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“You don't always need to know your destination when you set out on a journey.”

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Carole Wilkinson is a British children's writer known for her historical fiction. Born in 1950, she has a deep interest in history and exploration, which has fueled her creation of a series of popular novels among readers. more

“Antonio: Will you stay no longer? nor will you not that I go with you? Sebastian: By your patience, no. My stars shine darkly over me; the malignancy of my fate might, perhaps, distemper yours; therefore I shall crave of you your leave that I may bear my evils alone. It were a bad recompense for your love to lay any of them on you.”

May Might Evil Stars Fate Bears Lays Shining Crave Recompense Antonio Malignancy

Book:Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will

Source: Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will

“Thinking is the most overrated human activity.”

Thinking Humans Activity Overrated Human Activity

Author:Wendell Berry

“Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don't have.”

Character Taught Skills Kitchen Confidential

Author:Anthony Bourdain

“I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early poetry, and bad poets publish it. Thankfully I gave up rather quickly.”

Thinking Age Certain Poet Poetry Is Good Life Fifteen Publish Gave Up Sixteen Masturbation Later In Life

Author:Umberto Eco

“He suddenly understood the message of so many spiritual teachers that the only revolution that can work is the inner transformation of every human being.”

Humans Spiritual Human Beings Teacher Revolution Messages Understood Transformation Spiritual Teachers

Book:The holotropic mind: the three levels of human consciousness and how they shape our lives

Source: The holotropic mind: the three levels of human consciousness and how they shape our lives

“To fear what you do not understand is to mistake ignorance for safety.”

Mistake Ignorance Safety

Author:Ginn Hale

“I remember a time when a cabbage could sell itself by being a cabbage. Nowadays it’s no good being a cabbage – unless you have an agent and pay him a commission. Nothing is free anymore to sell itself or give itself away. These days, Countess, every cabbage has its pimp.”

Giving Remember Pay Sells Agents These Days Cabbage Pimp

Author:Jean Giraudoux

“Since I became a novelist I have discovered that I am biased. Either I think a new novel is worse than mine and I don’t like it, or I suspect it is better than my novels and I don’t like it.”

Thinking Novel Mines Novelists Suspects Biased

Author:Umberto Eco

“Once you learn what life is about, there is no way to erase that knowledge. If you try to do something else with your life, you will always sense that you are missing something”

Ifs Way Trying Life Is Missing Erase Missing Something Celestine Prophecy

Book:The celestine prophecy: an adventure

Source: The celestine prophecy: an adventure

“I don't think that anything happens by coincidence... No one is here by accident... Everyone who crosses our path has a message for us. Otherwise they would have taken another path, or left earlier or later. The fact that these people are here means that they are here for some reason".”

People Thinking Mean Reason Facts Happens Left Path Taken Messages Crosses Accidents Coincidence Celestine Prophecy

Author:James Redfield

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