Quotes About Journey

Comprendía, entonces, que la vida nos da montones de provisiones para nuestras travesías por el desierto. Todo lo que había adquirido de manera activa o pasiva, todo lo que había aprendido voluntariamente o por ósmosis, volvía a mí como las verdaderas riquezas de mi existencia, cuando lo había perdido todo.

Now I realized that life supplies us with everything we need for the journey. Everything I had acquired either actively or passively, everything I had learned either voluntarily or by osmosis, was coming back to me as the real riches of my life, even though I had lost everything.

Comprendía, entonces, que la vida nos da montones de provisiones para nuestras travesías por el desierto. Todo lo que había adquirido de manera activa o pasiva, todo lo que había aprendido voluntariamente o por osmosis, volvía a mí como las verdaderas riquezas de mi existencia, cuando lo había perdido todo.

It is said that the compensation for the effort courage, tenacity, and endurance displayed during the journey was not happiness. Nor glory. What God offered as a reward was only rest.

You may just miss an awesome ride if you only look at happiness as a destination.

Nothing goes perfectly for us. But... being incomplete is what pushes us onward to the next something... If we were even perfectly satisfied, what meaning would the rest of our lives hold, right?

Quella ciocca di capelli restò l'A del mio alfabeto, il primo mistero della mia Via Crucis, la prima reliquia della mia felicità; la prima parola scritta insomma della mia vita; varia com'essa, e quasi inesplicabile come quella di tutti.

All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it's just not that good. It's trying to be good, it has potential, but it's not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer.

uncorny, human sized drama

It's gonna take a while. It's normal to take a while. You've just gotta fight your way through.

Anyone who needs more than one suitcase is a tourist, not a traveler

You are only partly alive.

A chance to sit quietly and find out who you are; where you've been and where you're going.

Anyone who needs more than one suitcase," he said as he double-locked their door, "is a tourist, not a traveler.

Les gens qui ont besoin de plus qu une valise ne sont pas de vrais voyageurs, ce sont des touristes.

One never stops climbing, Julie, unless he wants to stop and vegetate. There's always something just ahead.

I was so determined to experience everything and everyone I could that I don't think I ever stopped to truly appreciate any of it. Then, somewhere along the way, I realized it's important to have a good reason to experience the things in my life. Not just because they're there.

One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.

Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.

Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape; you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and feel the wind blowing.

I guess you will,' she said, and the two of them turned, their arms linked just the way they used to be long ago when they walked on the beach in Carmel, and together they walked across the wide hall of the courthouse to join the others.

May the road rise up to meet you, may the wind be ever at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face and the rain fall softly on your fields. And until we meet again, may God hold you in the hollow of his hand.

May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of his hand.