Quotes About Journey

I am a fugitive and a vagabond, a sojourner seeking signs.

I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again

I cannot cause light; the most I can do is try to put myself in the path of its beam. It is possible, in deep space, to sail on solar wind. Hone and spread your spirit till you yourself are a sail, whetted, translucent, broadside to the merest puff.

Silence is not our heritage but our destiny; we live where we want to live.

I seem to be on a road, walking, greeting the hedgerows, the rose-hips, the apples and thorn. I seem to be on a road, walking, familiar with neighbors, high-handed with cattle, smelling the sea, and alone. Already, I know the names of things. I can kick a stone.

I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again.

One turns at last even from glory itself with a sigh of relief. From the depths of mystery, and even from the heights of splendor, we bounce back and hurry for the latitudes of home.

An infant is a pucker of the earth's thin skin; so are we. We arise like budding yeasts and break off: we forget our beginnings. A mammal swells and circles and lays him down. You and I have finished swelling: our circling periods are playing out, but we can still leave footprints on a trail whose end we do not know. Buddhism notes that it is always a mistake to think you can go it alone.

The secret of seeing is to sail on solar wind.

Looking for a thousand years is worth it, if in the end you find what you need.

The scent of a faraway place lay on my skin.

Run and hide. We're on our way.

We're all made stories.

One faces the future with one's past. —Pearl S. Buck

Bound for Glory

It is very difficult to be a hero without an audience, although, in a sense, we are each the hero of a peculiar, half-ruined film called our life.

That is because at the close of the day the ship we sail in is the soul, not the body.

I don't think you ever understand your life - not till it's finished and probably not then either. The more I live the less I seem to understand.

I want to be careful not to throw all this away. This is happiness. I think this is what happiness is. I haven't got it yet, but I can sense it out there. I feel I'm close to it. Some days, I'm so close I can almost smell it.

The deeper into the sensation she went, beneath his weight and his urging, the more it was like going into a room of utter darkness, which she felt was familiar from a time before her birth; it was something other, or beyond; it was like death, or very near it.

Some of these people have been heading there, unavoidably, for months; others made a bad choice just a few days ago.

if you're looking for enlightenment it's not going to happen on a oil tanker

We walked around four hundred miles and most nights we were the only people in the world who knew where we were. There are many definitions of freedom but surely that is one of them.

They had not yet started out across a continent of grief that a lifetime of walking could not cover.