Quotes About Journey

E.L. Doctorow once said that writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way. You don't have to see where you're going, you don't have to see your destination or everything you will pass along the way. You just have to see two or three feet ahead of you. This is right up there with the best advice about writing, or life, I have ever heard.

You can't run alongside your grown children with sunscreen and ChapStick on their hero's journey." -- Anne Lamott, "Twelve Truths I Learned from Writing to Life

saw something once from the Jewish Theological Seminary that said, "A human life is like a single letter of the alphabet. It can be meaningless. Or it can be a part of a great meaning.

Life is not a submarine. There are no plans.

have to see your destination or everything you will pass along the way. You just have to see two or three feet ahead of you. This is right up there with the best advice about writing, or life, I have ever heard.

Keep walking, though there's no place to get to. Don't try to see through the distances. That's not for human beings. Move within, but don't move the way fear makes you move. Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don't open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument. Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.

It is time to end a story that began in sorrow and ordeal and has ended in a deep and lasting happiness. May it be so for others.

Timeon had quite possibly been traveling a long time, Mearme thought with no compassion.

Then enter a program that gets me out of this wretched asshole of a midden system.

Drummer, beat, and piper, blow, Harper, strike, and soldier, go. Free the flame and sear the grasses Till the dawning Red Star passes.

I can only find you by looking deeper, that's how love leads us into the world.

What is a man, said Athos, who has no landscape? Nothing but mirrors and tides.

It's not a person's depth you must discover, but their ascent. Find their path from depth to ascent.

Every step, even a tentative one, counts.

There are, in fact, certain roads that one may follow. Simplification of life is one of them.

It's as if you've been walking against a great wind all your life, and then the wind is gone, and you can't walk.

There are certain roads that one may follow. Simplification of life is one of them.

Travel Far, Pay No Fare... a book can take you anywhere.

I may go alone, Mr. Rathbone, but I am perfectly sure I would not find the ground uninhabited when I got there!

Body neutrality is experiential and not something that happens overnight ... It's one awareness at a time, one thought at a time.

Go where the pain is, go where the pleasure is.

I wasn't sent here to find angels! I wasn't sent here to dream of them. I wasn't sent here to hear them sing! I was sent here to be alive. To breathe and sweat and thirst and sometimes cry.

Let my stories do what stories always do. Let them keep you from your darker dreams & from your darker journey. Let them keep you here.

And my dark soul is happy again, because it does not know how to be anything else for very long, and because the pain is a deep dark sea in which I would drown if I did not sail my little craft steadily over the surface, towards a sun which will never rise.