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Voyage, travel, and change of place impart vigor -- Seneca the Younger
These views were voiced by the school of 'optessimists', i.e. philosophers who derived optimism for the future from a pessimistic appraisal of the present." The 21st Voyage, The Star Diaries" -- Stanis?aw Lem
My guilty pleasures tend to be weird, old shows that I find on channel 20 that I've never seen before like 'Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea' or the 'Planet of the Apes' TV show. -- Edward Kitsis
Written and directed by French showman Georges Melies, 'Le Voyage' features one of the most indelible images in cinema history: the wounded Man in the Moon bleeding like a particularly runny Brie, grimacing in pain with a space capsule protruding from his right eye. -- Kage Baker
Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour. -- Giotto di Bondone
I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark. -- Thomas Hobbes
Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor. -- Arnold J. Toynbee
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -- Marcel Proust
It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage. -- George William Curtis
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. -- Marcel Proust
The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -- Marcel Proust
Looking back at my life's voyage, I can only say that it has been a golden trip. -- Ginger Rogers
It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage. -- Henry Ward Beecher
For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps. -- Christopher Columbus
The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From this voyage no one returns poor or weary. -- Agnes de Mille
It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure. -- Frederick Sanger
What everyone in the astronaut corps shares in common is not gender or ethnic background, but motivation, perseverance, and desire - the desire to participate in a voyage of discovery. -- Ellen Ochoa
For this purpose I determined to keep an account of the voyage, and to write down punctually every thing we performed or saw from day to day, as will hereafter appear. -- Christopher Columbus
A young sailor boy came to see me today. It pleases me to have these lads seek me on their return from their first voyage, and tell me how much they have learned about navigation. -- Maria Mitchell
For it goes without saying that this great recognition at this time will aid tremendously our efforts to find the necessarily large funds for the next voyage of exploration farther into the depths of the atom. -- Ernest Lawrence
If the Spray discovered no continents on her voyage, it may be that there were no more continents to be discovered. She did not seek new worlds, or sail to pow-wow about the dangers of the sea. -- Joshua Slocum
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life. -- Seneca
My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair. -- Aeschylus
The pursuit of natural knowledge, the investigation of the world - mental and material - in which we live, is not a dull and spiritless affair: rather is it a voyage of adventure of the human mind, a holiday for reckless and imaginative souls. -- Archibald Hill
A voyage to Europe in the summer of 1921 gave me the first opportunity of observing the wonderful blue opalescence of the Mediterranean Sea. It seemed not unlikely that the phenomenon owed its origin to the scattering of sunlight by the molecules of the water. -- C. V. Raman
Like Andy Warhol and unlike God Almighty, Larry King does not presume to judge; all celebrities are equal in his eyes, saints and sinners alike sharing the same 'Love Boat' voyage into the dark beyond, a former sitcom star as deserving of pious send-off as Princess Diana. -- James Wolcott
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met. -- W. Clement Stone
There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures. -- William Shakespeare
For all my years in public life, I have believed that America must sail toward the shores of liberty and justice for all. There is no end to that journey, only the next great voyage. We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we make. -- Edward Kennedy
In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people, who would shut up the human race upon this globe, as within some magic circle it must never outstep, we shall one day travel to the moon, the planets, and the stars, with the same facility, rapidity, and certainty as we now make the voyage from Liverpool to New York! -- Jules Verne
Every voyage is self-awaken. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
In every voyage, be fully present. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Oh captain, my captain, bon voyage. -- Ken Dryden
Life's a voyage that's homeward bound. -- Herman Melville
Every voyage is a new glorious experience. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Permit me voyage, love, into your hands... -- Hart Crane
Our thoughts are great place of voyage. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Writing is always a voyage of discovery. -- Nadine Gordimer
To read is to voyage through time. -- Carl Sagan
Journal writing is a voyage to the interior. -- Christina Baldwin
Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends. -- Pat Conroy
Armed with madness, I go on a long voyage. -- Mary Butts
We gain new perspectives on life after every voyage. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbor. -- Giotto di Bondone
Writing, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery. -- Henry Miller
My Olympic voyage has continued because it is so rewarding. -- Bill Toomey
No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea. -- Aphra Behn
To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go. -- Joshua Slocum
set sail on a voyage of your own titanic facts -- Mary Pope Osborne
I mean this record does not sound like somebody's maiden voyage. -- George Duke
There is one voyage, the first, the last, the only one. -- Thomas Wolfe
To be whole is to be part; true voyage is return. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
I think life is self-examination. Certainly the voyage that one takes. -- Richard Gere
The journey, not the arrival, matters; the voyage, not the landing. -- Paul Theroux
I love to receive a beautiful postcard from your place of voyage. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
The search for God requires spiritual equipment to fulfil a spiritual voyage. -- Norman Sabadi
Our health is a voyage and every illness is an adventure story. -- Margiad Evans
No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port. -- Michel de Montaigne
When Providence favors, you can make a safe voyage on a twig. -- Publilius Syrus
As surely as there is a voyage away, there is a journey home. -- Jack Kornfield
Amer savoir, celui qu'on tire du voyage! Bitter is the knowledge gained in travelling. -- Charles Baudelaire
