Quotes About Journey

Sarah Mlynowski

Like a lot of once devout people who have lost their faith, I had holes the size of heaven and hell in my head and in my heart.

After Hymns and tears, they boarded the brig Thaddeus, a vessel so crappy, it made the Mayflower look like the QE2.

By journey's end the brides were much better acquainted with their grooms and more or less pleased with the matches. Sybil Bingham wrote in her diary, thanking God for answering her prayer for filling the void with a husband like Hiram, a treasure rich and undeserved. Having read his insufferable memoir, A Residence of Twenty-one Years in the Sandwich Islands, all I can say is: I'm happy for her?

on the illusive "Monsieur Hortalez." When my friend Steven and I went looking for the building one afternoon, we came to the address at 47 rue Vieille-du-Temple and realized we had been there before.

Still, compared to him, compared to the people we descend from, I am free of history. I'm so free of history I have to get in a car and drive seven states to find it.

And I walked across the room past all that was missing, through the door, and into the light that shone like a sweet wide smile over all that was actually there.

But I have come to realize that the true meaning of pilgrimage is to live free from any attachments, habits, prejudices. Free from physical and mental clutter. Making an outer journey is a reminder of an inner journey, and I discovered that I am always on a pilgrimage. Life is a journey. I want to travel through life as a pilgrim.

Life, said Samuel Butler, is like giving a concert on the violin while learning to play the instrument—that, friends, is real wisdom.

I quit thinking long ago that all old people came to rest from the things they were out for in their younger years.

And I thought there was altogether too much of this to live with. Better forget it, in part. The Ganges is there with its demons and lords; but you have a right also, and merely, to wash your feet and do your personal laundry in it. Or even if you had a good car it would take more than a lifetime to do a tour of all the Calvaries.

Maybe the making of mistakes expressed the very purpose of his life and the essence of his being here.

By now I have gone many miles toward the promise of sleep, but I reach my destination blindingly wide awake. My state therefore is something like a state of insomniac illumination.

Ove godine proputovao sam pola svijeta i vidio sam toliko ljudi - ?ini mi se da sam vidio svakoga, osim mrtvih. A njih sam možda i tražio.

Not all events are stories.

Au cours d'une vie, chaque individu part en quete de son identite, parfois au milieu des autres;ceoendant lorsqu''i se trouve, c'est en lui-meme, pas a l'exterieur de lui.

Happiness has more to do with where you are heading than where you are.

Happiness has more to do with where you're heading than where you are.

For all of my success, in looking back I couldn't identify a moment when, at core, I had felt fully at home with myself. My

Scott Weidensaul

It's not the traveling that takes courage Tally. I've done much longer trips on my own. It's leaving home.

Sometimes it felt like her life was a series of falls from ever-greater heights.

What did a happy ending even mean in real life, anyway? In stories you simply said, 'They lived happily ever after,' and that was it. But in real life people had to keep on living, day after day, year after year.

I go where the lizards tell me.