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Ralph Waldo Emerson - It's not the destination, it's the journey · the Daily Quote - Positive Daily Inspiration and Motivational Quote of the Day

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  Podcasthero.com Welcome to The Daily Quote, a podcast designed
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  to kick start your day in a positive way.
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  I'm your host, Andrew McGivern for November 22nd.
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  Today is Go for a Ride Day, celebrating the simple joy of
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  movement and exploration. This unofficial holiday
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  encourages us to hop on whatever moves us around.
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  A bike, a car, a motorcycle, a horse, even a boat and just go.
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  No particular destination is required.
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  The point isn't to see where you end up, it's the experience of
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  getting there. This day has special
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  significance and transportation history.
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  On this day in 19 O 4, the variable speed motor was
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  patented. In 1927, the snowmobile received
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  its patent, and in 1977, the Concorde began regular
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  commercial flights between New York and Paris.
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  But Go for a Ride day isn't about speed or technology.
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  It's about rediscovering what we knew as kids, that riding itself
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  is the reward. And that brings us to today's
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  quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson, who captured this perfectly when
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  he wrote It's Not the Destination, it's the journey.
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  Emerson understood that we're obsessed with arrivals.
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  We rush through experiences trying to find the next thing,
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  the end goal, the final destination.
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  But what if the getting there is the point?
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  The wind in your hair, the scenery passing by, the
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  unexpected turn down the road you never travelled, The
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  conversation with whoever's riding along.
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  These aren't delays before the real experience, they are the
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  experience. Go for a ride.
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  They invite us to stop treating travel as something to endure
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  and start treating it as something to enjoy.
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  Take the scenic route, make an unnecessary stop, get slightly
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  lost. That's not wasting time, that's
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  living it today. Go for a ride.
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  Take the long way home from work or bike through a neighborhood
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  that you've never explored. Drive with no destination.
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  Walk a different route. Notice what you've been missing
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  by always rushing to arrive. The interesting houses, the
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  changing leaves, the quirky stores, the way the light hits
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  things at certain times of day. And remember Emerson's wisdom.
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  The journey itself is the destination, so ride slowly,
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  look around and enjoy getting there.
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  That's going to do it for today. I'm Andrew McGivern, signing off
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  for now, but I'll be back tomorrow.
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  Same pod time, same pod stationed with another daily
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  quote.