Taylor Swift - Karma (Lyrics)

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I have always heard "Where ever you go, there you are". The first published version of this is found in the “The Imitation of Christ” by Thomas à Kempis published in Latin in the 1400s. An 1881 translation into English by Reverend W. H. Hutchings contained the following passage about human suffering: No one is so touched with a heartfelt sense of the Passion of Christ, as the man whose lot it has been to suffer like things. The cross, then, is always at hand, and everywhere awaits you.
You cannot escape it, run where you will; for "wherever you go, you take yourself with you, and you will always find yourself".
In 1952 a different translation of “The Imitation of Christ” by Leo Sherley-Price contained the following: "You cannot escape it, wherever you flee; for wherever you go, you bear yourself, and always find yourself".