Journey To The West Quotes

#1. But slowly, it happened everywhere, in the West and in the East as well, that the journey to wisdom through suffering became a global art form.

Andrew Ramer

#2. You've got nothing to lose. Many people don't allow themselves to love, precisely because of that, because there are a lot of things at risk, a lot of future and a lot of past. In your case, there is only the present.

Paulo Coelho

#3. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.

Natalie Goldberg

#4. If I could split myself into five people, I would still be behind on my writing schedule. I see now why James Patterson cloned himself so many times.

Peter James West

#5. We generally colour our ideas of the unknown with our notions of the known.

Fernando Pessoa

#6. To go north, you must journey south. To reach the west, you must go east. To go forward you must go back, and to touch the light you must pass beneath the shadow.

George R R Martin

#7. Here are two dichotomies here. In the West it is a very physical practice, and even meditation is a practice to become productive and more at peace. In the East, you think of the deep spiritual practices as a journey of complete dissolution of the self, the ego.

Karan Bajaj

#8. Some people come into your life for a reason, some a season, and some a lifetime.

Whitney Gracia Williams

#9. East, West, South or North makes little difference. No matter what your destination, just be sure to make every journey, a journey within. If you travel within, you'll travel the whole wide world and beyond.

Elif Shafak

#10. The first step of the terrible journey toward feeling somebody should act, that ends in utter confusion and hopelessness, east of the sun and west of the moon.

John Ashbery

#11. I wanted to go to the rooftree of Maine to start my trip before turning west. It seemed to give the journey a design, and everything in the world must have design or the human mind rejects it. But in addition it must have purpose or the human conscience shies away from it. Maine

John Steinbeck

#12. If I could do it all again, I would start three hundred years ago, and write twice as fast.

Peter James West

#13. Reading kicks God's balls in the ass!

Johnny Ryan

#14. Wrestle with your thoughts until you get them on the page. Nobody can read them until you've written them down.

Peter James West

#15. She would search for him.
In the land that lay east of the sun and west of the moon.
But there was no way there.

Edith Pattou

#16. As architects we have a responsibility
to society

Richard Rogers

#17. After more than sixty years of almost daily reading of the Bible, I never fail to find it always new and marvelously in tune with the changing needs of every day.

Cecil B. DeMille

#18. Keep writing and let the world roll on by.
Take the madness of reality and shape it into something worth sharing.

Peter James West

#19. Oh, how often have I cursed those foolish pages of mine which made my youthful sufferings public property! Goethe wrote years after the publication of The Sorrows of Young Werther.

Maggie Nelson

#20. Well I don't think I've scored my life exclusively to Ray Charles.

Taylor Hackford

#21. With Germany herself falling, it is not strange that the nations leagued with her also went down to defeat.

Kelly Miller

#22. Success needs to be measured according to the ambitions and the resources of each designer. And many aren't interested in being a megabrand.

Tim Gunn

#23. Is this Journey? Are you grieving to Journey?

Kasie West

#24. Put aside your need for a step-by-step manual and instead realize that analogies are your best friend.

Seth Godin

#25. Mozart eliminates the idea of haste from life. His airs could not lag as they make their journey through the listener's attention; they are not the right shape for loitering. But it is as true that they never rush, they are never headlong or helter-skelter, they splash no mud, they raise no dust.

Rebecca West

#26. Life is an empty bottle filled with love.

Santosh Kalwar

#27. Wherever you go, east, west, north or south, think of it as a journey into yourself! The one who travels into itself travels the world.

Shams Tabrizi

#28. The American journey has not ended. America is always still to build ... West is a country in the mind, and so eternal.

Archibald MacLeish

#29. You keep life on a short leash."
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"You're scared of what you can't control.

Becca Fitzpatrick