A Quote by Carol Lynn Pearson
Heroes take journeys, confront dragons, and discover the treasure of their true selves.
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I've got deeper journeys to take. Metaphysical journeys. Journeys to see Christ. Shaman journeys. It's what I've been elected by God to do.
Every treasure is guarded by dragons. That's how you can tell it's valuable.
If you don't believe in dragons,
It is curiously true
That the dragons you disparage
Choose to not believe in you.
Orma moved a pile of books off a stool for me but seated himself directly on another stack. This habit of his never ceased to amuse me. Dragons no longer hoarded gold; Comonot's reforms had outlawed it. For Orma and his generation, knowledge was treasure. As dragons through the ages had done, he gathered it and then he sat on it.
It happens, I do not know how, that most of the proud never really discover their true selves. They think they have conquered their passions and they find out how poor they really are only after they die.
I'm a songwriter, and I understand artistic licence. We can embellish, go on little journeys and explore our inner selves. It can be quite self-indulgent.
Previous journeys in search of treasure have taught me that a zigzag strategy is the best way to get ahead.
Confidence comes in going on personal journeys in a public arena and feeling as though you have a right to do that. You have to give yourself permission to discover what you need to discover and not worry about how pretty the journey is. If you're aware of the pretty, you're not going to dig into the mess.
America should treasure its rare, true original voices and Mark Leyner is one of them. So treasure him already, you bastards!
The best poems take long journeys. I like poetry best that journeys--while remaining in the human scale--to the other world, which may be a place as easily overlooked as a bee's wing
As we go within the self, we discover that all the voices of our past lives are still there. As we peel ourselves, which is a process very much like peeling an onion, we discover that there are many selves within the self.
Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
Enter, stranger, but take heed Of what awaits the sin of greed, For those who take, but do not earn, Must pay most dearly in their turn. So if you seek beneath our floors A treasure that was never yours, Thief, you have been warned, beware Of finding more than treasure there.
Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.
There has to be a place carved out for independents, films where the heroes don't fly around in capes, but there are journeys and struggles we need to learn from and be inspired by.
When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.
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