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Journey

Adventure isn't hanging on a rope off the side of a mountain.
Adventure is an attitude that we must apply to the day to day obstacles of life.
- John Amatt

New roads: new ruts.
- G.K.Chesterton

My body has certainly wandered a good deal,
but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.
- Noel Coward

The journey between what you once were and who you are now becoming
is where the dance of life really takes place.
- Barbara DeAngelis

I don’t know where I’m going. If I knew where I was going, I wouldn’t go there.
- Frank O. Gehry

Going beyond one's backyard grants one perspective.
- Sara Genn

A smile goes a long way, but you must start it on its journey.
- Helen Keller

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes
but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust

Each of us must make his own true way, and when we do,
that way will express the universal way.
- Suzuki Roshi

The longest journey begins with the first step.
- Lao Tsu

That's the best thing about walking, the journey itself.
It doesn't matter much whether you get where you're going or not.
You'll get there anyway. Every good hike brings you eventually back home.
- Edward Abbey

To get where you want to go you can't only do what you like.
- Peter Abrahams

You got to be careful if you don’t know where you’re going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra

No man, with a man's heart in him gets far on his way without some
bitter, soul-searching disappointment. Happy is he who is brave
enough to push on to another stage of the journey.
- John Mason Brown

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand,
for the hands execute, but the eye judges.
- Michelangelo Buonarroti

If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
- Joseph Campbell

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think
I have ended up where I intended to be.
- Douglas Adams

An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered;
an adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered.
- G.K. Chesterton

The herd may graze where it pleases or stampede where it pleases,
but he who lives the adventurous life will remain unafraid
when he finds himself alone.
- Raymond B. Fosdick

You know you are having an adventure when you are terrified
when it is happening, but it is fun to talk about later.
- Dolly Levi

Don't have preconceived ideas about what you will find outdoors.
Each day should be an adventure in finding new things to paint.
Go about it with sharp eyes and an open mind,
ready to take in anything that comes your way.
- Ted Smuskiewicz

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