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“There’s something about arriving in new cities, wandering empty streets with no destination. I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I'm born to leave.”

Source: Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps

“it's always good to know that you have been the best even though deep inside you know you will never be better than that.”

Source: A-Z of Happiness: Tips for Living and Breaking Through the Chain that Separates You from Getting That Dream Job

“It doesn’t matter how many times you leave, it will always hurt to come back and remember what you once had and who you once were. Then it will hurt just as much to leave again, and so it goes over and over again. Once you’ve started to leave, you will run your whole life.”

Home Lost Growing Up Youth Leaving Alone Prose Finding Yourself Arriving Wandering Travelling The Glass Child Charlotte Eriksson Vagabonding The Great Perhaps

Author:Charlotte Eriksson

“I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I'm born to leave.”

Love Home Born Travel Leaving Wander Touring Traveller Arriving Wanderlust Wandering Travelling Vagabond Arrive Vagabonding

Book:Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps

Source: Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps

“If one comes to the sense that they have arrived, they no longer feel the need to submit themselves to the process of learning and growing. This is a dangerous mindset to carry. The day that we stop learning is the day we stop living.”

Learning Growing Perspective Living Mindset Live Learn Grow Arriving

Author:Jenelle Dancel

“Our small victories always trick us into believing that we have arrived, but let us not be carried away by the trophies, lest we forget where we came from, and where we are going.”

Tricks Tricky Trophies Arriving Forgetful Purpose Driven Victorious Victories Trophy Arrival

Book:Sips And Little Portions

Source: Sips And Little Portions

“Whether we trek, crawl, or fly, we are bound to arrive where we ought to.”

Destined Trekking Arriving Fly Crawling Arrival Crawl Arrive Destiny And Chance Trek

Book:Song of a Nature Lover

Source: Song of a Nature Lover

“Nothing is certain. Nothing is promised. Just make sure to not give up on the edge of breakthrough”

Certainty Uncertain Discouraged Finishing Promises Arriving Edge Losing Hope Futures Promised

Book:These Words Pour Like Rain

Source: These Words Pour Like Rain

“Those who always complain about not arriving often do not realize that there are people going hard and forward without having a clue of where they are going.”

Realizing Confused Blinded Arriving Crossroads Directions Astray Destinations Onward Straying

Book:Sips And Little Portions

Source: Sips And Little Portions

“consistency takes one from striving, to a place of thriving.”

Constant Focused Thrive Steady Stable Harmonious Concentrating Arriving Unchanging Dependable

Book:Sips And Little Portions

Source: Sips And Little Portions

“Whilst people have answered questions, I have only heard my own voice thinking of the next question.”

Source: The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club

“I was so sure that I knew what they needed and what I wanted to sell them that I never stopped long enough to find out what it was they wanted to buy.”

Source: The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club

“Speaking from the heart is simple. Listening wholeheartedly, however, is much, much more difficult and most rare.”

Source: The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club

“If you woke before dawn one morning with the formula for a vaccine, which would cure the most ghastly disease currently known to man, releasing millions from an agonising death, would you roll over and resume sleeping until daylight?”

Source: The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club

“I have discovered fallen trees across my path and have possessed neither the strength to move them nor the patience or tenacity to find an alternative way round. I have simply returned to where I came from, and told myself there had been no other choice.”

Source: The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club

“Everything would have been for nothing just because I simply didn’t listen.”

Source: The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club

“Finding happiness by delivering it.”

Source: The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club

“You’ve got to be driven to become successful.”

Source: The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club

“The trains always arrive at your station. The question is which one to take?”

“There are no problems. There are only empowered solutions. Sometimes, change arrives to realign us- it always comes and goes, while dancing with our soul.”

Changes Empowering Quotes Arriving Soul Journey Transformation Spirituality Solution Focused Realignment

Book:Sutras of the Heart: Spiritual Poetry to Nourish the Soul

Source: Sutras of the Heart: Spiritual Poetry to Nourish the Soul

“Most men have professions, yet few act like professionals.”

Source: The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club

“New-Year's Day arriving, and the ministers, to whom I wrote, remaining silent, I consider their silence as evidence, that they cannot prove what I said not to be from the Lord, and have therefore published as I was directed.”

Years Said Silence Lord Prove Evidence Silent Ministers New Year Arriving Remaining Silent

Book:Copies of letters sent to the clergy of Exeter. 1813. A communication sent in a letter to the Reverend Mr. P. in 1797. [1814] A dispute between the woman and the powers of darkness. 2d ed. 1813. The answer of the Lord to the powers of darkness. 2d ed. 1813. A caution and instruction to the sealed. 1807. A warning to the world. [1804] The strange effects of faith. 2d ed. 1801

Source: Copies of letters sent to the clergy of Exeter. 1813. A communication sent in a letter to the Reverend Mr. P. in 1797. [1814] A dispute between the woman and the powers of darkness. 2d ed. 1813. The answer of the Lord to the powers of darkness. 2d ed. 1813. A caution and instruction to the sealed. 1807. A warning to the world. [1804] The strange effects of faith. 2d ed. 1801

“A whole film is just about arriving at a moment where you hopefully transfer some feeling to the audience.”

Whole Moments Feelings Film Audience Hopefully Transfers Arriving

Author:Brit Marling

“When people know the desired destination, they’re free to improvise, as needed, in arriving there.”

People Knows Needed Destination Arriving

Author:Chip Heath

“We need to be agnostics first and then there is some chance at arriving at a sensible system of belief.”

Needs Firsts Belief Chance Sensible Agnosticism Arriving

Author:D. Elton Trueblood

“The imagination acquires by custom a certain involuntary, unconscious power of observation and comparison, correcting its own mistakes, and arriving at precision of judgment, just as the outward eye is disciplined to compare, adjust, estimate, measure, the objects reflected on the back of its retina.”

Eye Certain Imagination Mistake Objects Judgment Observation Compare Acquire Unconscious Comparison Customs Precision Arriving Correcting Involuntary

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Focus on the journey, not on arriving at a certain destination.”

Certain Focus Journey Destination Arriving

Book:An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth

Source: An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth

“Nature is forever arriving and forever departing, forever approaching, forever vanishing; but in her vanishings there seems to be ever the waving of a hand, in all her partings a promise of meetings farther along the road.”

Hands Seems Forever Promise Meetings Parting Arriving Vanishing Departing

Book:Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays

Source: Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays

“Robert Creeley has forged a signature style in American poetry, an idiosyncratic, highly elliptical, syntactical compression by which the character of his mind’s concentrated and stumbling proposals might be expressed … Reading his poems, we experience the gnash of arriving through feeling at thought and word.”

Mind Character Feelings Might Reading Style Proposal Signatures Arriving Stumbling Forged American Poetry Compression Thoughts And Words

Author:Forrest Gander

“The... promptitude with which many painters, on arriving at an entirely new and unfamiliar place, settle down to work at once, never fails to astonish me: it seems indecent, like button-holing a complete stranger.”

Seems Failing Stranger Painter Intimacy Settling Buttons Unfamiliar Arriving Settling Down

Author:Augustus John

“It is the immigrant hordes who keep this country alive, the waves of them arriving year after year.... Who believes in America more than the people who run down the gangplank and kiss the ground?”

People Years Believe Country Running America Alive Kissing Wave Immigrants Arriving Horde

Book:Homer & Langley: A Novel

Source: Homer & Langley: A Novel

“A religious creed differs from a scientific theory in claiming to embody eternal and absolutely certain truth, whereas science is always tentative, expecting that modification in its present theories will sooner or later be found necessary, and aware that its method is one which is logically incapable of arriving at a complete and final demonstration.”

“For however inhospitable the wind, from this vantage point Manhattan was simply so improbable, so wonderful, so obviously full of promise - that you wanted to approach it for the rest of your life without ever quite arriving.”

Wanted Wonderful Wind Promise Approach Rest Of Your Life Manhattan Arriving Improbable Vantage Point

Book:Rules of Civility: A Novel

Source: Rules of Civility: A Novel

“We like books that have a lot of dreck in them, matter which presents itself as not wholly relevant (or indeed, at all relevant) but which, carefully attended to, can supply a kind of "sense" of what is going on. This "sense" is not to be obtained by reading between the lines (for there is nothing there, in those white spaces) but by reading the lines themselves looking at them and so arriving at a feeling not of satisfaction exactly, that is too much to expect, but of having read them, of having "completed" them.”

Kind Book Matter Feelings Reading Lines Space White Too Much Satisfaction Relevant Arriving Between The Lines White Space

Author:Donald Barthelme

“If people want consultative government, the price is increased complexity and delay in arriving at decisions. If they want speed of government, then they must accept a greater degree of authoritarianism. I suspect that the real answer is that most people prefer the latter so long, that is, as government's decisions conform with their own views.”

“The colors I choose there was to paint the first hotel, the Disneyland Hotel. Because of the cloudy sky we had in Paris, it had to be a particular kind of color who will fight those grey days. And also something you can see when you're driving up 'There it is! We're arriving!'”

