Journey Quotes - Page 22

• The walking of passers-by offers a series of turns and detours that can be compared to "turns of phrase" or "stylistic figures." There is a rhetoric of walking. The art of "turning" phrases finds an equivalent in an art of composing a path.

  Michel de Certeau

  Art, Hiking, Detours

  Michel de Certeau (2011). “The Practice of Everyday Life”, p.100, Univ of California Press

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• I will look at the footprints going in and out of the water and dream up a small blue good to talk to.

  Gerald Stern

  Dream, Hiking, Blue

  Gerald Stern (1981). “The red coal: poems”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• Walking shares with making and working that crucial element of engagement of the body and the mind with the world, of knowing the world through the body and the body through the world.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Hiking, Knowing, Mind

  Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.27, Penguin

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• When the path ignites a soul, there's no remaining in place. The foot touches ground, but not for long.

  Sanai

  Feet, Hiking, Long

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• Today is one of those excellent January partly cloudies in which light chooses an unexpected part of the landscape to trick out in gilt, and then the shadow sweeps it away. You know you're alive. You take huge steps, trying to feel the planet's roundness arc between your feet.

  Annie Dillard

  Feet, Hiking, Light

  Annie Dillard (2016). “The Abundance”, p.101, Canongate Books

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• The subject of walking is, in some sense, about how we invest universal acts with particular meanings. Like eating or breathing, it can be invested with wildly different cultural meanings, from the erotic to the spiritual, from the revolutionary to the artistic.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Spiritual, Hiking, Breathing

  Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.10, Penguin

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• Walk some night on a suburban street and pass house after house on both sides of the same street each with the lamplight of the living room, shining golden, and inside the little blue square of the television, each living family riveting its attention on probably one show; nobody talking; silence in the yards; dogs barking at you because you pass on human feet instead of wheels.

  Geoff Nicholson

  Dog, Night, Talking

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• Seven and half years ago I began my own journey. For me and my family it was a time of adversity. But during that adversity I derived a deeper faith. And born out of that adversity was a commitment to devote myself to those people and to those issues that truly matter to me.

  Paul Tsongas

  Faith, Adversity, Commitment

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• In all honesty my cake was baking when I met Al - I had made up in my mind already to get physically healthy. He refreshingly was on his own journey so it was almost as if we walked together.

  Star Jones

  Honesty, Cake, Healthy

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• The road to success, for me, was a long and arduous journey, strewn with obstacles and traps, pitfalls and hurdles-all created by myself. Painful as it is, I speak of those sad and frustrating times whenever I am invited to address sales gatherings, corporate conventions, and success rallies, in the hope that my personal experiences will serve as sufficient evidence for all who hear me that they have it in their own power to make their lives as glorious or as terrible as they choose.

  Og Mandino

  Success, Long, Pitfalls

  Og Mandino (1991). “Og Mandino”, Outlet

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• Being innovative in your philantropy allows you to stride forward in your giving journey; you can marry your mind and heart to turn charity into lasting impact; and you can become more ambitious in your giving.

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

  Heart, Impact, Giving

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• I travel because I like to move from place to place, I enjoy the sense of freedom it gives me, it pleases me to be rid of ties, responsibilities, duties, I like the unknown; I meet odd people who amuse me for a moment and sometimes suggest a theme for a composition; I am often tired of myself and I have a notion that by travel I can add to my personality and so change myself a little. I do not bring back from the journey quite the same self that I took

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Change, Moving, Tired

  W. Somerset Maugham (1941). “the Gentleman in the Parlour”

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• The whole of life is a journey toward youthful old age, toward self-contemplation, love, gaiety, and, in a fundamental sense, the most gratifying time of our lives. . . . "Old age" should be a harvest time when the riches of life are reaped and enjoyed, while it continues to be a special period for self-development and expansion.

  Ashley Montagu

  Self, Harvest Time, Age

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• Here was I worrying about my journey, while God was helping me all the way. It made me realize that I am very weak; my courage is only borrowed from Him, but, oh, the peace that flooded my soul; and although I know that I may be held up at the border , I am at peace within, because I know that He never faileth.

