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3c97597 Not all those who wander are lost. journey lost quest travel wander J.R.R. Tolkien
e68a351 It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end. journey travel Ursula K. Le Guin
647c9de We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls. journey quest seekers travel inspirational anaïs nin
71d67f1 Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know. Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land. journey self-reliance Walt Whitman
beaa5d0 All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost. journey shine tolkien travel wander wanderlust J.R.R. Tolkien
4c566e7 Though the road's been rocky it sure feels good to me. inspirational journey life Bob Marley
1c6156b For everything in this journey of life we are on, there is a right wing and a left wing: for the wing of love there is anger; for the wing of destiny there is fear; for the wing of pain there is healing; for the wing of hurt there is forgiveness; for the wing of pride there is humility; for the wing of giving there is taking; for the wing of tears there is joy; for the wing of rejection there is acceptance; for the wing of judgment there is grace; for the wing of honor there is shame; for the wing of letting go there is the wing of keeping. We can only fly with two wings and two wings can only stay in the air if there is a balance. Two beautiful wings is perfection. There is a generation of people who idealize perfection as the existence of only one of these wings every time. But I see that a bird with one wing is imperfect. An angel with one wing is imperfect. A butterfly with one wing is dead. So this generation of people strive to always cut off the other wing in the hopes of embodying their ideal of perfection, and in doing so, have created a crippled race. ancient flight flying human-race humanity imperfection inspirational inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspiring journey life life-and-living life-s-journey living living-life people perfect perfection the-journey truth two-wings wings wisdom wisdom-quotes C. JoyBell C.
b59419b The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday. action change inspirational journey letting-go life Steve Maraboli
fd11f86 We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started. excellence inspirational journey judgment personal-growth Henry Ward Beecher
b186b38 Perfectly Imperfec imperfection inspirational journey life motivational perfection relationships snowflakes Steve Maraboli
bba24e7 ...there ain't no journey what don't change you some. journey travel inspirational David Mitchell
ada07a2 It's funny how, in this journey of life, even though we may begin at different times and places, our paths cross with others so that we may share our love, compassion, observations, and hope. This is a design of God that I appreciate and cherish. appreciation compassion god hope inspirational journey life motivational observation Steve Maraboli
c6c7df5 So I learned two things that night, and the next day, from him: the perfection of a moment, and the fleeting nature of it. epiphany fiction journey life loss love relationships Margaret George
defa5cf The desire to go home that is a desire to be whole, to know where you are, to be the point of intersection of all the lines drawn through all the stars, to be the constellation-maker and the center of the world, that center called love. To awaken from sleep, to rest from awakening, to tame the animal, to let the soul go wild, to shelter in darkness and blaze with light, to cease to speak and be perfectly understood. journey love wanderlust Rebecca Solnit
ada97dc End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take. end journey life path J.R.R. Tolkien
e5089c3 I have an idea that some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid certain surroundings, but they have always a nostalgia for a home they know not. They are strangers in their birthplace, and the leafy lanes they have known from childhood or the populous streets in which they have played, remain but a place of passage. They may spend their whole lives aliens among their kindred and remain aloof among the only scenes they have ever known. Perhaps it is this sense of strangeness that sends men far and wide in the search for something permanent, to which they may attach themselves. Perhaps some deep-rooted atavism urges the wanderer back to lands which his ancestors left in the dim beginnings of history. home journey W. Somerset Maugham
7d5cd7f If you fuel your journey on the opinions of others, you are going to run out of gas. fuel gas happiness inspirational journey life motivational opinion success Steve Maraboli
f475993 "The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. exploration infinite journey meditation spirituality transcendance Jules Verne
db08cbf I love going out of my way, beyond what I know, and finding my way back a few extra miles, by another trail, with a compass that argues with the map...nights alone in motels in remote western towns where I know no one and no one I know knows where I am, nights with strange paintings and floral spreads and cable television that furnish a reprieve from my own biography, when in Benjamin's terms, I have lost myself though I know where I am. Moments when I say to myself as feet or car clear a crest or round a bend, I have never seen this place before. Times when some architectural detail on vista that has escaped me these many years says to me that I never did know where I was, even when I was home. journey nature wanderlust Rebecca Solnit
