Quotes About Journey

I don't think we have any idea who we are. I think we're engaged in a constant battle to figure out who we are.

Let's assume it was Christopher Columbus's "destiny" to discover the New World, and let's pretend he was consciously aware of that fact. What possible difference would that have made in his day-to-day life? He still had to build the boats.

It took only forty hours to get Israel out of Egypt—the Passover. But it took forty years to get Egypt out of Israel.

A journey to nowhere also begins with a single step

If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?

I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map. A real adventure.' A spinx. A mystery. A blank. Unknown. Undefined.

Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.

What people forget is a journey to nowhere starts with a single step, too.

At some point, your memories, your stories, your adventures, will be the only things you'll have left.

Some people are just born human, the rest of us, we take a lifetime to get there.

Some stories, you use up. Others use you up.

I just don't want to die without a few scars.

the world is the cradle and your trap.

This would be...a book that would be a trapdoor down into some place dark. A place only you could go, alone, when you opened the cover. Because only books have that power.

Regret, Daisy knew, was the only confirmation of a well-lived life. If you didn't occasionally go too far, you weren't going anywhere.

The shortest distance between two points is a time line, a schedule, a map of your time, the itinerary for the rest of your life. Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list.

She named me Daisy St. Patience and never wanted to know what name I walked in the door with.

By the time you turn thirty, your life is about escaping the person you've become in order to escape the person you've become in order to escape the person you started as.

We drive west the rest of the night, away from where the sun will come up, trying to outrace it, trying not to see what it's going to show us when we get home.

All these mystics, throughout history, all over the world, they all found their way to enlightenment by physical suffering.

Something or someone lived or died so you could have this life. The mountain of the dead. They left you into the daylight.

The people who really, actually loved us, they'd beg us to go. To fulfill our dreams. Practice our craft. And they would love us when we all came back.

All these stupid rocks, I say, what's your goal? This isn't about getting something done, Denny says. It's about the doing, you know, the process. But what are you going to do with all these rocks? And Denny says, I don't know until I collect enough. But what's enough? I say. I don't know, dude, Denny says, I just want the days of my life to add up to something.

Hero isn't the right word, but it's the first word that comes to mind.