Quotes About Journey

Be careful what you wish for, dear. God just might move you halfway around the world someday.

Faith don't come in a bushel basket, Missy. It come one step at a time. Decide to trust Him for one little thing today, and before you know it, you find out He's so trustworthy you be putting your whole life in His hands.

It's one thing to accept one's destiny. It's quite another to live it.

Lynn Flewelling

To be a mother is a whole new adventure.

Sometimes I think we forget that we're meant to pick up and go when the well runs dry [...] You stay put for too long, you get weighed down by things, things you don't need. It's true. Then your life becomes this pathetic accumulation of stuff. Emotional and physical junk.

SECRET #42 You may not have to look very far to find more than what you were searching for.

The man of many shifts, who wandered far and wide, And towns of many saw, and learned their mind; And suffered much in heart by land and sea, Passing through wars of men and grievous waves.

God put the moon in the sky to remind us that our darkest moments lead to our brightest.

Life is like riding a bicycle. You get nowhere standing up, so get up on that seat and go!

A good story makes a journey go by more quickly. A really good story makes you forget you are even on a journey.

I tried to think whether I had ever had a great adventure. I decided that I had. It's all in how you look at it.

Step and land, step and land. That's all travel was. Throw in some running and a change of scenery. No big deal, right? And so, off he went. Off they went together.

If'n Ya Wanna Go Back

But there are, I was learning, different landscapes in the country of love.

Lynne Reid Banks

Reading. Reading was the stable backdrop against which my life was played.

How are we to spend our lives, anyway? That is the real question. We read to seek the answer, and the search itself--the task of a lifetime--becomes the answer.

Once history holds your hand, it never lets go. But it has an anxious grip and takes you places you couldn't expect.

but place is unimportant to a traveler, if that's what I can be called. If it were important, people couldn't bear to move on.

We read privately, mentally listening to the author's voice and translating the writer's thoughts. The book remains static and fixed; the reader journeys through it.

Time is not the great teacher. Experience is. A man may live a whole life, but if he never leaves his home to experience that life, he dies knowing nothing. A mere child who has suffered and lived can be the wiser of the two.

Rejection—It may be a delay. It may be a distraction. It may even be a devastation for a season but it is not your final destination.

Outside our comfort zone, though, is where we experience the true awesomeness of God.