02ce2e4 We may run, walk, stumble. drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way. inspirational journey life purpose Gloria Gaither
6b30158 Every journey conceals another journey within its lines: the path not taken and the forgotten angle. journey sexing-the-cherry travel Jeanette Winterson
7f4d4af There is a wide world out there, full of pain, but filled with joy as well. The former keeps you on the path of growth and the latter makes the journey tolerable. journey joy pain R.A. Salvatore
a80529d Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don't have to sit on it. journey Joyce Meyer
90bac03 I tramp the perpetual journey My signs are a rain-proof coat, good shoes, and a staff cut from the woods, No friend of mine takes his ease in my chair, I have no chair, no philosophy, I lead no man to a dinner-table, library, exchange, But each man and each woman of you I lead upon a knoll, My left hand hooking you round the waist, My right hand pointing to landscapes of continents and the public road. Not I, not any one else can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself. It is not far, it is within reach, Perhaps you have been on it since you were born and did not know, Perhaps it is everywhere on water and on land. Shoulder your duds dear son, and I will mine, and let us hasten forth, Wonderful cities and free nations we shall fetch as we go. If you tire, give me both burdens, and rest the chuff of your hand on my hip, And in due time you shall repay the same service to me, For after we start we never lie by again. This day before dawn I ascended a hill and look'd at the crowded heaven, And I said to my spirit When we become the enfolders of those orbs, and the pleasure and knowledge of every thing in them, shall we be fill'd and satisfied then? And my spirit said No, we but level that lift to pass and continue beyond. You are also asking me questions and I hear you, I answer that I cannot answer, you must find out for yourself. Sit a while dear son, Here are biscuits to eat and here is milk to drink, But as soon as you sleep and renew yourself in sweet clothes, I kiss you with a good-by kiss and open the gate for your egress hence. Long enough have you dream'd contemptible dreams, Now I wash the gum from your eyes, You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life. Long have you timidly waded holding a plank by the shore, Now I will you to be a bold swimmer, To jump off in the midst of the sea, rise again, nod to me, shout, and laughingly dash with your hair. journey son Walt Whitman
3f9c401 "Her eyes were of different colors, the left as brown as autumn, the right as gray as Atlantic wind. Both seemed alive with questions that would never be voiced, as if no words yet existed with which to frame them. She was nineteen years old, or thereabouts; her exact age was unknown. Her face was as fresh as an apple and as delicate as blossom, but a marked depression in the bones beneath her left eye gave her features a disturbing asymmetry. Her mouth never curved into a smile. God, it seemed, had withheld that possibility, as surely as from a blind man the power of sight. He had withheld much else. Amparo was touched--by genius, by madness, by the Devil, or by a conspiracy of all these and more. She took no sacraments and appeared incapable of prayer. She had a horror of clocks and mirrors. By her own account she spoke with Angels and could hear the thoughts of animals and trees. She was passionately kind to all living things. She was a beam of starlight trapped in flesh and awaiting only the moment when it would continue on its journey into forever." (p.33)" apple asymmetry atlantic autumn blind-man blossom bones clock colors depression eyes god horror journey left-eye living-things madness mirror nineteen-years-old power-of-sight prayer questions sacraments smile starlight tree wind Tim Willocks
4af1955 The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only an adventurer; and his sons are born in exile. journey metaphorical research travel Ursula K. Le Guin
6af17ee Memory is the basis of every journey. journey memory stephen-king Stephen King
84549d2 Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary. journey life road Anne Carson
2d32374 The journey itself is going to change you, so you don't have to worry about memorizing the route we took to accomplish that change. growth journey learning Daniel Quinn
6382ca4 We are frightfully concerned with our own deaths, sometimes so much so that we forget the real purpose of our lives journey life living purpose-of-life purpose-of-living Brian L. Weiss
2e731c8 A journey, I reflected, is of no merit unless it has tested you. journey text Tahir Shah
5aa9eb4 "Will you remember this day, Gogol?" his father had asked, turning back to look at him, his hands pressed like earmuffs to either side of his head. "How long do I have to remember it?" Over the rise and fall of the wind, he could hear his father's laughter. He was standing there, waiting for Gogol to catch up, putting out a hand as Gogol drew near. "Try to remember it always," he said once Gogol reached him, leading him slowly back across the breakwater, to where his mother and Sonia stood waiting. "Remember that you and I made this journey, that we went together to a place where there was nowhere left to go." journey remember Jhumpa Lahiri
