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“I remember walking into the Bible study. I had a knot in my stomach. In my mind, only weirdoes and zealots went to Bible studies. I don't remember what was said that day. All I know is that when I left, everything had changed. I'll never forget standing outside that apartment on the Upper East Side and saying to myself, “It's true. It's completely true.” The world looked entirely different, like a veil had been lifted off it. I had not an iota of doubt. I was filled with indescribable joy.”

“I have to write what I can write, and writing the text of a picture book is like walking a tightrope, if you ramble off... As my friend Julius Lester says, A picture book is the essence of an experience.”

Ifs Writing I Can Book Walking My Friends Essence Picture Books Julius

Author:Patricia MacLachlan

“To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.”

Needs Stills Ideas Space Needed Walking Dance Tea Privacy Pot

Book:Dance to the Piper

Source: Dance to the Piper

“Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one can't afford to waste a minute; and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi.”

Thinking Important Use Life Is Money Minutes Walking Waste Instance Bus Taxi Life Is So Short

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“The great sins and fires break out of me like the terrible leaves from the bough in the violent spring. I am a walking fire, I am all leaves.”

Passion Sin Break Fire Terrible Walking Spring Violent Break Out

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“Although I am an old man, night is generally my time for walking.”

Men Book Night Walking My Time Old Man

Book:The Old Curiosity Shop--and Reprinted Pieces

Source: The Old Curiosity Shop--and Reprinted Pieces

“The Parisan, sauntering the streets idly, is as often a man in despair as a lounger.”

Men Streets Walking Despair Sauntering

Author:Honore de Balzac

“The enthusiast has been compared to a man walking in a fog; everything immediately around him, or in contact with him, appears sufficiently clear and luminous; but beyond the little circle of which he himself is the centre, all is mist and error and confusion.”

Men Littles Has Beens Clear Walking Errors Circles Confusion Contact Enthusiasm Centre Fog Mist Luminous

Book:Lacon: or, Many things in few words

Source: Lacon: or, Many things in few words

“Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow.”

“The golden line is drawn between winter and summer. Behind all is blackness and darkness and dissolution. Before is hope, and soft airs, and the flowers, and the sweet season of hay; and people will cross the fields, reading or walking with one another; and instead of the rain that soaks death into the heart of green things, will be the rain which they drink with delight; and there will be sleep on the grass at midday, and early rising in the morning, and long moonlight evenings.”

“We walk up the beach under the stars. And when we are tired of walking, we lie flat on the sand under a bowl of stars. We feel stretched, expanded to take in their compass. They pour into us until we are filled with stars, up to the brim.”

Feels Lying Stars Walks Walking Filled Tired Beach Sand Flats Bowls Compass

Book:GIFT FROM THE SEA

Source: GIFT FROM THE SEA

“... the most ordinary everyday living is as delicate, as breath-taking, as difficult, takes as terrific physical and mental control and effort, as walking a tightrope.”

Difficult Effort Walking Ordinary Breaths Everyday Delicate Terrific Everyday Living

Author:Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one's balance.”

Thinking Way Loses Balance Walking Down And Comprehension Decrease

Author:Bill Vaughan

“There are gems of wondrous brightness Ofttimes lying at our feet, And we pass them, walking thoughtless, Down the busy, crowded street. If we knew, our pace would slacken, We would step more oft with care, Lest our careless feet be treading To the earth some jewel rare.”

Ifs Care Earth Lying Steps Knowledge Feet Streets Walking Busy Pace Jewels Crowded Careless Brightness Gems Wondrous Treading Crowded Streets

Author:Rudyard Kipling

“As in walking it is your great care not to run your foot upon a nail, or to tread awry, and strain your leg; so let it be in all the affairs of human life, not to hurt your mind or offend your judgment. And this rule, if observed carefully in all your deportment, will be a mighty security to you in your undertakings.”

Ifs Mind Humans Care Running Hurt Feet Security Walking Judgment Affair Legs Human Life Nails Strain Undertakings

Author:Epictetus

“being a member of the court is a lot like walking through fresh concrete. Do you remember doing that as a child and leaving a footprint and it hardens after you? I'm afraid that's what we do and we look back and we see those opinions we've written and they've sort of hardened after us.”

Looks Children Remember Law Opinion Written Walking Members Court Leaving Concrete Footprint Hardened

Author:Sandra Day O'Connor

“You could not presume that people were healthy. You could not presume that they would welcome the little nudges and jostlings of life. You had to behave as though everyone you met was walking a thin wire far above the earth, where the slightest wind might rock them off their balance and send them tumbling to the ground.”

People Littles Might Earth Rocks Wind Balance Walking Healthy Mets Welcome Behave Wire Nudge Tumbling

Author:Kevin Brockmeier

“Living in the modern world, clothed and muffled, forced to convey our sense of our bodies in terms of remote symbols like walking sticks and umbrellas and handbags, it is easy to lose sight of the immediacy of the human body plan.”

