Quotes About Journey

Greatness? I have tasted that cup within the last twelve months; do I not know that it is sweet in the mouth, but bitter in the belly?

the mountain between us is one i cannot climb .

The river never changes. it may alter it's path a bit, but it never changes. It's us who change. We come back here and we're are different. Not it. Form can't be extracted from the essence like some broth reduction. This river's taught me a good bit. Probably why I don't leave here. It winds, weaves, snakes around. Rarely goes the same twice. But, in the end, it always ends up in the same place and the gift is never the same. ...it's the journey that matters.

strange land while we await the return of Christ.

I thought about that long drive in the

Then I'll take you there.

I have left a part of me wherever I have lain my head, including my youth. What remains will be satisfied to go home.

Is the journey still worthwhile if the mountain turns out to be enshrouded in fog at the top?

So do you want to fly?" he asked. "Because it's faster and cheaper." "No," I said. I tried to explain to him that the overnight train would offer a more complete Indian experience for our family and for Sophie's friend Isabel. He looked at me as if I had told him that I was hoping to contract syphilis in order to better understand what it was like to have a venereal disease.

We've all led raucous lives, some of them inside, some of them out. But only the poem you leave behind is what's important. Everyone knows this. The voyage into the interior is all that matters, Whatever your ride. Sometimes I can't sit still for all the asininities I read. Give me the hummingbird, who has to eat sixty times His own weight a day just to stay alive. Now that's a life on the edge.

Writing is a journey into the unknown. Say who you are, really say it in your life and in your work. Tell someone out there who is lost, someone not yet born, someone who won't be born for 500 years. Your writing will be a record of your time. It can't help but be that. But more importantly, if you're honest about who you are, you'll help that person be less lonely in their world because that person will recognise him or herself in you and that will give them hope.

as the world forgets you; as you recognize your transience; as you begin to lose your characteristics one by one; as you learn there is no-one watching you, and there never was, you think only about driving - not coming from any place; not arriving any place. Just driving, counting off time. Now you are here, at 7:43. Now you are here, at 7:44. Now you are... Gone.

Shandy. Have you begun your Ptolemaic

Too often when embarking on a journey, we focus on what needs to get done without looking at who we need to become in order to get there.

horses. It took them three more days to come

Chet Cunningham

A man who asks questions does not lose his way; that is what our fathers taught us.

A man's life from birth to death was a series of transition rites which brought him nearer and nearer to his ancestors.

La vida de un hombre desde el nacimiento hasta la muerte era una serie de ritos de paso que le acercaban cada vez más a sus antepasados.

My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt. —William Blake

That's how it is sometimes when we plunge into the depths of our lives. No one can accompany us, not even those who would give up their hearts for our happiness.

Women were the reason I became a monk - and, ah, the reason I switched back.

Having an end date for your quest through the noveling unknown is like bringing along a team of jetpack-wearing, entrepreneurial Sherpas.

It has helped me to understand more about who I am- the geography of my own soul.