4013b18 It seemed like all the way to tomorrow and over it to the days beyond. journey time travel J.R.R. Tolkien
1dcaf24 For where thy treasure is, there also will thy heart be. goal holy-grail inspirational journey spiritual treasure Anonymous
b7f3bda "It's time, Old Captain, lift anchor, sink! The land rots; we shall sail into the night; if now the sky and sea are black as ink our hearts, as you must know, are filled with light. Only when we drink poison are we well -- we want, this fire so burns our brain tissue, to drown in the abyss -- heaven or hell, who cares? Through the unknown, we'll find the new. ("Le Voyage")" journey Charles Baudelaire
5033d78 The whole thing was the precise opposite of what I figured it would be: slow and patient and quiet and neither particularly painful nor particularly ecstatic journey the-fault-in-our-stars John Green
df2128b The goal of climbing big, dangerous mountains should be to attain some sort of spiritual and personal growth, but this won't happen if you compromise away the entire process. individuality journey process Yvon Chouinard
3d4f96f "Go, " he said. "This is your journey, your battle. Be brave. Find your gift. Use it to save what you love." faith gifting journey love Lois Lowry
a5bd060 Most journeys have a clear beginning, but on some the ending is less well-defined. The question is, at what point do you bite your lip and head for home? ending journey quest Tahir Shah
2c374aa Every nowhere is somewhere[...] inspirational journey life David Mitchell
fd3c002 I took the sleeper out of Glasgow, and as the smelly old train bumped out of Central Station and across the Jamaica Street Bridge, I stared out at the orange halogen streetlamps reflected in the black water of the river Clyde. I gazed at the crumbling Victorian buildings that would soon be sandblasted and renovated into yuppie hutches. I watched the revelers and rascals traverse the shiny wet streets. I thought of the thrill and danger of my youth and the fear and frustration of my adult life thus far. I thought of the failure of my marriage and my failures as a man. I saw all this through my reflection in the nighttime window. Down the tracks I went, hardly aware that I was going further south with every passing second. danger divorce failure journey reflection Craig Ferguson
bf0c71f Previous journeys had taught me the danger of taking too much stuff. danger journey Tahir Shah
6c17360 Children are meant to grow up, and not to become Peter Pans. Not to lose innocence and wonder, but to proceed on the appointed journey: that journey upon which it is certainly not better to travel hopefully than to arrive, though we must travel hopefully if we are to arrive. growing-up hope innocence journey J.R.R. Tolkien
fd716cd They laid up in the shade of a rock shelf until past noon, scratching out a place in the gray lava dust to sleep, and they set forth in the afternoon down the valley following the war trail and they were very small and they moved very slowly in the immensity of that landscape. Come evening they hove toward the rimrock again and Sproule pointed out a dark stain on the face of the barren cliff. It looked like the black from old fires. The kid shielded his eyes. The scalloped canyon walls rippled in the heat like drapery folds. desert journey landscape violence Cormac McCarthy
620da52 He also learned to regard each port of call as part of the journey and not as destination. Every voyage begins when you do. children-s-books journey E.L. Konigsburg
892e317 The first rule of an expedition is that everyone should stick together. journey quest rule Tahir Shah
3f231b6 A journey of observation must leave as much as possible to chance. Random movement is the best plan for maximum observation journey observation travel Tahir Shah
4e97e62 The only real voyage consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes; in seeing the universe through the eyes of another, one hundred others-in seeing the hundred universes that each of them sees. Marcel Proust, translated by Kiyotesong journey landscape open-heart open-mind optimism seeking wonder Rob Brezsny
20d9d3c When you walk on the face of a world, then forgiveness comes. forgiveness journey life world Orson Scott Card
43d03d8 On the way down the hill we walked three abreast in the cobblestone street, drunk and laughing and talking like men who knew they would separate at dawn and travel to the far corners of the earth. drunk journey stroll Hunter S. Thompson
4a61431 Language and hearing are seated in the cerebral cortex, the folded gray matter that covers the first couple of millimeters of the outer brain like wrapping paper. When one experiences silence, absent even reading, the cerebral cortex typically rests. Meanwhile, deeper and more ancient brain structures seem to be activated--the subcortical zones. People who live busy, noisy lives are rarely granted access to these areas. Silence, it appears, is not the opposite of sound. It is another world altogether, literally offering a deeper level of thought, a journey to the bedrock of the self. activated ancient bedrock brain busy cerebral-cortex deeper experiences gray-matter hearing journey language noisy reading self silence sound structures subcortical thought world Michael Finkel
