“Sometimes, reaching out and taking someone s hand is the beginning of a journey. At other times, it is allowing another to take yours.”
“End? No, the journey doesn t end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it.”
“You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are.”
“The desire to go home that is a desire to be whole, to know where you are, to be the point of intersection of all the lines drawn through all the stars, to be the constellation-maker and the center of the world, that center called love. To awaken from sleep, to rest from awakening, to tame the animal, to let the soul go wild, to shelter in darkness and blaze with light, to cease to speak and be perfectly understood.”
“The most important words a man can say are, “I will do better.” These are not the most important words any man can say. I am a man, and they are what I needed to say. The ancient code of the Knights Radiant says “journey before destination.” Some may call it a simple platitude, but it is far more. A journey will have pain and failure. It is not only the steps forward that we must accept. It is the stumbles. The trials. The knowledge that we will fail. That we will hurt those around us. But if we stop, if we accept the person we are when we fall, the journey ends. That failure becomes our destination. To love the journey is to accept no such end. I have found, through painful experience, that the most important step a person can take is always the next one. I’m certain some will feel threatened by this record. Some few may feel liberated. Most will simply feel that it should not exist. I needed to write it anyway.”
“I made up my mind not to care so much about the destination, and simply enjoy the journey.”
“Sometimes it s worth lingering on the journey for a while before getting to the destination.”
“No journey out of grief was straightforward. There would be good days and bad days.”
“Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean.”
“I have an idea that some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid certain surroundings, but they have always a nostalgia for a home they know not. They are strangers in their birthplace, and the leafy lanes they have known from childhood or the populous streets in which they have played, remain but a place of passage. They may spend their whole lives aliens among their kindred and remain aloof among the only scenes they have ever known. Perhaps it is this sense of strangeness that sends men far and wide in the search for something permanent, to which they may attach themselves. Perhaps some deep-rooted atavism urges the wanderer back to lands which his ancestors left in the dim beginnings of history.”
“It’s not so much the journey that’s important; as is the way that we treat those we encounter and those around us, along the way”
“If you fuel your journey on the opinions of others, you are going to run out of gas.”
“Sometimes you don’t know when you’re taking the first step through a door until you’re already inside.”
“Trust and be patient. You are making it happen, in your own way, it its own time.”
“You have two lives in you, Alice. The one you know, and another one. One that has been waiting for you for a very long time. They have nothing in common, apart from you.”
“Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don t have to sit on it.”
“Because the greatest part of a road trip isn’t arriving at your destination. It’s all the wild stuff that happens along the way.”