Quotes About Journey

You can have a failed quest, but you can't have an achieved quest and no reward.

Perfect love casts out fear, we are told. None of us is capable of perfect love, but as we help each other along this difficult journey which is life, the love we bear for one another does ease our burdens. And

Perfect love casts out fear, we are told. None of us is capable of perfect love, but as we help each other along this difficult journey which is life, the love we bear for one another does ease our burdens. And even in death, that love binds us together; truly, in death, we are not divided.

A lo mejor cada vez que me fui, cada vez que hice por olvidar, cada vez que guardé silencio, estaba eligiendo. Quién sabe, puede ser.

Dije que los libros transtornan, especialmente a las mujeres, y conté de la madre de Susana que leyó unas cuantas páginas en su vida pero eso bastó para que lo abandonara todo, de Susana que siempre soñó con escribir aunque fuera sólo uno, de mi madre que me crió obedeciendo al pie de la letra las instrucciones de varios, de mí que partí a un país lejano y desconocido en busca de lo que ellos ofrecen y de mi hija que ni los mira.

The obstacle is the path.

We have not meet our destination till we are there for sure.

His eyes were filled with tears, but his smile was encouraging. 'I hope you find what you're looking for.

to the bone instead of her own

I had never really understood what an adventure life could be, if you followed your heart and did what you really wanted to do, which is what we must all do in the end.

She enjoyed the sights and sounds of the dockside – ports were places of freedom.

It had occurred to her many times that on board it didn't matter where you were coming from or where you were heading. Each voyage had its own charisma. Like writing a book – word by word – or crossing a country – step by step – each minute had to be lived moment by moment.

We might give her presents, tell some tales, but would she ever be able to really understand what the journey had been like for us?

A journey is an achievement, Maria, just as much as a mathematical proof.

He prefers his adventures second hand.

You were born to this, weren't you?' 'Well, you know what they say – it's not where you start, it's where you finish.

To-night I close my eyes and see A strange procession passing me– The years before I saw your face Go by me with a wistful grace; They pass, the sensitive, shy years, As one who strives to dance, half blind with tears. The years went by and never knew That each one brought me nearer you; Their path was narrow and apart And yet it led me to your heart– Oh, sensitive, shy years, oh, lonely years, That strove to sing with voices drown in tears.

The quickest way from St Petersburg to Kamchatka in furthest Siberia is still often westwards via New York.

it was] perceived that it was easier to rise upwards east of the Urals. A man who left Russia as a common soldier became a sergeant in Tobolsk, a captain in Yakutsk and a colonel in Kamchatka.

Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

No one measures a life in weeks and days. You measure life in years and by the things that happen to you.

It's just so out of control. Life, I mean. The way it flies off in all these different directions without your permission.

How do I happen to believe in God? . . . Writing novels, I got into the habit of looking for plots. After awhile, I began to suspect that my own life had a plot. And after awhile more, I began to suspect that life itself has a plot. —FREDERICK BUECHNER

the only thing I wanted was to walk with Frodo into Mordor. Because if I could live for a little while inside a great story written by a first-rate Christian storyteller, maybe my fragmented world just might make some kind of narrative sense again. And I was right.