“Leaving love behind is never easy, for it also asks that we leave behind the part of ourselves that did the loving. And yet for all but the very fortunate and the very foolish, this difficult transition is an inevitable part of the human experience, of the ceaseless learning journey that is life - because, after all, anything worth pursuing is worth failing at, and fail we do as we pursue.” HumansAsksEasyDifficultLove IsBehindsFailingJourneyLeavingFoolishPursueInevitableFortunateTransitionHuman Experience Author:Maria Popova
“When you leave Africa, as the plane lifts, you feel that more than leaving a continent you're leaving a state of mind. Whatever awaits you at the other end of your journey will be of a different order of existence.” FeelsMindDifferentEndsStatesOrderExistenceJourneyLeavingLiftsPlanesState Of MindContinents Book:Rules of the Wild: A Novel of Africa Source: Rules of the Wild: A Novel of Africa
“The practice of leaving settled society to undertake a spiritual journey, or a spiritual life really, is something that is much more common in India. Common especially to a certain phase of life, to the end of life. But not so unusual for younger people as well.” PeopleWellsEndsSpiritualCertainCommonPracticeJourneyIndiaLeavingUnusualSpiritual LifePhasesEnd Of LifeSpiritual JourneyPhases Of Life Author:Diana L. Eck
“I learnt a lot in government, and I've learnt a lot since leaving government. The kind of journey of being in government is that you start at your most popular and least capable, and you end at your most capable and least popular.” KindEndsGovernmentJourneyCapableLeaving Author:Tony Blair
“Journey with me to a true commitment to our environment. Journey with me to the serenity of leaving to our children a planet in equilibrium.” ChildrenEnvironmentJourneyPlanetsCommitmentOur ChildrenEnvironmentalLeavingSerenityOur EnvironmentEquilibriumLife Journey Author:Paul Tsongas
“And you're not leaving," she said. "Promise me." It was as if she had asked him to promise to keep breathing, to notice sunshine, to permit the spinning of the earth. What choice did he have? Even if he left her, she would be camped in his heart, an insistent and willful presence. She would match her strides to his on any journey he ever took; she would lie beside him on any bed. Amalie, he said, "that's the easiest promise I've ever had to make.” IfsHeartSaidWould BeEarthLyingChoicesLeftJourneyPromiseBedLeavingBreathingSunshinePermitSpinningStridePromise Me Author:Sharon Shinn
“I leave, and the leaving is so exhilarating I know I can never go back. But then what? Do I just keep leaving places, and leaving them, and leaving them, tramping a perpetual journey?” KnowsI CanJourneyTownsLeavingPerpetualExhilarating Book:Paper Towns Source: Paper Towns