World Humans Body Easy Term Loses Plans Modern Walking Sight Sticks Symbols Human Body Modern World Umbrella Immediacy Handbags Walking Sticks

Book:Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world

Source: Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world

“dance is simply the refinement of human movement - walking, running, and jumping. We are all experts. There should be no art form more accessible than dance, yet no art is more mystifying in the public imagination.”

Should Humans Art Running Form Imagination Movement Walking Art Is Dance Experts Jumping Refinement

Author:Twyla Tharp

“To every man in the world there is one person of whom he knows little: whom he would never recognize if he met him walking down the street, whose motives are a mystery to him. That is himself.”

Ifs Knows Men World Littles Persons Mystery Streets Walking Mets Every Man Motive

Book:The meaning of treason

Source: The meaning of treason

“Nebraska is proof that hell is full and the dead are walking the earth.”

States Earth Hell Walking Proof Nebraska

Book:Lizz Free or Die: Essays

Source: Lizz Free or Die: Essays

“I say half jokingly that photography is the most difficult of the arts. It does require a certain arrogance to see and to choose. I feel myself walking on a tightrope instead of on the ground.”

Feels Doe Art Certain Difficult Half Walking Photography Photographer Arrogance

Author:Walker Evans

“Realism is to fiction what gravity is to walking: a confinement that allows dancing under the right circumstances.”

Fiction Circumstances Walking Dancing Gravity Realism Confinement

Author:George Saunders

“People like Jesus Christ, the Buddha, and other walking masters who have moved through the earth have demonstrated that understanding that they have no needs, far from prohibiting them from experiencing the needs of others, allowed them to experience that others lived inside of the illusion of need and to have great compassion for them.”

People Needs Earth Jesus Understanding Christ Compassion Masters Walking Illusion Jesus Christ Moved Needs Of Others

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“I used to say, for me, writing was like walking a high wire, and heroin made me forget there was no net. Which is a fancy way of saying dope made me forget how shitty I felt for being on dope.”

Way Writing Made Used Felt Forget Walking Fancy Wire Heroin Dope

Author:Jerry Stahl

“All your trouble comes from lack of exercise. A man of your strength and constitution ought always to have kept physically active. So don't jibe at the very wise advice that sentences you to one hour's walk a day. You imagine the work of the mind takes place only in the brain; but you're much mistaken. It takes place in the legs as well.”

Men Mind Wells Hours Walks Brain Wise Imagine Trouble Advice Ought Walking Exercise Constitution Legs Active Sentences Mistaken One Hour Very Wise Physically Active Wise Advice

Author:George Sand

“Consider developing your whole self with the same raw focus and intensity that you develop a particular skill set. Get focused. Go out, have adventures. Run, jump, skin your knee, fall in love, root loudly for the away team at a baseball game, barely escape a crash of stampeding rhinos, live to see another day. Experience things big and small. Go for a walk. The world is full of wonders.”

“You can't control the paparazzi. But if you go to Coachella you're going to get photographed. Whereas if you're at home, walking down the street you probably won't. It's something I've learnt to navigate my way around but I try to keep my private life private.”

Ifs Way Trying Home Streets Walking My Way Private Life Navigate Paparazzi Coachella

Author:Ashley Greene

“The trouble is, walking in Venice becomes compulsive once you start. Just over the next bridge, you say, and then the next one beckons.”

Next Trouble Walking Bridges Venice The Next One

Book:Don't look now

Source: Don't look now

“Budapest in late May is a city of lilacs. The sweet, languid, rather sleepy smell of lilacs wafts everywhere. And it is a city of lovers, many of them quite middle-aged. Walking with their arms around each other, embracing and kissing on park benches. A sensuousness very much bound up (it seems to me) with the heady ubiquitous smell of lilacs.”

May Seems Cities Middle Sweet Arms Lovers Walking Kissing Late Europe Bounds Smell Parks Benches Middle Aged Sleepy Lilac Budapest Park Benches

Book:(Woman) writer: occasions and opportunities

Source: (Woman) writer: occasions and opportunities

“Walking rapidly - or even slowly - through a gallery is equivalent to browsing through a bookstore and reading the blurbs.”

Reading Walking Museums Gallery Bookstores Browsing

Author:Wendy Beckett

“My vocation is to write and I have known this for a long time. I hope I won't be misunderstood; I know nothing about the value of the things I am able to write. I know that writing is my vocation. When I sit down to write I feel extraordinarily at ease, and I move in an element which, it seems to me, I know extraordinarily well; I use tools that are familiar to me and they fit snugly in my hands. But when I write stories I am like someone who is in her own country, walking along streets that she has known since she was a child, between walls and trees that are hers.”

Knows Feels Writing Wells Children Long Country Stories Use Hands Seems Able Moving Values Known Tree Streets Wall Fit Walking Elements Long Time Tools Familiar Ease Vocation Misunderstood

Author:Natalia Ginzburg

“People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.”

