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41 Quotes About Wandering for Travelers, Thinkers and Flâneurs
October 14, 2023

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Living a pre-planned, predictable life is a prison sentence for many. If you feel the need escape routine and the idea of exploring new places without a set itinerary sounds appealing to you, then this collection of quotes about wandering is for you. Inspire your wanderlust and set yourself free on a new adventure.

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No one knows the pleasure of wandering quite like a flâneur. Whether you’re aimlessly meandering through new streets or purposely exploring off the beaten path, there’s something inherently satisfying about discovering what lies beyond your comfort zone. And if you’re looking for a bit of inspiration, we’ve got you covered – here are some of our favorite quotes about wandering from famous adventurers and explorers. Bon voyage !

Quotes About Wandering

Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home. Alan Watts

By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering . Roger Ascham

Time is the deepest wilderness in which we wander. Christopher Cokinos

Wandering flushes a glory that fades with arrival. J. A. Baker

Instead of insight, maybe all a man gets is strength to wander for a while. William Least Heat-Moon

I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with Plato

People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering. St. Augustine

The wandering photographer sees the same show that everyone else sees. He, however, stops to watch it. Edouard Boubat

Not all those who wander are lost. J.R.R. Tolkien

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. John Muir

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. Ralph Waldo Emerson

The mind can wander while still focusing on one task. Herbert Benson

Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe. Anatole France

One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things. Henry Miller

I’ll never stop wandering. And when the time comes to die, I’ll find the wildest, loneliest, most desolate spot there is. Everett Ruess

Meandering leads to perfection. Lao Tzu

So we follow our wandering paths , and the very darkness acts as our guide and our doubts serve to reassure us. Jean Pierre

It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something. Charles Dickens

We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. Hilaire Belloc

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. Søren Kierkegaard

Improvising musicians are musical travelers, voyagers. There is a freedom to wander the musical landscape. Gary Burton

Take a few minutes of every day to fantasize about how you would wander, travel, or explore if you could. Wayne Dyer

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust

Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far! John Muir

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing. Aldous Huxley

A world of colors on the palette remaining…wandering…on canvases still emerging. Wassily Kandinsky

Do not allow yourself to lose sight on the way to your future, while wandering in the darkness of the past. Lucas Hunter

Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born. Matthew Arnold

The sum of the whole is this: walk and be happy, walk and be healthy. Charles Dickens

Me thinks that the moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow. Henry David Thoreau

Before, I wandered as a diversion. Now I wander seriously and sit and read as a diversion. Walker Percy

When you have worn out your shoes, the strength of the sole leather has passed into the fibre of your body. I measure your health by the number of shoes and hats and clothes you have worn out. He is the richest man who pays the largest debt to his shoemaker. Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world is vast and meant for wandering. There is always somewhere else to go. Nick Burd

I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees. Henry David Thoreau

Walking is also an ambulation of mind. Gretel Ehrlich

But in every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks. John Muir

Early one morning, any morning, we can set out, with the least possible baggage, and discover the world. Thomas Clark

I can just let my curiosity wander unleashed. James C. Collins

Walking is man’s best medicine. Hippocrates

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake. Wallace Stevens

A Final Word

So there you have it! We hope this collection of quotes about wandering have shown you how travel is a great way of discovering your way. And while we can all agree it’s important to have goals at time, sometimes you just need to wander for awhile before you figure out what those are! If that sounds like something you could use right now, here are some of the best cities in the world to wander around on foot .

What’s your favorite quote about wandering? Leave a comment below!

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Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old wandering quotes, wandering sayings, and wandering proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering. Roger Ascham

Do not allow yourself to lose sight on the way to your future, while wandering in the darkness of the past. Lucas Hunter

Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey. Pat Conroy

Just to travel is rather boring, but to travel with a purpose is educational and exciting. Sargent Shriver

And one's wandering proved as sterile and pointless as the excitement produced by a close study of pornographic albums. Bruno Schulz

Let's go together and go to different places and see different things. It'll be fun! Togashi Yoshihiro

Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born. Matthew Arnold

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. Lao Tzu

Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home. Alan Watts

Some people keep wandering aimlessly from womb to tomb. They seek nothing and achieve nothing. Anonymous

Travel has a way of stretching the mind. The stretch comes not from travel's immediate rewards, the inevitable myriad new sights, smells and sounds, but with experiencing firsthand how others do differently what we believed to be the right and only way. Ralph Crawshaw

People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering. St. Augustine

To behold the wandering moon, Riding near her highest noon, Like one that had been led astray through the heav'n's wide pathless way; And oft, as if her head she bowed, Stooping through a fleecy cloud. John Milton

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves in finding themselves. Andre Gide

So we follow our wandering paths, and the very darkness acts as our guide and our doubts serve to reassure us. Jean-Pierre de Caussade

Wandering around the web is like living in a world in which every doorway is actually one of those science fiction devices which deposit you in a completely different part of the world when you walk through them. In fact, it isn't like it, it is it. Douglas Adams

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust

The wanderlust rages like a fever within him. Raymond H. Huse

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach. Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Most travel is best of all in the anticipation or the remembering; the reality has more to do with losing your luggage. Regina Nadelson

We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. Pico Lyer

And that's the wonderful thing about family travel: it provides you with experiences that will remain locked forever in the scar tissue of your mind. Dave Barry

