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“When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the obstacles almost overcome them. We see how they grow as human beings or gain qualities or show great qualities of strength and courage and with them, we grow in some small way.”

Way Humans Stories Shows Grows Human Beings Quality Journey Hero Gains Overcoming Obstacles Great Qualities

Author:Sam Raimi

“Gain control of the emotions. Be the helmsperson and not blown around by the winds of emotion. While there will be winds, you can navigate them or even use them to expedite your journey.”

Inspirational Use Emotion Journey Wind Buddhism Gains Navigate

Author:Frederick Lenz

“That we are selfish gives us the opportunity to gain the power so that, in time, we might be selfless. To give back what we have learned. To teach what we know, and shorten the journey for those who will come after us.”

Knows Giving Might Opportunity Teach Journey Gains Selfish Selfishness Selfless Giving Back

Book:I Have Chosen to Stay and Fight

Source: I Have Chosen to Stay and Fight

“Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing journey thorough the world.”

People World Made Stories Purpose Leader Imagine Journey Gains Thorough

Author:Chinua Achebe

“Risk deters those who see what they could lose. Those focused on the gain see it as a necessary part of their journey, even if the possibility of loss exists.”

Ifs Loses Loss Risk Journey Possibility Gains Focused

Author:Simon Sinek

“We can't just go, like, oh that'd be cool then not do it. So it's one of those weird things. You gain all these things on your journey. You get smarter. It's interesting how you are who you are in high school in a lot of ways. When I look at my friends, I feel no different about them than I did when I was in high school. I mean that in a great way. They've taken on a micro scale what they were doing and making it bigger.”

Way Feels Looks Mean Different School Interesting Taken Journey High School My Friends Gains Bigger Who You Are Scales Smarter Being Cool Weird Things

Author:Zack Snyder

“Hope puts up with modest gains, realizing that the longest journey starts with one step.”

Realizing Steps Journey Gains Hopeful Modest

Author:James Keller

“Immigrants who come to a country are going to lose something, for sure, but they hope to gain a great deal by making this journey, whereas refugees by definition have lost a tremendous amount - not just country and society, but also more personal things like careers, prestige, status, relatives, identities. This inevitably makes the longing to remember the past even more powerful among refugees, to the point of often debilitating them.”

Country Past Remember Lost Loses Deals Powerful Careers Journey Identity Amount Gains Longing Definitions Immigrants Refugee Prestige Personal Things Remembering The Past

Author:Nguyen Viet Thang

“What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.”

Ifs Important Able Inspiring Journey Moon Discovery Gains Crosses Useless Life Changing Sailing Abyss Voyages Full Moon Voyages Of Discovery

Book:The Wisdom of the Desert: Sayings from the Desert Fathers of the Fourth Century

Source: The Wisdom of the Desert: Sayings from the Desert Fathers of the Fourth Century

“It was a harder day's journey than yesterday's, for there were long and weary hills to climb; and in journeys, as in life, it is a great deal easier to go down hill than up. However, they kept on, with unabated perseverance, and the hill has not yet lifted its face to heaven that perseverance will not gain the summit of at last.”

Inspirational Long Lasts Faces Heaven Deals Journey Easier Gains Harder Perseverance Yesterday Hills Climbs Weary Summit

Book:Nicholas Nickleby

Source: Nicholas Nickleby

“We abandon the most important journey of our lives when we abandon desire. We leave our hearts by the side of the road and head off in the direction of fitting in, getting by, being productive, what have you. Whatever we might gain – money, position, the approval of others, or just absence of the discontent self – it’s not worth it.”

“We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon and to prepare for new journeys to the worlds beyond our own.”

Men World Universe Journey Moon Gains Ships New Journey

Author:George W. Bush

“The spiritual journey does not consist of arriving at a new destination where a person gains what he did not have, or becomes what he is not. It consists in the dissipation of one's own ignorance concerning oneself and life, and the gradual growth of that understanding which begins the spiritual awakening. The finding of God is a coming to one?s self.”