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To travel is to take a journey into yourself.
- Danny Kaye
Life is a great big canvas,
and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
- Danny Kaye
Well excuse me - we've got something
a little unusual going on here -
time travel, parallel universes,
or just a little common ordinary insanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Travel teaches toleration.
- Benjamin Disraeli
I did not wish to take a cabin passage,
but rather to go before the mast
and on the deck of the world,
for there I could best see
the moonlight amid the mountains.
I do not wish to go below now.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is better to travel well than to arrive.
- The Buddha
Travel is fatal to bigotry, prejudice, and narrow-mindedness.
- Mark Twain
We travel, some of us forever, to seek
other states, other lives, other souls.
- Anais Nin
I never saw a discontented tree.
They grip the ground as though they liked it,
and though fast rooted, they travel about as far as we do.
- John Muir
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful,
we must carry it with us or we find it not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do,
and the more genuine may be one's appreciation
of fundamental things like home,
and love, and understanding companionship.
- Amelia Earhart
People travel to wonder at the height of mountains,
at the huge waves of the sea,
at the long courses of rivers,
at the vast compass of the ocean,
at the circular motion of the stars;
and they pass by themselves without wondering.
- St. Augustine
It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers,
but for powers equal to our tasks,
to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door
of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.
- Helen Keller
Pain is a difficult companion. There's no getting around that.
But, if pain is to be a companion, searching and discovering
your own best ways to travel with that pain
will lead you to the joy that you long to have.
They are your paths, your ways and while my experience
and the experiences of others may inspire you,
ultimately it will be the choices you discover
and make for yourself that lead you to certain joy
in the midst of your challenges.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness,
and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.
Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things
cannot be acquired by vegetating
in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.
- Mark Twain
Half the world is composed of idiots,
the other half, of people clever enough
to take indecent advantage of them.
- Walter Kerr
(Groom), take (Bride)'s hand and place your hand over hers.
Now, remember this moment and cherish it...
because this will be the last time you ever have the upper hand.
- Anonymous
Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
- Edgar Bergen
The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.
- Thomas Jefferson
TEAMWORK...means never having to take all the blame yourself.
- Anonymous
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
After fifteen minutes I wanted to marry her,
and after half an hour
I completely gave up the idea of stealing her purse.
- the movie Take the Money and Run (1969)
Persevere. Plan. Strategize. Focus. Breathe. Write.
Let go: relax. Forgive. All this failing: take a nap.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
He who can take advice is sometimes superior
to him who can give it.
- Erica Jong
There are two kinds of people,
those who do the work,
and those who take the credit.
Try to be in the first group;
there is less competition there.
- Indira Gandhi
Take care of the sense
and the sounds will take care of themselves.
- Lewis Carroll
Oh, you weak, beautiful people
who give up with such grace.
What you need is someone to take hold of you -
gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.
- Tennessee Williams
In those days he was wiser than he is now;
he used to frequently take my advice.
- Winston Churchill
Do not take life too seriously.
You will never get out of it alive.
- Elbert Hubbard
Some husbands are living proof that a woman can take a joke.
- Anonymous
If you come to a fork in the road, take it.
- Yogi Berra
Could a greater miracle take place
than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
- Henry David Thoreau
I Act with Bold Courage:
Standing in the inspiring vision of my future,
I boldly take every step -
large and small - with courage and intent.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Standing in the inspiring vision of my future,
I boldly take every step - large and small -
with courage and intent.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
Capitalism tries for a delicate balance:
It attempts to work things out so that
everyone gets just enough stuff to keep them from
getting violent and trying to take other people's stuff.
- George Carlin
Every tomorrow has two handles.
We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety
or the handle of faith.
- Henry Ward Beecher
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
Take charge of your life!
You are responsible to yourself - not to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap
whence everyone must take an equal portion,
most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
- Socrates
I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear
to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.
- Sylvester Stallone
Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Take the initiative - don't wait for life to come to you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No matter what happens, someone will find a way
to take it too seriously.
- Dave Barry
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
Relax. Take a day off.
Go for a long silent walk in the woods.
The world will still be there tomorrow -
as good and as bad as ever.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never say goodbye when you still want to try,
never give up when you still feel you can't take it.
Never say you don't love the person anymore
when you can't let go.
- Anonymous
The biggest adventure you can take is
to live the life of your dreams.
- Oprah Winfrey
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
- Alfred Adler
Okay, here's your first lesson: how to take a FALL!
- the movie Karate Kid
"Sometimes," said Pooh, "the smallest things take up the most room in your heart."
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
During the first period of a man's life
the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Persevere in moving toward highly worthwhile but difficult goals.
In smaller issues, take an easier course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
CHOOSE your future, and take ACTION -
be the hammer, not the nail.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated;
you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- David Lloyd George
Take a chance! All life is a chance.
The man who goes farthest is generally
the one who is willing to do and dare.
- Dale Carnegie
Life is all in the perspective we take on it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness.
Just because they're not on your road
doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Take Action - Now.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Logic will get you from A to B.
Imagination will take you everywhere.
- Albert Einstein
Take risks: if you win, you will be happy;
if you lose, you will be wise.
- Anonymous
If we want to direct our lives,
we must take control of our consistent actions.
It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives,
but what we do consistently.
- Anthony Robbins
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
- Robert Browning
Take a deep breath and do the difficult thing first.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
With courage, you will dare to take risks,
have the strength to be compassionate,
and the wisdom to be humble.
Courage is the foundation of integrity.
- Keshavan Nair
We take refuge in pride,
because we are afraid to tell the truth to ourselves.
- Kakuzo Okakura
Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.
- Henry David Thoreau
A man too busy to take care of his health is like
a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
- Spanish Proverb
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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