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open. Jawaharlal Nehru

One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things. Henry Miller

The rocks were really big around the mountains and at times some rocks seemed as if they had been sculpted by some unknown artist. Avijeet Das

Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure. Irving Wallace

Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far! John Muir

Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe. Anatole France

The symbol of joy today is travel. There is a wanderlust that infects the blood. Rollin A. Sawyer

We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. Hilaire Belloc

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“A good wanderer leaves no trace.” ~ Laozi
“To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest.” ~ Sterling Hayden
“I am a wanderer passionately in love with life.” ~ Aleksandr Kuprin

“We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still.” ~ Carl Sagan

“We are, finally, all wanderers in search of knowledge. Most of us hold the dream of becoming something better than we are, something larger, richer, in some way more important to the world and ourselves. Too often, the way taken is the wrong way, with too much emphasis on what we want to have, rather than what we wish to become.” ~ Louis L’Amour
“I have been thinking more and more that I shall always be a lone wanderer of the wilderness. God, how the trail lures me. You cannot comprehend its resistless fascination for me. After all, the lone trail is best I’ll never stop wandering. And when the time comes to die, I’ll find the wildest, loneliest, most desolate spot there is.” ~ Everett Ruess
“For wanderers, dreamers, and lovers, for lonely men and women who dare to ask of life everything good and beautiful. It is for those who are too gentle to live among wolves.” ~ James Kavanaugh

“A solitary being is by instinct a wanderer.” ~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.” ~ Carl Sagan , Nature wanderer quotes
“To be a good storyteller one must be gloriously alive. It is not possible to kindle fresh fires from burned-out embers. I have noticed that the best of the traditional storytellers whom I have heard have been those who live close to the heart of things-to the earth, the sea, wind and weather. They have been those who knew solitude, silence. They have been given unbroken time in which to feel deeply, to reach constantly for understanding. They have come to know the power of the spoken word. These storytellers have been sailors and peasants, wanderers and fisherman.” ~ Ruth Sawyer
“He who has attained intellectual emancipation to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on the face of the earth and not even as a traveller towards a final goal, for there is no such thing.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

“For Wayfarers still journeying, for Wanderers at rest.” ~ Lloyd Alexander

“We were wanderers from the beginning.” ~ Carl Sagan
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” ~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“He who has attained the freedom of reason to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on the face of the earth – and not even as a traveler towards a final goal, for there is no such thing. But he certainly wants to observe and keep his eyes open to whatever actually happens in the world; therefore he cannot attach his heart too firmly to anything individual; he must have in himself something wandering that takes pleasure in change and transitoriness.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

“I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.” ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life… You give them a piece of you. They don’t ask for it. They do something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn’t your own anymore.” ~ Neil Gaiman
“I held you in my hands, Wanderer, and you were beautiful.” ~ Stephenie Meyer
“We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another, and no sunrise finds us where left by sunset. Even while the earth sleeps we travel. We are the seeds of that tenacious plant, and it is in our ripeness and our fullness of heart that we are given to the wind to be scattered.” ~ Khalil Gibran

“Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.” ~ James Thurber

“Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.” ~ John Burroughs
“The laws all true wanderers obey are these: ‘Thou shalt not eat nor drink more than thy share,’ ‘Thou shalt not lie about the places thou hast visited or the distances thou hast traversed.” ~ Rosita Forbes
“Not even for an hour can you bear to be alone, nor can you advantageously apply your leisure time, but you endeavor, a fugitive and wanderer, to escape from yourself, now vainly seeking to banish remorse by wine, and now by sleep; but the gloomy companion presses on you, and pursues you as you fly.” ~ Horace , Alone wanderer quotes

“Definition of a wanderer: a guy who’s always looking beyond.” ~ Stephen King

“Perhaps some deep-rooted atavism urges the wanderer back to lands which his ancestors left in the dim beginnings of history. Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs. Here is the home he sought, and he will settle amid scenes that he has never seen before, among men he has never known, as though they were familiar to him from his birth. Here at last he finds rest.” ~ W. Somerset Maugham
“Unless you have suffered and wept, you really don’t understand what compassion is, nor can you give comfort to someone who is suffering. If you haven’t cried, you can’t dry another’s eyes. Unless you’ve walked in darkness, you can’t help wanderers find the way. Unless you’ve looked into the eyes of menacing death and felt its hot breath, you can’t help another rise from the dead and taste anew the joy of being alive.” ~ Takashi Nagai
“We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us.” ~ Khalil Gibran

“A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.” ~ Matthew Arnold

“Wanderer, your footsteps are the road, and nothing more; wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking. By walking one makes the road, and upon glancing behind one sees the path. . .” ~ Antonio Machado
“To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest. Otherwise, you are doomed to a routine traverse, the kind known to yachtsmen who play with their boats at sea ‘cruising’ it is called. Voyaging belongs to seamen, and to the wanderers of the world who cannot, or will not, fit in. If you are contemplating a voyage and you have the means, abandon the venture until your fortunes change. Only then will you know what the sea is all about.” ~ Sterling Hayden
“Round a turn of the Qin Fortress winds the Wei River, And Yellow Mountain foot-hills enclose the Court of China; Past the South Gate willows comes the Car of Many Bells On the upper Palace-Garden Road-a solid length of blossom; A Forbidden City roof holds two phoenixes in cloud; The foliage of spring shelters multitudes from rain; And now, when the heavens are propitious for action, Here is our Emperor ready-no wasteful wanderer.” ~ Wang Wei

“Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.” ~ Sinclair Lewis

“What I prized most was freedom, freedom to do my work, to give myself spontaneously and not out of duty or by command. I could not submit to such demands; rather would I choose the path of a homeless wanderer; yes, even go without love.” ~ Emma Goldman
“May my life be like a great hospitable tree, and may weary wanderers find in me a rest.” ~ John Henry Jowett
“Without a home must the soldier go, a changeful wanderer, and can warm himself at no home-lit hearth.” ~ Friedrich Schiller

“A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.” ~ Peace Pilgrim

“Ian squeezed my hand and leaned in to whisper through all the hair. His voice was so low that I was the only one who could hear. ‘I held you in my hand, Wanderer. And you were so beautiful.” ~ Stephenie Meyer
“Women’s eyes are wanderers, and too often bring home guests that are very troublesome to them, and whom, once introduced, they cannot get out of the house.” ~ Samuel Richardson
“I see myself forever and ever as the ridiculous man, the lonely soul, the wanderer, the restless frustrated artist, the man in love with love, always in search of the absolute, always seeking the unattainable” ~ Henry Miller

“The truant Fancy was a wanderer ever.” ~ Charles Lamb

“I, the soul called Wanderer, love you, human Ian. And that will never change, no matter what I might become.” ~ Stephenie Meyer , Wanderer quotes soul
“Since thy return, through days and weeks Of hope that grew by stealth, How many wan and faded cheeks Have kindled into health! The Old, by thee revived, have said, ‘Another year is ours;’ And wayworn Wanderers, poorly fed, Have smiled upon thy flowers.” ~ William Wordsworth
“Modern man is a hard-driven nomad without any stability, not (as the Bible has it) a wanderer or a pilgrim, but a refugee-an escapist. Instead of meditation and reflection there is only speed, fear and “distraction.” ~ Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

“I sing the joy of wandering and the pleasure of the wanderer’s death” ~ Guillaume Apollinaire

“Ian didn’t come. He just sat here with you–he said he didn’t care what you looked like. He wouldn’t let anyone else put a finger on your tank at all, not even me or Mel. But Doc let me watch this time. It was way cool, Wanda. I don’t know why you wouldn’t let me watch before. They wouldn’t let me help, though. Ian wouldn’t let anyone touch you but him.’ Ian squeezed my hand and leaned in to whisper through all the hair. His voice was so low that I was the only one who could hear. ‘I held you in my hand, Wanderer. And you were so beautiful.” ~ Stephenie Meyer
“The Jews’ guilt of the crucifixion of Jesus consigned them to perpetual servitude, and, like Cain, they are to be wanderers and fugitives. The Jews will not dare to raise their necks, bowed under the yoke of perpetual slavery, against the reverence of the Christian faith.” ~ Pope Innocent III
“Wanderers, Dublin’s oldest rugby club, has been described more than once as the club of the Church and the Army: the wags added “…unfortunately the wrong Church and the wrong Army.”” ~ Gemma Hussey

“Pour out wine till I become a wanderer from myself; for in selfhood and existence I have felt only fatigue.” ~ Rumi

“They miss the whisper that runs any day in your mind, “Who are you really, wanderer?”– and the answer you have to give no matter how dark and cold the world around you is: “Maybe I’m a king.” ~ William Stafford
“Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. Leopards, cobras, monkeys, rivers and trees; they all served as my teachers when I lived as a wanderer in the Himalayan foothills.” ~ Radhanath Swami
“I fear it, for her sake. It would mean that she too is a wanderer now, and that is a fate for human beings, not for unicorns. But I hope, of course I hope.” ~ Peter S. Beagle

“Trust your luck, Taran Wanderer. But don’t forget to put out your nets!” ~ Lloyd Alexander

“As the innocent infant relies upon the mother for sustenance, so the innocent wanderer, following his native compassion and bliss, relies upon the natural intelligence of life to sustain him. There are various Ways. There is the Way of salvation by the law of Buddha, the Way of Confucius governing the Way of learning, the Way of healing as a doctor, as a poet teaching the Way of Waka, tea, archery, and many arts and skills. Each man practices as he feels inclined.” ~ Miyamoto Musashi
“I am not times fool, nor a god hardened by the millennia; I am not the trickster in the black cape nor the sorrowful wanderer. I have a conscience. I know right from wrong I know what I do and yes, I do it. I am the Vampire Lestat. That’s your answer do with it as you will.” ~ Anne Rice
“Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn’t matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. Come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times. Come, yet again, come, come.” ~ Rumi

“Beware, O wanderer, the road is walking too.” ~ Jim Harrison

“There is so little to remember of anyone – an anecdote, a conversation at a table. But every memory is turned over and over again, every word, however chance, written in the heart in the hope that memory will fulfill itself, and become flesh, and that the wanderers will find a way home, and the perished, whose lack we always feel, will step through the door finally and stroke our hair with dreaming habitual fondness not having meant to keep us waiting long.” ~ Marilynne Robinson
“For the world is broken, sundered, busted down the middle, self ripped from self and man pasted back together as mythical monster, half angel, half beast, but no man…Some day a man will walk into my office as a ghost or beast or ghost-beast and walk out as a man, which is to say sovereign wanderer, lordly exile, worker and waiter and watcher.” ~ Walker Percy
“I, the soul named Wanderer, love you, human Ian and that will never change no matter what I might become. If I were a Dolphin or a Bear or a Flower, it wouldn’t matter. I would always love you, always remember you. You will be my only partner.” – Wanda, The Host” ~ Stephenie Meyer

