Quotes About Journey

I have a lifelong habit for dealing with dejection: I leave town. I first ran away from home at three. Mother helped pack my bag.

I've traveled far and wide, always alone, so therefore I've never been in Cahoots.

Life is a quest to find out how much better you can be and higher you can go.

Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never leave or lose. To the question of your life, You are the only answer. To the problems of your life, You are the only solution.

We threw ourselves at that wild river every day and most days it tossed us all harmlessly skyward like well-loved children. After a while that does something to you.

The thing about Tolkien, about The Lord of the Rings , is that it's perfect. It's this whole world, this whole process of immersion, this journey. It's not, I'm pretty sure, actually true, but that makes it more amazing, that someone could make it all up. Reading it changes everything.

I am reading The Lord of the Rings . I suddenly wanted to. I almost know it by heart, but I can still sink right into it. I know no other book that is so much like going on a journey. When I put it down to this, I feel as if I am also waiting with Pippin for the echoes of that stone down the well.

And at year's end they broke the stable door. The man and his horse, together, gallop yet, Beyond the sunset's end, the pounding hooves, Both harmony and beat for their duet.

When I got to Aberdare, I got off and walked up the cwm to the ruins we call Osgiliath.

Viver é muito perigoso, mesmo.

Uno vuol passare un fiume a nuoto, e lo passa; ma tocca l'altra sponda in un punto assai più in basso, ben diverso da quello che in un primo tempo aveva pensato. Vivere non è forse molto pericoloso?

A tal que, enfim, veio o dia de se sair, guerreiramente, por vales e montes, a gente toda.

E' venuto scendendo il Rio Paracatè su una zattera di burití...

Sertão - si dice -, se uno lo va cercando non lo trova mai. Di colpo, di per sé, quando la gente non se l'aspetta, il sertão viene.

Cacei Diadorim. Mas eu estreava umas ânsias. Como fosse, falei, do novo e do velho;

Vim. Diadorim nada não me disse. A poeira das estradas pegava pesada de orvalho.

O lugar onde esbarramos, no É-Já, era logo depois da ponte de pau, que estando esburacada:

A vida não parava nunca, para a gente poder viver direito, concertado?

Happy he who like Ulysses has made a glorious voyage.

Art, like Nebraska, is a journey into thin air, a walk into whiteness, where you lose everything but yourself.

I wish for all of you that you remain as unfinished as the shoreline along the beach and that you continue to transcend yourselves again and again.

You must not fret. There is no arriving, ever. It is all a continual becoming.

Seek out adventures, not just to reach one goal or another, but for the journey itself and the lessons each experience teaches you.... Climbing mountains or backpacking in the wilderness inevitably changes you. The person you were at the onset is not who you become when the journey is finished. That is why I am always looking for the next adventure.

The goal is for your mid-life crisis to turn into a mid-life discovery.