Quotes About Journeys

For me, "spiritual" is a good name for some of the powerful mental phenomena that arise when the voice of the ego is muted or silenced. If nothing else, these journeys have shown me how that psychic construct—at once so familiar and on reflection so strange—stands between us and some striking new dimensions of experience, whether of the world outside us or of the mind within.

Some halls are blocked, while others are flooded. And

I think this is something we all can relate to: experiences that may start out as good ideas until suddenly, they become ordeals, no longer adventures, no matter the attitude.

Do you know where the word 'itinerary' comes from?" Jacob asked as I scanned my perfectly formatted document of opening times and tips on how to bypass long lines and which routes to take during prime drive times. "What does this have to do with anything?" I countered. "Everything. It's from Latin, for 'journeys.' So trust me. You'll have fun.

What were those but maps that charted women's journeys as they traversed the rocky terrain separating girl from woman? Our maps, our histories, our reminders of how we found our truest selves?

La plupart des voyages dont on rêve n'ont jamais lieu. Ou alors on les accomplit intérieurement. L'avantage, quand on emprunte ces vols intérieurs, c'est qu'on a de la place pour les jambes.

Je suis une âme en peine, une femme de trente ans, nerveuse, malheureuse, qui n'a pas les dérivatifs des hommes: passades, voyages, affaire, vanité, ambition.

The first task of seeking guidance then is to touch your own struggles, doubts, and insecurities—in short, to affirm your life as a quest.8 Your life, my life, is given graciously by God. Our lives are not problems to be solved but journeys to be taken with Jesus as our friend and finest guide.

Even the elephant carries but a small trunk on his journeys.

I don't like traveling, period. I like being at places and I like going places, but I don't like forms of transportation.

I don't read when I'm travelling.

I read most often when I am on the road, travelling on my journeys. In cars, on planes, trains... I'm very lucky that I don't get car sick when I am reading and I can spend really long journeys immersed in a book!

I just don't like travelling very much.

Although I still think of myself as an actress, most of my time is spent writing novels or memoirs about my adventures and travels.

Though actually the work of man's hands - or, more properly speaking, the work of his travelling feet, - roads have long since come to seem so much a part of Nature that we have grown to think of them as a feature of the landscape no less natural than rocks and trees.

The richness and generosity of the human spirit I discovered in those journeys, meeting with olive farmers and people caught up in war was very humbling for me. Also, finding trees that were six or seven thousand years old made me realise what a tiny pea I am in the world.

It's essential I look after myself, because of what I put my body through in stunts as an actor, and even more through the fishing journeys. Trekking through jungles is tough. We don't escape to hotels and if I'm living with tribes on the bank of a river, I camp out under a canopy or kip in a canoe.

The intricacies, the problems, the trials and tribulations in relationships inspire me to give words to people's journeys.

People's lives take them strange places. They do strange things, and... well, sometimes they can't talk about them.

I don't really look for challenges as much as I like adventures. Other than that I'm just trying to find stories I want to tell.

In 1904, 20 per cent of journeys were made by bicycle in London. I want to see a figure like that again. If you can't turn the clock back to 1904, what's the point of being a Conservative?

How was she to reconcile men's desire with the desire to be beautiful in their eyes? At first she had tried for a compromise (desperate journeys abroad, where nobody knew her and no indiscretion could betray her); then, later on, she had gone radical and sacrificed her erotic life to her beauty.

It would be a very long time before we saw any of our original pursuers again. At least, it seemed kinda long. But nothing warps time quite like childhood. I remember visits to faraway worlds that lasted only a few days but felt like entire lifetimes. And then there were the endless journeys between destinations that somehow went by in the blink of an eye. You know how it goes.

Jacob, more than any other character, embodies the geographical breadth of the Five Books of Moses: He was born in the Promised Land, journeys back to Harran, returns to Canaan, travels to Egypt, and is eventually brought home to the land that bears his name.