Quotes About Journey

We're as ephemeral as raindrops. We all fall, and we all land somewhere.

I was east of Skepticism and north of Faith, with an unsettled compass and variable winds. But I could offer up a prayer as well as the next man, and leave it to Heaven to judge the result.

Robert Charles Wilson

By the time she reached her apartment in Clear Lake

Robert Charles Wilson

I leaped headlong into the Sea and thereby became better acquainted with the Soundings, the quicksands and the rocks, than if I had stayed upon the green shore and…took tea and comfortable advice.

Pindar wrote, "Become who you are by learning who you are.

Daily Law: Mastery is a process and discovering your calling is the starting point. Mastery, I: Discover Your Calling—The Life's Task

There are many roads to singularity, not all of them well traveled. The newest ones can be arduous, but they are often shortcuts to greatness. (Baltasar Gracián, 1601-1658)

The only solution is the following: We must learn how to quiet the anxiety we feel whenever we are confronted with anything that seems complex or chaotic. In our journey from apprenticeship to mastery we must patiently learn the various parts and skills that are required, never looking too far ahead. In moments of perceived crisis, we must develop the habit of maintaining our cool and never overreacting.

You must see your career or vocational path more as a journey with twists and turns rather than a straight line.

See yourself as an explorer.

It seems abusive or damaging to people's self-esteem to offer them stern, realistic criticism, to set them tasks that will make them aware of how far they have to go. In fact, this indulgence and fear of hurting people's feelings is far more abusive in the long run. It makes it hard for people to gauge where they are or to develop self-discipline. It makes them unsuited for the rigors of the journey to mastery. It weakens people's will.

We are born in a clear field and die in a dark forest.

vita umbratilis

What a day in prospect: the sort of day one waded through with no aim higher than to reach the other end intact.

We pressed on up the Flaminian Way, devoting a day to each of the decent-sized towns – Narnia, Carsulae, Mevania, Fulginiae, Nuceria, Tadinae and Cales – before finally reaching the Adriatic coast about two weeks after leaving Rome.

Traveling through Fog Looking back, we cannot see, except for its blurring lights like underwater stars and moons, our starting-place. Behind us, beyond us now is phantom territory, a world abstract as memories of earth the traveling dead take home. Between obscuring cloud and cloud, the cloudy dark ensphering us seems all we can be certain of. Is Plato's cave.

Life is a dream from which we all must wake before we can dream again.

Read and find out.

Always something new, always something I didn't expect, and sometimes it isn't horrible.

The Empress will follow where you go, she said. So she will, Mat said. As I'll follow where she goes, I suppose. I hope that doesn't lead us in too many circles.

My name is Nynaeve ti al'Meara Mandragoran. The message I want sent is this. My husband rides from World's End toward Tarwin's Gap, toward Tarmon Gai'don. Will he ride alone?

The only way was forward, whatever lay at the end.