Quotes About Journey

Richard K. Morgan

We look back and see a path we have taken through life. It's tempting to think that the path was always there, laid out with purpose and waiting only for us to walk it.

who knows how the data behind these metaphors has traveled, from where and for how long.

Make it personal.

And he remembered then where he was, remembered how he'd come to be there, the years it had taken, and last of all he remembered he was old.

There is a path for each of us. When we are on our right path, we have a surefootedness. We know the next right action?Although not necessarily what is just around the bend.

The great acting coach Michael Chekhov advised his students, "If you want to work on your art, work on your life.

If we are invested in a writing life—as opposed to a writing career—then we are in it for the process and not the product.

Today, I view myself as a pilgrim. I take stock of the distances I have traveled. I take time to map the route I now choose.

Today, I am a clear stream flowing softly through green meadows. I make my way swiftly but gently to my goals.

Wherever you are is the entry point," and this is always true with writing. Wherever you are is always the right place. There is never a need to fix anything, to hitch up the bootstraps of the soul and start at some higher place. Start right where you are.

going sane feels just like going crazy.

If we are interested in a writing life - as opposed to a writing career - then we are in it for the process and not the product - for the body of work and not for the quick hit of one well-realised piece.

There are sounds to seasons.   There are sounds to places, and there are sounds to every time in one's life. ALISON WYRLEY BIRCH

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. ANDRÉ GIDE

I will clear for you a way and a path. Stay close to me. I hold the lantern, dispelling your anxiety. I am your chosen path.

As we gain - or regain - our creative identity, we lose the false self we are sustaining. The loss of this false self can feel traumatic: I don't know who I am anymore. I don't recognize me. Remember that the more you feel yourself to be terra incognita, the more certain you can be that the recovery process is working.

terra incognita

These artists, shadow artists through no fault of their own, hear the distant piping of the dream but are unable to make their way through the cultural maze to find it.

A mystery can be very simple: if I drive this road, not my usual road, what will I see? Changing a known route throws us into the now. We become refocused on the visible, visual world. Sight leads to insight.

The fruit of your withdrawal is what you need to understand as a positive process, both painful and exhilarating.

took pen to page, praying for guidance.

I took pen to page, praying for guidance.

Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny. PAUL TILLICH