Quotes About Journey

The kaleidoscope of colour which is my life, shows the interesting choices I've made along the way.

Parfois monter un escalier est la seule façon de savoir où il mène.

The one thing that matters is the effort. It continues, whereas the end to be attained is but an illusion of the climber, as he fares on and on from crest to crest; and once the goal is reached it has no meaning.

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

The important thing is to strive towards a goal which is not immediately visible. That goal is not the concern of the mind, but of the spirit.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.

Living is being born slowly. It would be a little too easy if we could borrow ready-made souls.

No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.

What makes the desert beautiful,' said the little prince, 'is that somewhere it hides a well...

I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious.

If you want to build a ship, don't herd people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

Man's "progress" is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning

Perhaps love is the process of my leading you gently back to yourself

He who would travel happily must travel light.

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

and so I opened my eyes and I opened my mind and I saw something I never would have noticed on a bicycle unless I was going very, very fast down a very long hill. Because of the speed of the bus and how I was exerting no effort, the telephone wires on the side of the road, sagging between poles, went up and down with the same rhythm as my heartbeat.

had already spent hours in the airport, my tickets having been purchased last minute and at the cheapest possible fare—a red-eye from LA, a layover at JFK, a flight to Frankfurt, a four-hour train ride to Berlin—and the idea of a first-class lounge was so appealing I could have hugged old Jeff right there and then.

Stop thinking. From the moment one enters the airport, one is subject to a host of procedures and mechanisms designed to get one from point A to point B. Stop thinking and be the cargo.

The sea journey back was not without event. She was distraught, her nerves at a breaking point. She may have looked from the deck of the ship at those surging waves below. Maybe even for a moment have wished herself in their midst. Perhaps for once she danced Ondine in her troubled mind. It happily was not be. Tragic and banal as would have been that end to her story, Fate denied it as her destiny.

Un grand voyage, c'est toute une vie vécue en quelques mois ou en quelques années.

To Moscow, to Moscow, to Moscow!

La felicidad no es una estación a la que se llega, sino una manera de viajar. MARGARET LEE RUNBECK

Get in," he told Nitish. "What, me?" "No," said Farhad, "one of the other twenty-six white tigers waiting to cross the river.