Quotes About Journey

Our lives can only be lived forward and understood backwards. Living a life and understanding it occupy different dimensions.

If it is true ... that no one has a life worth thinking about whose life story cannot be told, does it not then follow that life could be, even ought to be, lived as a story, that what one has to do in life is to make the story come true?

I've spent my life writing and now I'm writing about my life." HANNAH COLLINS - AUTHOR

The way to the light is out of the darkness

O Shepherd. You said you would make my feet like hinds' feet and set me upon High Places". "Well", he answered "the only way to develop hinds' feet is to go by the paths which the hinds use.

You may think that Much-Afraid was altogether too much given to shedding tears, but remember that she had Sorrow for a companion and teacher. There is this to be added, that her tears were all in secret, for no one but her enemies knew about this strange journey on which she had set out. The heart knoweth its own sorrow and there are times when, like David, it is comforting to think that our tears are put in a bottle and not one of them forgotten by the one who leads us in paths of sorrow. But

You've got to have faith to make the journey. For some, it might take 40 days; for others, 40 years. And, unfortunately, there will be many that will never see their promise become a reality at all - not because God can't do it - because they don't have the faith to believe that he really can

The mind, after being confined at home for a while, sends the imagination abroad in quest of new treasures; and the body may as well accompany it,

To know me you have to fly with me. Up In the Air, Walter Kirn, 2001

Wenn einer in die Irre geht, dann heißt das noch lange nicht, dass er nicht auf dem richtigen Weg ist.

Alle wesentlichen Dinge sind einfach, wenn man sie erst einmal begriffen hat. Schwierig ist nur der Weg, den man bis dahin gehen muss.

Every man's life is a fairy tale, written by God's fingers.

Ja, es war gut, heimzukehren. Irrtümer, Gefahren, Versuchungen, Zeiten der Schwäche: sie blieben keinem erspart. Aber dann kehrte man heim in sein Haus, in sein Eigenstes, in die Heimat, in das, was man aus sich heraus geschaffen hatte, das zu einem Stück des eigenen Ichs geworden war, mochte es nun ein Haus sein oder eine Frau oder eine ganze Stadt.

If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such, the path of error is the path of truth

What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.

We dwell in the place in which we are not traveling but are at home. The landscape of God's self-revelation in Jesus Christ is our home. It is a landscape that we are never finished exploring, for new prospects are always emerging. Nevertheless, it is familiar to us and becomes all the more familiar the longer we reside there.

Perfection lies in fullness of journey. For this reason, never think you have arrived. Forget what lies behind you, reach out for what lies before you. Through the very change in which you lose what you have snatched up you will at last be transformed into what you crave for with such longing.

We have seen how someone else has encountered the word of God, we have even profited by his encounter, but all the same it was his and not ours—and we ourselves have achieved nothing.

Actually it's quite amazing. One year back, even the Ambani's didn't know who was Hardik Pandya."

The spiritual path is not strewn with roses.

Now begin in the middle, and later learn the beginning; the end will take care of itself.

And we passed through the cavern of rats. And we passed through the path of boiling steam. And we passed through the country of the blind. And we passed through the slough of despond. And we passed through the vale of tears. And we came, finally, to the ice caverns.

Our memory of dreams is a glimpse of the full spiritual life that each of us leads beyond the physical.

Our dreams are the forgotten path to Heaven.