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We are never late. We arrive precisely when we mean to.

We are never late. We arrive precisely when we mean to.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Mean, Late

The world is not in your books and maps, it's out there.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Book, Earth Day, World
"Fictional character: Gandalf". "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey", www.imdb.com. 2012.

For we put the thought of all that we love into all that we make.

J. R. R. Tolkien
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.262, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Jobs, Opportunity, Men
J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.64, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

There are truths, that are beyond us, transcendent truths, about beauty, truth, honor, etc. There are truths that man knows exist, but they cannot be seen - they are immaterial, but no less real, to us. It is only through the language of myth that we can speak of these truths.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Real, Men, Honor

For still there are so many things that I have never seen: in every wood in every spring there is a different green.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Spring, Different, Green
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.199, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Dark, Light, May
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.266, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Love, Hope, Inspiration
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.246, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path... One that we all must take.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Journey, Path, Lord Of The Ring
"Fictional character: Gandalf". "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King", www.imdb.com. 2003.

Not everyone who wanders is lost.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Lost, Wander

How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart, you begin to understand, there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep...that have taken hold.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Hurt, Taken, Heart

You have to understand the good in things, to detect the real evil.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Real, Evil
J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.55, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Years, Weather, Evil
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.861, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer.

J. R. R. Tolkien
New Day, Shining, Towers
"Fictional character: Sam". "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers", www.imdb.com. 2002.

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Life, Nature, World
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.69, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Fear both the heat and the cold of your heart, and strive for patience, if you can.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Heart, Trying, Heat
"The Children of Húrin".

It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Dragons, Planning Ahead, Doe
J. R. R. Tolkien (1985). “The Hobbit”

I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Family, Party, Book
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.32, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The world has changed. I see it in the water. I feel it in the Earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, For none now live who remember it.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Air, Smell, Water

Things will go as they will, and there is no need to hurry to meet them.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Needs, Gimli
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.401, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

All have their worth and each contributes to the worth of the others.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Life, Silmarillion
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Silmarillion”, p.35, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I am not a 'democrat' only because 'humility' and equality are spiritual principles corrupted by the attempt to mechanize and formalize them, with the result that we get not universal smallness and humility, but universal greatness and pride, till some Orc gets hold of a ring of power--and then we get and are getting slavery.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Spiritual, Humility, Pride
J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.246, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

It's a dangerous business, going out your door.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Doors, Going Out, Lord Of The Ring

Maybe the paths that you each shall tread are already laid before your feet though you do not see them

J. R. R. Tolkien
Feet, Path
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.261, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Short cuts make long delays.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Cutting, Long, Delay
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.72, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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