Quotes About Journey

It's the sides of the mountain which sustain life, not the top.

The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called yourself.

The Cherokees had 1,200 miles to go before they reached eastern Oklahoma, the end of the trek they would forever be remembered as the Trail of Tears. As their homeland disappeared behind them, the cold autumn rains continued to fall, bringing disease and death. Four thousand shallow graves marked the trail. Marauding parties of white men appeared, seized Cherokee horses in payment for imaginary debts, and rode off. The Indians pressed on, the sullen troopers riding beside them. They

He always wrote on the flyleaf of each new book the date and where he was, so I can follow him: reading Chesterton just after they were married in November 1929, Scottish poets the following spring.

It's like sneaking into heaven through the back door." On entering Norway after flying across the Arctic Ocean in an aging Russian Biplane

any other. The world had been

Robert Masello

Story isn't a flight from reality but a vehicle that carries us on our search for reality

An archetypal story creates settings and characters so rare that our eyes feast on every detail, while its telling illuminates conflicts so true to humankind that it journeys from culture to culture.

Boy-meets-girl has always been an irreducible convention that occurs early in the telling, to be followed by the trials, tribulations, and triumphs of love.

First, the discovery of a world we do not know.

Second, once inside this alien world, we find ourselves. Deep within these characters and their conflicts we discover our own humanity.

The art of story is not about the middle ground, but about the pendulum of existence swinging to the limits, about life lived in its most intense states. We explore the middle ranges of experience, but only as a path to the end of the line. The audience senses that limit and wants it reached. For no matter how

Story is metaphor for life.

in truth there's only one story. In essence we have told one another the same tale, one way or another, since the dawn of humanity, and that story could be usefully called the Quest. All stories take the form of a Quest.

Story is metaphor for life, and to be alive is to be in seemingly perpetual conflict.

Story is metaphor for life and life is lived in time.

We rarely know where we are going; writing is a discovery.

I've always felt there is something sacred in a piece of paper that travels the earth from hand to hand, head to head, heart to heart.

The path is the goal.

Thich Naht Hahn: The path is the goal.

The Lar was always greeted before crossing the threshold (right foot first), and upon returning home (redire ad Lar em suum). He was invoked before one left on a journey or on campaign

across Jefferson Square to sanctuary in the inn. Good god, he thought, what have I gotten

The Wanderlust has got me... by the belly-aching fire