Quotes About Journey

I am in fact a Hobbit, in all but size.

Not all those who wander are lost.

Ho! Ho! Ho! To the bottle I go To heal my heart and drown my woe Rain may fall, and wind may blow And many miles be still to go But under a tall tree will I lie And let the clouds go sailing by

Short cuts make long delays.

A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.

Yes, I am here. And you are lucky to be here too after all the absurd things you've done since you left home.

You can only come to the morning through the shadows.

Still round the corner there may wait A new road or a secret gate And though I oft have passed them by A day will come at last when I Shall take the hidden paths that run West of the Moon, East of the Sun.

It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.

In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond them is more than memory.

Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes the end of our fellowship in Middle-earth. Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.

J. R. R. Tolkien

The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with eager feet, Until it joins some larger way Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say

All that is gold does not glitter not all those that wander are lost.

Few can foresee whither their road will lead them, till they come to its end.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Little by little, one travels far.

Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.

We try to escape as far away only to discover we've been returning all along

Aristotle spoke of the goal or end, the telos, of human moral behavior. We are on a journey toward that point, which he called EObaiµovia. That has normally been translated as "happiness"; but the meaning Aristotle had in mind was not the one that word often suggests in today's Western world (the feeling of contentment or pleasurable excitement) but the more organic one of becoming our full and true selves, discovering in practice the best and highest activity of which humans are capable.

We can become, in other words, people for whom the romantic or existentialist dream might eventually begin to come at least partially true. But this is not, or not for the most part, something straightforwardly and completely given in baptism and in initial Christian faith.

Now I want to say: 'After being - doing and being done to. But first, being.

Life can surprise us, though, in giving us the work we are here to do.

She would like to be able to carry her home on her back like a snail and go off into the unknown.