08a4b38 The ability to tell a good route from a terrible one is a valuable skill when leading an expedition. Unfortunately for us all, it was a skill I did not possess. expedition journey navigation skill Tahir Shah
9dafa6b Onzi, shcho biaga ot uchastta si, mozhe niakoi den da otkrie, che samo e izbral po-priaka p'teka. inspirational journey life path J.R.R. Tolkien
07c3127 Fatalism accounts for life as a whole. Whatever happens can be fit within the large generality of individuation, or my journey, or growth. Fatalism comforts, for it raises no questions. There's no need to examine just how events fit in. individuation journey James Hillman
997b487 "Out ahead of them, Arkady began something very like a marching song, chanting lines answered by the other ferals, their voices ringing out across the sky, each to each. Temeraire added his own to the chorus, and little Iskierka began to scrabble at his neck, demanding, "What are they saying? What does it mean?" "We are flying home," Temeraire said, translating. "We are all flying home." home journey teammates Naomi Novik
87d2be4 Sail far. Sail fast. fire-and-blood journey quest sail sea travel George R.R. Martin
624ef2c There's nothing like a pack of mules to give one a sense of entourage. journey mules travel Tahir Shah
13929f3 They were at the end of their journey, but as far as ever, it seemed, from the end of their quest. journey quest J.R.R. Tolkien
d04ed42 For me, a journey to Damascus is an amazing hunt from beginning to end, a slice through layers of history in search of treasure. history journey travel Tahir Shah
80ec1c0 Phaedrus wrote a letter from India about a pilgrimage to holy Mount Kailas, the source of the Ganges and the abode of Shiva, high in the Himalayas, in the company of a holy man and his adherents. He never reached the mountain. After the third day he gave up, exhausted, and the pilgrimage went on without him. He said he had the physical strength but that physical strength wasn't enough. He had the intellectual motivation but that wasn't enough either. He didn't think he had been arrogant but thought that he was undertaking the pilgrimage to broaden his experience, to gain understanding for himself. He was trying to use the mountain for his own purposes and the pilgrimage too. He regarded himself as the fixed entity, not the pilgrimage or the mountain, and thus wasn't ready for it. He speculated that the other pilgrims, the ones who reached the mountain, probably sensed the holiness of the mountain so intensely that each footstep was an act of devotion, an act of submission to this holiness. The holiness of the mountain infused into their own spirits enabled them to endure far more than anything he, with his greater physical strength, could take. devotion faith insight journey mindfulness mountains soul-searching Robert M. Pirsig
6b9862c "It's funny, leaving a place, ain't it?" he said. "You never do know when you'll get back." funny-idea getting-back going-somewhere home journey leave leaving leaving-a-place missed never-know ride thought thought-to-ponder traveling Larry McMurtry
52266ce I climb behind the steering wheel... I drive off immediately without once looking back; it's a long journey but it leads to freedom. freedom journey movies road-trip switzerland Corinne Hofmann
ac1a4db I've heard that when you're in a life-or-death situation, like a car accident or a gunfight, all your senses shoot up to almost superhuman level, everything slows down, and you're hyper-aware of what's happening around you. As the shuttle careens toward the earth, the exact opposite is true for me. Everything silences, even the screams and shouts from the people on the other side of the metal door, the crashes that I pray aren't bodies, the hissing of rockets, Elder's cursing, my pounding heartbeat. I feel nothing--not the seat belt biting into my flesh, not my clenching jaw, nothing. My whole body is numb. Scent and taste disappear. The only thing about my body that works is my eyes,and they are filled with the image before them. The ground seems to leap up at us as we hurtle toward it. Through the blurry image of the world below us, I see the outline of land--a continent. And at once, my heart lurches with the desire to know this world, to make it our home. My eyes drink up the image of the planet--and my stomach sinks with the knowledge that this is a coastline I've never seen before. I could spin a globe of Earth around and still be able to recognize the way Spain and Portugal reach into the Atlantic, the curve of the Gulf of Mexico, the pointy end of India. But this continent--it dips and curves in ways I don't recognize, swirls into an unknown sea, creating peninsulas in shapes I do not know, scattering out islands in a pattern I cannot connect. And it's not until I see this that I realize: this world may one day become our home,but it will never be the home I left behind. amy-martin beth-revis crash discovery earth elder godspeed home journey life mission planet shades-of-earth shuttle travel Beth Revis
427d291 If hot food is they key to maintaining an expedition's stamina, then low grade gut-rot alcohol is the key to sustaining its sense of pleasure. alcohol expedition food journey pleasure sustenance Tahir Shah
