Quotes About Journey

A banner with the strange device,Excelsior!

I shot an arrow into the air,It fell to earth, I knew not where.

The long mysterious Exodus of death.

To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only question is how.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

A door that seems to stand open must be a man's size, or it is not the door that Providence means for him.

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If a man, before he passed from one stage to another, could know his future life in full detail, he would have nothing to live for. It is the same with the life of humanity. If it had a programme of the life which awaited it before entering a new stage, it would be the surest sign that it was not living, nor advancing, but simply rotating in the same place.

The further one goes, the better the land seems.

The shore was God, the stream was tradition, and the oars were the free will given to me to make it to the shore where I would be joined with God. Thus the force of life was renewed within me, and I began to live once again.

Enjoyment lies in the search for truth, not in finding it

Lihat dan kau tahu, jika aku ada di jalan yang salah dan kita tak akan pernah bertemu lagi

Do not seek quiet and rest in those earthly realms where delusions and desires are engendered, for if thou dost, thou wilt be dragged through the rough wilderness of life, which is far from Me.

What am I? And where am I? And why am I here?

But it did not interest her at all. She and Levin had a conversation of there own, yet not a conversation but a sort of mysterious communication, which brought them every moment nearer, and stirred in both a sense of joyful terror before the unknown into which they were entering.

What are you talking about?' cried Lukashka. 'We must go through the middle gates, of course.

One needs a vision of the promised land in order to have the strength to move.

A MAN IN MOTION always devises an aim for that motion. To be able to go a thousand miles he must imagine that something good awaits him at the end of those thousand miles. One must have the prospect of a promised land to have the strength to move

Whenever thou feelest that thy feet are becoming entangled in the interlaced roots of life, know that thou has strayed from the path to which I beckon thee: for I have placed thee in broad, smooth paths, which are strewn with flowers. I have put a light before thee, which thou canst follow and thus run without stumbling. KRISHNA. I

Our feet have reached the holy places, but our hearts may not have done so.

People who are given to deliberating on their actions generally find themselves in a serious frame of mind when it comes to embarking on a journey or changing their mode of life. At such moments one reviews the past and forms plans for the future.

All of us, especially you women, have to go for themselves through all the nonsense of life to come back to life itself

I asked: "What is the meaning of my life, beyond time, cause, and space?" And I replied to quite another question: "What is the meaning of my life within time, cause, and space?" With the result that, after long efforts of thought, the answer I reached was: "None.