Quotes About Journey

Thirteen-year-old Maria Corvi arrives on foot, alongside her fifty-something mother Maddelena.

I'd like to be able to travel anywhere in an instant.

It's not about finding a home so much as finding yourself.

From the highest mountains in the world, Men seek for higher places to climb, When in their heart, It is where the climb always continues.

Don't worry about finding your soul mate. Find yourself.

Things get harder as you go, not easier. The easiest day is day one. That's the dirty little secret of business.

long commutes make you fat

any mountain climber will tell you it's not about reaching the top: It's about the journey, overcoming doubts, bravely going into the unknown. It's about accepting your constraints without letting them overcome your goals.

tips. Yet at its most ideal, the worth of the genre lies in exploring the tensions of our interior journey vs. our exterior itinerary, in examining our expectations (and hopes and biases) of a destination vs. the reality of what we found, and in measuring the person we are at home vs. the person we become abroad.

The pause we're experiencing can highlight a basic truth: we may or may not walk this way again, and even if we do, we will never be precisely the same people who experienced that journey in the first place. Travel is only ever about a moment in time and space, but it's also about how we choose to hold that moment in our memories. It is always both present and past.

Main jahaan rahoon Main kahin bhi hoon Teri yaad saath hai....!

I was about to tell her that Miralles hadn't fought in one war, but many, but I couldn't, because I suddenly saw Miralles walking across the Libyan desert towards the Murzuk oasis- young, ragged, dusty and annonymous, carrying the tricolour flag of a country not his own, of a country that is all countries and also the country of liberty and which only exists because he and four Moors and a black guy are raising that flag as they keep walking onwards, onwards, ever onwards.

Aspiramos siempre, supongo, a ser unos elegidos, y es improbable que de otro modo estuviéramos muy dispuestos a recorrer el trayecto entero de una vida entera, que corta o larga nos va rindiendo.

The function of a book is to provide a reading experience.

So they drove again, Vivien sitting up and looking now, but as navigator only, letting the desert scratch its own thorny poetry on the enormous moon.

Pete offered tobacco and paper, but Claude brought out his cigarettes and they both decided to try those. Pete provided the match. When he had their cigarettes burning strongly he turned to look back at the road, then straight up ahead. We'll get there for supper if we get there, he said, and Claude laughed. Pete was a young man, but had a wild old grin stretched all out of shape in the corners and punched full of holes.

Mistakes can bring us to spiritual heights, or depths, which we would have otherwise not visited.

You're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So... get on your way!

This did not happen in spite of the chronos season; it happened because of what was taking place in and through the chronos season.

And I rose In rainy autumn And walked abroad in a shower of all my days...

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

Writing a novel is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

The way I work] is like driving a car at night: you never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way. (The Paris Review, Winter 1986, No. 101)

Sometimes it takes more courage to be the passenger than to be the driver.