Quotes About Journey

You start Saul, and end up Paul, my grandfather had often said. When you're a youngun, you Saul, but let life whup your head a bit and you starts to trying to be Paul -- though you still Sauls around on the side.

Running from the birds to what, I didn't know. I ran. Why was I here at all? I ran through the night, ran within myself. Ran.

Boy on a Train From

No, you could never tell where you were going, that was a sure thing. The only sure thing. Nor could you tell how you'd get there—though when you arrived it was somehow right.

You start Saul, and end up Paul,' my grandfather had often said. 'When you're a youngun, you Saul, but let life whup your head a bit and you starts to trying to be Paul – though you still Sauls around on the side.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.

Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.

I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.

Its the not the Destination, It's the journey.

To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.

The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average tendency. Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing. Act singly, and what you have already done singly will justify you now.

The never-ending task of self improvement.

Let us take our bloated nothingness out of the path of the divine circuits.

The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life.

I know too well how slowly we edge along sideways to every thing good & brilliant in our lives & how casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances.

Life is our dictionary

The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it

We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

Every man has a history worth knowing, if he could tell it, or if we could draw it from him.

Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house a world; and beyond its world, a heaven.

Todo barco es un objeto romántico hasta que nos embarcamos en él

Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in.

We are like travelers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs.