Quotes About Journey

Like the sparrow, I've got a song to sing. Unlike the sparrow, I must sing mine by faith.

Birth is not a beginning and death is not an ending. They are merely points on a continuum.

A ship exists on the ocean, even if it sails out beyond the limits of our sight. The people in the ship have not vanished; they are simply moving to another shore.

La vida acaba cuando hemos aprendido todo lo que tenemos que aprender.

el nacimiento y la muerte son experiencias similares, cada una el inicio de un viaje.

una vez que hemos hecho todo el trabajo que nos ha sido encomendado al enviarnos a la Tierra, se nos permite desprendernos del cuerpo, que nos aprisiona el alma como el capullo envuelve a la mariposa, y...» bueno, entonces la persona tiene la más maravillosa experiencia de su vida.

Soon the two children will walk down Edgehill Road from the bus stop like burros under their knapsacks

Some young ladies meet a man and from there it is all plain sailing, but this is not the usual way it happens.

People aren't the same when they've lived in India. It changes them, I've often noticed it.

Her real life was underway, with all of its scratches and dents. Like the rest of us forty to forty five, she was something of a used book; intact but a bit battered around the edges.

I felt myself trapped in line for a ride I was not nearly ready for, looking back but moving forward in the only direction I could go.

When you take the small roads you see the life that goes on there, and this makes your own life larger.

Frank, saying, Who cares what happens before we're born and after we die? The question is, what do we do in the meantime?

And in my head, a person who was out walking and walking in the dark comes to a little house with a light on. Waits at the door for a moment, and then goes in. Finds such a welcome that she stays.

You know...it's like you live your life opening doors. One after the other. You open a door onto a hallway, which leads to another door, which leads to another hallway. But then one day you open a door and it's to a closet. It doesn't go anywhere.

one summer and they had a ride called the Whirligig. You sat in some wooden contraption that jerked you here, there, and everywhere. One minute you'd be going forward, the next backward or sideways or tilted over so far you thought you might fall out. It was never still and you had no idea what might come next. That's life. You're born, and you get a ride on the Whirligig.

Yes, life is a minefield at any age. Sometimes we feel pretty certain that we know what's coming. But really, we never do. We just walk on. We have to. If we are smart we count our blessings between the darker surprises.

Life is like gathering berries into an apron with a hole. Why do we keep on? Because the berries are beautiful, and we must eat to survive. We catch what we can. We walk past what we lose for the promise of more, just ahead.

That's life. You're born, and you get a ride on the Whirligig

This is not a novel about a woman leaving home, but rather a human being finding her way back.

We catch what we can. We walk past what we lose for the promise of more, just ahead.

When Lucille was a girl, a carnival came to town one summer and they had a ride called the Whirligig. You sat in some wooden contraption that jerked you here, there, and everywhere. One minute you'd be going forward, the next backward or sideways or tilted over so far you thought you might fall out. It was never still and you had no idea what might come next. That's life. You're born, and you get a ride on the Whirligig.

Elizabeth Berg

If we look at the path, we do not see the sky. We are earth people on a spiritual journey to the stars. Our quest, our earth walk, is to look within, to know who we are, to see that we are connected to all things, that there is no separation, only in the mind. —Native American