“I couldn’t take my eyes off him. Like a desert wanderer afraid of mirages, I gazed at my oasis, but he was real.” ~ Laura Whitcomb

“Today’s Gypsies, who have lived in Prague for only two generations, light a ritual fire wherever they work, a nomads’ fire crackling only for the joy of it, a blaze of roughhewn wood like a child’s laugh, a symbol of the eternity that preceded human thought, a free fire, a gift from heaven, a living sign of the elements unnoticed by the world-weary pedestrian, a fire in the ditches of Prague warming the wanderer’s eye and soul.” ~ Bohumil Hrabal
“All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.” ~ Carson McCullers

“Those wanderers must have looked on Earth, circling safely in the narrow zone between fire and ice, and must have guessed that it was the favorite of the Sun’s children.” ~ Arthur C. Clarke

“Give me the end of the year an’ its fun When most of the plannin’ an’ toilin’ is done; Bring all the wanderers home to the nest, Let me sit down with the ones I love best, Hear the old voices still ringin’ with song, See the old faces unblemished by wrong, See the old table with all of its chairs An’ I’ll put soul in my Thanksgivin’ prayers.” ~ Edgar Guest
“Wanderers eastward, wanderers west, Know you why you cannot rest? ‘Tis that every mother’s son Travails with a skeleton. Lie down in the bed of dust; Bear the fruit that bear you must; Bring the eternal seed to light, And morn is all the same as night.” ~ A. E. Housman

Wanderer is someone who often travels from place to place, especially without any clear aim or purpose.

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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. — Seneca 3

Human life is inexplicable, and still without meaning: a fool may decide its fate. — Friedrich Nietzsche 0

The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere. — Michel de Montaigne 44

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind. — Seneca The Elder 16

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind. — Seneca 16

Free spirited free riders they're on their way but don't know where they're going. — Warren Miller 39

Wandering seemed no more than the happiness of an anxious man. — Albert Camus 2

If you do not know where you want to go, it doesn't matter which path you take. — Lewis Carroll 61

A speech without a specific purpose is like a journey without a destination. — Ralph C. Smedley 55

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. — Lao Tzu 63

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. — Lao Tzu 118

To walk is to lack a place. It is the indefinite process of being absent and in search of a proper. — Michel De Certeau 23

Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime. — Charles Henry Parkhurst 52

There is no fair wind for one who knows not whither he is bound. — Seneca 0

Without a strategy, an organization is like a ship without a rudder, going around in circles. It's like a tramp; it has no place to go. — Joel Ross 43

The greatest tragedy in life is not death, but a life without a purpose. — Myles Munroe
Without a goal analytics is aimless and worthless. — Michael Porter
Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life. — Franz Kafka
It's funny how aimless a person can feel at times, even when they know God is in control. — Chris Fabry
Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we'll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay. — Jess C Scott
Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness. — John Ortberg
Loneliness, when accepted, becomes a gift that will lead us to find a purpose in life. — Paulo Coelho
Cross the street to avoid making aimless chitchat with random acquaintances. — Susan Cain
Intelligence in isolation turns to aimless marauding. — Mason Cooley
without music he felt aimless and adrift. — Nicholas Sparks

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The time and thought which most persons waste in aimless effort would accomplish wonders if properly directed with some special object in view. In order to do this, it is necessary to center your mental force upon a specific thought and hold it there, to the exclusion of all other thoughts. — Charles F. Haanel 44

... photojournalism has its tremendous rewards and it's wonderful work. In what other work can you wander aimlessly with a camera around your neck, armed only with your personal interest and your eyes? — Larry Towell 13

When you aimlessly shoot for lofty goals, with no personal connection to them, you loose sight of what really matters, and what will really make you content. — Jinkx Monsoon 12

We all know them — the unstructured person whose every action seems aimless and the totally organized person whose every action defeats some purpose. — Robert Breault 1

You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending. — C. S. Lewis 756

If I have accomplished anything in life it is because I have been willing to work hard. — Madam C. J. Walker 689

I may not be a role model, but I most definitely could be motivation for a lot of people in the hoods. — Rick Ross 508

Motivation is what gets you started . Habit is what keeps you going. — Jim Ryun 479

No Fear, No Hesitation, No Surprise, No Doubt — Miyamoto Musashi 479

In time, all things work to your advantage when you pursue them with an open heart. — Miyamoto Musashi 451

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve , not by the desire to beat others. — Ayn Rand 384

I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them. — Madam C. J. Walker 355

For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over. — F. Scott Fitzgerald 352

Worrying gets you nowhere. If you turn up worrying about how you're going to perform, you've already lost. Train hard, turn up, run your best and the rest will take care of itself. — Usain Bolt 351

Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us. We need hours of aimless wandering or spates of time sitting on park benches, observing the mysterious world of ants and the canopy of treetops. — Maya Angelou 76

There are only two rules. One is E. M. Forster's guide to Alexandria; the best way to know Alexandria is to wander aimlessly. The second is from the Psalms; grin like a dog and run about through the city. — Jan Morris 63

Appreciation of works of art requires organized effort and systematic study. Art appreciation can no more be absorbed by aimless wandering in galleries than can surgery be learned by casual visits to a hospital. — Albert C. Barnes 61

