Quotes about Journey
Let not that man think he makes any progress in holiness who walks not over the bellies of his lusts. He who doth not kill sin in this way takes no steps towards his journey's end. He who finds not opposition from it, and who sets not himself in every particular to its mortification, is at peace with it, not dying to it. This
- John Owen
Walking toward the light. None of us lives in the light; we can only walk toward it, with the eyes and legs God has given us.
- John Updike
The reel of your real life unwound only once.
- John Updike
He decides to walk around the block, to clear his head and pick his path. Funny, how what makes you move is so simple and the field you must move in is so crowded.
- John Updike
Joy makes the longest journey too short.
- John Wooden
I never dreamed about winning a national championship. What I was dreaming about was trying to produce the best basketball team we could be. My thoughts were directed toward preparation, our journey, not the results of the effort. That would simply have shifted my attention to the wrong area, hoping for something out of my control.
- John Wooden
Sometime you can do everything right and still lose. It's all a journey. You do your best, and then you have to let it go. Lots of people preach that, but come crunch time—oops, not so easy to do.
- John Wooden
A Successful Journey Is the Destination
- John Wooden
in meditation practice, the best way to get somewhere is to let go of trying to get anywhere at all.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
The point here is simply that it is useful at times to admit to yourself that you don't know your way and to be open to help from unexpected places. Doing this makes available to you inner and outer energies and allies that arise out of your own soulfulness and selflessness.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
health is a dynamical process. It is not a fixed state that you "get" and then hold on to.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
...I believe that doubts, honestly expressed and wrestled with, produce a faith that is stronger and more intimate than doubts suppressed under the veneer of faith.
- Sheila Walsh