Quotes About Journey

wanted to be like an orphan who had bummed around the country on trains and just arrived out of nowhere

In 1482, the year he turned thirty, Leonardo da Vinci left Florence for Milan, where he would end up spending the next seventeen years.

The journey is the reward

It was by all accounts a pleasant Atlantic crossing, during which Einstein tried to explain relativity to Weissmann. Asked upon their arrival whether he understood the theory, Weissmann gave a delightful reply. During the crossing, Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and by the time we arrived I was fully convinced that he really understands it.

Use all the stars we have in stock; Of water, fire,walls of rock, And beasts and birds there is no lack. In our narrow house of boards, bestride The whole creation, far and wide; Move thoughtfully, but fast as well, From heaven through the world to hell

You thought you were found but you realize that you were lost, and someday you may discover that you're lost now.

I find books in used-book stores, chain and independent stores, on friends' shelves and being read by some woman sitting opposite me on the subway. I find books the way a cow finds a new pasture, by looking to see where the other cows are headed.

Scared is the lamp that lights the way.

The roads twist and turn up there like maggots on an overripe peach.

A big part of my life was spent getting the keys for or driving my car. My constant friend was the radio, and most of my conversations were not face-to-face but side by side in the front seat or through the rearview mirror of some jalopy that I would drive until it gave out and I had to buy a new one. I was like some kind of futuristic hermit crab being carried by my temporary husk from place to place rather than feeling the sun on my head or my feet on the ground.

And see not ye that bonny road, Which winds about the fernie brae? That is the road to fair Elfland, Where you and I this night maun gae.

Prior Aymer, who pushed his mule betwixt his companion and

And see ye not that braid braid road That lies across that lily leven? That is the path of wickedness Though some call it the road to heaven

What if I left my memory in the future and I have to catch up to it?

I know nothing about you except that I want to move through the world with you for as long as you'll let me.

But, as much as I will miss these lakes and fields of the Now, it's time to go. Time for another great adventure. Because if I stay here, there will surely be no more and I couldn't bear that.

It would take a human nine years to walk from the Earth to the moon.

No matter how many steps you have taken away from God, it's only one step back.

Each experience in your lifewas absolutely necessary in order to have gotten you to the next place, and the next place, up to this very moment.

The purpose of dancing isn't to end up at a particular spot on the floor. The purpose of dancing and of life is to enjoy every moment and every step, regardless of where you are when the music ends.

The meaning of life is to get meaning for life.

Wisdom is knowing I am nothing, love is knowing I am everything, and between the two my life moves.

Remind yourself daily that there is no way to happiness; rather, happiness is the way.

If you are facing in the right direction, all you need to do is keep on walking.