It is better to follow out a plan consistently even if it isn't the best one than to play without a plan at all. The worst thing is to wander about aimlessly. — Alexander Kotov 12

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. — Nicole Krauss 8

A superficial freedom to wander aimlessly here or there, to taste this or that, to make a choice of distractions, is simply a sham. It claims to be a freedom of "choice" when it has evaded the basic task of discovering who it is that chooses. — Thomas Merton 5

Until there was you, I wandered aimlessly. For a long time, like a little child, I will cry in anticipation of you. — Ko Joon-hee 4

I can't be naturalistic enough to make it sound real. So instead, I just wander around aimlessly knowing that I'll be funny enough with stream of consciousness until I get to the actual explosively funny part. — Norm MacDonald 2

Adults forget the depths of languor into which the adolescent mind decends with ease. They are prone to undervalue the mental growth that occurs during daydreaming and aimless wandering — E. O. Wilson 2

To speculate without facts is to attempt to enter a house of which one has not the key, by wandering aimlessly round and round, searching the walls and now and then peeping through the windows. Facts are the key. — Julian Huxley 1

In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless. — Sigmund Freud 121

We have a great objective - the light on the hill - which we aim to reach by working for the betterment of mankind not only here but anywhere we may give a helping hand. If it were not for that, the Labour movement would not be worth fighting for. — Ben Chifley 20

Christ said, "I and my father are one", and you repeat it. Yet it has not helped mankind. For nineteen hundred years men have not understood that saying. They make Christ the saviour of men. He is God and we are worms! — Swami Vivekananda 18

At present, there can be little doubt that the whole of mankind is in mortal danger, not because we are short of scientific and technological know-how, but because we tend to use it destructively, without wisdom. More education can help us only if produces more wisdom. — E. F. Schumacher 16

Only free time, imagination, creativity, and an ability to disappear will help you deliver value that nobody ever delivered before in the history of mankind. — James Altucher 13

Religion is still useful among the herd - that it helps their orderly conduct as nothing else could. The crude human animal is in-eradicably superstitious, and there is every biological reason why they should be. Take away his Christian god and saints, and he will worship something else. — H. P. Lovecraft 13

Every day that you get up, it's some kind of victory if you're making a good product, or working on a project that can only help mankind. — Oliver Stone 11

Is there anything more true than human pain? Is there anything more sincere than the cry for help from those who suffer? Only a great wave of mankind's pity can surmount an immense wave of human misery? — Ignacy Jan Paderewski 9

All great humorists are sad... I cannot help seeing beyond the tinsel of humour, and recognising the pitiful basis of jest - the world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind. — H. P. Lovecraft 6

The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises. — Daniel J. Boorstin 4

Crazy how you gotta wait until it's dark out to see who really with you. — Drake 285

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. Failing for Success — Thomas A. Edison 238

Success isn't about how much money you make, it's about the difference you make in people's lives. — Michelle Obama 227

To Almighty God, it's not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving. Love is not measured by how much we do; love is measured by how much love we put in; how much it is hurting us in loving. — Mother Teresa 210

I don't smoke, I don't drink, I don't use drugs. That may be boring for some people, but that's just me. That's how I live my life. — CM Punk 201

Learn to commit every situation to God, and trust Him for the outcome. God's love for you never changes, no matter what problems you face or how unsettled life becomes. — Billy Graham 193

Our life is full of brokenness - broken relationships, broken promises, broken expectations. How can we live with that brokenness without becoming bitter and resentful except by returning again and again to God's faithful presence in our lives. — Henri Nouwen 192

As you go through life's rich tapestry, you realize that most people you meet aren't fit to shine your shoes. It's a sad fact, but it's true. A good friend is someone who'd hide you if you were on the run for murder. How many of them do you know? — Lemmy Kilmister 188

I Don't Think There's A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I'm Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I think That Life Is Characterized By Pain, Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You're Alive Is By How Much Pain You're Experiencing, Or How Little. — Jerry Garcia 180

And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about. — Haruki Murakami 168

Words are one thing - deeds something entirely different. Fine words are a mask to cover shady deeds. A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron. — Joseph Stalin 46

There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 22

All the things I thought I was - simple and plain and sometime funny - are very small words. They do not begin to describe me. They do not begin to express what is inside of me. I have value, and I have worth. I cannot be replaced like old shoes or taken for granted like tap water. — Adriana Trigiani 13

Holy places are dark places. It is life and strength, not knowledge and words, that we get in them. Holy wisdom is not clear and thin like water, but thick and dark like blood. — C. S. Lewis 3

"Who am I, that you should love me?" "You are My Queen," said Eugenides. She sat perfectly still, looking at him without moving as his words dropped like water into dry earth. "Do you believe me?" he asked. "Yes," she answered. "Do you love me?" "Yes." "I love you." And she believed him. — Megan Whalen Turner 3

Words are in this respect like water, that they often take their taste, flavour, and character, from the mouth out of which they proceed, as the water from the channel through which it flows. — Charles Caleb Colton 0

We live in an ocean of words, but like a fish in water we are often not aware of it. — Stuart Chase 0

Your laughter is like cool water to me," I said. I felt my heart sob at these strange words, and it would not have been hard to summon tears: Strange. " "You are so serious all of a sudden," she told me. "I am not any one thing," I said. (137) — Patrick deWitt 0

If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days. — Dorothy Canfield Fisher 65

