Quotes About Journey

Stories twist and turn and grow and meet and give birth to other stories. Here and there, one story touches another, and a familiar character, sometimes the hero, walks over the bridge from one story into another.

They said something funny. They said, 'Even God leaves on the last boat from Nome.' What does that mean?

Remember this: every man has to find out for himself in what particular fashion he can be saved. I believe that. You just have to find out what it is you're looking for.

along a long narrow passageway, which opened into a hall, and they saw

The time for princes and tsars and grand duchesses and especially holy madmen was gone. In its place came a world of war and revolution, of tanks and telephones, of murder and assassination. The bear had already become what it had been waiting to be, and the men who set it on its journey changed too. Lev became Trotsky, Vladimir took the name Lenin, and they stepped into a bright and furious modern world; blood red, and snow white.

There never was a story that was happy through and through

And that was how the young writer found love, just when he had stopped looking for it.

The longest part of the journey is said to be the passing of the gate.

Advice in old age is foolish for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Ik denk dat mama zich een gast heeft gevoeld in het leven. Ze deed altijd alsof het haar niets aanging, het leven, alsof het niet van haar was. Alsof ze er toevallig in terecht was gekomen, zoals je een huis binnen kan lopen wanneer je je in het adres hebt vergist, en dan per ongeluk in dat huis blijft hangen. Buiten stroomt het van de regen en je hebt geen paraplu bij je.

Time is not a thing that passes ... it's a sea on which you float.

I am the horizon you ride towards, the thing you can never lasso

Time in dreams is frozen. You can never get away from where you've been.

That's the only way to get where you want to go: one step at a time.

I was to discover that the quest for human understanding is a lifetime one that has no end in sight.

God is constantly on the move. I cannot stay where I am and follow God at the same time; responding requires movement.

As we come to the end of ourselves, we open the door to discovering the One who created us anew. The One who can whisper to us who we really are as we pilgrim toward our truest and deepest selves.

when journeying with God some of the best parts of any pilgrimage are the detours.

Some things can be recovered. Some things can be restored. But some lost things, we seek forever.

The Fairy Queen has sent you to do brave deeds in this world. That High City that you see is in another world. Before you climb the path to it and hang your shield on its wall, go down into the valley and fight the dragon that you were sent to fight.

To move to a new place -- that's the greatest excitement. For a while you believe you carry nothing with you -- all is canceled from before, or cauterized, and you begin again and nothing will go wrong this time.

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

My child, I don't know where people go when they die, but I know where they stay.