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Quotes About Journey

Kabat-Zinn responded, "There is no purpose in meditation. As soon as you assign a purpose to meditation, you've made it just another activity to try to get someplace or reach some goal" (128).
~ Unknown
There comes a moment, when you get lost in the woods, when the woods begin to feel like home.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
I hadn't gotten old enough yet to realize that living sends a person not into the future but back into the past, to childhood and before birth, finally, to commune with the dead. You get older, you puff on the stairs, you enter the body of your father. From there it's only a quick jump to your grandparents, and then before you know it you're time traveling. In this life we grow backwards.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
Lux spent the ride dialing the radio for her favorite song. It makes me crazy, she said. You know they're playing it somewhere, but you have to find it.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
It was like autumn, looking at her. it was like driving up north to see the colors.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
She had given birth to me and nursed me and brought me up. She had known me before I knew myself and now she had no say in the matter. Life started out one thing and then suddenly turned a corner and became something else.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
I'm the final clause in a periodic sentence, and that sentence begins a long time ago, in another language, and you to read it from the beginning to get to the end, which is my arrival.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
He left in a state of distraction and a winter coat.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
Once you've visited the underworld, you never forget the way back.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
It was like that Talking Head song. "And you may ask yourself, 'How did I get here?' … And you may tell yourself, 'This is not my beautiful house. And you may tell yourself, 'This is not my beautiful wife' ". As he responded to the essay questions, Mitchell kept bending his answers toward their practical applications. He wanted to know why he was here, and how to live. It was perfect way to end your college career. Education had finally led Mitchell out into life.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
There was nowhere to go that wouldn't be me.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
Figures. They let you in for free. Then you gotta pay for the rest of your life.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
She wanted a book to take her places she couldn't get to herself. She thought a writer should work harder writing a book than she did reading it.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
After four years at college, nobody was anybody she knew.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
Ha egyszer megjártad az alvilágot, soha többé nem felejted el a visszavezetÅ' utat.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
asked to translate different bits
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
The gates were doing something to him already, because as he raised his hand to wave back at his parents, Mitchell felt ten years old again, tearing up, choked with feeling for these two human beings who, like figures from myth, had possessed the ability throughout his life to blend into the background, to turn to stone or wood, only to come alive again, at key moments like this, to witness his hero's journey. Lillian
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
We had never known her. They brought us here to find that out.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
Én vagyok a pont egy összetett mondat végén, amely mondat hosszú-hosszú évekkel ezelÅ'tt, egy másik nyelven kezdÅ'dött, és amelyet az elejétÅ'l kell olvasni, hogy érteni lehessen a végét – azt, amikor megérkeztem én.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
compatriots in the search for a little passion on earth.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
Drunk, and kissing us, or passing out in chairs, they were bound for college, husbands, child-rearing, unhappiness only dimly perceived- bound, in other words, for life.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
Lumea ajunsese la capat. Oriunde m-as fi dus, dadeam tot peste mine.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right
~ Unknown
and World Cuisine educations are on temporary hold since I'm on my way to
~ Jen Lancaster