Quotes About Journey

We work so hard to get somewhere, to realize a dream, to arrive at some destination, that we often forget that though some satisfaction may be waiting at the end of our endurance and effort, there is great and irreplaceable aliveness in the steps along the way.

It's a tough lesson: There is no summit that comes before you expect it.

Mark Oppenheimer

No relationship is perfect so just find the right one to go through hell and heaven with.

Every bestselling author was once completely unknown. A good book will eventually find its place in the world.

A writer keeps going despite what awaits the effort, the detours, ruts, curves & unexpected roadblocks. The road is clear. Drive on

The book you don't read is a journey forsaken.

A reader is a voyager, an armchair adventurer, travelling to different times, places, inhabiting different minds and worlds. What fun.

If you write a novel a great adventure awaits you. And like any strange and wondrous journey, there will be uncertainty, even fear. Just keep going

If your fiction is good and true, your novel's ending will discover itself.

A writer should be on a quest to get better and better with each book. May it be a never-ending quest.

Make your novel's opening sentence beautiful, one that hooks the reader, and have your last sentence refuse to let the reader go.

Every novel begins with one sentence. Then comes another. And another.

Reading is a great way to travel anywhere in the world without making reservations. It's a trip to wherever you wish to go.

Every good story challenges the protagonist, and the reader.

There's no such thing as a dull life. Every life is a saga.

I pursued Christian success instead of pursuing Christ.

Now you invent the boat of your flesh and set it upon the watersand drift in the gradual swell, in the laboring salt.Now you look down. The waters of childhood are there.

Life should be more Than the body's weight working itself from room to room.

by being both here and beyond I am becoming a horizon from "The Man in the Mirror

The Hill I have come this far on my own legs, missing the bus, missing taxis, climbing always. One foot in front of the other, that is the way I do it. It does not bother me, the way the hill goes on. Grass beside the road, a tree rattling its black leaves. So what? The longer I walk, the farther I am from everything. One foot in front of the other. The hours pass. One foot in front of the other. The years pass. The colors of arrival fade. That is the way I do it.

Not every man knows what he shall sing at the end

I walk into what light there is — Mark Strand, from "Another Place," Collected Poems (Knopf Doubleday, 2014)

Each moment is a place you've never been.