Quotes About Journey

We are all treading the vanishing road of a song in the air, the vanishing road of the spring flowers and the winter snows, the vanishing roads of the winds and the streams, the vanishing road of beloved faces.

Yes, I'm obsessed with health, which has been an interesting journey. I went down the raw-food diet route, but got ill. It was really hard, especially in Britain in winter, trying to survive on raw carrots. I became so ill and anemic, so I stopped that and became a vitamin junkie. I just ate lots of vegetables, exercised and breathed.

During the winter of 2013, we were running 'Comet' up in midtown - as opposed to downtown - and across the street in the Standard, and that was, like, our third time going at it, from Ars Nova to downtown to near Broadway. We weren't on Broadway. We were near Broadway, as we said.

It's challenging to live in Anacortes. I lived in Olympia for five years, went on tour for a year, ended up in Norway for a winter, and ended up back in Anacortes. But I have a long life ahead of me. I'll probably live in many different places, and then die in Anacortes.

I lived five years in Portugal and then spent winters in Nepal or India.

Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.

A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.

If 'ecstasy' means to stand outside ourselves, then what better ambition can there be as we wait in the wings of the Royal Albert Hall: to leave self-obsession behind and take the audience on a journey across the high wire of Beethoven or the flying trapeze of Liszt.

I made a point to have 'mini-adventures' on the road. In Tucson, that meant swinging by a massive airplane graveyard. A quick detour through the Grand Tetons was a Wyoming highlight. We stopped for cheese in Wisconsin and barbecue in South Carolina.

It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

I'd like to be wise. You have to go through a lot to get there, but I'm willing to go through a lot.

It's been a great run. I've done everything I can do announcing wise.

May we treasure the divine gift of communication, and may we use it wisely to build and to assist others on this marvelous journey through mortality.

The human heart is as a frail craft on which we wish to reach the stars.

If you wish to fly to new heights, begin by setting your sights on a destination you can reach and then create a flight plan, a map, that will be your guide.

I'm now on a journey to fulfill the wish, in my tiny capacity, of little African girls.

You can certainly get an idea of the value of memory if your memories can carry you out into the world no matter how utterly dissatisfied you may be with the present and wish you could get away from it.

I said that I like to write on trains and that I wished Amtrak had residencies for writers.

I was informed... that some... were dreaming and wished to return.

All the experience of the greatest city in the world could not withhold me.

The only journey is the one within.

A holiday is an opportunity to journey within. It is also a chance to chill, to relax. It is when I switch on my rest mode.