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Quotes About Journey

It's the journey toward doing these harder climbs that really gives value to the whole activity of climbing.
~ Alex Lowe
Forget goals. Value the process.
~ Jim Bouton
Who knows what exciting things might be just over the next hill.
~ Janette Oke
Sometimes the way God chooses to lead us is through our own disquieted Spirit. pg. 241
~ Janette Oke
The wisdom of the ages teaches that each individual, whether believer or not, good or bad, old or young, sick or well, rich or poor, has a personal guardian angel with him or her at every moment of life's journey.
~ Unknown
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~ Unknown
It's amazing how a certain time in your life can seem to be a prelude, but when you look back, you realize it was a whole work, with a beginning, middle, and end.
~ Jardine Libaire
But if you've got a bagful of stories it means you've led a rich life, and I'm way behind on that count.
~ Unknown
I didn't set out to discover a truth. I was actually sent to the Outer Fringes to conduct a chair census and learn some humility. But the truth inevitably found me, as important truths often do, like a lost thought in need of a mind.
~ Jasper Fforde
Lesson one in time travel, Thursday. First of all, we are all time travellers. The vast majority of us manage only one day per day.
~ Jasper Fforde
The trip back home was uneventful and over in only twelve words.
~ Jasper Fforde
Sometimes your destiny takes you to dark places where you'd rather not be, but destiny, as they say, is destiny.
~ Jasper Fforde
Shame is the gateway emotion to increased self-criticism, which leads to realisation, an apology, outrage and eventually meaningful action. We're not holding our breaths that any appreciable members can be arsed to make the journey along that difficult chain of emotional honesty – many good people get past realisation, only to then get horribly stuck at apology – but we live in hope.
~ Jasper Fforde
Rabbits never drove fast. They like to enjoy the view, didn't much care for speed and besides, it was wasteful of fuel. If you want to get somewhere a long way away, just leave early. Days, if that's required. Or, as Samuel C. Rabbit had it: 'nhffnfhfiifhfnnffhrhrfhrf' or 'to travel joyously is better than to arrive.
~ Jasper Fforde
Outside Styx's apartment was not the first time Rochester and I had met, or would it be the last. We first encountered each other at Haworth House in Yorkshire when my mind was young and the barrier between reality and make-believe had not yet hardened into the shell that cocoons us in adult life. The barrier was soft, pliable and, for a moment, thanks to the kindness of a stranger and the power of a good storytelling voice, I made the short journey--and returned.
~ Jasper Fforde
We're all something we're not,' he said. 'Every one of us is stuck between the person we want to be and the person we can be. And there doesn't have to be a why. All things have to do is feel right.
~ Jasper Fforde
Curiosity is a descending stair…that leads to only who-knows-where.
~ Jasper Fforde
You'll pass or my name's not Jennifer Strange." "Your name's not Jennifer Strange." "What?" "You're a foundling. You don't know what your name is.
~ Jasper Fforde
The circumstances of confusion will be your path to enlightenment' - Thursday Next
~ Jasper Fforde
Sometimes your destiny takes you to dark places where you'd rather not be, but destiny, as they say, is destiny.
~ Jasper Fforde
You can lose yourself in a book, but you find yourself in Poetry
~ Jasper Fforde
Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.
~ Jasper Fforde
It occurred to him that perhaps the Dark One had got a bum deal -- Demetrios would have made his own way to hell in the fullness of time, without an Allegro Equipe to take him there.
~ Jasper Fforde
Porque uno nunca encuentra lo que busca, sino lo que la realidad le entrega
~ Javier Cercas