John Muir
Naturalist, Writer
"Wander a whole summer if you can. Time will not be taken from the sum of life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal."
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Wander
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Marcel Proust
Novelist
"Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place."
J. R. R. Tolkien
Novelist, Scholar
"Not everyone who wanders is lost."
Stephen King
Author
"I dreamed of you. I dreamed you were wandering in the dark, and so was I. We found each other. We found each other in the dark."
Walker Percy
Author, Novelist
"Before, I wandered as a diversion. Now I wander seriously and sit and read as a diversion."
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"Instead of insight, maybe all a man gets is strength to wander for a while."
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"He indeed possesses the Character imposed on him, but he wanders as a renegade."
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"Take a few minutes of every day to fantasize about how you would wander, travel, or explore if you could."
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"Don’t let yourselves be poisoned by those wandering Jews."
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"People do not wander around and then find themselves at the top of Mount Everest."
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"Don’t become a wandering generality. Be a meaningful specific."
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"We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander."
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"I have a fear of letting my mind wander. I'm afraid it might not come back."
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"I have been wandering to find him and my happiness is so great that it even weakens me like a wound. And this is the marvel of marvels, that he called me Beloved, me who am but as a dog."
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"Spend the years of learning squandering Courage for the years of wandering Through a world politely turning From the loutishness of learning."
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"I am tied down with single words. But you wander off; you slip away; you rise up higher, with words and words in phrases."
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"There is only one search: wandering... no dogma and no heresy."
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"I´m not a wandering slave, I am a woman of choice"
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"Why don’t you try wandering with me to the Palace of Not-Even-Anything"
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"Well, I sing by night, wander by day. I'm on the road and it looks like I'm here to stay."
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"Wandering seemed no more than the happiness of an anxious man."
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"Oh, wandering One, if you are in search of the greatest treasure, don't look outside. Look within, and seek That."
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"How now, wit! Whither wander you?"
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"A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many."
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"I'm a wandering gypsy."
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