Quotes About Journey

The soul takes nothing with her to the other world but her education and culture; and these, it is said, are of the greatest service or of the greatest injury to the dead man, at the very beginning of his journey thither.

Life is the flight of the alone to the alone.

The future bears down upon each one of us with all the hazards of the unknown. The only way out is through.

Some people are born into their passions. Some never get them and don't care. But I think if you're really struggling to find it - and I think you have, I mean, you've gone all over the country to find it - it's almost certainly for a reason. I think the depth of your struggling is the sign there's something there. Something in you that's trying to get out. People who don't have passions don't struggle.

I asked him if Buddhists believe we all get a specific destiny. "We don't think there's a specific place in your life to go. Everybody's destiny is to become an enlightened being and reach the everlasting state of mind.

Another way to characterize it is that our chances of finding a habitable planet are roughly equal to the chances that Christopher Columbus, sailing east, would accidentally discover the Americas. It's not a question of if. It's only a question of when.

Fate is often like a canoe after you've lost your paddles.

Perdí años hasta llegar a entender que la vida no se vive en borrador y después se pasa, prolija y sin faltas de ortografía, al cuaderno de clase.

All my life I had wanted to travel but what I discovered that year was that the things that you find out become the places that you go and sometimes you find them out by being jettisoned off alone and other times it is the people who choose to stand by your side who give you the clues. But the important things that happen to you will happen to you even in the smallest places...

I left parts of myself some places and found others unexpectedly. New people appeared on the scene and others disappeared before I had a chance to say goodbye. All kinds of ordinary people gave their whole hearts to things you wouldn't think you could give your heart to.

Tidak masalah membayangkan pernikahan akan seperti New York City dan mendapati bahwa ternyata lebih menyerupai Brussels. Bukan berarti ada yang salah, atau bahwa kau dikutuk untuk bercerai. Itu hanya berarti bahwa kau menaiki pesawat yang berbeda.

From this perspective, we can say that genuine faith is simply confidence and trust in ourselves, in our own intelligence and understanding, which then extends to the path we're traveling.

I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end.

No desperdicies el recuerdo del camino recorrido. Ello no retrasa vuestra carrera, sino que la dirige; el que olvida el punto de partida, pierde fácilmente la meta.

Live to live and you will learn to live

Their flight was not less exhilarating for being explainable.

I must have first read The High Crusade in my early teens, and in memory, the book is fun, with the English villagers and nobles conquering the galaxy after they've taken over an alien space ship that landed in their village. The Baron, Sir Roger, merely intended to catch a quick ride to the wars in France, then go on to the Crusades in Jerusalem, but one thing led to another.

Orang bilang, apa yang ada di depan manusia hanya jarak. Dan batasnya adalah ufuk. Begitu jarak ditempuh sang ufuk menjauh.

Di dunia ini manusia bukan berduyun-duyun lahir dan berduyun-duyun pula kembali pulang. Seorang-seorang mereka datang. Seorang-seorang mereka pergi. Dan yang belum pergi dengan cemas-cemas menunggu saat nyawanya terbang entah ke mana.

I will not close my eyes, neither those in my head nor those in my soul, as the ship carries me away, along with my future, my dreams, and my beliefs. Buru Island is no happy land somewhere; it's but a way station on my journey in life—though to believe even that much will require no small measure of hope.

Han, memang bukan sesuatu yang baru Jalan setapak setiap orang dalam mencari tempat ditengah-tengah dunia dan masyarakatnya, untuk menjadi diri sendiri, melelahkan dan membosankan untuk diikuti. Lebih membosankan adalah mengamati yang tidak membutuhkan sesuatu jalan, menjangkarkan akar tunggang pada bumi dan tumbuh pada pohon.

People are raised to believe that happiness is the land to which they are destined to travel. But that belief, which one so easily accepts as true, might just as well be a mirage.

But I couldn't stop there. The call of adventure was much stronger and more inviting.

Perjalanan yang mengandung banyak peristiwa itu aku nilai berhasil. Kami telah temukan wanita yang kami cari itu. Benar sekali, ibu itu tidak bisa diajak bicara. Kami dapat memahami. Ia terikat pada sumpah Buru. Sampai hari tuanya, tanpa sesuatu harapan pun kecuali mati, ia tetap setia pada sumpahnya; sumpah untuk menyangkal diri, asal, kebudayaan, dan peradaban sendiri. Sumbernya tetap sama; malu kembali pada keluarga.