Quotes About Journey

A working brain is probably a lot like a map, where anybody can get from one place to another on the freeways.

People always come and go.

I woke up one morning to discover I had lost my religous faith, as if it were a suitcase left behind in a distant airport.

So what is true for life itself is no less true for the universe: knowing where you came from is no less important than knowing where you are going.

What are the lessons to be learned from this journey of the mind? That humans are emotionally fragile, perennially gullible, hopelessly ignorant masters of an insignificantly small speck in the cosmos. Have a nice day.

In some ways, we are traveling in time now. We just happened to be prisoners of the present in the eternal transition from the past to the future.

The easy part is the ray's 500-second speed-of-light jaunt from the Sun to Earth, through the void of interplanetary space. The hard part is the light's million-year adventure to get from the Sun's center to its surface.

adding travel time lost during the pit stop between photon absorption and re-emission, the total trip lasts about a million years. If a photon had a clear path from the Sun's center to its surface, its journey would instead last all of 2.3 seconds.

That's like watching Columbus sail out of the harbor.

Interplanetary space is so not-empty that Earth, during its 30 kilometer-per-second orbital journey, plows through hundreds of tons of meteors per day—most of them no larger than a grain of sand. Nearly all of them burn in Earth's upper atmosphere, slamming into the air with so much energy that the debris vaporizes on contact.

Adventures suck when you're having them.

From the point of ignition. To the final drive. The point of the journey is not to arrive.

From first to last, the peak is never passed. Something always fires the light that gets in your eyes.

excitement is found along the road, not at the end, and likewise, peace is not a fixed point-except perhaps in the unwanted rest in peace sense. PEACE is the breathing space between destinations, between excitements, an occasional part of the journey, if you're lucky. PEACE is a space you move through very rarely, and very briefly-but your not allowed to stay there. you have to keep moving, and go do what you do. because you can...

STRAUSS:Have you ever thought about putting those experiences into a book? RICHIE:I did decide to write about what i experienced in climbing to the top. And finally when I got there, I discovered what was at the top.You know what was there? STRAUSS: No, I don't. RICHIE: Nothing. Not one thing. What was at the top was all the experiences that you had to get there.

We were all searching outside ourselves for our missing pieces, and we were all looking in the wrong direction. Instead of finding ourselves, we'd lost our sense of self. Mystery didn't have the answers. A blonde 10 in a twoset at the Standard didn't have the answers. The answers were to be found within.

If I want true freedom, I need to accept that the path leading there is going to be one of discomfort and vulnerability.

What are borders, after all, but checkpoints letting you know that you've reached a new stage in your adventure? Well

The best thing we can do for our relationships with others . . . is to render our relationship to ourselves more conscious. This is not a narcissistic activity. In fact, it will prove to be the most loving thing we can do for the Other. The greatest gift to others is our own best selves. Thus, paradoxically, if we are to serve relationship well, we are obliged to affirm our individual journey. —JAMES HOLLIS The Eden Project

From the unknown, through the unknown, to the unknown. Put your hand into the hand of God. It will be all right.

Well, I was on the slippery slope into the abyss of love, companionship, and happiness—and you know where that leads. Misery.

He understood, too, that they had not necessarily been chosen to succeed, or even to live. But they'd been chosen to find the Holy Grail that was within themselves. And that's what this was always about; the Grail was a phantom and the journey was inward, into their hearts and souls.

The journey home is never a direct route; it is, in fact, always circuitous, and somewhere along the way, we discover that the journey is more significant than the destination and that the people we meet along the way will be the traveling companions of our memories forever.

Tutte le strade conducono a Roma. All roads lead to Rome.