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Quotes About Setting out

EMBARKING on the spiritual journey is like getting into a very small boat and setting out on the ocean to search for unknown lands. With wholehearted practice comes inspiration, but sooner or later we will also encounter fear.
~ Pema Chodron
She was setting out china cups in their saucers, her long pale hands almost the same color as the cream china. How do you take yours? Four creams, two sugars, Riley said, still mesmerized by her. She stopped with a small waxed carton in her hand. Really? He's very young, Gabe said. I take mine black. He's very boring, Riley said. Is that real cream?
~ Jennifer Crusie
Embarking on a spiritual journey is like getting into a very small boat and setting out on the ocean to search for unknown lands. With whole hearted practice comes inspiration, but sooner or later we will also encounter fear. For all we know, when we get to the horizon, we are going to drop off the edge of the world. Like all explorers, we are drawn to discover what's waiting out there without knowing yet if we have the courage to face it.
~ Pema Chodron
And so the landing party set out, leaving Weatherlight in the hands of an inexperienced pilot, a cowering lookout, and a pacifist guard.
~ Unknown
The Pilgrim's Law": A soulful traveler replenishes the camp before moving on for those who will follow, and you must share whatever wisdom you've been blessed with on your journey with those who are about to set out on their own journey.
~ Phil Cousineau
Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.
~ Annie Besant
It's hard for me to believe that a shy, bespectacled college graduate like Brad Meltzer who's a novelist and a father is a really setting out to be weirdly misogynistic.
~ Grant Morrison
At daybreak, the men were sent on their way with their donkeys.
~ Genesis 44:3