Quotes About Journey

Ozour pourtant est las du voyage. On part découragé, en lâche ou en héros, dans l'illusion d'une autre vie, mais il n'y a pas d'issue. L'exil est une prison.

and yet there was not a definable thought in his mind. Only a terrifying effort to get from one side of a match box to another.

I started to die 36 hours before I was born, so dying was a way of life for me.

It is not easy to solve the problem of sorrow. Indeed there is no solution of it, unless the individual soul works out its own solution.

People will survive, and they will find happiness. Happiness only comes when you're not looking for it.

I live from one tentative conclusion to the next, thinking each one is final. The only thing i know for sure is that I'am confused.

To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.

zoals zij in de bus op weg naar Wierenbeke achter de chauffeur had gezeten met al het verdriet van Belgie in haar ogen.

For me, my travels have been the chance to go to a place that already exists in my imagination.

Viagiar descanta, ma chi parte mona torna mona

Well, there you are: a hobbit amongst the Urukhai. Keep up your hobbitry in heart, and think that all stories feel like that when you are in them. You are inside a very great story! Letter 66 From a letter to Christopher Tolkien

No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well...maybe chalk it up to forced consciousness expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten.

When there are miles to go before we sleep, altered traits are more important than altered states.

We are born in mystery, we live in mystery, and we die in mystery.

To find meaning in the mystery of existence is life's final and fascinating challenge.

It is a flower that can be opened in many way...Unfold the petals of [your] stories one by one and [you] will see a great deal.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

came upon me so gradually, so very pleasantly, that I considered myself especially blessed. You see, I was put in charge of brewing

Let Yourselves be carried by God" John of the Cross from "The Impact of God

The faster we walk, the more ground we lose.

The line of traffic advancing towards the rising sun looked like a procession of the returning dead. Every one of them, solitaries in clean shirts, smoking, checking mirrors to see if their reflections were still there, wore dark glasses.

Getting comprehensively lost in a car with a full tank of petrol at someone else's expense, you can't beat it.

One thing I had learnt, the last person you should ask for a solution is the author. If he knew where he was going, he'd stop dead in his tracks.

Without identifying the overall destination of the journey, together with the strategic direction and the necessary compass adopted for reaching it, there can be no hope of success."8