I have a page of quotes that I like and keep on my ‘phone, that are on a sort of Camino-related theme - some were actually uttered by fellow walkers.
Humour me with the selection below… I hope readers may like one or two and find that they resonate in some way.
Some are well known quotes, of course:
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be”
-Douglas Adams
”If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.”
Woody Allen
”Not all those who wander are lost” ~ J. R. R. Tolkien
”An adventure is just bad planning ~ Roald Amundsen
Good, Better, Best ... Until the Good is better and until the better is best!
It is a privilege to step outside of my everyday life and walk the paths.
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
~ T S Eliot
“We shall not cease from exploration.
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.”
~ T S Eliot
Dreams are the easy bit - you can do that in your sleep.
You end up with the wrong picture, when the pieces of the puzzle are in the wrong place....even if they seem to fit.
A Hawaiian saying (apparently!) - No matter wherever you go, that is where you are...
This speaks of Camino experiences and “Encounters” (do not look for them, they will find you!) -
"You truly see by not trying to see." The Snow Leopard, Peter Matthiessen. Watching a herd of blue sheep it is by chance you see the snow leopard stalking its prey. You can look straight at where a snow leopard is and not see it.
It is only when I arrive at the end of the journey that I will know the beginning of the story.
