Danielle Steel Quotes

We were wavering around like a ship without a sail.

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

Somtimes you lie in a strange room, in a strange person's home, and you feel yourself bending out of shape. Melting, touching something hot, something that warps you in drastic and probably irreversible ways you won't get to take stock of until its too late

Everything new troubles us. Life catches us unawares and obliges us to journey towards the unknown, even when we do not want to, even when we do not need to.

The explorer is the person who is lost.

That first pregnancy is a long sea journey to a country where you don't know the language, where land is in sight for such a long time that after a while it's just the horizon - and then one day birds wheel over that dark shape and it's suddenly close, and all you can do is hope like hell that you've had the right shots.

I've come too far, and I don't know how to get back.

When we believe we have all the answers, we are not open to mystery. To begin a mystical journey, you have to start with a sense of wonder, of not knowing where you are going or how you will travel. The initial phase of alchemy is called the nigredo-it's the phase of darkness, when it's "blacker than black." You feel this when you start something new-go off to college, start a new job, travel to a foreign land, or end a relationship that is not working.

I never dreamed the sea so deep, The earth so dark; so long my sleep, I have become another child. I wake to see the world go wild.

Everything is change; and you cannot step twice into the same river.

Uncertainty is the necessary companion of all explorers.

Everyone grows and changes. It's not even to say that you become a better person than you were, but you're morphing. This whole thing is just a weird river that we're on.

To know there is a choice is to have to make the choice: change or stay: river or rock.

Just that maybe … maybe you don’t want to change the story, because you don’t know what a different ending holds.

To quote Agent Cooper, 'I have no idea where this will lead us, but I have a definite feeling it will be a place both wonderful and strange.'

All major changes are like death. You can't see to the other side until you are there.

Being lost is worth the being found.

There is no road, the road is made by walking.

Aside from the fact of just taking things out of context, I don't know why. That's part of a mystery. In a way, a transformation is a mystery to me. But there is a transformation, and that's fascinating.

Thank you, Sam," he said in a cracked whisper. "How far is there to go?" I don't know," said Sam, "because I don't know where we're going.

If we never take a risk, we'll never know the parts of ourselves that would have emerged if we had.

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey.

Off the coast and I'm headed nowhere