Quotes About Journey

Call the world if you Please "The vale of Soul-making."

Though the most beautiful creature were waiting for me at the end of a journey or a walk; though the carpet were of silk, the curtains of the morning clouds; the chairs and sofa stuffed with cygnet's down; the food manna, the wine beyond claret, the window opening on Winander Mere, I should not feel --or rather my happiness would not be so fine, as my solitude is sublime.

Leaving New Orleans also frightened me considerably. Outside of the city limits the heart of darkness, the true wasteland begins.

We take it for granted that life moves forward. But you move as a rower moves, facing backwards—you can see where you've been, but not where you're going. And your boat is steered by a younger version of you. It's hard not to wonder what life would be like facing the other way…

Your life is a highlight reel: a gradual search for a handful of memories.

onism n. the awareness of how little of the world you'll experience

spinning playback head n. the disorienting feeling of meeting back up with an old friend and realizing that you've become different people on divergent paths-that even though they're standing right in front of you, the person you once knew isn't really there anymore.

ne'er-be-gone n. a person who has no idea where their home is, or was, or when they might have left it, which leaves their emotional compass free to swing around wildly as they move from place to place, pulling them everywhere and nowhere all at once, making it that much harder to navigate.

Trophies and medals have never meant much to me. I've had amazing experiences, which let you feel like you've accomplished something.

crossing the Atlantic under sail remains one of the most fulfilling ways possible to spend a month or so of your precious allotment of time.

wanted to sail off with my kids, to raise them

A train full of shadows. Of living ghosts. On a journey to nowhere.

Sometimes a man stands up during supper and walks outdoors, and keeps on walking, because of a church that stands somewhere in the East. And his children say blessings on him as if he were dead. And another man, who remains inside his own house, dies there, inside the dishes and in the glasses, so that his children have to go far out into the world toward that same church, which he forgot.

The 2nd time leads to the 3rd, the 5th, the 7th time, I feel so alive, it won't last but it's alright

There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...

There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.

We're not lost. We're locationally challenged.

We're not lost. We're locationally challenged.

Magic is a building of many small efforts towards a final, greater end," Hywel said. "Magic is slow.

People lose their way as an act of defence. Then they panic and decide they have to find it again.

A book is a human-powered film projector (complete with feature film) that advances at a speed fully customized to the viewer's mood or fancy. This rare harmony between object and user arises from the minimal skills required to manipulate a bound sequence of pages. Each piece of paper embodies a corresponding instant of time which remains frozen until liberated by the act of turning a page.

I]t behooves a man who wants to see wonders sometimes to go out of his way.