I didn't want to be thirtysomething and not know what I was going to do. I was quite afraid of that, there were quite a lot of aimless kids around, in that 'other' side of my life, who didn't really know what to do because they always had a bank balance to fall back on and they were quite lost. — Stella McCartney 54

These struggling tides of life that seem In wayward, aimless course to tend, Are eddies of the mighty stream That rolls to its appointed end. — William C. Bryant 53

When safety is our priority, we live our lives being very, very careful, and we wind up having no lives — Byron Katie 15

Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life . — Henry David Thoreau 9

It was a pity that there was no radar to guide one across the trackless seas of life. Every man had to find his own way, steered by some secret compass of the soul. And sometimes, late or early, the compass lost its power and spun aimlessly on its bearings. Alan Bishop — Arthur C. Clarke 9

Among the aimless, unsuccessful or worthless, you often hear talk about 'killing time.' The man who is always killing time is really killing his own chances in life. While the man who is destined to success is the man who makes time live by making it useful. — Arthur Brisbane 6

If I have a last wish, I want to remember you. In an aimless life, to not even have those memories would be hell. — Lee Hyung-chul 3

He who parades his virtues seldom leads the parade. He who puts up with insult invites injury. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life. This life in the present. — Henry David Thoreau 2

We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what. — George Santayana 2

We can, if we so choose, wander aimlessly over the continent of the arbitrary. Rootless as some winged seed blown about on a serendipitous spring breeze. — Haruki Murakami 0

You are good when you are one with yourself. Yet when you are not one with yourself you are not evil. For a divided house is not a den of thieves; it is only a divided house. And a ship without rudder may wander aimlessly among perilous isles yet sink not to the bottom. — Kahlil Gibran 0

An objective is an ambition, and life without ambition is ... well, aimless wandering. — Alfred Wainwright 0

Thus, in a middle course between these heights and depths, they drifted through life rather than lived, the prey of aimless days and sterile memories, like wandering shadows that could have acquired substance only by consenting to root themselves in the solid earth of their distress. — Albert Camus 0

But my dreaming self refuses to be consoled. It continues to wander, aimless, homeless, alone. It cannot be convinced of its safety by any evidence drawn from my waking life. — Margaret Atwood 0

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Attaining lasting happiness requires that we enjoy the journey on our way toward a destination we deem valuable. Happiness is not about making it to the peak of the mountain nor is it about climbing aimlessly around the mountain; happiness is the experience of climbing toward the peak. — Tal Ben-Shahar 85

I never justify, sustain, or in any way or to any extent uphold this cruel, heartless, aimless unnecessary war. — Franklin Pierce 81

Mental tensions, frustrations, insecurity, aimlessness are among the most damaging stressors, and psychosomatic studies have shown how often they cause migraine headache, peptic ulcers, heart attacks, hypertension, mental disease, suicide, or just hopeless unhappiness. — Hans Selye 59

Far away, our dreams have nothing to do with what we do. The wind carries the night, and passes on, aimless. — Mahmoud Darwish 51

The great thing about visual horror films is there's real potential for strong, beautiful imagery. It's the one genre that really lends itself to creating strong images. And I've always loved that idea of windmills - your mind aimlessly spinning. — Tim Burton 47

A colleague who met me strolling rather aimlessly in the beautiful streets of Copenhagen said to me in a friendly manner, "You look very unhappy"; whereupon I answered fiercely, "How can one look happy when he is thinking about the anomalous Zeeman effect?". — Wolfgang Pauli 38

The right art is purposeless, aimless! The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede. — D.T. Suzuki 25

He wondered what kind of blueprint beavers had for creating such a structure-or did they simply start aimlessly weaving stuff together until they had a dam? Did they even think about creating a dam? Maybe dams were simply accidents that resulted from their fooling around, much like the Army Corps of Engineers' accomplishments. — Patrick F. McManus 24

The universe is random. It's not inevitable. It's simple chaos. It's subatomic particles in endless, aimless collision. That's what science teaches us, but what is this saying? What is it telling us, when on the very night that this man's daughter dies, it's me who's having a drink with him? How can that be random? — Walter White 15

America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive. — John W. Gardner 12

To the Taoist mentality, the aimless, empty life does not suggest anything depressing. On the contrary, it suggests the freedom of clouds and mountain streams, wandering nowhere, of flowers in impenetrable canyons, beautiful for no one to see, and of the ocean surf forever washing the sand, to no end. — Alan Watts 12

Generating exciting new ideas burns 325 calories per hour and has no carbs. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. Rambling aimlessly about a point that someone has already made burns only 3 calories per hour. — Mike Brown 10

The white people were as thick and numerous and aimless as grasshoppers, moving always in a hurry but never seeming to get to whatever place it was they were going to. — Dee Brown 10

The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness. — Ralph Waldo Emerson 7

Man does not drift into goodness...the chance port of an aimless voyage. He must fight ever for his destination. — William George Jordan 7

It is heroic to prepare for war with a tyrant power. Patriots will always win the admiration of mankind for daring to meet the bloodshed of battle for their country's liberty. But the patriot who is willing to go to that sacrifice will be the first to condemn the aimless and secret shedding of blood in time of peace. — John Boyle O'Reilly 6

Like a fierce wind roaring high up in the bare branches of trees, a wave of passion came over me, aimless but surging . . . I suppose it's lust, but it's awful and holy like thunder and lightning and the wind. — Marion Milner 5

