"There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler."

-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#Journey Quotes #Traveler Quotes

“Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.”
“Stupidity is a factor to be reckoned with in human affairs. The true leader always expects to encounter it, and prepares to endure it patiently so long as it is normal stupidity. He knows that his ideas will be distorted, his orders carelessly executed; and that there will be jealousy among his assistants. He takes these inevitable phenomena into account, and instead of attempting to find men without faults, who are non-existent, he tries to make use of the best men at his disposal - as they are, and not as they ought to be.”

Source : "The Art of Living". Book by Andre Maurois, 1939.
“Despite what I had acchieved, I don't for a moment think I am any braver or better than anyone else.Â This is how I attempt to explain what gives me the stregnth to do what I do; when that thunderbolt of an idea first hit me and inspired me to row across oceans, it filled me with a sense of purpose so strong that it overcame my fears.Â Even when boredom, frustration, fatigue or despair threatened to overwhelm me, it was that powerful sense of purpose that kept me going.”
“If we are to love sincerely, and with simplicity, we must first of all overcome the fear of not being loved.”
“Hillary Clinton is trying an entirely different approach with Iowa than the one she tried eight years ago when she lost there. She will not start speeches by saying, 'Hello, Iowa, or Idaho, or whichever one you are.'”
“The reason I love you is not because you are special like nobody I've ever met before. It is because nobody has made me feel more special than anybody ever did before you.”
“I'll continue on the path I've been taking, feet on the ground, describing people's lives, describing people's emotions, writing from the standpoint of the ordinary people.”

Source : "Chinese writer Mo Yan, known for bawdy, sprawling tales, wins Nobel literature prize". www.foxnews.com. October 11, 2012.
“I want to be one of the greats. I want to be the pound for pound king and I know what it takes to get there.”

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