#journey

So i learned two things that night, and the next day, from him: the perfection of a moment, and the fleeting nature of it. ↗

— Margaret George

#epiphany #fiction #journey #life #loss

It is a sweet thing that we serve a dissatisfied God who has destinations in mind for us that we would never choose for ourselves. It really is a good thing that he will not be satisfied until he has gotten us exactly where he created us and re-created us to be. Most of us would have been satisfied to stay at home, and many of us would have quit the journey long before it was completed. But our heavenly Father won't give up until each one of his children has completed the journey. ↗

— Paul David Tripp

#christian-living #inspirational #journey #trusting-god #home

Your life have to be filled with interesting tales that it should not bore your grandchildren, when you tell them someday. ↗

— Pradeepa Pandiyan

#family #freedom #inspirational #journey #life

Never stop just because you feel defeated. The journey to the other side is attainable only after great suffering. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#defeat #journey #life #other-side #stop

Some of us aren't meant to belong. Some of us have to turn the world upside down and shake the hell out of it until we make our own place in it. ↗

— Elizabeth Lowell

#life-journey #outsider #life

If you could do it, I suppose, it would be a good idea to live your life in a straight line - starting, say, in the Dark Wood of Error, and proceeding by logical steps through Hell and Purgatory and into Heaven. Or you could take the King's Highway past the appropriately named dangers, toils, and snares, and finally cross the River of Death and enter the Celestial City. But that is not the way I have done it, so far. I am a pilgrim, but my pilgrimage has been wandering and unmarked. Often what has looked like a straight line to me has been a circling or a doubling back. I have been in the Dark Wood of Error any number of times. I have known something of Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven, but not always in that order. The names of many snares and dangers have been made known to me, but I have seen them only in looking back. Often I have not known where I was going until I was already there. I have had my share of desires and goals, but my life has come to me or I have gone to it mainly by way of mistakes and surprises. Often I have received better than I deserved. Often my fairest hopes have rested on bad mistakes. I am an ignorant pilgrim, crossing a dark valley. 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

#death

I had always turned to books, to knowledge, to help me get through everything in my life—and, sometimes, to escape it. But grief was a journey through a forest of razor blades. I walked through every painful inch of it—no shortcuts and no anesthesia. ↗

— Michele Bardsley

#grief #journey #life #life

Whether we like it or not, we all come from someplace. And at some point in our lives, we have to make peace with that place. ↗

— Jeffrey Stepakoff

#life #places #life

This is my life, I thought...I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil; I have been the apprentice, paid my dues, and have just become master of my ship. But when I look down, why do I see the ancient, tarred, mud-stained slippers that I buried at the start of the journey still stuck to my feet? ↗

— Abraham Verghese

#life

By writing quotes... I mark a trail of my soul's journey in this realm. ↗

— Toba Beta

#life #mark-a-trail #realm #soul #life