Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

May we live here like strangers and make the world not a house, but an inn, in which we sup and lodge, expecting to be on our journey tomorrow.

Alanis Morissette

the truth of who we are is innate goodness, and the whole journey is really about removing any obstacle or false belief that keeps us from knowing that

Alan Watts

When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.

Alan Watts

We thought of life by analogy with a journey, a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at the end, and the thing was to get to that end, success or whatever it is, maybe heaven after you’re dead. But we missed the point the whole way along. It was a musical thing and you were supposed to sing or to dance while the music was being played.

Alan Paton

Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival. When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house. But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.

Alan Paton

Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.

Alan Ball

I'm not like J.K. Rowling, where I know there's going to be this number of seasons, and I know exactly what's going to happen. I would be so bored if that was the case. There would be no journey. There would be nothing to discover.

Al Smith

Sin is like a journey, it begins with one step.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

To know that God thinks about me is the beginning of my journey of faith.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Faith is not a conclusion you reach...it's a journey you live.

Chris Colfer

Anyone can have a once-upon-a-time or a happily-ever-after, but it's the journey between that makes the story worth telling.

Chris Colfer

But one of the big lessons I have learned from my journey is you can’t please everyone, so don’t try.

Chris Abani

Narrative is a very feeble weapon in the face of human darkness and yet it's all we have. That we have to hang the transformation and survival of our species on the journey and transformation of one singular person so far outside of what we expect they can do.

Chogyam Trungpa

If there is some profound method that offers a quick way, we would rather follow that than undertake arduous journeys and difficult practices. But some manual work and physical effort is necessary.

Chogyam Trungpa

But again and again, we should reflect back to the darkness of the cocoon. In order to inspire ourselves forward, we must look back to see the contrast with the place we came from. You see, we cannot reject the world of the cocoon - which out which we may create a new cocoon. When we see the suffering that occured in the old cocoon, that inspires us to go forward in our journey of warriorship. It is a journey that is unfolding within us.

Chogyam Trungpa

Our path is sometimes rough and sometimes smooth; nonetheless, life is a constant journey... whatever we do is regarded as our journey, our path. That path consists of opening oneself to the road, opening oneself to the steps we are about to take.

Chinua Achebe

Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing journey thorough the world.

David Mitchell

...there ain't no journey what don't change you some.

David Nail

I really like singing, but coming from a small town like where I grew up, how do you start that journey?

Buffalo Bill

The first trip of the Pony Express was made in ten days - an average of two hundred miles a day. But we soon began stretching our riders and making better time.

Bryan Sykes

We are all a complete mixture;yet at the same time,we are all related.Each gene can trace its own journey to a different common ancestor.This is a quite extraordinary legacy that we all have inherited from the people who lived before us.Our genes did not just appear when we were born.They have been carried to us by millions of individual lives over thousands of generations.

Catherine Bell

Not as much as I used to, but I use the Internet for everything. I use it for information. Like if I'm planning a trip or something, I'll check out the place I'm going to.

Catherynne M. Valente

Funny how "question" contains the word "quest" inside it, as though any small question asked is a journey through briars.

Bob Menendez

Theres a difference between, as I always say, the destination, the end point, and the journey. The journey has a lot of twists and turns. It isnt always pretty.

Bill Johnson

The journey makes things valuable not the title. Learn to enjoy and value the process of what God is doing.

Edward Gorey

My favorite journey is looking out the window.

Edward James Olmos

If it’s change you need, relish the journey.

Edward James Olmos

Life’s a journey that goes round and round and the end is closest to the beginning.

Ed Baker

Without my protectionm your journey is doomed before you begin.' Great! I thought. Even the snake is a critic!

David Duchovny

In the general sense, there's a journey to be had. You either start at the top or the bottom for a journey to happen. Our movie has to start at the top and work it's way down. Or start at the bottom and work it's way up.

David Brock

Courage, I now see, is a journey involving self-doubt and self-examination, with the end never in sight.

David Brainerd

Oh that I may never loiter on my heavenly journey.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame.