Pastoral Resources

Here I am, safely returned over those peaks from a journey far more beautiful and strange than anything I had hoped for or imagined - how is it that this safe return brings such regret?

It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle.

Every book is a new journey. I never felt I was an expert on a subject as I embarked on a project.

I had no expectations about fatherhood, really, but it's definitely a journey I'm glad to be taking. Number one, it's a great learning experience. When my mother told me it's a 24/7 job, she wasn't kidding.

You think about taking audiences on a journey.

And it was from Boston that one in every six American families began their journey into the land of the free.

For this is the journey that men and women make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much else what they find.

At no time are we ever in such complete possession of a journey, down to its last nook and cranny, as when we are busy with preparations for it.

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.

As always on this boulevard, the faces were young, coming annually in an endless migration from every country, every continent, to alight here once in the long journey of their lives.

I had almost forgotten to tell you that I have already been to the Parliament House; and yet this is of most importance. For, had I seen nothing else in England but this, I should have thought my journey thither amply rewarded.

But I also wanted to give them an intelligent emotional journey, without having to suspend reality - to be able to look at those characters and see reasons for the relationships and why what happens happens.

White middle- and upper-class men have a longer journey to go than many people.

We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.

I think it's my adventure, my trip, my journey, and I guess my attitude is, let the chips fall where they may.

Success is not a place at which one arrives but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

I never want to sort of put all the cards on the table all at once, because that's somehow there's always a journey to go on. There's always something to be revealed, in my mind, about characters.

My fellow citizens, the American Presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery.

You see, greatness for a state doesn't require some huge monument for all to see. It is not a journey to a particular destination - but a commitment to follow a course of constant and never-ending improvement.

Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.