For me there are no answers, only questions, and I am grateful that the questions go on and on. I don't look for an answer, because I don't think there is one. I'm very glad to be the bearer of a question.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of questioning and the value of curiosity over seeking definitive answers.
P. L. Travers expresses the idea that life is filled with unanswered questions, and rather than striving to find answers, one should embrace the questions themselves. The quote suggests that a life of inquiry is enriching and that the journey of questioning can lead to deeper understanding and appreciation of existence.
In practice
In a discussion about personal growth, this quote can remind attendees to embrace uncertainty.
Could it be ... that the hero is one who is willing to set out, take the first step, shoulder something? Perhaps the hero is one who puts his foot upon a path not knowing what he may expect from life but in some way feeling in his bones that life expects something of him.
Don't you know that everybody's got a Fairyland of their own?
Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.
My father died when I was 7. I was his favorite child, and he was my beloved father. I brought him along with me all through my life. Every elderly man has a bit of my father in him for me.
The emotional reaction in the peak experience has a special flavor of wonder, of awe, of reverence, of humility and surrender before the experience as before something great.
For my own part, I have been wont to converse with poverty; and however disagreeable a companion she may be thought to be by the affluent and luxurious, who were never acquainted with her, I can live happily with her the remainder of my life if I can thereby contribute to the redemption of my country.
Memory is fiction. We select the brightest and the darkest, ignoring what we are ashamed of, and so embroider the broad tapestry of our lives.
Death undoes us less, sometimes, than the hope that it will never come.
June suns, you cannot store them To warm the winter's cold, The lad that hopes for heaven Shall fill his mouth with mould.
What leads us astray is confusing more choices with more control. Because it is not clear that the more choices you have the more in control you feel. We have more choices than we've ever had before.
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