Gabriel Nemirovsky > Gabriel's Quotes

“The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
― Robert Frost

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
― Lao Tzu

“Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.”
― Jack Kerouac

“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes

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

“One can acquire everything in solitude except character.”
― Stendhal, Five Short Novels of Stendhal

“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.”
― Mother Teresa

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
― Isaac Asimov

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.”
― A.A. Milne

“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
― Andre Gide

“The best discoveries always happened to the people who weren't looking for them.”
― Morgan Matson, Amy & Roger's Epic Detour

“I went to San Francisco. I found someone’s heart.”
― Steven Wright