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My father considered a walk among the mountains
as the equivalent of churchgoing.
- Aldous Huxley
Related topics: Nature Inspirational Walking
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
- Aldous Huxley
Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
- William Shakespeare
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Dear Father in heaven, I'm not a praying man,
but if you're up there and you can hear me ...
show me the way... show me the way.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
It doesn't matter who my father was.
It matters who I remember he was.
- Anne Sexton
So your father, or your mother,
never thought you were good enough - SO WHAT?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most important thing a father
can do for his children
is to love their mother.
- Henry Ward Beecher
When a father gives to his son, both laugh;
when a son gives to his father, both cry.
- William Shakespeare
My father always used to say that when you die,
if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
- Lee Iacocca
A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father;
to his wife, but as a husband;
to his enemy, but upon terms:
whereas a friend may speak, as the case requires,
and not as it sorteth with the person.
- Francis Bacon
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant
I could hardly stand to have the old man around.
But when I got to be 21, I was astonished
at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
- Mark Twain
My father and he had one of those English friendships
which begins by avoiding the intimacies
and eventually eliminates speech altogether.
- Jorge Luis Borges
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
Solitude is considered un-American.
- Erica Jong
No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered
with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
- Winston Churchill
What people often mean by getting rid of conflict
is getting rid of diversity,
and it is of the utmost importance
that these should not be considered the same.
- M. P. Follett
A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker.
A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
- The Buddha
I like to talk about a thing I call a "practiced pause."
Just a few moments of pausing allows me
to consider a circumstance and take stock
of what the best direction might be.
Reactions tend to rise from habit and unconsidered action.
A Response is considered and thoughtful.
My actions are my own and I am, singularly,
responsible for what I see, say, feel and exert.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen hard.
Practice wellness.
Play with abandon.
Laugh.
Choose with no regret.
Appreciate your friends.
Continue to learn.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A well-developed sense of humor
is the pole that adds balance to your steps,
as you walk the tightrope of life.
- William Arthur Ward
Today is your day to paint life in bold colors;
set today's rhythm with your heart-drum;
walk today's march with courage;
create today as your celebration of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked,
in which you can walk with love and reverence.
- Henry David Thoreau
I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
- Abraham Lincoln
To lead people walk behind them.
- Lao Tzu
I'm a slow walker, but I never walk backward.
- Abraham Lincoln
I hope that you walk around the corner
and you get very surprised.
- Miranda Richardson
Eternity:
I am drawn to the wild edge of the ocean of my being
My curiosity unbound, I test the limits
of the limitless and the boundaries of the timeless.
I walk the path - the way - the way of ways -
to the end which is not an end.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal,
and then leap in the dark to our success.
- Henry David Thoreau
A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell
A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell
Faith:
When you walk to the edge of all the light you have
and take that first step into the darkness of the unknown,
you must believe that one of two things will happen:
...
There will be something solid for you to stand upon,
or, you will be taught how to fly
- Patrick Overton - from his book of poems: The Leaning Tree, 1975
[Widely mis-attributed to Barbara J. Winter, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, and others]
Every man must decide whether he will
walk in the light of creative altruism
or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I Walk Today's March With Courage.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
- Henry David Thoreau
Protect your vision.
Prevail over adversity.
Persevere in the midst of turmoil.
Passionately act upon your convictions.
Purposely walk into the day.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Relax. Take a day off.
Go for a long silent walk in the woods.
The world will still be there tomorrow -
as good and as bad as ever.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Today is my day to paint in bold colors,
set today's rhythm with my heart-drum,
walk today's march with courage,
create today as my celebration of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
- Mother Teresa
No one saves us but ourselves.
No one can and no one may.
We ourselves must walk the path.
- The Buddha
The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
- Jacqueline Schiff
Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
- Wallace Stevens
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
- John Muir
Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.
- Albert Camus
Walking is the best possible exercise.
Habituate yourself to walk very fast.
- Thomas Jefferson
The good news is that you aren't
as important as you thought you were.
Relax. The weight of the world
is not on your shoulders.
Take a day off.
Go for a long silent walk in the woods.
The world will still be there tomorrow -
as good and as bad as ever.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Walk on road, hmmm?
Walk left side, safe. Walk right side, safe.
Walk middle, sooner or later get squish just like grape.
Here, karate, same thing.
Either you karate do "yes" or karate do "no."
You karate do "guess so," squish just like grape. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece.
I challenge you to join the ranks of those people
who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
- Tony Robbins
I walk the path - the way - the way of ways -
to the end that is not an end.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All you have to do is look straight and see the road,
and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk.
- Ayn Rand
As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth,
so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind.
To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again.
To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over
the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
- Henry David Thoreau
Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk.
- Raymond Inmon
Take a long walk alone in the woods -
leave the cellphone and music player at home.
Your whole BEing will appreciate it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Few people know how to take a walk.
The qualifications are endurance,
plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature,
good humor, vast curiosity, good speech,
good silence and nothing too much.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth,
so virtue appears from good deeds,
and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind.
To walk safely through the maze of human life,
one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
- The Buddha
Let children walk with Nature,
let them see the beautiful blendings
and communions of death and life,
their joyous inseparable unity,
as taught in woods and meadows,
plains and mountains and streams
of our blessed star,
and they will learn that death
is stingless indeed,
and as beautiful as life.
- John Muir
No problem is so formidable that
you can't walk away from it.
- Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts
We were given:
Two hands to hold.
Two legs to walk.
Two eyes to see.
Two ears to listen.
But why only one heart?
Because the other was given to someone else.
For us to find.
- Anonymous
I haven't got any special religion this morning.
My God is the God of Walkers.
If you walk hard enough,
you probably don't need any other god.
- Bruce Chatwin
Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.
Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being
and walk away from every illness.
I have walked myself into my best thoughts,
and I know of no thought so burdensome
that one cannot walk away from it.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Those we love don't go away,
They walk beside us every day,
Unseen, unheard, but always near,
Still loved, still missed and very dear.
- Anonymous
There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere,
and many of us will have to pass
through the valley of the shadow of death
again and again before we reach
the mountaintop of our desires.
- Nelson Mandela
This is what the Lord asks of you: only this,
to act justly, to love tenderly,
and to walk humbly with your God.
- Micah 6:8
Trust your heart if the seas catch fire,
live by love though the stars walk backward.
- e. e. cummings
In my afternoon walk I would fain forget
all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.
- Henry David Thoreau
For once you have tasted flight
you will walk the earth
with your eyes turned skywards,
for there you have been
and there you will long to return.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Touch me in the morning
Then just walk away
We don't have tomorrow
But we had yesterday
- Ron Miller/Michael Masser
While they were saying among themselves
it cannot be done, it was done.
- Helen Keller
I have found that among its other benefits,
giving liberates the soul of the giver.
- Maya Angelou
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