The streets of a modern city are depressing. They are so aimless and so weak in their lines and their masses, that the mind and senses jog on their way like passengers in a train with blinds down in an overcrowded carriage. — Wyndham Lewis 5

In place of an intensive cooperation among artists, there is a battle for goods. Hatred, partisanship, cliques, jealousy, and intrigues are the natural consequences of an aimless, materialist art. — Wassily Kandinsky 5

It is imperative that the past of the pilgrims' progress be intentionally carried forward into the present as we work into our future. Without it we cannot know who we are, why we are here, or where we can go. Without a common past to live out of we become aimless and wandering individuals instead of a pilgrim people. — H. Richard Niebuhr 5

I was not an atheist. Few people really are, for that means blind faith in the strange proposition that this universe originated in a cipher and aimlessly rushes nowhere. — Bill W. 5

Her mind traveled crooked streets and aimless goat paths, arriving sometimes at profundity, other times at the revelations of a three-year-old. Throughout this fresh, if common, pursuit of knowledge, one conviction crowned her efforts: ...she knew there was nothing to fear. — Toni Morrison 5

The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is who we are; this is where we came from; and this is where we're going. And a lot of Western society over the last hundred years - the last 50 years really - has lost that. We have become rather aimless and wandering. — J. Michael Straczynski 4

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Wandering Aimlessly Quotes By Jaeda DeWalt

Love can be so hauntingly beautiful, waking up past selves that have been wandering aimlessly through the corridors of our soul, for far too long. When someone else can take us from the ghost-town of our inner-selves, to exciting new landscapes, it's worth the risk, just to feel reborn. — Jaeda DeWalt

Wandering Aimlessly Quotes By Robert Pattinson

It's strange, somebody asked for my autograph the other day. Because I finished school and I'm not really doing anything at the moment, I was just kind of aimlessly wandering around London and these two guys who were about 30 came up and asked for my autograph. I was really quite proud at the time, and they wanted to take photos and stuff. And then they were sort of wandering around and I was kind of wandering around and I bumped into them about three times, and every single time their respect for me kept growing and growing and growing. — Robert Pattinson

Wandering Aimlessly Quotes By Nicola Kraus

So many words get lost. They leave the mouth and lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept away into the gutter like dead leaves. On rainy days you can hear their chorus rushing kkpast. — Nicola Kraus

Wandering Aimlessly Quotes By Charles Baudelaire

Wandering aimlessly , broken by my thoughts, Which slowly sharpened daggers at my heart — Charles Baudelaire

Wandering Aimlessly Quotes By Ben Aaronovitch

Ever since mankind stopped wandering around aimlessly and started cultivating its own food, society has been growing more complex. As soon as we stopped sleeping with our cousins and built walls, temples and a few decent nightclubs, society became too complex for any one person to grasp all at once, and thus bureaucracy was born. — Ben Aaronovitch

Wandering Aimlessly Quotes By Marty Rubin

There is no sweeter pleasure than wandering aimlessly about. — Marty Rubin

Wandering Aimlessly Quotes By Julian Huxley

To speculate without facts is to attempt to enter a house of which one has not the key, by wandering aimlessly round and round, searching the walls and now and then peeping through the windows. Facts are the key. — Julian Huxley

Wandering Aimlessly Quotes By Gamal Abdel Nasser

Within the Arab circle there is a role wandering aimlessly in search of a hero. For some reason it seems to me that this role is beckoning to us-to move, to take up its lines, put on its costumes and give it life. Indeed, we are the only ones who can play it. The role is to spark the tremendous latent strengths in the region surrounding us to create a great power, which will then rise up to a level of dignity and undertake a positive part in building the future of mankind. — Gamal Abdel Nasser

Wandering Aimlessly Quotes By Paul Auster

By wandering aimlessly , all places became equal, and it no longer mattered where he was. — Paul Auster

The rough pitter-patter of rain against the tin roof caused me to stir in my sleep, but I struggled to fight it. I yearned to remain under the warmth of my thick quilt, wandering aimlessly through the dream world. But, alas, I knew reality would ease its way in and pull me out. — K.A. Poe

Wandering Aimlessly Quotes By Soseki Natsume

I may be someone who was always destined to spend my life wandering aimlessly . I can't settle down. The cruel part is, I want to settle down and the world won't let me. So what choice do I have but to become a fugitive? — Soseki Natsume

Some people keep wandering aimlessly from womb to tomb. They seek nothing and achieve nothing.-RVM — R.v.m.

Each time he took a walk, he felt as though he were leaving himself behind, and by giving himself up to the movement of the streets, by reducing himself to a seeing eye, he was able to escape the obligation to think, and this, more than anything else, brought him a measure of peace, a salutary emptiness within ... By wandering aimlessly , all places became equal and it no longer mattered where he was. On his best walks he was able to feel that he was nowhere. And this, finally was all he ever asked of things: to be nowhere. — Paul Auster

Wandering Aimlessly Quotes By David Wong

It had the tangled floor plan common to all hospitals, seemingly designed by someone who believed in the healing power of watching confused visitors aimlessly wander around hallways. — David Wong

Wandering Aimlessly Quotes By Stephen R. Donaldson

Gradually, the night stumbled as if stunned and wandering aimlessly into an overcast day limped through the wilderland of transition as though there were no knowing where the waste of darkness ended and the ashes of light began. The low clouds seemed full of grief tense and uneasy with accumulated woe and yet affectless, unable to rain, as if the air clenched itself too hard for tears. And through the dawn, Atiaran and Covenant moved heavily, unevenly, like pieces of a broken lament. — Stephen R. Donaldson

Wandering Aimlessly Quotes By Roy L. Pickering Jr.

