Quotes About Journey

We do not gain or surrender our personhood as we age. We live one life from conception to death.

Humanity at the centre of the primates, Homo sapiens, in humanity, is the end-product of a gradual work of creation, the successive sketches for which still surround us on every side.

With John, we are called to prepare the way for Jesus and to point others to him. But we cannot do this unless we also leap for joy at the very thought of him. We don't need to be advanced in our discipleship or all that steady in our faith to experience this joy, since the happiness Jesus brings is the fulfillment for which we are hard-wired. Imagine infinite kindliness, and yield to it. The very thought of it inaugurates our journey into light.

Well, we can't send Dr. Tresselt back by himself," said Dr. Tresselt, with a grin. "I might find something interesting along the way, and

Well, we can't send Dr. Tresselt back by himself," said Dr. Tresselt, with a grin. "I might find something interesting along the way, and get side-tracked, and forget where I was supposed to be going.

All of us, all of us, all of us trying to save our immortal souls, some ways seemingly more round about and mysterious than others. We are having a good time here. But hope all will be revealed soon.

Mel thought real love was nothing less than spiritual love. He'd said he'd spent five years in a seminary before quitting to go to medical school. He said he still looked back on those years in the seminary as the most important years of his life.

He was going somewhere, he knew that. And if it was the wrong direction, sooner or later he'd find it out.

All of us, all of us, all of us trying to save our immortal souls, some ways seemingly more round – about and mysterious than others. from "In Switzerland

All I know about this fine, sweaty life, my own or anyone else's, is that in a little while I'll rise up and leave this astonishing place that gives shelter to dead people. This graveyard. And go. Walking first on one rail and then the other.

Creo que en el amor no somos más que principiantes. Decimos

La letteratura, poi, ha questo di bello: che puoi riacciuffarla in un momento qualunque del tuo percorso, che non scade mai, che non abbandona mai davvero le librerie.

It was a cool day and very clear. You could see a long way-but not as far as Velma had gone.

Call me Sunset. I'm always moving west.

Life is what happens, Magnus, no matter what you expect or want.

As they neared the door at the rear, left open for them by Joftaz, James felt a flush of excitement. No matter how high he might someday rise in the King's service, there was a part of him that would always be Jimmy the Hand.

Raymond E. Feist

When you go out first on your own. When you marry and settle. When your father dies. When your son leaves home.

What Walter thinks is that people are like rivers. We never stay in the same place but jest keep flowing along, learning new stuff and picking up new experiences and changing all the time. So today's you isn't the same as yesterday's you and won't be the same as tomorrow's you. But Walter also thinks that there's a real perfect you that you're always trying to get to, and the better you are at living your life, the closer you come to it.

A path is a prior interpretation of the best way to traverse a landscape.

How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you? (Plato) The things we want are transformative, and we don't know or only think we know what is on the other side of that transformation. Love, wisdom, grace, inspiration- how do you go about finding these things that are in some ways about extending the boundaries of the self into unknown territory, about becoming someone else?

A labyrinth is a symbolic journey . . . but it is a map we can really walk on, blurring the difference between map and world.

You get lost out of a desire to be lost. But in the place called lost strange things are found...

To write is to carve a new path through the terrain of the imagination, or to point out new features on a familiar route. To read is to travel through that terrain with the author as a guide-- a guide one might not always agree with or trust, but who can at least be counted on to take one somewhere.