Firsts Kind Artist Fighting Sky Particular Color Paint Driving Paris Hotel Grey Arriving Disneyland Cloudy Cloudy Day Cloudy Skies

Author:John Hench

“Traveling is a constant arriving, while arrival that precludes further traveling is most easily attained by going to sleep or dying.”

Sleep Dying Constant Going To Sleep Arrivals Arriving

Book:Human Nature and Conduct: Human Understanding

Source: Human Nature and Conduct: Human Understanding

“Yoga is a technology for arriving in this present moment. It is a means of waking up from our spiritual amnesia, so that we can remember all that we already know.”

Knows Mean Moments Remember Spiritual Technology Yoga Wake Up Present Moment Waking Arriving Amnesia

Book:Yoga Mind, Body & Spirit: A Return to Wholeness

Source: Yoga Mind, Body & Spirit: A Return to Wholeness

“At the end of history the whole earth has become the Garden of God again. Death and decay and suffering are gone. . . . Jesus will make the world our perfect home again. We will no longer be living 'east of Eden,' always wandering and never arriving. We will come, and the father will meet us and embrace us, and we will be brought into the feast.”

World Ends Whole Home Earth Suffering Father Jesus Perfect Gone Garden Embrace East Wander Decay Eden Arriving East Of Eden

Author:Timothy Keller

“With me, traveling for work is arriving at the airport, checking into the hotel, leaving the hotel the next morning at 4 or 5 to do something like 'The Jimmy and Jackie Captain Crazy Morning Zoo,' doing a bunch of those in a row, then going back to the hotel, and then finally going to the club.”

Next Morning Crazy Leaving Clubs Bunch Hotel Captains Airports Jimmy Arriving Zoos Jackie

Author:Gilbert Gottfried

“One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.”

Opportunity Arrivals Arriving

Book:The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom

“I never deny poems when they come; whatever I am doing, whatever I am writing, I lay it aside and attend to the arriving poem.”

Writing Poetry Lays Deny Arriving

Author:Amy Lowell

“History ... with its long, leisurely, gentlemanly labors, the books arriving by post, the cards to be kept and filed, the sections to be copied, the documents to be checked, is the ideal pursuit for the New England mind.”

Mind Long Book History Ideals Labor England Pursuit Cards Posts Documents Sections Arriving New England Gentlemanly

Book:A View of My Own: Essays on Literature and Society

Source: A View of My Own: Essays on Literature and Society

“the country of the aged is a land few people think very hard and seriously about before the time of life when they sense that they're arriving there. Somehow, throughout much of life, being old seems to be something that happens to other people.”

People Thinking Country Hard Seems Happens Age Land Old Age Arriving Being Old

Book:Unfinished business: pressure points in the lives of women

Source: Unfinished business: pressure points in the lives of women

“I designed furniture that pulled apart, folded, and broke down into neat stacks. Since arriving in California, I had moved four times and it looked as if I would move again. Was it the land running under my feet or my feet running over the land?”

Ifs Running Moving Four Feet Land Moved Broke California Furniture Neat Arriving

Book:A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck By Lightning

Source: A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck By Lightning

“The popularity of the famous device of the use of lands into England is said to be largely due to the mendicant friars of the then new Orders of St. Dominic and St. Francis, who, arriving in this country, in the first half of the thirteenth century, found themselves hampered by their own vows of poverty, no less than by the growing feeling against Mortmain in acquiring the provision of land absolutely necessary for their rapidly developing work.”

Source: A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919

“marrows - alas! - are arriving in a steady stream at the back door. ... Oddly enough, the majority of people who grow them in Fairacre say, as they hand them over: 'Funny thing! I don't care for them myself. In fact, none of the family likes them!' But still they plant them. It must be the fascination of seeing such a wonderful return for one small seed, that keeps marrow-growers at their dubious task.”

“There's a spectrum of possibilities. You can underline the bass, or not at all. You can create something that is well-anchored or that is floating and never arriving. You can make a melodic line dominant or barely visible. The conducting gesture is akin to painting or sculpture.”

Wells Lines Possibility Painting Visible Gestures Dominant Floating Sculpture Spectrum Bass Arriving Conducting

Author:Laurence Equilbey

“My life is ticking away one subway token at a time - a never ending pirouette of arriving and departing, pushing through turnstiles, nodding goodbye and hello. In eight hours I'll be allowed to turn around and go home.”

Home Life Is Turns Hours Eight Goodbye Pushing Hello Subway Never Ending Arriving Tokens Nodding Departing Pushing Through Pirouettes

Author:Rob Payne

“The pictures I contemplate painting would constitute a halfway state and attempt to point out the direction of the future - without arriving there completely”

States Painting Contemplating Halfway Arriving

Book:Jackson Pollock

Source: Jackson Pollock