Quotes About Journey

The path to victory is the path you're on. It becomes a path to victory the moment you decide it does.

It's not about where you are today; it's about where you're going to be. We have to remind ourselves: This is where I am, but it is not where I'm always going to be.

So wait a minute. I go looking for the story of the guy who wrote this awesome wind scale tha tblew my mind. I start reading about his life, and before he's sixteen years old I've already run across a family's flight from the poorhouse, an early balloon flight, an eccentric father, a young man at sea, Malay pirates, shipwreck, castaways, buried treasure, and Captain Bligh, fresh off the mutiny on the Bounty . Not a single word about the wind, but honestly, at this point, who cares?

Each of us must walk our own path, most of us blindly, and that whatever guidance we can give one another is a bonus.

This is where you and I are headed.... Look for us in history books and you'll find us in the margins. Look for us in legends and you might just find us celebrated

Time's a river, Locke, and we've always drifted farther down it than we think.

A troupe learns to play like we all learn to screw, stumbling and jostling until everything's finally in the right place.

Go forth now and live, Locke Lamora. Live, uncertain.

But time's a river, Locke, and we've always drifted farther down it than we think.

give until they were out of sight of Tal Verrar. "Southeast by

Painting, carving, rigging - you two will be rather busy.' 'Wow,' said Locke, 'that sounds like an absolutely grand way to spend the voyage.' It wasn't.

It's things like this makes a ship seem like home. Help you forget what a load of tedious old shit life out here can be.

But by the time I get back," said Locke, "I'll be the worst card player in the temple." "Yes. Best wishes for a safe journey, Locke," said Calo. "Savor the country air," said Galdo. "Stay as long as you like.

I suppose we are all lumps of coal destined for one furnace or another.

But time's a river, Locke, and we've always drifted farther down it than we think." He smiled down at Locke with real affection.

Ask any writer or filmmaker or painter just how much of a given project truly represents what he/she envisioned it to be. You'll hear twenty percent...ten...five...few will claim more than thirty. The master of one's medium is the degree to which that percentage can be increased, the degree to which the artist's ideas survive the journey -- or, for some artists, the degree to which the inevitable detours are made useful by the artist.

this was looking like her final hour. They'd not seen a Zaphead for two days, ever since leaving the highway and taking the Old Turnpike Road, a winding dotted line on the map that promised few houses and even fewer murderous mutants. The bite wound on Rachel's left calf had gotten steadily worse, passing from

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Life is complex. Each one of us must make his own path through life. There are no self-help manuals, no formulas, no easy answers. The right road for one is the wrong road for another...The journey of life is not paved in blacktop; it is not brightly lit, and it has no road signs. It is a rocky path through the wilderness.

If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.

All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up--that growing is an ever ongoing process.

Despite the reams of paperwork, obstacles worthy of a horse show, and a wait that can rival an elephant's gestation, adoption feels no different on the inside.

We don't become the people we are all at once. But if we are lucky, every love, laugh, and loss puts a wrinkle in our hearts to make us distinctive.

On a ship that's made of paper, I would sail the seven seas. (Just to be with you.)