Quotes About Journey

It took him forever to get to downtown Vancouver although Tony had to admit that saving the world by public transportation was a particularly Canadian way to do things.

Garret went across the street to the library. There was a hole in the sidewalk the size of a bathtub. Construction was being done, was always being done. It was the journey that mattered, Garret thought woozily, the getting-there part. The mayor, and then the president, had begun saying that. "And where are we going?" the mayor had asked. "When will we get there? What will happen to us once we get there?" He really wanted to know.

On this sacred path of Radical Acceptance, rather than striving for perfection, we discover how to love ourselves into wholeness.

The biggest illusion about a path of refuge is that we are on our way somewhere else, on our way to becoming a different kind of person. But ultimately, our refuge is not outside ourselves, not somewhere in the future - it is always and already here.

Use it to remember you have only one life to live. Seek God, and a thousand adventures and dreams will pursue you. - Where Dandelions Bloom

God had shown her that He was not simply overseeing her journey, but that He WAS her journey. The realization had not taken away the pain but had brought her a tremendous amount of peace.

God's plan for your life is happening right now. It doesn't begin when you get married or when you get your dream job or when everything feels perfect. You are IN the plan. - TLC's friend Kris (p.159)

Write. Start writing today. Start writing right now. Don't write it right, just write it –and then make it right later. Give yourself the mental freedom to enjoy the process, because the process of writing is a long one. Be wary of "writing rules" and advice. Do it your way.

While no one can change the outcome of dementia or Alzheimer's, with the right support you can change the journey.

my choices still follow me. They are a part of me.' 'Only if you let them be. Yes, choices define your life, Soph, but you make new ones every single day. Life is a work in progress, and how we define it changes as we change, as our choices change.

we have to go forth in order to come back, plunge into time in order to be born anew, and roam the world in order to get back to ourselves at last.

Her words seemed like fences alongside the road to school; it was difficult to climb over them, and they led straight to school.

On marche très vite alors qu'on voudrait que le chemin n'eût jamais de fin. Et le chemin a pris fin.

These included the top of Mount Everest and up the chief's rear passage.

Handbrake found the drive to Jaipur that morning particularly frustrating. The new tarmac-surfaced toll road, which was part of India's proliferating highway system, had four lanes running in both directions, and although it presented all manner of hazards, including the occasional herd of goats, a few overturned trucks and the odd gaping pothole, it held out an irresistible invitation to speed. Indeed, many of the other cars travelled as fast as 100 miles

Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen; Round many western islands have I been

think of the adventures on which she might embark.

Amelia Edward's Thousand Miles Up the Nile, Gertrude Bell's Persian Pictures, and Mary Kingsley's Travels in West Africa, Congo Français, Corisco, and Cameroons.

NOTHING goes exactly as planned. Make your OWN destiny

I want to do more documentaries and travel to places I haven't been. That is where I think I can be fulfilled.

Young people often struggle with pointless pursuits until they realize for themselves that they are pointless. And that, in fact, is the point.

Sometimes when you like where you end up, you don't care how you got there.

Although Hermione is right about a great many things, she was wrong about the nature of things gone by. this is what I have come to know: Our past is never passed and there is no such thing as moving on. but there is this telling and there is such a thing as passing through.

home isn't where you land; home is where you launch. You can't pick your home any more than you can choose your family.