Sluggish and sedentary peoples, such as the Ancient Egyptians-- with their concept of an afterlife journey through the Field of Reeds-- project on to the next world the journeys they failed to make in this one.
I want to teach parents how they can help their kids with death, grief, and losing things, the journey of life.
Any journey in life, if not done for human reasons of understanding and love, would be a very empty and lonely one.
I would like to travel light on this journey of life, to get rid of the encumbrances I acquire each day. . . . The most difficult thing to let go is my self, that self which, coddled and cozened, becomes smaller as it becomes heavier. I don't understand how and why I come to be only as I lose myself, but I know from long experience that this is so.
And yet, winning is like a welcome drink going down your throat, like a beautiful embrace. It is brilliant while it lasts but it isn't forever. The high eventually melts away and the journey of life begins afresh. The truly remarkable among us visit these highs periodically; winning then becomes a journey, a graph where each point is crucial but is in reality merely part of a larger curve.
The whole journey of life is a journey of preparation... to see, to feel, to understand the beauty of what lies ahead, of the homeland towards which we walk.
You can always meet stupid people in your life journey; you should treat them like the way candle treats darkness: Illuminate them!
Who would venture upon the journey of life, if compelled to begin it at the end?
When I became a director, I wanted to convince a very reluctant Sidney into allowing me to go on the journey of his life. Sidney had gone ahead of every other African American actor.
Some journeys in life can only be traveled alone.
The further along we get on our life journey the more we wonder about those who traveled before us and paved the road.
The journey of life is too short as compare with the journey of time, so keep your time.
Just this whole journey [of life] has been a blessing from God, so for me to be here [on Earth] I'm just taking it one day at a time and really enjoying it.
It's a journey, it's a fight everyday. There was a real effort to stay in the program... So far this has been a very successful rehab.
Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.
The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that.
For the first forty days a child is given dreams of previous lives. Journeys, winding paths, a hundred small lessons and then the past is erased.
Creation and destruction are the two ends of the same moment. And everything between the creation and the next destruction is the journey of life.
If today I had a young mind to direct, to start on the journey of life, and I was faced with the duty of choosing between the natural way of my forefathers and that of the... present way of civilization, I would, for its welfare, unhesitatingly set that child's feet in the path of my forefathers. I would raise him to be an Indian!
I think self-exploration is one of the journeys in life that we are blessed to be able to have.
In the degree that we remember and retell our stories and create new ones we become the authors, the authorities, of our own lives.
The long series of disappointments you accumulate in a lifetime can stop you from moving forward into all the goodness God has planned for you – and that means they’ll be stopping not only you, but also all those God has destined you to reach along your life journey.
There is only one map to the journey of life and it lives within your heart
I truly believe that the job of an actor and the drive of an actor is simulating the internal journey in life which is to get deeper and deeper into our understanding of who we are.
I'm living my life as a journey. My quest is to make it better every year.
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