Quotes About Journey

Too many people surrender to a place of safety. That place where all they do is long to sleep so they can dream about living. Even if you don't find what you think you're looking for, darling, it's the going out and looking for it that counts. That is the only way you can know you have lived.

Until now, she had known herself only as a person who yearned. A woman who had what she wanted was a stranger to her. But here, in this faraway temple, that stranger was finally within sight.

É preciso tão pouco tempo para forjar uma vida.

when my family headed out west, like any birth canal Rochester was forgotten.

Marriage is a long conversation, someone once said, and maybe so is a rock band's life. A few minutes later, both were done.

That's the problem with destiny: You know she'll get you there eventually, but how she does it is generally a big fat mystery.

Kim Gruenenfelder

One day the Inuit journeyed out to gather grass along the coast. When they got to where they were going and found the grass stunted by a late spring, they sat down and in Nansen's words "waited for the grass to grow." The lesson is simple. Be patient, stay put.

You never know what the future holds or where my life will take me.

Somewhere during Darwin's long journey, however, his ideas about the world shifted and he began peering at it freshly, from a different point of view. That shift ultimately led him to

This state usually cannot last and I believe the reason is that it actually stops our genuine growth. The underlying purpose of your spiritual path is that you discover who you really are, you discover your real self.

We have to engage in a quest to discover what the self is; we have to walk the road of self-discovery. I believe that road must be a spiritual road.

I've looked at you, the person that you are. The kind of person I want to be. You've been my guiding light back to myself, Willow. Hell, probably finding myself for the first time. My lighthouse, a light in the dark.

Ultimately, the intoxication of exploration seemed to draw her further from god rather than closer.

There are no wasted steps in a God-directed journey.

Mr. Patterson, a hired helper is much less costly than a wife. That is, if you truly love your wife and wish to please her. You needn't house and clothe and shower gifts upon an employee, but these are the things you'll be expected to do for a wife. Additionally, a man should seek companionship, compassion, and love above a clean house and mended socks. Life can be a dreary journey, but a warm, loving companion brightens the path.

Time passes in the rain that doesn't fall, in the lakes and rivers that we don't reach.

One step, I thought. One step at a time.

When Jamie had to use the toilet, soldiers passed him over their heads to the one at the end of the car, and back again when he was done.

That's your map of the past. What's in the map of your future?" I stared at her. "What do you want?" she persisted. I had no idea. When I'd first been evacuated I'd wanted to be like the girl riding the pony, racing the train. Now I was. Parts of me were still jumbled—but maybe that girl had been jumbled too. I'd only seen her from the outside.

Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

could read and I could sing. I had walked to church even though it was a long way. I needed to remember that. I tried to force myself to feel happy, but underneath the happiness I felt prickly, like my skin was stretched too tight all over. I might not be a cripple, but I didn't know who I was.

The only true death is to never live.

They race from us! Only to find us sooner.