Quotes About Journey

Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.

The signs look better. The Father of Waters [the Mississippi River] again goes unvexed to the sea.

The Father of Waters again goes unvexed to the sea.

Neither Heaven nor Hell. It is simply Purgatory.

This is my life, I thought...I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil; I have been the apprentice, paid my dues, and have just become master of my ship. But when I look down, why do I see the ancient, tarred, mud-stained slippers that I buried at the start of the journey still stuck to my feet?

What a journey...what a day...what madness, so much worse than tragic! What to do except dance, dance, only dance...

I am forced to render some order to the events of my life, to say it began here, and then because of this, that happened, and this is how the end connects to the beginning, and so here I am.

All possibilities resided within me, and they required me to be here. If I left, what would be left of me?

This is my life, I thought...I have exised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil; I have been the apprentice, paid my dues, and have just become master of my ship. But when I look down, why do I see the ancient, tarred, mudstained slippers that I buried at the start of the journey still stuck to my feet?

Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse under your wheel.

Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward.

Whatever is next for me, whatever the story of my life, the roots that must nourish it are here.

Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.

all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We'll leave much unfinished for

Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward." from CUTTING FOR STONE

The voyage of discovery is not about new lands, but having new eyes.

He didn't disagree that God may have other plans for me, but he said sometimes we have to 'live the question,' not push for the answer.

What she thought was her life is all maya, all illusion, but it is one shared illusion. And what else can she do but go on.

This is, after all, his own nightmare, though in his dream the culprit is always leprosy. He is overcome. He takes a deep breath. The journey the two of them embark on together must begin with love, Rune thinks. To love the sick—isn't that always the first step?

It's a long way to the top, If you wanna rock n' roll

You can't sum it up, my mother says as we are driving and the electronic voice repeats, Turn Left onto Wildwood Canyon Road, so I turn left, happy for the mundane instructions. Let us robot at once. Tell me where to go. Tell me how to get there. She means a life, of course. You cannot sum it up.

You can't really stop going places because you're frightened.

Sometimes, there seems to be a halfway point between where you've been and everywhere else, and we were there.

TRACE THE EMOTIONAL BEATS ON YOUR ARC The arc maps the inner changes you undergo as you progress toward your goal.