Quotes About Journey

You've climbed higher mountains than I ever had to climb, but you have one more mountain to climb, and you know it. The past is always the highest peak, and the hardest to scale. But when you finally pull yourself to the top and peer over the edge, there's nothing before you but the rest of your life.

life is a lot like reading a book. You don't know what is going to happen next unless you turn the page and read to the ending. That's the beauty of reading. The journey.

He continued a quarter mile through heavy scrub oak, pine, and aspen. At a bend to the left, a light shimmered in the tree branches. Buzz drove toward it, onto a gravel drive leading to a double-wide. Before he'd parked, a man pushed out the front door and descended three wooden stairs, crossing a dirt yard cluttered with unstacked firewood, scrap metal, and an empty clothesline.

her speedometer

May the road rise up to meet you. May the wind be always at your back. May the sun shine upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields. And until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of his hand.

A purpose, I have learned, is rarely found, but revealed. Only when I do not search does the purpose become clear.

I always figure from the cradle to the grave, we all have our individual journeys, and maybe my journey was a positive one and I accomplished certain things without stepping on too many toes.

There is grace for everything: grace to come and grace to go, grace to speak and grace to keep silent, grace to mourn and grace to dance, grace to weep and grace to laugh, grace to pack and grace to unpack, grace to be sick and grace to heal, grace to plant and grace to harvest, grace to tear down and grace to build up, grace to love and grace to hate, grace to live and grace to die. From beginning to end, life becomes a rhapsody of grace. Even the desire for grace comes by grace.

I am a landless man...I come out of the sunset and into the sunrise I go, wherever the Lord doth guide my feet.

There was no life in the Abyss, save that which was incorporated in me," it tolled. "Nor was there light, nor motion, nor any sound. Only the urge behind and beyond life guided and impelled me on my upward journey, blind, insensate, inexorable. Through ages upon ages, and the changeless strata of darkness I climbed–

Let the tent be struck.

The education of a man is never completed until he dies.

The education of a man ( or woman ) is never completed until he dies.

Were we daring enough to take the "hero's journey" and become agents for the future? Or were our individual identities so dependent on our existing competencies and skills-and so entwined with the established structure-that change, deep or otherwise, was simply not an option?

The desert tells a different story every time one ventures on it.

We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure hardships, help one another, and meet death with as great a fortitude as ever in the past.

May your feet ever walk in the light of two suns... and may the moonshadow never fall on you...

It turns out that what makes history come out in triumph is some dumb sheep that couldn't find its way home.

Kierkegaard's most remarkable and subtle observations, that life can only be understood backwards but must be lived forwards. I think it means you have to turn around and start walking backwards, facing the past, if the present is going to make any sense at all.

Os he estado buscando –le dijo al mago–. He estado perdido durante meses. —Toda vuestra vida lo habéis estado –le corrigió Merlín, mordiendo una zanahoria y compartiéndola con el conejo más cercano. El caballero se enfureció. —No he venido hasta aquí para ser insultado. —Quizá siempre os habéis tomado la verdad como un insulto –dijo Merlín

Avance rápido. ¿No estaría escribiendo estas mismas palabras a 800 kilómetros al norte, dentro de doce años?

Dietary research reveals that many people go off their nutritional diets on or about day 13—a Fibonacci number. Yet if they can pass critical day 13 and make it through to day 21, they usually will succeed in losing weight and establishing the new habit pattern that allowed them to lose the weight.

You got to where you are in your life right now by moving along the path of least resistance.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.