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Quotes About Journey

George Brush is my nameAmerica's my nationLuddington's my dwelling placeAnd Heaven's my destination.
~ Thornton Wilder
The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself, 'Oh, now I've got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home.' And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure.
~ Thornton Wilder
The most exhausting of all our adventures is that journey down the long corridors of the mind to the last halls where belief is enthroned.
~ Thornton Wilder
I'm awfully interested in how big things begin. You know how it is; you're twenty-one or twenty-two and you make some decisions. . . then whissh! you're seventy. You've been a lawyer for fifty years and that white-haired lady by your side has eaten over 50,000 meals with you. How do such things begin?
~ Thornton Wilder
It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.
~ Thornton Wilder
exasperate the reader as much as he does the sinners he meets on his journey through America selling textbooks. You
~ Thornton Wilder
where do we go for experience? How do we trust
~ Thornton Wilder
Thornton Wilder
~ weaned away.
The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself "Oh now I've got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home. And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure.
~ Thornton Wilder
The further the creation is from the Centre, the more it is bound; the nearer the Centre it reaches, the nearer Free is it.
~ Three Initiates
And Death is not real, even in the Relative sense—it is but Birth to a new life—and You shall go on, and on, and on, to higher and still higher planes of life, for aeons upon aeons of time. The Universe is your home, and you shall explore its farthest recesses before the end of Time.
~ Three Initiates
Todos estamos en el Camino, y esta vía va siempre ascendiendo, con frecuentes sitios de reposo.
~ Three Initiates
Death is not real, even in the Relative sense — it is but Birth to a new life — and You shall go on, and on, and on, to higher and still higher planes of life, for aeons upon aeons of time. The Universe is your home, and you shall explore its farthest recesses before the end of Time.
~ Three Initiates
The legends of the Fallen Angels have a basis in actual facts, as all advanced occultists know. The striving for selfish power on the Spiritual Planes inevitably results in the selfish soul losing its spiritual balance and falling back as far as it had previously risen. But to even such a soul, the opportunity of a return is given — and such souls make the return journey, paying the terrible penalty according to the invariable Law.
~ Three Initiates
but her mind feels feverish as it races through the crowded hallways of the past
~ Thrity Umrigar
Think of how far you've come," Maggie said softly. "And then ask yourself how much farther you wish to go
~ Thrity Umrigar
She felt grief move within her like a barefoot woman flitting through a dark house.
~ Thrity Umrigar
Don't worry. When the time is right, you'll meet your teacher. When you're ready, some kind of magnetic energy will bring you together with your teacher.
~ Thubten Yeshe
There are two tasks—one at the start and one at the end.
~ Thupten Jinpa
no matter where you go, due to karma you will find enemies and friends.
~ Thupten Jinpa
when one departs to the other shore, One does so alone on foot, with no horses and no companions.
~ Thupten Jinpa
No matter how perilous the journey, it's never over for true soul mates.
~ Tia Williams
Which one of you is the turtle?" "I'm sorry?" asked Eva. "Which one of you is the turtle? You know, the one who leaves and comes back and leaves again, while the other waits?" she said, spinning on her heel. "It's a metaphor, writers. Think about it.
~ Tia Williams
I've been roaming around forever, and I've never been anywhere I wasn't itching to leave.
~ Tia Williams