There is only one valid species of voyage, which is walk towards the men. -- Ella Maillart
Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. -- Carl Sagan
The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am a voyager - and the voyage cannot mean that I stay at home. -- Emmanuelle Beart
I define coaching as launching the salesperson on a voyage of discovery by asking questions. -- Chris Lytle
The whole thing was like a nine-month ocean voyage to which you never got acclimatized. -- Agatha Christie
Everyone knows this. The voyage into the interior is all that matters, Whatever your ride. -- Charles Wright
There's really one character for every actor. The voyage is to find that one character. -- Richard Gere
Making a movie is like making an ocean voyage, and the script is your ship. -- Mel Brooks
There is something about a voyage you are barely aware of while you are making it. -- H. M. Tomlinson
Every day is not just another assignment; it is a small, but contained voyage of discovery. -- David Doubilet
After every voyage, we bring with us renewed mind, refreshed soul and new viewpoints on life. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
No one else can hold your hand or take this voyage of the soul for you. -- Jim Harrison
Writing a novel is not so much a project as a journey, a voyage, an adventure. -- Tom Robbins
A talk is a voyage. It must be charted. The speaker who starts nowhere, usually gets there. -- Dale Carnegie
"¦I noticed a woman whose face was a sea voyage I had not the courage to attempt. -- Jeanette Winterson
Like them you are tall and taciturn, and you are sad, all at once, like a voyage. -- Pablo Neruda
A poem is an invitation to a voyage. As in life, we travel to see fresh sights. -- Charles Simic
God's people should plan for a voyage of a thousand years, but be prepared to abandon ship tonight. -- Joseph Bayly
There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage. -- Mark Twain
A voyage without companionship, that is to say without conversation, is one of the saddest pleasures of life. -- Madame de Stael
To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest. -- Sterling Hayden
The only true voyage of discovery, . . . would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes. -- Marcel Proust
I know not how it is, but during a voyage I collect books as a ship does barnacles. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I think of myself as an explorer who has spent his life on a long voyage of discovery. -- Paul Strand
I am bold enough to say that a man-made Moon voyage will never occur regardless of all scientific advances. -- Lee De Forest
The world's a ship on its voyage out, and not a voyage complete; and the pulpit is its prow. -- Herman Melville
There is more time than there is expanse of the world and so any voyage at last will end. -- Ivan Doig
Those we love can but walk down to the pier with us - the voyage we must make alone. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
From beginning to end this is a wet and blood smeared voyage, this begetting and birthing and moving away. -- Barbara Ascher
For in the voyage of the heart, there is a freight of hatred, and the wind of wrath blows shrill. -- Aeschylus
Titanic started a voyage through history when it sailed away. One century later, there is still no port at sight. -- Marina Tavares Dias
Man does not drift into goodness...the chance port of an aimless voyage. He must fight ever for his destination. -- William George Jordan
Writing to me is a voyage, an odyssey, a discovery, because I'm never certain of precisely what I will find. -- Gabriel Fielding
Pessimists never go on a voyage of discovery, equally so they never leave the shoreline in search of new horizons. -- Stephen Richards
In sex, man is driven into the very abyss which he flees. He makes a voyage to non-being and back. -- Camille Paglia
We can't care for something we don't understand. This is the purpose of why we explore and why we voyage. -- Nainoa Thompson
No matter whose bed you die in the bed will be yours for your voyage onto the surgical andiron of God. -- Anne Sexton
Oh build your ship of death. Oh build it! For you will need it. For the voyage of oblivion awaits you. -- D. H. Lawrence
My voyage was never a well-conceived plan, nor will it ever be. I have made it up as I went along. -- Jimmy Buffett
To be homeward bound, no matter what tragic memories you have harbored, is unlike any voyage a man can ever make. -- Leon Uris
Thanksgiving, when the Indians said, "Well, this has been fun, but we know you have a long voyage back to England". -- Jay Leno
The true voyage of discovery is not a journey to a new place; it is learning to see with new eyes. -- Marcel Proust
Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of 'creature comforts,' a sea-voyage would be delightful. -- Bayard Taylor
Men might as well project a voyage to the Moon as attempt to employ steam navigation against the stormy North Atlantic Ocean. -- Dionysius Lardner
For in this walk, this voyage, it is yourself, the profound history of your 'self,' that now as always you encounter. -- Conrad Aiken
There is no way to ease the burden. The voyage leads on from harm to harm, A land of others and of silence. -- Donald Justice
It means that we should celebrate today's failure because it is a clear sign that our voyage of discovery is not yet over. -- Jacqueline Kelly
There were times my heart broke into painful fragments then my soul perseveringly gathered an ocean of strength on my voyage towards renewal. -- Angelica Hopes
For me... it was always about the challenge of making this voyage... It was always a calculated risk, but life is a risk. -- Jessica Watson
When art in general, and film in particular, succeeds is when it pulls you away onto a voyage. Then it's a good film. -- Philippe Petit
The program is a voyage chart, a series of signals, which, like the pilot's radio, provides the basic orienting information required for the trip... -- Timothy Leary
I wanted to create a voyage to the moon just for her, but what Ishould have given her was a real journey on earth. -- Mathias Malzieu
He also learned to regard each port of call as part of the journey and not as destination. Every voyage begins when you do. -- E. L. Konigsburg
Sleeping in a tinfoil suit keeps me warmer and helps prepare me for my voyage to the moon. Would you care for some licorice? -- Jarod Kintz
When a man talks with absolute sincerity and freedom he goes on a voyage of discovery. The whole company has shares in the enterprise. -- John Jay Chapman
For me, the hero's journey is not the voyage from weakness to strength. The true hero's journey is the voyage from strength to weakness. -- John Green
The result of the voyage does not depend on the speed of the ship, but on whether or not it keeps a true course. -- Albert Schweitzer
I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief -- Euripides

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