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It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end.


Ursula K. LeGuin

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URSULA K. LE GUIN It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
URSULA K. LE GUIN It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.
URSULA K. LEGUIN It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end
ERNEST HEMINGWAY It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end
URSULA K. LEGUIN We will all have an end to this journey one day, some will have a great ending some will have it bad...
ZAKARIYYA SHEIKH Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY And yet, what seems to be the most intimidating now is not an end in itself, but only a means to a g...
AISHWARYA BHUTA There is an end waiting for all of us; an end waiting to show us records of our journey. Mind the en...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Ours is a divine journey; therefore, this journey has neither a beginning nor an end... This journey...
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URSULA K. LEGUIN Failure is not the end but another step in your journey to success
ARTHLENE LAUDAT LAWRENCE Believing in yourself, is an endless destination. Believing you have failed, is the end of your jour...
SARAH MEREDITH Failure is not the end. In fact it is the beginning of a beautiful journey.
JADE YOUSSEF Time is a teacher which in the end it kills all it's students. (Synchronicity 2015 Film)
DEYTH BANGER One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.
GEORGE SAND uncertainty is a path without an end. He who wants to completely do away with uncertainties before s...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Day by day we journey to the end! By and by we shall get to the end; when we get to the end, we shal...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Taking the journey towards ourselves is the hardest journey we have to make in this life and yet the...
MIMI NOVIC Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end.
H. P. LOVECRAFT When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. It's a journey towards simplicity,...
RAM DASS My gymnasts are always the best-prepared in the world. And they win. In the end, that's what mat...
BELA KAROLYI embrace the light and glow & look for the stars in the darkness when it falls upon u only then u kno...
MOHAMED SALAH It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN Life is a journey which can end in the next minute.
LORRIN L. LEE The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there ...
WINSTON CHURCHILL PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL
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ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Another year is ending, but something is pending
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Monopoly is business at the end of its journey
HENRY DEMAREST LLOYD Life is about enjoying the journey, not the end destination.
MOLLY FRIEDENFELD Education does not end at any point in our lives; it is an ongoing journey to be carried with us eve...
THOMAS J. POWELL I was with you at the beginning of your journey. It is right that I should follow you to its end.
URSULA K. LE GUIN End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN The end is never as satisfying as the journey. To have achieved everything but to have done so witho...
SOURCE UNKNOWN Life’s journey can never end; it only just began.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Journey leading to just an end is better lost on the way. Who knows you would explore the real desti...
VIKRMN Life is a long travel. The end of the journey is often unpredictable.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I am Happy and satisfied with what I am. 10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will...
NEHA KOTHARI If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar...
GARY F EVANS... It is what it is. I balled out, had some good years, man, had fun and did it with some guys and made...
CALVIN JOHNSON Success is less about what you get at the end but more about who you become in the journey.
DEEPAK BURFIWALA In the real journey of life, it is not what you do; it is what you don't do that matters the most.
HARSHIT WALIA The Sun Going South

