Quotes about Journey
Great is the gate and narrow is the way which leadeth to life, and few there be who find it." And
- Joseph Campbell
What I think is that a good life is one hero journey after another. Over and over again, you are called to the realm of adventure, you are called to new horizons. Each time, there is the same problem: do I dare? And then if you do dare, the dangers are there, and the help also, in the fulfillment or the fiasco. There's always the possibility of a fiasco. But there's also the possibility of bliss.
- Joseph Campbell
Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake.
- AA Milne
By the time it came to the edge of the Forest, the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a river, and, being grown-up, it did not run and jump and sparkle along as it used to do when it was younger, but moved more slowly. For it knew now where it was going, and it said to itself, "There is no hurry. We shall get there some day." But all the little streams higher up in the Forest went this way and that, quickly, eagerly, having so much to find out before it was too late.
- AA Milne
Would you mind coming with me, Piglet, in case they turn out to be Hostile Animals?
- AA Milne
so they went off together but where ever they go and whatever happens to themon the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the forest a little boy and his bear will always be playing.
- AA Milne
Let's look for dragons, I said to Pooh. Yes, let's, said Pooh to Me. We crossed the river and found a few Yes, those are dragons all right, said Pooh. As soon as I saw their beaks I knew. That's what they are, said Pooh, said he. That's what they are, said Pooh.
- AA Milne
No one can tell me, Nobody knows, Where the wind comes from, Where the wind goes.
- AA Milne
The course of life in unpredictable, no one can write his autobiography in advance.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
The course of life is unpredictable... no one can write his autobiography in advance.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
In one manner or the other, it still remains true that, even in the view of a mere biologist, the human epic resembles nothing so much as a way of the Cross.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
We are not physical beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a physical experience.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin