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 WarnerIn 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 QuindlenTag: life reading books dreams refuge values aspirations escape journeys
I suppose that every wanderer started in a garden somewhere. So few of us are born into motion.
Candas Jane DorseyJourneys end in lovers meeting,
Every wise man's son doth know.
Tag: destiny meetings lovers journeys destination
But then it came time for me to make my journey—into America. [... N]o coincidence that my first novel is called Americana. That became my subject, the subject that shaped my work. When I get a French translation of one of my books that says 'translated from the American', I think, 'Yes, that's exactly right.
Don DeLilloTag: united-states french translation coincidence journeys robert-mccrum
I didnt pay atteniton to times or distance, instead focusing on how it felt just to be in motion, knowing it wasn't about the finish line but how I got there that mattered.
Sarah DessenTag: life time distance focus journeys motion
The only journeys worth taking in life are those that test us to the very core
Justin SomperTag: journeys connor vampirates
If you think it long and mad the wind of banners that passes through my life
And you decide to leave me at the shore of the heart where I have roots
Remember
That on that day, at that hour, I shall lift my arms
And my roots will set off to seek another land
Tag: life-and-living journeys
Life is a journey through a foreign land.
O.R. MellingTag: life journeys the-book-of-dreams
You don't always need to know your destination when you set out on a journey.
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