(42 quotes found)
“Common sense and good nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult”
William Somerset Maugham
“Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination.”
Swami Sivananda
“Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.”
Anita Brookner
“Above all, we must forgive the unhappy souls who have elected to make the pilgrimage on foot, who skirt the shore and look uncomprehendingly upon the horror of the struggle, the joy of victory, the profound hopelessness of the vanquished”
Joseph Conrad
“And what's a life? - a weary pilgrimage, Whose glory in one day doth fill the stage With childhood, manhood, and decrepit age”
Francis Quarles
“Each and every one of us has one obligation, during the bewildered days of our pilgrimage here: the saving of his own soul, and secondarily and incidentally thereby affecting for good such other souls as come under our influence”
Kathleen Norris
“We see in these swift and skillful travelers a symbol of our life, which seeks to be a pilgrimage and a passage on this earth for the way of heaven.”
Pope Paul VI
“Pilgrimage to the place of the wise is to find escape from the flame of separateness.”
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
“When We made the House a pilgrimage for men and a (place of) security, and: Appoint for yourselves a place of prayer on the standing-place of Ibrahim. And We enjoined Ibrahim and Ismail saying: Purify My House for those who visit (it) and those who a”
quran
“I likened my arrival to Paris as a pilgrimage.”
Kay Boyle