  Gladys Aylward

  Christian, Believe, Worry

  "Gladys Aylward, One of the Undefeated: The Story of Gladys Aylward as Told by Her to R.O. Latham".

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• A journey of four hundred and thirty miles can be made in any part of the United States, but in Turkey it takes as many days.

  Ellsworth Huntington

  Turkeys, United States, Four

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• We know that uncertainty creates anxiety and sometimes desperate attempts to find something to believe in. Uncertainty engenders real opportunity as well as misleading choices, great leaders as well as false messiahs, and new ways of understanding the world alongside hollow maxims and deceptive promises. Understandably, we seek guides and guideposts to ease the anxiety of the journey. But we also need to depend on our own insights and imagination to cultivate, from our own experience, a way to move forward.

  Alan Briskin

  Real, Moving Forward, Believe

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• Peace is a condition of the heart. It's a state of mind, of tranquility, of calmness, and of centeredness. It's an understanding of the reciprocal nature of love, a presence, a journey. It's all of our aspirations. Peace is not a luxury or merely the absence of war, it's a kind of grace - which we're all entitled to as people who are alive. Peace is an active presence of the capacity for a higher evolution of human awareness.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Peace, War, Heart

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• It was a bold, wild life for a faerie - most never even left their forests - but she was a bold, wild lass, and so were her daughter and granddaughter after her, and their place in the world was everywhere and nowhere, like gypsies on wing. No home had they but their caravans and campfires, and no family but the one they'd cobbled together of crows, creatures and kindred souls they'd met on their endless journey round and round the world.

  Laini Taylor

  Daughter, Home, Wild Life

  Laini Taylor (2009). “Blackbringer”, p.14, Penguin

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• Farewell, I wish our souls may meet with comfort at the journey's end.- The Heavenly Footman: A Puritan's View of How to Get to Heaven.

  John Bunyan

  Farewell, Views, Heaven

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• Some people want to give money to their children, buy houses, go on a holiday - whatever it is that they want to invest in. This particular journey has been something that I wanted to do most of my life, but there was no real opportunity to do so.

  Sarah Brightman

  Children, Real, Holiday

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• The dairy man had a Ph.D. in mathematics, and he must have had some training in philosophy. He liked what he was doing and he didn't want to be somewhere else - one of the few contented people I met in my whole journey.

  John Steinbeck

  Philosophy, Learning, Science

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.19, Penguin

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• In the world outside this glass room, songbirds are feeding and resting in the trees. Some will take off tonight and not land until they reach Venezuela. Sandpipers, plovers, and broad-winged hawks have already left for Patagonia and Panama. Bats are headed for caves in Kentucky and Tennessee. Out in the Atlantic, humpback whales pass by on their way to the Caribbean. Even now, Canada geese are honking toward us from Quebec. It is a good day for the beginnings of journeys.Every time I look at you, I think, Now I cannot die.

  Sandra Steingraber

  Good Day, Thinking, Glasses

  Sandra Steingraber (2012). “Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood”, p.7, Da Capo Press

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• When you are a young person, you are like a young creek, and you meet many rocks, many obstacles and difficulties on your way. You hurry to get past these obstacles and get to the ocean. But as the creek moves down through the fields, it becomes larges and calmer and it can enjoy the reflection of the sky. It's wonderful. You will arrive at the sea anyway so enjoy the journey. Enjoy the sunshine, the sunset, the moon, the birds, the trees, and the many beauties along the way. Taste every moment of your daily life.

  Nhat Hanh

  Ocean, Moving, Sunset

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• The Journey of Reconciliation was organized not only to devise techniques for eliminating Jim Crow in travel, but also as a training ground for similar peaceful projects against discrimination in such major areas as employment and in the armed services.

  Bayard Rustin

  Peaceful, Crow, Training

  Bayard Rustin (2003). “Time on Two Crosses: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• When you arrive where you thought you wanted to be, you'll just begin a new journey so enjoy each step along the way

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspiration, Way, Steps

  Dr Wayne W Dyer (2009). “Change Your Thoughts-Change Your Life (Easyread Large Edition)”, p.388, ReadHowYouWant.com

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