Quotes About Journey

My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection.

We follow the mystics. They know where they are going. They, too, go astray, but when they go astray they do so in a way that is mystical, dark, and mysterious.

A journey, after all, neither begins in the instant we set out, nor ends when we have reached our door step once again. It starts much earlier and is really never over, because the film of memory continues running on inside of us long after we have come to a physical standstill. Indeed, there exists something like a contagion of travel, and the disease is essentially incurable.

But destiny has an indelible memory.

He walks slowly along beneath the dripping pine trees, staring straight ahead of him, like someone who has no idea where he is going, and his red bag is the only spot of bright colour in the driving rain.

Truth is not a prerequisite for belief, whilst belief is often times a catalyst for searching for one's own truth.

Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward.

Roam abroad in the world, and take thy fill of its enjoyments before the day shall come when thou must quit it for good.

Birbirimize rastlamadan evvelki hayat?m?z sahiden birbirimizi aramaktan ba?ka bir ?ey de?ilmi?... Ne arad???m?z? bilmeden aramak... ?imdi içim rahat, arad???n? bulan ve ba?ka bir ?ey istemeyen biri gibi sükunet içindeyim... Dünyada bundan büyük bir saadet olur mu?

Yar?n öldü?ümüz zaman birisi bize sorsa: "Dünyada neler gördünüz?" dese herhalde verecek cevap bulamay?z. Ko?maktan görmeye vakit olmuyor ki...

The road we embark on the day we are born is the road we travel until the day we die, and however we choose to divide it up, it's pure artifice

?u kalabal???n içine gözlerim kapal? olarak kar??sam bir kuvvet beni muhakkak hiç ?a??rtmadan do?ru ona götürecektir.

Tam ya?amaya ba?lad???m bu andan itibaren beni öldü says?nlar.

?u dünyay? adamak?ll? görmeden, dünyan?n ne oldu?unu adamak?ll? anlamadan buradan gidecek olduktan sonra ne diye buraya geldik sanki? Ya?ad???m?z?n fark?na varmayacak olduktan sonra ne diye ya??yoruz?

Evden ç?kt?ktan sonra bir ?ey unuttu?unu fark ederek duraklayan, fakat unuttu?unun ne oldu?unu bir türlü bulamayarak haf?zas?n? ve ceplerini ara?t?ran, nihayet, ümidini kesince, akl? geride, ileri gitmek istemeyen ad?mlarla yoluna devam eden bir insan gibi üzüntülüydüm.

sana yeni bir dünya açaca??m? sanm??t?n... seni sukutuhayale u?ratt?m. ben sana rehber de?il, ancak yolda? olabilirdim, fakat yolu ikimiz de bilmiyorduk ve birbirimize yük olmaktan, birbirimizi ?a??rtmaktan ba?ka bir ?ey elimizden gelmiyordu.

It was like looking at heaven from the ferry to hell.

You see, Jarret?" she said softly. "It can't work. We want different things. You want to follow the wind where it leads, and I want to dig my roots deep. You're a river, and I'm a tree. The tree can never follow the river, and the river can never stay with the tree.

We are all carrying so many things in our life and inside ourselves. Often it feels there is no place to put them down. Where do you place the questions you carry

Sabrina Ward Harrison

Sabrina Ward Harrison

I feel quite lost INSIDE myself, like I'm looking for my train tracks for my life, as if they would just appear and solve the growing questions I seem to face (my reflection in the morning).

Being responsible is taking ownership of your life. It means you have taken the first radical step to becoming a complete human being—fully conscious and fully human. In taking responsibility and beginning the journey toward conscious living, you are putting an end to the age-old patterns of assigning blame outward or heavenward. You have begun the greatest adventure life has to offer: the voyage inward.

The spiritual journey is a journey towards clarity, but never towards certainty. When you draw conclusions about beginnings and endings, you are a believer. When you accept that you really do not know anything, you become a seeker. To