Journeys Beginning Quotes & Sayings

Most journeys have a clear beginning, but on some the ending is less well-defined. The question is, at what point do you bite your lip and head for home? — Tahir Shah

The battle of the North Atlantic is a grim business, and it isn't going to be won by charm and personality. — Edmund H. North

Real life is all beginnings. Days, weeks, children, journeys, marriages, inventions. Even a murder is the beginning of a criminal. Perhaps even a spree. Everything is prologue. Every story has a stutter. It just keeps starting and starting until you decide to shut the camera off. Half the time you don't even realise that what you're choosing for breakfast is the beginning of a story that won't pan out till you're sixty and staring at the pastry that made you a widower. No, love, in real life you can get all the way to death and never have finished one single story. Or never even get one so much as half-begun. — Catherynne M Valente

Watch carefully the journeys of others because the beginning of your own journey is hidden in the journeys of others! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

We often end our journeys without beginning them. We learn about the world without knowing ourselves. — Debasish Mridha

I was with you at the beginning of your journey. It is right that I should follow you to its end. — Ursula K. Le Guin

There is here, as in all countries, advantages and disadvantages. — Nathaniel Smith

We are great mysteries. No matter what we imagine we may know, even for all the facts we might gather, we don't know each other. Never do, probably never will. Our reputations depend on the opinions of the ill informed. We all have better moments than anybody ever knows, and so do all the others. We are, each one of us, books that are read by critics who only glanced at the chapter headings and the jacket flap. Each one of us is a secret, and on that basis we ought to treat each other with the deepest respect. — Garrison Keillor

Hey self, Stop having a lady boner moment! — Georgia Cates

We usually recognize a beginning. Endings are more difficult to detect. Most often, they are realized only after reflection. Silence. We are seldom conscious when silence begins - it is only afterward that we realize what we have been a part of. In the night journeys of Canada geese, it is the silence that propels them. Thomas Merton writes, Silence is the strength of our interior life. ... If we fill our lives with silence, then we will live in hope. — Terry Tempest Williams

Every good thing comes to some kind of end, and then the really good things come to a beginning again. — Cory Doctorow

I keep staring at the bag in Mrs. Parks's hand: yellows, greens, blues, whites, pastel colors so soft they look as if they have faded in the sea. The washed colors of the sea and sleep. Pajama colors. The colors of baby clothes. In my nose is the smell of my brothers' heads after they are born. Maybe this is why people making journeys buy saltwater taffy. It gives you the lovely dreamy sense that you can start all over again from the beginning. — Polly Horvath

I'll always be beautiful. Look at me. I have one hundred and sixty-two bug bites, and has it made me any less beautiful? I'm missing two fingers and I have scars all over, but does anyone care? No! It just makes me more interesting! I'll always be like this, stuck in this beautiful form, and you'll have to deal with it. — Kristin Cashore

How can I be a part of the 1960s generation when I don't even remember any of it? — Douglas Coupland

My wandering has led me to the beginning of our journey together. I suppose it's only fitting for me to be here at that journey's end. — Marie Lu