Journey Quotes - Page 26

• The journey, not the arrival, matters; the voyage, not the landing.

  Paul Theroux

  Matter, Voyages, Satisfaction

  Paul Theroux (2014). “The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects. However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.

  Alan Bennett

  Dad, Weather, Alcohol

  Alan Bennett (2009). “A A Life Like Other People's”, p.80, Faber & Faber

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• Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the journey's fits and starts, rehearses life's own fragmentation. More even than the novel, it embraces the contingency of things.

  Jonathan Raban

  Travel, Book, Fit

  Jonathan Raban (1987). “For love & money: writing, reading, travelling, 1969-1987”

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• In our beginnings lies our journey's end.

  Kofi Awoonor

  Lying, Ends

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• You, O money, are the cause of a restless life! Because of you we journey toward a premature death; you provide cruel nourishment for the evils of men; the seed of our cares sprouts from your head.

  Propertius

  Money, Men, Evil

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• The one and only formative power given to man Is thought. By his thinking he not only makes character, but body and affairs, for as he thinketh within himself, so is he. Prejudice is a mist, which in our journey through the world often dims the brightest and obscures the best of all the good and glorious objects that meet us on our way.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Character, Men, Thinking

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• The paths by which people journey toward happiness lie in part through the world about them and in part through the experience of their own soul.

  Carl Hilty

  Happiness, Lying, People

  Carl Hilty (2013). “Happiness - Essays On The Meaning Of Life”, p.56, Read Books Ltd

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• The journey of prayer is nothing more or less than a gradual awakening to the reality of recognizing what is already there.

  Delia Smith

  Prayer, Reality, Awakening

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• In its outward manifestation, meditation appears to involve either stopping, by parking the body in a stillness that suspends activity, or giving oneself over to flowing movement. In either case, it is an embodiment of wise attention, an inward gesture undertaken for the most part in silence, a shift from doing to simply being. It is an act that may at first seem artificial but that we soon discover, if we keep at it, is ultimately one of pure love for the life unfolding within us and around us.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Wise, Hiking, Giving

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness”, p.100, Hachette UK

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• Emptiness is the track on which the centered person moves.

  Je Tsongkhapa

  Moving, Hiking, Track

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• Spirituality is an inner fire, a mystical sustenance that feeds our souls. The mystical journey drives us into ourselves, to a sacred flame at our center. The purpose of the religious experience is to develop the eyes by which we see this inner flame, and our capacity to live its mystery. In its presence, we are warmed and ignited. When too far from the blaze, we are cold and spiritually lifeless. We are less than human without that heat. Our connection to God is life itself.

  Marianne Williamson

  Religious, Eye, Fire

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage”, p.33, Random House

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• Life is not a journey, it is a destination

  Piero Scaruffi

  Inspirational, Life Is, Destination

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• The mystical journey drives us into ourselves, to a sacred flame at our center.

  Marianne Williamson

  Self, Flames, Sacred

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage”, p.33, Random House

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• The extra luggage of indiscriminate dreams, desires and attachments will make your life's journey miserable.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Dream, Spiritual, Attachment

  Twitter post from Jul 15, 2015

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• Build then the ship of death, for you must take the longest journey, to oblivion.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Death, Ships, Oblivion

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6883, Delphi Classics

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• A common question asked of writers is "When did you decide to become a writer?" The answer, of course, is that we didn't decide anything. It was decided for us. I firmly believe that mythical godmothers make appearances at our cradles, and bestow their gifts. The godmother who might have blessed me with a singing voice did not show up; the goddess of dance was nowhere in sight; the chef-to-the-angels was otherwise engaged. Only one made the journey to my cradle, and she whispered, "You will be a storyteller."

  Mary Higgins Clark

  Believe, Blessed, Angel

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• I don't remember a voice
  On a dark, lonesome road
  When I started this journey so long ago
  I was only just trying to outrun the noise
  There was never a question of having a choice

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Dark, Long Ago, Voice

  Song: The Calling, Album: The Calling

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• Most really good fiction is compelled into being. It comes from a kind of uncalculated innocence. You need not have your ending in mind before you commence. Indeed, you need not be certain of exactly what's going to transpire on page 2. If you know the whole story in advance, your novel is probably dead before you begin it. Give it some room to breathe, to change direction, to surprise you. Writing a novel is not so much a project as a journey, a voyage, an adventure.

  Tom Robbins

  Writing, Adventure, Giving

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• So you set out to travel to Rome... and end up in Istanbul. You set off for Japan... and you end up on a train across Siberia. The journey, not the destination, becomes a source of wonder.

  Loreena McKennitt

  Istanbul, Japan, Rome

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• Our creator says, 'Here's your birth and here's your death' - and the rest are the things you learn on your journey. This was my experience - and the choice is, I can lay in the misery, or choose to learn from it and move on.

  Ben Vereen

  Moving, Choices, Misery

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• When the journey from means to end is not too long, the means themselves are enjoyed if the end is ardently desired.

  Bertrand Russell

  Mean, Long, Ends

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Authority and the Individual”, p.41, Routledge

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• Imagination helps me to become part of that journey that I'm going through in font of the camera, or in front of an audience. I used to think you had to disappear within a character, but I find that puts a mask on what I do.

  Kim Cattrall

  Character, Thinking, Imagination

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• I'm trying to write poems that involve beginning at a known place, and ending up at a slightly different place. I'm trying to take a little journey from one place to another, and it's usually from a realistic place, to a place in the imagination.

  Billy Collins

  Writing, Imagination, Trying

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• I can't selfishly take journeys anymore because I have to take a little boy along with me.

  Sandra Bullock

  Boys, Littles, I Can

  "Sandra Bullock and Alfonso Cuarón Talk Gravity, onveying the Physics of Space, Training for the Film, Seeing It for the First Time and DVD Extras". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 30, 2013.

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• I never studied anything about film technique in school. Eventually, I realized that cinema and theater are not so different: from the gut to the heart to the head of a character is the same journey for both.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Heart, School, Character

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