Quotes About Journey

Because sometimes when things are going really well, we find the one thing we're pretending we're not looking for.

Life wasn't meant to be easy. It was meant to be lived.

If eyes were the windows to the soul, then the wrinkles surrounding them must be the roadmap of all the soul had endured. Bobby

How well your readers connect with and care about this character determines the success of a story. In other words, if they've emotionally gone on the journey with the character, suffered with and experienced the joys and triumphs of the character, as well as learned the lessons and truths, only then have you, the author, done your job.

He thought she'd slow him down. He could barely keep up with her.

My dearest Eden, I suppose, someday, after I have passed, you will dig through my journals and happen upon this letter. I pray that it finds you as amazed at the life God has gifted to you as I was when I discovered a daughter

Have you lost your mind? Yep. And now I'm trying to get it back

I love books. They're like a piece of my life I haven't lived yet.

Maybe because his main character never seems to get it right till the end. You know, he's not perfect, just real.

You've always spent your life looking forward, the destination in mind. But faith is stepping forward without knowing the destination.

I will find you.

She never considered that her mother's leaving could cause her to be stuck in a sort of darkness, afraid to move. Yeah, she needed the sunrise like she needed breath.

You've always spent your life looking forward, the destination in mind. But faith is stepping forward without knowing the destination. Your job, as a warrior of the Lord, is to listen. To walk in faith.

We're all stuck, a little bit, in the valley between who we want to be and who we are.

What if your story is better than you imagined and by holding on, you're only creating the ending you can see?...God has a bigger plan for you than you do for yourself.

We do not become different people as we age; we just add layers of experience onto who we already are.

but if I know anything about time, it is that it stretches to walk with you when you grieve. The rest of the world may zoom past at breakneck speed, but when you are learning to live with loss, time slows to the pace of your breathing.

Everything beautiful has a story it wants to tell. But not every story is beautiful.

there is always, always the other road to choose, even if it seems to be nothing more than an unpaved path in the middle of nowhere?

We belong far less to where we've come from than where we want to go. —FRANZ WERFEL

I smiled at this because some days I feel as though I've already lived several lifetimes and others as though I haven't lived any kind of life at all, that I'm still waiting for it to start. Or waiting for it to start over.

We are, all of us, living out the stories of our lives. Each of our stories will end, in time, but meanwhile, we fill the pages of our existence with all the love we can, for as long as we can. This is how we make a life.

stop and consider that there is always, always the other road to choose, even if it seems to be nothing more than an unpaved path in the middle of nowhere? On

We only see a little bit of our stories at a time, and the hard parts remind us too harshly that we're fragile and flawed. But it isn't all hard. Your story isn't all hard parts. Some of it is incredibly beautiful.