Nhat Hanh
Zen Master, Author
"Take my hand. We will walk. We will only walk. We will enjoy our walk without thinking of arriving anywhere."
Arriving quotes
Arriving
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David Bowie
Musician, Actor
"The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
"When its errands are noble and adequate, a steamboat bridging the Atlantic between Old and New England, and arriving at its ports with the punctuality of a planet, is a step of man into harmony with nature."
Baltasar Gracian
Philosopher, Writer
"One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity."
Joseph Campbell
Mythologist, Writer, Lecturer
"Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends."
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"Knowledge is only one ingredient on arriving at a stock's proper price. The other ingredient, fully as important as information, is sound judgment."
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"Woman's inaptitude for reasoning has not prevented her from arriving at truth; nor has man's ability to reason prevented him from floundering in absurdity."
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"The soul takes flight to the world that is invisible but there arriving she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise."
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"Our task is to listen to the news that is always arriving out of silence."
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"It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being. Religion is as necessary to reason, as reason is to religion."
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"He who has followed the path of love's initiation in the proper order will on arriving at the end suddenly perceive a marvelous beauty, the source of all our efforts"
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"But Geology carries the day: it is like the pleasure of gambling, speculating, on first arriving, what the rocks may be; I often mentally cry out 3 to 1 Tertiary against primitive; but the latter have hitherto won all the bets."
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"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."
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"Mastery is in the reaching, not in the arriving."
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"I suspect that most authors don't really want criticism, not even constructive criticism. They want straight-out, unabashed, unashamed, fulsome, informed, naked praise, arriving by the shipload every fifteen minutes or so."
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"Rather than arriving five hours late and flustered, it would be better all around if he were to arrive five hours and a few extra minutes late, but triumphantly in command."
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"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."
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"There are a million ways of arriving at a performance, any number of them solid."
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"You can go watch everything so you can see a transition of someone who is coming into his own. That's what I feel like my music is. I'm finally here, arriving and I know exactly what I want to talk to people about."
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"A follower of the Way (Tao) loses something each day. Loss after loss until arriving at Non Action (Wu Wei)."
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"The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic."
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"Those who become enamoured of the art, without having previously applied to the diligent study of the scientific part of it, may be compared to mariners who put to the sea in a ship without rudder or compass and therefore cannot be certain of arriving at the wished for port."
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"There are days when I don't want to go to the gym or find myself not super motivated upon arriving. I would visualize myself playing at the Olympics."
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