a woman who is forty, "You look like sixteen," is boloney. The blarney way of saying it is "Tell me how old you are, I should like to know at what age women are the most beautiful.”

Fulton J. Sheen (1895–1979) Catholic bishop and television presenter

Women, Age, Beauty

“We all give up great expectations along the way.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Angel's Game

Source: The Angel's Game

“If you’re looking for the full deal, the till-death deal, then look at me. No one’s ever going to love you, stick by you, understand how you work the way I do.
(Malcolm Kavanaugh)”

Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer

Source: Happy Ever After

Love, Death, Understanding

“God is dead; but given the way of men, there may still be caves for thousands of years in which his shadow will be shown. — And we — we still have to vanquish his shadow, too.”

Friedrich Nietzsche God is dead

Gott ist tot! aber so wie die Art der Menschen ist, wird es vielleicht noch Jahrtausende lang Höhlen geben, in denen man seinen Schatten zeigt.
Und wir — Wir müssen auch noch seinen Schatten besiegen.
Sec. 108
Quotes about quotes: see also God is dead.
The Gay Science (1882)
Source: The Portable Nietzsche

Men, God, Dead

“I hope, Cecily, I shall not offend you if I state quite frankly and openly that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection.”

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Variant: Would you be in any way offended if I said that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection?
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest

Hope, Perfection

“Real understanding does not come from what we learn in books; it comes from what we learn from love of nature, of music, of man. For only what is learned in that way is truly understood.”

Pablo Casals (1876–1973) Catalan cellist and conductor

Love, Books, Music, Understanding

“You did something because it had always been done, and the explanation was, ‘But we’ve always done it this way.’ A million dead people can’t have been wrong, can they?”

Terry Pratchett book The Fifth Elephant

Source: The Fifth Elephant

People, Dead

“A little love and attention can go a long way… too bad more people don't realize that.”

Frank E. Peretti book Hangman's Curse

Source: Hangman's Curse

Love, People

“Here the ways of men part: if you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of truth, then inquire.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Twilight of the Idols

Letter to Elisabeth Nietzsche, Bonn, 1865-06-11. Quoted in Walter Kaufmann, The Faith of a Heretic (opening epigram).
Variant: Here the ways of men divide. If you wish to strive for peace of soul and happiness, then believe; if you wish to be a disciple of truth, then inquire.
Source: Twilight of the Idols

Men, Pleasure, Truth, Peace

“There are two ways of waking up in the morning. One is to say, 'Good morning, God,' and the other is to say, 'Good God, morning'!”

Fulton J. Sheen (1895–1979) Catholic bishop and television presenter

God

“Love has nothing to do with someone else. It is all about you. It is a way of being. It essentially means you have brought sweetness into your emotion. If a loved one travels to another country, would you still be able to love them? You would. If a loved one passed away, would you still be able to love them? You would. Even if a loved one is not physically with you anymore, you are still capable of being loving. So, what is love then? It is just your own quality. You are only using the other person as a key to open up what is already within you.”

Sadhguru book Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy

Source: Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy

Love, Travel, Personality, Country

“Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.”

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

Life

“This, I say. This and this. The way his hair looked in summer sun. His face when he ran. His eyes, solemn as an owl at lessons. This and this and this. So many moments of happiness, crowding forward.”

Madeline Miller book The Song of Achilles

Source: The Song of Achilles

Happiness, Sun, Summer

“The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Shadow of the Wind

Source: The Shadow of the Wind

“Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.”

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

Understanding, Evil, Despair

“Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

Color, Soul

“Life will undertake to separate us, and we must each set off in search of our own path, our own destiny or our own way of facing death.”

Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra

Source: Manuscript Found in Accra

Life, Death, Search

“When you're walking through the darkness, you can't depend on anything or anyone else to light your way. You have to rely on whatever sparks you've got inside you. Or you're going to get lost.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Sugar Daddy

Light, Dependency

“Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,
Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven;
Whilst, like a puff'd and reckless libertine,
Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads
And recks not his own read.”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

Reading

“Corrie, if people can be taught to hate, they can be taught to love! We must find the way, you and I, no matter how long it takes.”

Corrie ten Boom (1892–1983) Dutch resistance hero and writer

Source: The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom

Love, Hate, People

“When you can't go back, you have to worry only about the best way of moving forward.”

Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist

Source: The Alchemist

“Immersing oneself in the problems of a book is a good way to keep from thinking of love.”

