Quotes about Journey

America, I never said this journey would be easy, and I won't promise that now. Yes, our path is harder — but it leads to a better place. Yes our road is longer — but we travel it together. We don't turn back. We leave no one behind. We pull each other up. We draw strength from our victories, and we learn from our mistakes...

Because, you know, contrary to the song of a great American master, we're generally not born to run. Most of us are born to run a little bit and go back home.

I had done everything I knew how to do to draw as near to the heart of God as I could, only to find myself out of gas on a lonely road, filled with bitterness & self-pity. To suppose that I had ended up in such a place by the grace of God required a significant leap of faith. If I could open my hands, then all that fell from them might flower on the way down. If I could let myself fall, then I too might land in a fertile place.

Always we walk each other home. And always we walk some of it alone.

How strange that a boy could make a kite of his pants, fly them around the world, and somehow arrive back at the house where everything began.

People change, she said. Not everything stays with you all your life.

First, I got myself born. The worst of the job was up to me.

Believe this: the mistakes are part of the story

I went on foot because I still had feet to carry me.

Emelina and I took each other in. All morning I'd felt the strange disjuncture that comes from reconnecting with your past. There's such a gulf between yourself and who you were then, but people speak to that other person and it answers; it's like having a stranger as a house guest in your skin.

Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.

Life is a mission and not a career.