Quotes about Journey

Art is lunging forward without certainty about where you are going or how to get there, being open to and dependent on what luck, the paint, the typo, the dissonance, give you. Without art you're stuck with yourself as you are and life as you think life is.

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

You just have to take the first step , you don't have to see the whole staircase.

Take the first step. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

We think we are pushing our own way bravely, but there is a great Hand in ours all the time.

Life itself is a sea full of reefs and maelstroms that a human being takes the greatest care and caution to avoid; he uses all his efforts and ingenuity to wend his way through, while knowing that even if he is successful, every step brings him closer to the greatest, the total, the inescapable and irreparable shipwreck, and in fact steers him right up to it, - to death: this is the final goal of the miserable journey and worse for him that all the reefs he managed to avoid.

How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.

To whom do I owe the power behind my voice, what strength I have become, yeasting up like sudden blood from under the bruised skin's blister? My father leaves his psychic print upon me, silent, intense, and unforgiving. But his is a distant lightning. Images of women flaming like torches adorn and define the borders of my journey, stand like dykes between me and the chaos. It is the images of women, kind and cruel, that lead me home.

We knew not where we were going. We only knew that we must run, run to the end of the world, run to the end of our days.

We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.

The slow pace of our perfection has to be borne with patience, provided that on our part we always do whatever we can to continue advancing.