The journey not the arrival matters.
- Topic: Purpose, Travel
- Location: Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man.
If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.
Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm; they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
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Never cross a man, not afraid to die.
Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.
The same power that rose Christ from the dead, is living inside of you.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he as imagined, he will meet with success unexpectedly in common hours.
The higher you soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.
Find out who you are and do it on purpose.
You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.
The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual; and, exhibited in the lives of many, it continues the true source of national vigor and strength. Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.
A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world.
Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.
To a greater force, and to a better nature, you, free, are subject, and that creates the mind in you, which the heavens have not in their charge. Therefore if the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.
The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
What signifies knowing the names, if you know not the nature of things?
Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.
As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.
