Quotes About Journey

One can only walk so far from one's true self before the bond either snaps, or pulls one back.

Oh, my boy. The best mistake Chivalry ever made was you. Go on now.

You make no sense! You went somewhere to discover your place in history? How can that be? History is what is done and behind us."     He shook his head, slowly this time. "History is what we do in our lives. We create it as we go along." He smiled enigmatically. "The future is another kind of history.

One can only walk so far from one's true self before the bond either snaps, or pulls back. I am fortunate. I have been pulled back.

So, with all the wide world to choose from, you didn't choose at all. You simply stopped wandering one day

when you let go and follow your fate instead of trying to twist your life around and master it, a man finds that happiness follows him.

History is what we do in our lives. We create it as we go along.' He smiled enigmatically. 'The future is another kind of history.

FitzChivalry Farseer, too long have you sojourned among the Elderlings, your memory spurned by the very people you saved. Too long have you been in a place where the months pass as if days. Too long have you walked among us in false guise, deprived of your name and your honor. Rise. Turn and face the folk of the Six Duchies, your folk, and be welcomed home at last.

He gave a final shake of his coat. 'I go to the hunt!

Don't go mooning after the stars, when the wide sea is all around you. It's a sky of its own, you know.

Your future. It awaits only you, to live it and to write it.

I want to go home,' he muttered as he totered down the road beside me. 'Me, too,' I told him. And yet it was not Buckkeep that came to my mind, but a meadow overlooking the sea, and a girl in bright red skirts who beckoned me. A time, rather than a place. No road led there anymore.

He lives day-to-day now, just as we do, fumbling forward down the path to the future.

Long or short, if you worry about every step of a journey, you will divide it endlessly into pieces, any one of which may defeat you. Look only to the end.

A man has to have a purpose in life. I know this now, but it took me the first score years of my life to learn it. In that I scarcely think myself unique.

The Six Duchies would fall. The world would end. We went to fetch blankets.

Pain and perfection. It was the only path to redemption he knew.

Wide gape the gates of yellowed bone. A tongue of plank is our path between the teeth as we walk toward the gullet. Here I will be devoured. This is a true thing, near unavoidable on any path. I must enter those jaws.

Be now what you must be to succeed at the end of your journey, and when the end comes, you will find it is just another beginning.' Althea

Come, join your kin and lend strength to the weaker ones. Together, together, we journey, back to our beginnings and our endings. Gather, shore-born creatures of the sea, to return to the shores yet again. Bring your dreams of sky and wings; come to share the memories of our lives. Our time is come, our time is come. - She Who Remembers

You leave so much behind to do this," I said awkward, thinking of his tools, his half-finished puppets, even the plants growing inside by the window. Despite myself, I felt responsabile for it. Perhaps it was because I was glad that I was not going on alone. He glanced over me and shrugged. "I take myself with me. That's all I truly need, or own.

It was as if I had been following a narrow trail, and had suddenly realized that at any time I could leave it and strike out cross-country.

One can only walk so far from one's true self before the bond either snaps, or pulls one back.

I have found the old adages to be true. One can only walk so far from one's true self before the bond either snaps, or pulls one back. I am fortunate. I have been pulled back. I walk once more in trueness to myself." p. 177: Kettricken to Fitz: