Quotes about Journey
Fullness to such a burden is That go on pilgrimage; Here little, and hereafter bliss, Is best from age to age.
— John Bunyan
By the time a man gets well into his seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
We travelers, walking to the sun, can't see Ahead, but looking back the very light That blinded us shows us the way we came, Along which blessings now appear, risen As if from sightlessness to sight, and we, By blessing brightly lit, keep going toward That blessed light that yet to us is dark. Sabbaths 1999 VI
— Wendell Berry
Faith puts you out on a wide river in a little boat, in the fog, in the dark.
— Wendell Berry
The big idea of education, from first to last, is the idea of a better place. Not a better place where you are, because you want it to be better and have been to school and learned to make it better, but a better place somewhere else. In order to move up, you have got to move on.
— Wendell Berry
But in his dream he knew their way was prepared, and in their time they would rise up joyful.
— Wendell Berry
Se poate întâmpla ca, atunci când nu mai È™tim ce s? facem, s? fi ajuns la adev?rata noastr? munc?, iar când nu mai È™tim pe ce cale s? o lu?m, s? fi început adev?rata noastr? c?l?torie.
— Wendell Berry
Another place! it's enough to grieve me — that old dream of going, of becoming a better man just by getting up and going to a better place.
— Wendell Berry
What a wonder I was when I was young, as I learn by the stern privilege of being old: how regardlessly I stepped the rough pathways of the hillside woods, treaded hardly thinking the tumbled stairways of the steep streams, and worked unaching hard days thoughtful only of the work, the passing light, the heat, the cool water I gladly drank.
— Wendell Berry
You have been given questions to which you cannot be given answers. You will have to live them out—perhaps a little at a time." "And how long is that going to take?" "I don't know. As long as you live, perhaps." "That could be a long time." "I will tell you a further mystery," he said "It may take longer.
— Wendell Berry
And yet for a long time, looking back, I have been unable to shake off the feeling that I have been led—make of that what you will.
— Wendell Berry
Mat felt the change upon himself. Now he was the oldest, and the longest memory was his. Now between him and the grave stood no other man. From here on he would find the way for himself.
— Wendell Berry