People Men Needs Kind Persons Sometimes Literature Walks Walking Misery Execution Habitual Misers

Book:The Portable Graham Greene

Source: The Portable Graham Greene

“How to Tell If Shoes Fit: Walking around the shoe store is not going to tell you any more than test-driving a car around a showroom. And those little mirrors? That's so you can tell how your cat is going to like your shoes. The real way to tell how shoes fit is how badly you want them.”

Ifs Way Want Littles Real Car Like You Fit Walking Cat Tests Mirrors Shoes Stores Driving If The Shoe Fits Showroom

Author:Mimi Pond

“Walking in high heels should be made an Olympic sport.”

Should Made Sports Walking Shoes Heels High Heels

Author:Mimi Pond

“... I love walking my feet off. Gimme a map and a box of Band-Aids and I'm all set!”

Feet Walking Band Boxes Aids Maps Band Aid

Book:Cancer Schmancer

Source: Cancer Schmancer

“It's not always as comfortable blazing the trail as it is walking on it.”

Walking Comfortable Trails Pioneers Blazing

Author:Joan Lunden

“When I go through the airport and see white women walking through the airport barefooted, like athlete's feet don't exist, there's something wrong.”

White Feet Walking Athlete Airports

Author:Dick Gregory

“Nirvana is outside the fun house. You are walking around in the fun house forever.”

Suffering House Fun Forever Buddhism Walking

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When walking, just walk. When sitting, just sit. Above all, don't wobble.”

Walks Walking Sitting

Book:Zen and Now

Source: Zen and Now

“I do not care for anything. I do not care to ride, for the exercise is too violent. I do not care to walk, walking is too strenuous. I do not care to lie down, for I should either have to remain lying, and I do not care to do that, or I should have to get up again, and I do not care to do that either. Summa summarum: I do not care at all.”

Should Care Lying Walks Walking Exercise Should Have Violent Get Up Ennui

Book:Either/or

Source: Either/or

“Walking alone is not difficult but when we have walked a mile worth a thousand years with someone then coming back alone is what is difficult.”

Years Difficult Walking Thousand Miles Thousand Years Coming Back Sad Love Walking Alone

Author:Faraaz Kazi

“Under the shadow of earthly disappointment, all unconscious to ourselves, our Divine Redeemer is walking by our side.”

Sides Divine Walking Shadow Disappointment Trials Unconscious Redeemer

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“The early masters also introduced walking meditation and hard work to the monastery, for too much sitting could reach the point of diminishing returns.”

Hard Work Too Much Meditation Masters Hard Work Return Walking Sitting Monasteries Walking Meditation Diminishing Returns

Book:Zen and the Brain: Toward an Understanding of Meditation and Consciousness

Source: Zen and the Brain: Toward an Understanding of Meditation and Consciousness

“If we turn away from our sexual passion, then we freeze and beings are harmed. If we grab it, then we are burned and beings are harmed. But if we just stay close to it, walk around it, always in touch with the fact that we are sexual beings, neither identifying with nor distancing ourselves from our sexuality, then we gradually become intimate with it.”

Ifs Facts Turns Passion Sex Walks Walking Sexuality Intimate Burned Freeze Identifying

Author:Reb Anderson

“Our sacred beliefs have been made pencils / names of cities / gas stations / My knee is wounded so badly that I limp constantly / Anger is my crutch / I hold myself upright with it / My knee is wounded / see / How I Am Still Walking.”

Has Beens Made Stills Names Belief Cities Walking Sacred Discrimination Knees Gas Stations Wounded Pencils Crutches Gas Stations

Book:Not vanishing

Source: Not vanishing

“I never took the bus. Never. Walking meant you were eccentric or pious or a loser - riding the bus meant you were insane or masochistic and worse than a loser.”

Walking Insane Loser Bus Riding Eccentric Pious Masochistic

Author:Susan Straight

“Being an adult child was an awkward, inevitable position. You went about your business in the world: tooling around, giving orders, being taken seriously, but there were still these two people lurking somewhere who in a split second could reduce you to nothing. In their presence, you were a big-headed baby again, crawling instead of walking.”

People World Giving Children Stills Two Bigs Order Taken Position Baby Walking Adults Inevitable Awkward Splits Crawling Lurking Adult Children

Author:Meg Wolitzer

“I was baptized alongside my mother when I was 8 years old. Since then, I have tried to walk a Christian life... And now that I'm getting older, I realized that I'm walking even closer with my God.”

Years Christian Mother Walks Walking I Realized Christian Life Getting Older Baptized

Author:Andy Griffith

“I honestly wear myself out walking around, fixing this and fixing that. Maybe that's why I like to work so much - so I can just get to that moment where I'm like, "Whoa." I have to be super tired and knocked out to stop!”

I Can Moments Walking Tired Honestly That Moment Fixing

Author:Jennifer Lopez

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