Wandering Quotes - page 2

Don't become a wandering generality. Be a meaningful specific. (Zig Ziglar)
We must resist wandering thoughts in prayer. Raising our hands reminds us that we need to raise up our minds to God, setting aside all irrelevant thoughts. View quote
John Calvin
The wandering one, the inquisitive dreamer of dreams, the eternal asker of answers, stands in the street, and lifts his palms for the first cold ghost of rain. View quote
Conrad Aiken
Come near, that no more blinded by man's fate, I find under the boughs of love and hate, In all poor foolish things that live a day, Eternal beauty wandering on her way. View quote
William Butler Yeats
It is a thorny undertaking, and more so than it seems, to follow a movement so wandering as that of our mind, to penetrate the opaque depths of its innermost folds, to pick out and immobilize the innumerable flutterings that agitate it. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
Lovers think they are looking for each other, but there is only one search: wandering This world is wandering that, both inside one transparent sky. In here there is no dogma and no heresy. View quote
Rumi
It is painful to be consciously of two worlds. The Wandering Jew in me seeks forgetfulness. I am not afraid to live on and on, if only I do not have to remember too much. A long past vividly remembered is like a heavy garment that clings to your limbs when you would run. View quote
Mary Antin
Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to me: "My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly." This stranger is a theologian. - Number VIII. View quote
Denis Diderot
Where music dwells Lingering and wandering on as loth to die, Like thoughts whose very sweetness yieldeth proof That they were born for immortality. View quote
William Wordsworth
So many words get lost. They leave the mouthand lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter like dead leaves. On rainy days you can hear their chorus rushing past. View quote
Nicole Krauss
Is he not sacred, even to the gods, the wandering man who comes in weariness? (Homer)
To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is the basis of the American art, if my position is correct. View quote
Mark Twain
I have been Merlin wandering in the woods Of a far country, where the winds waken Unnatural voices, my mind broken By a sudden acquaintance with man's rage. View quote
R. S. Thomas
Remember that breath walking - as with any meditation technique - should not be pursued with a grim determination to 'get it right.' The point is to cultivate openness, relaxation and awareness, which can include awareness of your undisciplined, wandering mind. View quote
Andrew Weil
Suppose I was to tell you that it's just beauty that's calling me, the beauty of the far off and unknown, the mystery and spell which lures me, the need of freedom of great wide spaces, the joy of wandering on and on----in quest of the secret which is hidden over there----beyond the horizon? View quote
Eugene O'Neill
If the views I have expressed be right, we can think of our civilization evolving with the growth of knowledge from small wandering tribes to large settled law. View quote
John Boyd Orr
My first class is biology. I can't find it and get my first demerit for wandering the hall. It is 8:50 in the morning. Only 699 days and 7 class periods until graduation. View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
I think life has got to develop as you get older, and I don't want to be wandering along doing the same old thing. I want more out of life. View quote
Michael Caine
I was wandering around as usual, in my unpleasantly populated sub-conscious... View quote
Dodie Smith
The wind is the moon's imagination wandering. View quote
Saul Williams
I was a complete tomboy. I loved wandering out in storms or walking on the beaches in the dark. It was a very free upbringing, and I'm grateful to my parents for that. (Amanda Burton)
Whenever I get fed up with life I love to go wandering in nature. View quote
Andrea Arnold
The first session I did with the Stones was an accident. I just happened to be wandering down the hallway of the same studio. View quote
Bobby Keys
'The Waltons' was profoundly important after years of wandering around. I was 44 and cut off from family and friends. It nurtured me back to a sense of family and who I am. It was a transforming experience. View quote
Ralph Waite
He went, ever on the move, with the slow, shuffling step of wandering beggars who are nowhere at home. View quote
Stijn Streuvels