f9bd70a My journey to the land of the Shuar tribe had taught me the importance of practical gifts. gifts journey shuar tribe Tahir Shah
d716fd0 As far as Samson was concerned I was just another foreigner in pursuit of a lunatic quest. journey lunatic question Tahir Shah
5558bfa When I am about to embark on a difficult journey, I comfort myself by reading the accounts of the great nineteenth-century travellers, men like Stanley, Burton, Speke, Burckhardt and Barth. journey reading travel-writers Tahir Shah
48ee5a4 A fantasy is a journey. It is a journey into the subconscious mind, just as psychoanalysis is. Like psychoanalysis, it can be dangerous; and it will change you. journey literature psychoanalysis Ursula K. Le Guin
7fc4bb5 Some individuals have the courage to make it, even feel the need to do so; for them the quest is a necessity, not an option. Most people setting out on such journeys are never heard from again, but part of the romance of any field lies in keeping the dream alive, in not settling for what is familiar and comfortable. dream inspirational journey journeys leadership motivation motivational success Gino Segre
6b7b7ed Bridges are meant to connect They're meant to defy drops and distances, but occasionally we lose our way.... we fall off, we drive off, we consider jumping. -Razor aka. Thomas Turner pg. 410 journey self-realization Katie McGarry
2bb69f0 But to live in the world at all is to be committed to some kind of a journey... On a turning earth, in a mechanically revolving universe, there is no place to stand still. Neither the destination nor the point of departure are important. People often find themselves midway on a journey they had no intention of taking and that began they are not exactly sure where. journey William Maxwell
e850f11 I go, but I always remember you. journey love memory Isabel Allende
0840a55 Oh, I thought of calling it Journeyings in Germany. It sounds well, and would be correct. Or Jottings from German Journeyings--I haven't quite decided yet... (Minora) garden german german-garden journey minora Elizabeth von Arnim
69dd7de I'm not scared of death, it's the suffering that bothers me--and I know I can help that. It's the journey, not the outcome, that I can change, if that makes sense. death-quotes ivie journey J.R. Ward
f776923 A man went to knock on the king's door and said, Give me a boat island journey José Saramago
c812a16 It seems [...] that the Native American 'brain smasher' and the ancient Egyptian goddess in the vignette from the Fifth Hour of the Duat both serve exactly the same function, namely, the annihilation and permanent destruction of unworthy souls on the afterlife journey. There are differences in the traditions, to be sure, as one would expect if they descended from a remote common ancestor many millennia ago and then evolved separately, but the fundamental similarities of the role are unmissable. A further point arising from this material has to do with the more general issue of the trials and tribulations faced by the soul on its postmortem journey. That the precise character of these obstacles should vary between ancient Egypt and ancient Native America is only to be expected. Even so, the striking similarities in the core structure of the 'story'--physical death, a journey of the soul on land, a leap to the sky involving Orion followed by a further journey with perils and challenges to be faced, through the valley of the Milky Way--all argue for some as yet unexplained connection. journey orion religion souls source tradition Graham Hancock
2eaabb5 And that would be my method of locomotion, the Lion concluded. Not diplomas earned, but friendships bungled. Campaigns aborted. Errors in judgment and public humiliations. journey life locomotion Gregory Maguire
a61d4ab Not only was the constellation of Orion part of the Moundville story [of Native Americans], not only was a journey to the realm of the dead part of it, too, but now I knew also that a series of trials would have to be faced on that journey, that the Milky Way was involved and, last but by no means least, that Moundville itself had been thought of as an image, or copy, of the realm of the dead on earth. Every one of these were important symbols, concepts, and narratives in the ancient Egyptian funerary texts that I'd been fascinated by for more than 20 years. It would be striking to find even two of them together in a remote and unconnected culture, but for them all to be present in ancient North America in the same way that they were present in ancient Egypt, and serving the same ends, was a significant anomaly. journey legacy narratives orion realm symbols trials Graham Hancock
1f0cb53 Of all the crowns that Bruenor had worn or would, none was more important than that of Father. emotional inspirational journey R.A. Salvatore
fcb423a Que cada uno de tus actos sea tu ultima batalla sobre la tierra inspirational-life journey Carlos Castaneda
d1f3278 For there is a new place for those who are willing, who are able, who are strong. We are going west. There is, I believe, a new world somewhere waiting. The moon that shines here will shine there, but here the land is broken and there it is whole. journey new-world Kathryn Lasky
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