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5. “I sat down with a yellow legal pad and began writing 'A Time to Kill.' Had no idea what I was doing. It became, over a period of several years, a secret little hobby nobody knew about except my wife, because she was reading chapter by chapter.”
John Grisham
Writing, Beginnings, Creativity, Personal Journey, Literary Career
6. “From my heart comes out and dances the image of my own desire. The gleaming vision flits on. I try to clasp it firmly, it eludes me and leads me astray. I seek what I cannot get, I get what I do not seek.” Rabindranath Tagore Desire, Elusiveness, Personal Journey, Introspection, Life’s Paradoxes
7. “Religion is not a fractional thing that can be doled out in fixed weekly or daily measures as one among various subjects in the school syllabus. It is the truth of our complete being, the consciousness of our personal relationship with the infinite.” Rabindranath Tagore Religion, Spirituality, Consciousness, Truth, Personal Journey
13. “I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs – when I was 17 – that I realized I was talking through an empty skull. I wasn't thinking my own thoughts or saying my own thoughts.” Allen Ginsberg Authenticity, Self-discovery, Awareness, Personal Journey, Creative Exploration, Intellectual Awakening
21. “He looked around, as if he was seeing the world for the first time. Beautiful was the world, colorful was the world, strange and mysterious was the world! Here was blue, here was yellow, here was green, the sky and the river flowed, the forest and the mountains were rigid, all of it was beautiful, all of it was mysterious and magical, and in its midst was he, Siddhartha, the awakening one, on the path to himself.” Hermann Hesse World, Beautiful, Awakening, Sensory Experience, Existential Realization, Personal Journey
22. “For awakened human beings, there was no obligation – none, none, none at all – except this: to search for yourself, become sure of yourself, feel your way forward along your own path, wherever it led.” Hermann Hesse Awakened, Obligation, Path, Spiritual Freedom, Self-discovery, Personal Journey
28. “I seem fated to pass through the world without colliding with it or moving it – and I’m sure I can’t tell you whether the fate’s good or evil. I don’t die – I don’t fall in love. And if other people die or fall in love they always do it when I’m just not there.” E.M. Forster Fate, Emotional Isolation, Human Experience, Detachment, Personal Journey, Existential Themes
Personal Journey Quotes by Famous Authors
5. “I sat down with a yellow legal pad and began writing 'A Time to Kill.' Had no idea what I was doing. It became, over a period of several years, a secret little hobby nobody knew about except my wife, because she was reading chapter by chapter.”
John Grisham Writing, Beginnings, Creativity, Personal Journey, Literary Career
6. “From my heart comes out and dances the image of my own desire. The gleaming vision flits on. I try to clasp it firmly, it eludes me and leads me astray. I seek what I cannot get, I get what I do not seek.”
Rabindranath Tagore Desire, Elusiveness, Personal Journey, Introspection, Life’s Paradoxes
7. “Religion is not a fractional thing that can be doled out in fixed weekly or daily measures as one among various subjects in the school syllabus. It is the truth of our complete being, the consciousness of our personal relationship with the infinite.”
Rabindranath Tagore Religion, Spirituality, Consciousness, Truth, Personal Journey
13. “I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs – when I was 17 – that I realized I was talking through an empty skull. I wasn't thinking my own thoughts or saying my own thoughts.”
Allen Ginsberg Authenticity, Self-discovery, Awareness, Personal Journey, Creative Exploration, Intellectual Awakening
21. “He looked around, as if he was seeing the world for the first time. Beautiful was the world, colorful was the world, strange and mysterious was the world! Here was blue, here was yellow, here was green, the sky and the river flowed, the forest and the mountains were rigid, all of it was beautiful, all of it was mysterious and magical, and in its midst was he, Siddhartha, the awakening one, on the path to himself.”
Hermann Hesse World, Beautiful, Awakening, Sensory Experience, Existential Realization, Personal Journey
22. “For awakened human beings, there was no obligation – none, none, none at all – except this: to search for yourself, become sure of yourself, feel your way forward along your own path, wherever it led.”
Hermann Hesse Awakened, Obligation, Path, Spiritual Freedom, Self-discovery, Personal Journey
28. “I seem fated to pass through the world without colliding with it or moving it – and I’m sure I can’t tell you whether the fate’s good or evil. I don’t die – I don’t fall in love. And if other people die or fall in love they always do it when I’m just not there.”
E.M. Forster Fate, Emotional Isolation, Human Experience, Detachment, Personal Journey, Existential Themes
