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“What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.”
― Blue Highways
― Blue Highways
“The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that its center is really everywhere, it is within each of us.”
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“The sun has already set on the days we made those choices. We must concentrate on what we can do tomorrow; we can't relive yesterday.”
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“A man who couldn't make things go right could at least go. He could quit trying to get out of the way of life. Chuck routine. Live the real jeopardy of circumstance. It was a question of dignity.”
― Blue Highways. Eine Reise in Amerika.
― Blue Highways. Eine Reise in Amerika.
“It's a contention of Heat Moon's -- believing as he does any traveler who misses the journey misses about all he's going to get-- that a man becomes his attentions. His observations and curiosity, they make and remake him.”
― Blue Highways. Eine Reise in Amerika.
― Blue Highways. Eine Reise in Amerika.
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