Quotes About Journey

Walk with me world, upon my right hand walk, speak to me Babel, that I may strive to assemble of all these syllables a single word before the purpose of speech is gone.

Cosmos mariner destination unknown

They did not realize what a supreme effort of courage it required to make this young girl go out alone into the wide world, and face its vastness and its strangeness.

Child, the future is like looking in a mirror—we can see the here and now; we can see what's behind us; but we can't see what will be reflected in the mirror when we walk away. Tomorrow is going to be hard to get through, we know that—but trust that the future

Priveau de departe spre imparatia mortii si a vesniciei, catre care se indreptau. Un mers pe pamant, dar care se sfarseste in vesnicie, caci el nu se intreapta catre un scop pamantesc, catre un obiect ori o fiinta, ci spre un lucru care se afla dincolo.

You must pray that the way be long, full of adventures and experiences.

do not hurry the journey at all: better that it lasts for many years and you arrive an old man on the island, rich from all that you have gained on the way, not counting on Ithaca for riches. For Ithaca gave you the splendid voyage: without her you would never have embarked. She has nothing more to give you now. And though you find her poor, she has not misled you; you having grown so wise, so experienced from your travels, by then you will have learned what Ithacas mean.

Holzwege são, em alemão, os caminhos na floresta abertos pelos lenhadores para poder transportar os troncos depois do corte: por esses caminhos não se vai para lugar algum, só se entra na floresta até chegar a um ponto de onde só dá para voltar. Deveríamos todos percorrer com alegria, na nossa cultura e no nosso pensamento, caminhos que não precisam ir a lugar nenhum, que apenas nos dão acesso a alguns buracos na floresta.

There was something she should have experienced, something besides this. There was a path somewhere that she could not find. It was and it was not her own fault.

You, the foreign media, have been the companion of my people in its long and painful journey to freedom.

Meeya Meefla, where

The cold water stung Cassandra's toes. She thought about everything—a blur of images and sounds: leaving Clarion, driving to the Cape, Noah kissing her, unpacking the car into the cottage, the cello singing out to the sea—and then she sank into the moment and let herself think about nothing. It had been so long since she'd been able to think about nothing. Nothing at all.

I climb behind the steering wheel... I drive off immediately without once looking back; it's a long journey but it leads to freedom.

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.

Black people have always been America's wilderness in search of a promised land.

Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.

Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.

THE WONDERFUL EXPLOITS OF GRASSHOPPER.

The point of our lives is not to get smart or to get rich or even to get happy. The point is to discover God's purposes for us and to make them our own.

Louisville, an hour after dark, is a carpet of gilt thumbtacks below them, with straight, twinkling lines like strings of beads leading out from it. Southeastward now, toward the Tennessee state-line. ("Jane Brown's Body")

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.

If God sends us on strong paths, we are provided strong shoes.

Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for a future that only He can see.