My travels have been numerous, though no topographer could chart the shores I have landed upon. For it is not places that have been my destination, but women. I am drawn to them by a force I have never questioned. To their infinite variety of charms I am helpless. But the hold of none has been strong enough to keep me from wandering aimlessly to others. — Roy L. Pickering Jr.

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On the other hand, men are sometimes wildly inappropriate in the way they share with women. By a show of hands, how many of you have seen a strange penis on the street? On the subway? At a sleepover? I was once walking with my friend Keri in the middle of the day and some guy asked us for the time. When we looked down at our watches, his dick was in his hands. We giggled and screamed and ran away. We were probably ten. I have been really drunk in high school and had a guy try to fool around with me. I have been called a bitch and a lesbian when I rejected a guy in college. I have locked eyes with various subway masturbators. I have been mugged but not raped, pushed and spit on by someone I knew, and forced to pull over in a road-rage incident where a man stuck his head into my car and told me he was going to "cum in my face." And I count myself very lucky. That is what "very lucky" feels like. Oof." Author: Amy Poehler

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A superficial freedom to wander aimlessly here or there, to taste this or that, to make a choice of distractions, is simply a sham. It claims to be a freedom of "choice" when it has evaded the basic task of discovering who it is that chooses.

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They wandered in the wilderness in a desert region; They did not find a way to an inhabited city.

For the sons of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, that is, the men of war who came out of Egypt, perished because they did not listen to the voice of the Lord , to whom the Lord had sworn that He would not let them see the land which the Lord had sworn to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

So the Lord’s anger burned against Israel, and He made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until the entire generation of those who had done evil in the sight of the Lord was destroyed.

According to the number of days which you spied out the land, forty days, for every day you shall bear your guilt a year, even forty years, and you will know My opposition.

‘You have circled this mountain long enough. Now turn north,

With all my heart I have sought You; Do not let me wander from Your commandments.

(men of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts and mountains and caves and holes in the ground.

For the Lord your God has blessed you in all that you have done; He has known your wanderings through this great wilderness. These forty years the Lord your God has been with you; you have not lacked a thing.”’

“He found him in a desert land, And in the howling waste of a wilderness; He encircled him, He cared for him, He guarded him as the pupil of His eye.

I have led you forty years in the wilderness; your clothes have not worn out on you, and your sandal has not worn out on your foot.

“People will stagger from sea to sea And from the north even to the east; They will go to and fro to seek the word of the Lord , But they will not find it.

Like a sparrow in its flitting, like a swallow in its flying, So a curse without cause does not alight.

For Pharaoh will say of the sons of Israel, ‘They are wandering aimlessly in the land; the wilderness has shut them in.’

and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths.

All the sons of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron; and the whole congregation said to them, “Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or would that we had died in this wilderness!

What the eyes see is better than what the soul desires. This too is futility and a striving after wind.

You shall remember all the way which the Lord your God has led you in the wilderness these forty years, that He might humble you, testing you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not.

Now behold, the Lord has let me live, just as He spoke, these forty-five years, from the time that the Lord spoke this word to Moses, when Israel walked in the wilderness; and now behold, I am eighty-five years old today.

Your clothing did not wear out on you, nor did your foot swell these forty years.

A man who wanders from the way of understanding Will rest in the assembly of the dead.

You have taken account of my wanderings; Put my tears in Your bottle. Are they not in Your book?

“How long will you go here and there, O faithless daughter? For the Lord has created a new thing in the earth— A woman will encompass a man.”

wild waves of the sea, casting up their own shame like foam; wandering stars, for whom the black darkness has been reserved forever.

My brethren, if any among you strays from the truth and one turns him back,

A man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the field; and the man asked him, “What are you looking for?”

The Lord said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” Then Satan answered the Lord and said, “From roaming about on the earth and walking around on it.”

They wander about for food And growl if they are not satisfied.

Then, like fleeing birds or scattered nestlings, The daughters of Moab will be at the fords of the Arnon.

And it will be that like a hunted gazelle, Or like sheep with none to gather them, They will each turn to his own people, And each one flee to his own land.

“Who prepares for the raven its nourishment When its young cry to God And wander about without food?

When you cultivate the ground, it will no longer yield its strength to you; you will be a vagrant and a wanderer on the earth.”

“You shall not see your countryman’s ox or his sheep straying away, and pay no attention to them; you shall certainly bring them back to your countryman.

let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.

“I will seek the lost, bring back the scattered, bind up the broken and strengthen the sick; but the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them with judgment.

And the Lord spoke to me, saying,

“Is it not to divide your bread with the hungry And bring the homeless poor into the house; When you see the naked, to cover him; And not to hide yourself from your own flesh?

You shall answer and say before the Lord your God, ‘My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt and sojourned there, few in number; but there he became a great, mighty and populous nation.

“Then you will say in your heart, ‘Who has begotten these for me, Since I have been bereaved of my children And am barren, an exile and a wanderer? And who has reared these? Behold, I was left alone; From where did these come?’”

For the love of money is a root of all sorts of evil, and some by longing for it have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.

All of us like sheep have gone astray, Each of us has turned to his own way; But the Lord has caused the iniquity of us all To fall on Him.