#journeys

If it wasn’t for all those silver wings spread out to help you on your journey, you would’a been dead or someplace screamin’ in a nut house a long time ago. ↗

— Aberjhani

#angels #classic-quotes #divine-blessings #divinity #faith

The main thing I'm into is going about on a bike, taking random routes; I'm really into the idea of making up journeys, and just seeing where they take you, because they always end up taking you someplace freaky. ↗

— Tom Jenkinson

#always #because #bike #end #freaky

In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own. I learned who I was and who I wanted to be, what I might aspire to, and what I might dare to dream about my world and myself. More powerfully and persuasively than from the "shalt nots" of the Ten Commandments, I learned the difference between good and evil, right and wrong. A Wrinkle in Time described that evil, that wrong, existing in a different dimension from our own. But I felt that I, too, existed much of the time in a different dimension from everyone else I knew. There was waking, and there was sleeping. And then there were books, a kind of parallel universe in which anything might happen and frequently did, a universe in which I might be a newcomer but was never really a stranger. My real, true world. My perfect island. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#books #dreams #escape #journeys #life

An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys. ↗

— Iain Sinclair

#disturbing #doubt #involuntary #journeys #most

A society that doesn't know any longer how to observe every death with proper rituals, that does not know that death is not the end, but only part of the journey, has lost its way, has had the very heart of its humanity torn out. ↗

— Marina Warner

#journeys #death

It's not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness. ↗

— Mary Astor

#good #instead #journeys #make #sameness

In a forest of a hundred thousand trees, no two leaves are alike. And no two journeys along the same path are alike. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#journeys #trees #experience

She had come to accept, deeply, and with certitude, that she had been born into a world, a life, that would not let her be whole. ↗

— Guy Gavriel Kay

#personal-journeys #life

And what went wrong when other alchemists tried to make gold and were unable to do so?" "They were looking only for gold his companion answered. They were seeking the treasure of their personal legend, without wanting actually to live out the personal legend. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#journeys #life-lessons #life-philosophy #life

A commitment doesn’t care about your feelings. To follow your path you give up what you want and follow what you need. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#commitment #journeys #life-missions #purpose #life