Quotes About Journey

Most spiritual paths ultimately lead people to the understanding of their own connection to the divine.

he said everyone had a book, or a writer, that was the key to their life

We are our own terra incognita, the country on maps where dragons lurk.

In late June they arrived in Independence, Missouri, on a stretch of the Missouri River known for its "jumping-off places" — settlements where emigrants met traveling companions or killed time until their parties arrived, before heading west.

Traveling with more than a hundred men, from engineers, cartographers, and geologists to astronomers, meteorologists, and botanists, as well as soldiers and guides, Whipple trudged through present-day Oklahoma, Texas, and New Mexico, into what would become Arizona, on a path that vaguely foreshadowed today's Route 66. The group was guided along the way by Indians — Creeks, Shawnees, and Zunis. But it was the Mohaves who would lead Whipple on the final leg of the journey.2 On

In El Monte Lorenzo saw a letter his uncle Asa had written to the Richardsons, asking if the boy would be traveling back to Illinois.

Espaniole instructed Topeka to travel with Olive, either to ease her journey, to collect her ransom, or both, along with Francisco's brother, two cousins, and Musk Melon, who lived near Olive.

Science conducts us, step by step, through the whole range of creation, until we arrive, at length, at God.

It's not that you have to achieve anything, it's that you have to get away from where you are.

All my writing is about the recognition that there is no single reality. But the beauty of it is that you nevertheless go on, walking towards utopia, which may not exist, on a bridge which might end before you reach the other side.

For all dead loves and all remembered things. I have travelled through many seas.

The bus-driver was whistling, perhaps in anticipation of his wife, who would be a woman with ample breasts, those of a realized maturity. It would be impossible that he did not have, from my point of view, a wife and children, indeed, a happiness such as I could not imagine to be real, even like some legend out of the golden ages. He had spoken numerous times during our journey of his old woman waiting, and he was going home.

Little soul, gentle and drifting, guest and companion of my body, now you will dwell below in pallid places, stark and bare; there you will abandon your play of yore. But one moment still, let us gaze together on these familiar shores, on these objects which doubtless we shall not see again....Let us try, if we can, to enter into death with open eyes...

And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far into the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer. RAINER MARIA RILKE , Letters to a Young Poet

I need to get onto Aza's ship. I know where it's going. I think I know, even though all I really know, all I've really known since I was five, is that Aza is my universe.

Every life starts with the same beginning and ends with the same end. The rest is the story, even if you don't understand it, even if you aren't sure which parts are true and which parts are your brain trying to make sense out of smoke.

We know this much is true, and it's true for all souls: each of us will one day find the feast finished and, fattened or famished, step slowly backward into their own dark hall for that final night of sleep.

For a moment, he felt for his old foes, fen-bound, embarking alone.

Y puede, puede así, que las muertes no sean to­das iguales. Puede que hasta después de la muerte, todos sigamos distintos caminos.

Will you still walk with me?' 'Would you walk with a bad angel?

God cuts out our path, makes a groove in the clay with His finger, and we poor blind ants slide down into it.

Children must grow not only in the body but in the spirit, and the mother longs to follow the mysterious spiritual journey of the beloved one who to-morrow will be the intelligent, divine creation, man.

We shall walk together on this path of life, for all things are part of the universe and are connected with each other to form one whole unity.

Your life is like a mosaic, a puzzle. You have to figure out where the pieces go and put them together for yourself.