Quotes About Journey

Life was a freight train barreling toward just one stop, our loved ones streaking past our windows in blurs of color and light. There was no holding on to any of it, and no slowing it down.

No way, man. I got one rule as a driver." "What's that?" "Never look in da rearview mirror." "Never? We drifted into the left-hand lane, cutting off a cab. "It's not healthy to keep a' watchin' what you leavin' behind.

Most people ended up, after only a couple of months, far, far away from where they'd intended to go, stuck in some barbed underbrush of a quagmire when they'd meant to head straight to the ocean.

What, really, was the difference between something hounding you and something leading you somewhere?

The late great Horace Lloyd Swithin (1844-1917), British essayist, lecturer, satirist, and social observer, wrote in his autobiographical Appointments, 1890-1901 (1902), When one travels abroad, one doesn't so much discover the hidden Wonders of the World, but the hidden wonders of the individuals with whom one is traveling. They may turn out to afford a stirring view, a rather dull landscape, or a terrain so treacherous one finds it's best to forget the entire affair and return home.

the territory between two people who were once soul mates but were no longer was akin to wandering into Pakistan's tribal region.

We aren't on Earth to be happy, but to experience incredible things.

The most we can do is hold out our hands and help each other across the unknown. For in our held hands we find pathways through the dark, across jungles and cities, bridges suspended over the deepest caverns of this world. Your friends will walk with you, holding on with all their might, even when they're no longer there.

We are all anthologies. We are each thousands of pages long, filled with fairy tales and poetry, mysteries and tragedy, forgotten stories in the back no one will ever read. The most we can do is hold out our hands and help each other across the unknown. For in our held hands we find pathways through the dark, across jungles and cities; bridges suspended over the deepest caverns of this world. Your friends will walk with you, holding on with all their might, even when they're no longer there.

Because I saw, suddenly, how it would always be for me, Sam's life unfolding like slides in an old projector I'd always be clicking through in the dark, stunning leaps forward in time--but never the uncut reel.

As I scaled some rocks, I didn't move out of the way in time as a wave crashed to shore and I got soaked up to my shins in icy water. I could forget about a Russian vor; I was going to look like Tom Hanks in goddamn Cast Away by the time I arrived.

People don't realize how easy life is to change. You just get on the bus.

There were no street signs along Benton Hollow Road, no house numbers, no streetlights, not even any lines—just my car's faded headlights, which didn't so much push back the advancing dark as nervously rummage through it.

Kupenda KWAME ALEXANDER I have never been a slave Yet, I know I am whipped I have never escaped underground Yet, the night knows my journey I have never been to Canada Yet I've crossed your border If I were a poet in love I'd say that with you I have found that new place Where romance is just a beginning And freedom is our end.

A vision is not a static picture but a process that gets refined over time

An interesting journey never follows a straight path

When you write from the heart, you not only light the dark path of your readers, you light your own way as well.

It is one thing to be told what God is like; it could be another thing altogether to discover the truth for ourselves!

Every day I need to hear that voice behind me saying: 'This is the way; walk in it' (Isa. 30:21)

God wants you to get where God wants you to go more than you want to get where God wants you to go.

God is in the business of strategically positioning us in the right place at the right time. A sense of destiny is our birthright as followers of Christ. God is awfully good at getting us where He wants us to go. But here's the catch: The right place often seems like the wrong place, and the right time often seems like the wrong time.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived, —THOMAS MERTON

Love, I think, is a gateway to the world, not an escape from it.

Because the golden egg gleamed in my basket once, though my childhood became an immense sheet of darkening water I was Noah, and I was his ark, and there were two of every animal inside me