Journeying Quotes

“Cutting my roots and leaving my home and family when I was 18 years old forced me to build my home in other things, like my music, stories and my journey. The last years I have more or less constantly been on my way, on the road, always leaving and never arriving, which also means leaving people. I’ve loved and lost and I have regrets and I miss and no matter how many times you leave, start over, achieve success or travel places it’s other people that matter. People, friends, family, lovers, strangers – they will forever stay with you, even if only through memory. I’ve grown to appreciate people to the deepest core and I’m trying to learn how to tell people what I want to tell them when I have the chance, before it’s too late. …”
― Charlotte Eriksson

“The things that come to us easily, our propensities, are carried on a deep subconscious level into our next life. There are no coincidences.”
― Raquel Cepeda, Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

“More than anything, this place feels familiar. I bury my hands in the hot sand and think about the embodiment of memory or, more specifically, our natural ability to carry the past in our bodies and minds. Individually, every grain of sand brushing against my hands represents a story, an experience, and a block for me to build upon for the next generation. I quietly thank this ancestor of mine for surviving the trip so that I could one day return.”
― Raquel Cepeda, Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

“Summer is leaving silently. Much like a traveler approaching the end of an amazing journey.”
― Darnell Lamont Walker

“Whereas the health of an individual depends on the ego's regular descent and return to and from the unconscious, a society's longevity depends on actual people journeying into the unknown and returning with ideas.”
― Dan Harmon

“Our identities are as fluid as our personal experiences are diverse.”
― Raquel Cepeda, Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

“Hip-hop...has been the proverbial key that’s opened the door for me to roam this breathtaking planet.”
― Raquel Cepeda, Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

“To me, travel is more valuable than any stupid piece of bling money can buy.”
― Raquel Cepeda, Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

“A difficult journey is spiritual rewarding.
There is a more dependence on God, His supernatural power, grace and divine favour long the travel.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“My journey in life, my footprints in the world.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Does the road wind up-hill all the way?
Yes, to the very end.
Will the day’s journey take the whole long day?
From morn to night, my friend.”
― Christina Rossetti, Up-hill

“Traveling further ingrained my desire to connect to a place other than an island that is slightly older, in a New World way, than the United States, especially after I found characteristics of my face in the faces of the people in my global community.”
― Raquel Cepeda, Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

“Your journey on earth is personal journey of life.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Lord bless our journey on earth.
Lord grant us the grace and will-power to fulfill our mission in the world.”
― Lailah GiftyAkita

“God bless our journey on earth.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“My ministry is focused less on trying to teach the scriptural formula for what faithful discipleship for gay people is, and more about living with my gay friends in the pursuit of faithful discipleship.”
― Wendy Vanderwal-Gritter, Generous Spaciousness: Responding to Gay Christians in the Church

“By the time I had seen the problems from applying for workers compensation for occupational disease, I had concluded that I was journeying through a third-world like system of employee protection.”
― Steven Magee

“I matter. I fly lone, apart from the flock, on long journeys through storm and clear skies to another summer. Hear me!”
― Janet Frame, Towards Another Summer

“You are going through avenues, the highways are coming.”
― Goitsemang Mvula

“Aging may take you journeying through a variety of health conditions.”
― Steven Magee, Pandemic Supplements