Quotes About Journey

If they veered left, it would feel to them as if they were sinking into the earth: the path would narrow as the ground around them rose up to their hips, then shoulders, then heads. The walls would turn from sod to stone, and it would seem as if they were walking inside a crag in a cliff. The sky would be reduced to a thin swath of blue, broken in parts by the branches of the trees that grew above them along the sides of this ancient channel.

it was then that an idea began to form in her mind. It was vague, the details beyond definition. But she was starting to see its contours, like the shore when a ship first spies land on the horizon.

And then a wave of peace washed over her and told her it wasn't where she lived that mattered, but that she was walking with Him.

You once said a man's life is a series of choices. Small decisions made every day that don't seem to matter. That nobody notices but you, if you even notice. Over time, those decisions are like raindrops, falling and filling the stream of a life. You believed the big choices were made in the small ones. If I had chosen differently in a thousand ways, maybe I wouldn't be here.

Life is about making good choices, Matt. One after the other. They pile up day after day. It's only when you look back that you can see what the choices led to. What you're able to stand on.

It is a grace to be able to hold onto someone who runs at life when you can only imagine walking.

song—a long, winding tune that turns minor at times, major at times, but mostly is just running along in the background

I figure when you come to a crossroads, you have a choice: right turn, left turn, straight ahead. Or you can just pull over to the side of the road and call it quits. But if you've got a good stretch of road up ahead and someone fun to travel it with, why stay stuck in the galdern ditch?

Books need to have their spines cracked, their covers opened, and their pages ruffled for them to come alive.

I look at my life journey as a miracle.

Obviously, the line of miracles that got me to where I am is incredible.

As a musician, it's only natural that my music mirrors my life.

When you're on a merry-go-round, you miss a lot of the scenery.

The fun of the game is right now. A lot of people don't really realize that. They think you have to get to the top to start having fun, and it's not. It's the journey getting to the top where everything is always great. I'm on the 'Ferris Bueller' thing where I look around every once in a while so I don't miss it.

I miss being out on the road.

I miss the anonymity that comes with New York because everyone around you is so immersed in their own journey.

I desperately miss my girls when I am working, and I often feel guilty, but also feel the journey I am on is for them too. When I am on my 16th hour of a day and can barely keep my eyes open, they drive me forward.

I think it's so interesting which ways your career can go. I would have been a completely different actor doing a completely different story, and I would have missed 'Lady Macbeth.'

I missed Britain. I'm from here and I never aspired to go to L.A. - it sort of happened by default. I loved being there. I found it a little bit difficult at first, but I found my way.

I thought it would be really cool to play a role where I go missing and people look for me and I'm in this other world.

What I like least about acting is that when you're only in one place, you're missing the other part of life.

Then Mission Impossible brought me to Australia and that was great because I fell in love.

All of us have a mission here on Earth.

I think some people are on a mission to die, and I never was.