Casey Affleck Quotes

I think writing is really about a journey of understanding. So you take something that seems very far away, and the more you write about it, the more you travel into it, and you see it from within.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.

To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

The future is unknowable, but the past may give us hope.

Zoey: Wait! Don't go yet. I have so many questions. Nyx: Life will reveal to you the choices you must make to answer them.

The meaning of today will not be clear until tomorrow.

I don't pretend to see the path, but I know it's there all the same. One day, we'll look back and wonder how we ever missed it.

One day it'll all make sense.

'Almost' is about uncertainty soon to be dismissed but not quite dispelled. 'Almost' is about revelation to come but not entirely promised.

I've always felt unsure of exactly what I wanted to do with my life, but I have these rare moments of total clarity where everything is perfectly clear.

They walked for a while, all silent in their thoughts, until they reached the car and Alec drew a fine telescope from his shirt and handed it to Milo. "Carry this with you on your journey," he said softly, "for there is much worth noticing that often escapes the eye. Through it you can see everything from the tender moss in a sidewalk crack to the glow of the farthest star — and, most important of all, you can see things as they really are, not just as they seem to be. It's my gift to you.

Do you know what will soon be the ultimate in truth?

Time will explain.

If you can’t decide what to do, get on the road. You won’t find the answer. It will find you.

For all that "I was lost, I am found," it is probably more accurate to say, "I was really lost, I'm a little less so at the moment.

When you have that last piece of the jigsaw, everything will, I hope, be clear..." -Albus Dumbledore

It's amazing in the blink of an eye you finally see the light.

It's like you run into this dark tunnel, trusting that somewhere there's another end to it where you're going to come out. And there's a point in the middle where it's just dark. There's no light from where you came in and there's no light at the other end; all you can do is keep running. And then you start to see a little light, and a little more light, and then, bam! You're out in the sun.

Face this world. Learn its ways, watch it, be careful of too hasty guesses at its meaning. In the end you will find clues to it all.

In French we have this word déclic. It's when you have, suddenly, a light shining and you say, "This is what I want to do."

The prizes of life are at the end of each journey, not near the beginning; and it is not given to me to know how many steps are necessary in order to reach my goal. Failure I may still encounter at the thousandth step, yet success hides behind the next bend in the road. Never will I know how close it lies unless I turn the corner.

Things usually work out in the end." "What if they don't?" "That just means you haven't come to the end yet.

I do not imply that this philosophy of land was always clear to me. It is rather the end result of a life journey.