Quotes about Journey
Spiritual formation is not about steps or stages on the way to perfection. It's about the movements from the mind to the heart through prayer in its many forms that reunite us with God, each other, and our truest selves.
- Henri Nouwen
The years that lie behind you, with all their struggles and pains, will in time be remembered only as the way that led you to your new life.
- Henri Nouwen
If you are on the right path, it will always be uphill.
- Henry B. Eyring
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
- Henry David Thoreau
The walking of which I speak has nothing in it akin to taking exercise, as it is called, as the sick take medicine at stated hours …but it is itself the enterprise and adventure of the day.
- Henry David Thoreau
Read your fate, see what is before you, and walk on into futurity.
- Henry David Thoreau
My life is like a stroll upon the beach, as near to the ocean's edge as I can go.
- Henry David Thoreau
Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows.
- Henry David Thoreau
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.
- Henry David Thoreau
I have learned that the swiftest traveler is he that goes afoot.
- Henry David Thoreau
We may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we would preserve the true course.
- Henry David Thoreau
It matters not where or how far you travel,--the farther commonly the worse,--but how much alive you are.
- Henry David Thoreau