In late sunshine I wander troubled.
Restless I wander in autumn ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not.
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS Life is not a one day journey and we must journey in life taking a step after a step, and considerin...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Life is a journey - men are afraid of the end. Death is a destination - we'll surely reach the end a...
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ELLA MAILLART I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER It really feels like the end of our journey, and we don't want it to end yet. This will be the last ...
EREK HANSEN To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was give...
URSULA K. LEGUIN In the end, rational policy is always good.
PAUL KEATING One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is a...
D. H. LAWRENCE One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it, and the journey is alw...
D.H. LAWRENCE One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is a...
D.H. LAWRENCE There are different paths to your destination. Choose your own path.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
CYNTHIA OZICK Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey
CYNTHIA OZICK The traveller has reached the end of the journey!
EDMUND BURKE But even if I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great fee...
OLIVIA WILDE Letting go of that will likely spin you inward on a journey examining your old ideas about yourself,...
ERIN BROWN Why wishing to see how the end of your good times will be? Can’t you try to fight for those good t...
KAGABO BURANGA JACQUES May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH At the end, realize that all photographs will be unearthed to show your life journey.
RODEL NATIVIDAD CASIO If we've helped one victim, we've succeeded in our journey. However, our journey doesn't end here. W...
LORRAINE REED Greatness is who we become on the journey, not what we achieve at the end.
JANINE LATTIMORE Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is.
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO A journey once begun, has no end
KIRAN DESAI A life of destiny is not defined by individual victories and failures, it is determined by our faith...
TRAVIS J HEDRICK In the end it doesn't matter what you do.
HARRISON BIRTWISTLE In the end, crime doesn't pay.
LANE GARRISON The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL To love the journey is to accept no such end. I have found, through painful experience, that the mos...
BRANDON SANDERSON Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other,...
IMMANUEL KANT It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one ...
SEAN LENNON When I die it will be game over,... but I know one life is short, to be selfish is not the best deci...
DEYTH BANGER You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ...
SUFJAN STEVENS I'm thankful because all the hard work and sacrifices were worth it in the end.
WIZKID If I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.
OLIVIA WILDE In the end, to do a good accent, you just have to be a good listener.
ABBEY LEE KERSHAW When you're in the day-to-day grind, it just seems like it's another step along the way. But...
CAL RIPKEN, JR. End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The gr...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Just a small town girl, living in a lonely world, took the midnight train going anywhere...
Ju...
JOURNEY The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board.
D.M. TIMNEY Fear is natural because one is moving in darkness. The inner journey is very dark. Light comes but t...
OSHO The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
BEN OAK Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.
MICHAEL KEATON Fear is a journey, a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arriving.
ALAN PATON What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act?
CRAIG GROESCHEL The day I realise who I am... my journey will end!
DR. VINOD B. NAIR This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Wrong?
So you are saying, I'm wrong okay then... It's not possible every time to be right, one ...
DEYTH BANGER All that the spider needs to complete its web is step taking
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
JAMES C. DOBSON Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.
GEORGE A. MOORE Airports in major cities, like LAX, are trippy environments. It is at once a national and internatio...
HENRY ROLLINS It is not within my power to refuse the journey of life regardless of the nature of my fears or the ...
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URSULA K. LE GUIN My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.
URSULA K. LE GUIN Would you give up the craft of your hands, and the passion of your heart, and the hunger of your min...
URSULA K. LE GUIN The little Otak was hiding in the rafters of the house, as it did when strangers entered. There it s...
URSULA K. LE GUIN I always wondered why the makers leave housekeeping and cooking out of their tales. Isn't it what al...
URSULA K. LE GUIN When I was young, I had to choose between the life of being and the life of doing. And I leapt at th...
URSULA K. LE GUIN I always wondered why the makers leave housekeeping and cooking out of their tales. Isn't it what al...
URSULA K. LE GUIN Dead anarchists make martyrs, you know, and keep living for centuries. But absent ones can be forgot...
URSULA K. LE GUIN We scarcely know how much of our pleasure and interest in life comes to us through our eyes until we...
URSULA K. LE GUIN To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful...
URSULA K. LE GUIN In our loss and fear we craved the acts of religion, the ceremonies that allow us to admit our helpl...
URSULA K. LE GUIN Which is better off, a lizard basking in the sun or a philosopher?
URSULA K. LE GUIN My dogs have barked at a beggar tonight and he proves a prince of starlight.
URSULA K. LE GUIN ... “Dangerous!” Vea laughed radiantly. “What an utterly marvellous compliment! Why am I dange...
URSULA K. LE GUIN Anyhow they’re always exceptions. But most women, their only relationship to a man is having. Eith...
URSULA K. LE GUIN We have nothing but our freedom. We have nothing to give you but your own freedom. We have no law bu...
URSULA K. LE GUIN What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.
URSULA K. LE GUIN It is our suffering that brings us together. It is not love. Love does not obey the mind, and turns ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN Do you see, Arren, how an act is not, as young men think, like a rock that one picks up and throws, ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN While we read a novel, we are insane—bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren't the...
URSULA K. LE GUIN An Odonian undertook monogamy just as he might undertake a joint enterprise in production, a ballet ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep.
URSULA K. LE GUIN The prisoner is the jailer's jailer.
URSULA K. LE GUIN There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else...
URSULA K. LE GUIN What good is power when you're too wise to use it?
URSULA K. LE GUIN Where does your soul go, when you die in Hell?
URSULA K. LE GUIN But need alone is not enough to set power free: there must be knowledge.
URSULA K. LE GUIN Belief is the wound that knowledge heals.
URSULA K. LE GUIN A promise is a direction taken, a self-limitation of choice. As Odo pointed out, if no direction is ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN To use the enemy's weapon is to play the enemy's game...speak the truth and hear the truth.
URSULA K. LE GUIN Light is the left hand of darkness
and darkness the right hand of light.
Two are one, life...
URSULA K. LE GUIN We all have forests on our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each one of us gets lost in the fore...
URSULA K. LE GUIN In many college English courses the words “myth” and “symbol” are given a tremendous charge ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN To oppose something is to maintain it... You must go somewhere else; you must have another goal; the...
URSULA K. LE GUIN In feudal times the aristocracy had sent their sons to university, conferring superiority on the ins...
URSULA K. LE GUIN Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicor...
URSULA K. LE GUIN Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN His words cost him so much, she thought, not like hers that just came dancing out of the air and wen...
URSULA K. LE GUIN On the blank leaf glued to the inner back cover I drew the double curve within the circle, and black...
URSULA K. LE GUIN Death and life are the same thing-like the two sides of my hand, the palm and the back. And still th...
URSULA K. LE GUIN There must be darkness to see the stars.
URSULA K. LE GUIN The experience was disagreeable. I began to feel like an atheist praying.
URSULA K. LE GUIN The fish in the creek said nothing. Fish never do. Few people know what fish think about injustice, ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel......
URSULA K. LE GUIN A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.
URSULA K. LE GUIN What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice
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