Quotes About Journey

He was left, upon awakening, with the feeling that he wanted, even somehow needed, to reach the something that waited in the distance. The feeling that it was good. That it was welcoming. That it was significant. But he did not know how to get there.

There's much more. There's all that goes beyond—all that is Elsewhere—and all that goes back, and back, and back. I received all of those, when I was selected. And here in this room, all alone, I re-experience them again and again. It is how wisdom comes. And how we shape our future.

He saw all of the light and colour and history it contained and carried in its slow-moving water; and he knew that there was an Elsewhere from which it came, and an Elsewhere to which it was going.

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I'm grateful to you, Jonas, because without you I would never have figured out a way to bring about the change. But your role now is to escape. And my role is to stay.

And he had taken Gabriel, too.

He heard people singing. Behind him, across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps it was only an echo.

Together the fugitives slept though the first dangerous day.

words from the Bible: Where you go, I will go. Your people will be my people.

Behind him, across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music, too. But perhaps it was only an echo.

Everything that you're a part of. Your own story fills you.

One step at a time," Vorkosigan returned grimly, "I can walk around the world. Watch me.

Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.

The most important thing about quests, he decided, was not in finding what you went looking for, but in finding what you never could have imagined before you ventured forth.

So what's the test? Ah, that's the trick of it. It's not a test. It's real life.

Once, she had been her parents' daughter. Then great, unlucky Ias's wife. Her children's mother. At the last, her mother's keeper. Well, I am none of these things now. Who am I, when I am not surrounded by the walls of my life?

In my experience, milady, we can never get back to exactly where we started, no matter how hard we try.

We just try to go from day to day. Surprising where you can end up, that way.

I have had another thought on such fates that denies neither gods nor man. Perhaps, instead of controlling every step, the gods have started a hundred or a thousand Cazarils and Umegats down this road, and only those arrive who choose to.

So what's the test? Ah, that's the trick of it. It's not a test. It's real life.

The world is ashes and the gods are a horror. Tell me, Learned, what other place is there for me to go?

He fantasized about burning his fraying vestments when he finally reached home.

The shuttle bumped, bounced, banged, rocked, and roared out over the flat, cracked surface. She was sorry she had never made a pass at Leo. Clearly, you could die while waiting for other people to start your life for you. Her seat harness cut across her breasts as deceleration sucked her forward and the rumbling vibration rattled her teeth.

Prayer, he suspected... was putting one foot in front of the other. Moving all the same.