Orhan Pamuk book Snow

Source: Snow

Love, Books, Problem, Thinking

“There is no broader way to apostasy than to reject God’s sovereignty in all things concerning the revelation of himself and our obedience…”

John Owen (1616–1683) English theologian

God

“I am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way and approve it, but follow the wrong.”

Ovid Metamorphoses

Source: Metamorphoses

“If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him.”

Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Life, Pain, Waiting, Forgetting

“You may not like what's happening, but just accept it, and let's try to live together. Even if you feel angry, let's be patient and endure, let's try to live together. I've realized that this is the only way forward.”

Hayao Miyazaki (1941) Japanese animator, film director, and mangaka

Feeling

“Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.”

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

This appears to be a variation of a quote often attributed to Caskie Stinnett in 1960, "A diplomat...is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip" https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=kcycAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA90&dq=%22A+diplomat+is+a+person+who+can+tell+you+to+go+to+hell+in+such+a+way+that+you+actually+look+forward+to+the+trip.%22 but which appears to have been in common use in the 1950s and is first recorded in the Seattle Daily Times in 1953 as "Diplomat—one who can tell you to go to hades and make you look forward to the trip". http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/a_diplomat_is_a_person_who_can_tell_you_to_go_to_hell_so_that_you_look_forw/ <br class="br">Misattributed <br class="br">Variant: Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions

Hell

“Either one does not dream, or one does so interestingly. One should learn to spend one's waking life in the same way: not at all, or interestingly.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

Sec. 232
Variant: We have no dreams at all or interesting ones. We should learn to be awake the same way — not at all or in an interesting manner.
Source: The Gay Science (1882)

Life, Dreams, Learning

“Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One must eat muffins quite calmly, it is the only way to eat them.”

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Algernon, Act II
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)

“For better or worse, he was my soul mate. The other half of me. In many ways, he was my reflection.”

Sylvia Day (1973) American writer

Source: Reflected in You

Soul

“What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.”

Maya Angelou book Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

Source: Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

Thinking, Change

“We never believe we're beautiful, no matter how many times we hear it. We never believe it until someone says it in the right way.”

Francine Prose (1947) American writer

Beauty, Time

“I read the way a person might swim, to save his or her life. I wrote that way too.”

Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer

Source: Wild Geese

Life, Reading, Personality

“If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.”

John Cage (1912–1992) American avant-garde composer

Music

“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

Wise

“Art is a way of survival.”

Yoko Ono (1933) Japanese artist, author, and peace activist

Art

“Empathy is not simply a matter of trying to imagine what others are going through, but having the will to muster enough courage to do something about it. In a way, empathy is predicated upon hope.”

Cornel West (1953) African-American philosopher and political/civil rights activist

Hope, Imagination, Courage

“If we could truly see ourselves the way others see us we'd disappear on the spot.”

Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist

“We who live in quiet places have the opportunity to become acquainted with ourselves, to think our own thoughts and live our own lives in a way that is not possible for those keeping up with the crowd.”

Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867–1957) American children's writer, diarist, and journalist

Thinking

“Destiny is important, see, but people go wrong when they think it controls them. It's the other way around.”

Terry Pratchett book Wyrd Sisters

Source: Wyrd Sisters

People, Thinking

“One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

People, Past

“Will smiled the way Lucifer might have smiled, moments before he fell from Heaven.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

Smile

“You cannot consistently perform in a manner which is inconsistent with the way you see yourself.”

Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American motivational speaker

“You mustn’t wish for another life. You mustn’t want to be somebody else. What you must do is this:
“Rejoice evermore.
Pray without ceasing.
In everything give thanks.”
I am not all the way capable of so much, but those are the right instructions.”

Wendell Berry (1934) author

Source: Hannah Coulter

Life

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

Variant: A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Truth, Lie, World, Shoe

“The only way you get Americans to notice anything is to tax them or draft them or kill them.”

John Irving book A Prayer for Owen Meany

Source: A Prayer for Owen Meany

“And so we exchange privacy for intimacy. We gamble with it, hoping that by exposing ourselves, someone will find a way in. This is why the human animal will always be vulnerable: because it wants to be.”

Max Barry (1973) Australian writer

Source: Lexicon

Hope, Animals

“The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.”

Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist

“There was always a way, when one knew what one wanted.”

Donna Woolfolk Cross book Pope Joan

Source: Pope Joan

“When something comes easy, you usually let it go the same way.”

Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer

“It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.”

Claude Monet (1840–1926) French impressionist painter

“You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost power of your mind. If one way does not lead to the desired meaning, take another; if obstacles arise, then still another; until, if your strength holds out, you will find that clear which at first looked dark.”

Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375) Italian author and poet

Reading, Perseverance, Night

“A man's allowed to make lots of small mistakes, and there's nothing wrong with that. But if the mistakes are big ones and they weigh him down, his only solution is to stop taking himself seriously. It's the only way to avoid suffering - suffering, prolonged, can be fatal.”

Pedro Juan Gutiérrez (1950) Cuban writer

Source: Dirty Havana Trilogy

Suffering

“Well, everybody does it that way, Huck."
"Tom, I am not everybody.”

Mark Twain book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Source: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

“Military folk," Neal said with exaggerated patience, shaking his head. "The only way you know to solve problems is by beating them with a stick.”

Tamora Pierce book Lady Knight

Source: Lady Knight

Problem, Patience

“There's one way to find out if a man is honest: ask him; if he says yes, you know he's crooked.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

“There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says "Morning, boys. How's the water?" And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes "What the hell is water?”

David Foster Wallace (1962–2008) American fiction writer and essayist

Source: This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life

Boy, Hell, Fish, Water

“It’s strange,” Moominmamma thought. “Strange that people can be sad, and even angry because life is too easy. But that’s the way it is, I suppose. The only thing to do is to start life afresh.”

Tove Jansson book Moominpappa at Sea

Source: Moominpappa at Sea

Life, People, Sadness

“A man should live his life a certain way not because of some divine authority, but because of a personal moral obligation to himself and others.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Life, Personality

“You are old beyond your years Zoeybird. Believe in yourself and you will find a way. But remember darkness does not always equate to evil just like light does not always bring good.”

P. C. Cast book Marked

Source: Marked

Light, Evil

“I get cross, then sad, and finally end up turning my heart inside out, and keep trying to find a way to become what I'd like to be and what I could be if…. if only there were no other people in the world.”

Anne Frank (1929–1945) victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary

Source: The Diary of a Young Girl

People, World, Sadness, Heart

“Art is not a thing; it is a way.”

Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul

Art

“I also felt guilty about the three pens I'd stolen, but only for a second. And since there was no convenient way to give them back, I stole a bottle of ink before I left.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind

Source: The Name of the Wind

“It is essential to happiness that our way of living should spring from our own deep impulses and not from the accidental tastes and desires of those who happen to be our neighbors, or even our relations.”

Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist

Happiness, Spring

“I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me.”

David Bowie (1947–2016) British musician, actor, record producer and arranger

Feeling

“You will find the way, daughter of the forest. Through grief and pain, through many trials, through betrayal and loss, your feet will walk a straight path.”

Juliet Marillier book Daughter of the Forest

Source: Daughter of the Forest

Pain, Betrayal, Loss, Daughters

“All right, boy, skewer me. I've dropped my defenses,
I'm an easy victim. Why, by now
Your arrows practically know their own way to the target
And feel less at home in their quiver than in me.”

Ovid (-43–17 BC) Roman poet

Source: The Erotic Poems

Feeling, Home, Boy

“Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.”

Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love

Time Enough for Love (1973)
Variant: Progress doesn't come from early risers — progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.

Men

“But because truly being here is so much; because everything here apparently needs us, this fleeting world, which in some strange way keeps calling to us. Us, the most fleeting of all.”

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) Austrian poet and writer

World

“But she loves me. Me. Just the way I am.”

P. C. Cast book Destined

Source: Destined

Love

“If anyone were to ask me what I want out of life I would say- the opportunity for doing something useful, for in no other way, I am convinced, can true happiness be attained.”

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States

Life, Happiness

“Going into our fear and confronting our greed, our weaknesses, our neediness is the way out. And the way out is through the mind, by choosing our thoughts.”

Robert T. Kiyosaki book Rich Dad Poor Dad

Source: Rich Dad, Poor Dad

Fear

“Declare it. Just the same way we declare war. That is how we will have peace… we just need to declare it.”

John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter

War, Peace

“Don't think, feel…. it is like a finger pointing a way to the moon. Don't concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory!”

Bruce Lee (1940–1973) Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker

Bruce Lee: Enter the Dragon (1973); In a training session with one of the temple students.
Variant: Its like a finger pointing away to the moon. Dont concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory.
Source: Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

Feeling, Thinking

“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

Law, Soul