Quotes About Journey

One is always nearer by not keeping still.

These purblind Doomsters had as readily strownBlisses about my pilgrimage as pain.

When I set out for Lyonnesse,A hundred miles away,The rime was on the spray,And starlight lit my lonesomeness.

We can only learn so much and live.

I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.

Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark

Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.

Words can point the way, but the path must be traveled in silence.

A landing place is a famous thing, but it is only enjoyable for a time by any mortal who deserves one at all.

Traveling makes a man wiser, but less happy.

One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.

The spiritual journey can be a lonely road in the beginning. Later God will give us new friends. God does not take anything away except to give us something better.

St. Teresa of Avila wrote: 'All difficulties in prayer can be traced to one cause: praying as if God were absent.' This is the conviction that we bring with us from early childhood and apply to everyday life and to our lives in general. It gets stronger as we grow up, unless we are touched by the Gospel and begin the spiritual journey. This journey is a process of dismantling the monumental illusion that God is distant or absent.

Today, I'll simply wander. Head off in one direction or another and keep walking. Until I feel like stopping.

I had fled that place in hopes of finding another that had been founded upon different principles and operated under a different order. But there was no such place, or none that I could find. It seemed the only course of action left to me was to make an end of it.

Consciousness makes it seem as if (1) there is something to do; (2) there is somewhere to go; (3) there is something to be; (4) there is someone to know.

The anchor heaves, the ship swings free The sails swell full. To sea, to sea!

Consider a sailor trying to reach the horizon. It is unreachable. If the sailor sees the horizon as the point he must reach to achieve happiness, he is destined to experience eternal frustration

Yonder's another vessel, I'll board her - if she be lawful prize, down goes her top-sail.

Go where glory waits thee!But while fame elates thee,Oh, still remember me!

A genuine odyssey is not about piling up experiences. It is a deeply felt, risky, unpredictable tour of the soul.

I thought that the light-house looked lovely as hope, That star on life's tremulous ocean.

Come o'er the sea, Maiden with me, Mine through the sunshine, storms and snows; Seasons may roll, But the true soul Burns the same, where'er it goes.

Getting there, that's what's important even if you can't get back.