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.
Even if you play perfectly, a fault of your opponent's can destroy the entire beauty of the game.
My own veneration for other faiths is the same as that for my own faith; therefore no thought of conversion is possible
The Founding Fathers were neither passive, death-worshipin g mystics nor mindless, power-seeking looters; as a political group they were a phenomenon unprecedented in history: they were thinkers who were also men of action.
The gods confound the man who first found out How to distinguish hours! Confound him, too, Who in this place set up a sun-dial, To cut and hack my days so wretchedly Into small portions.
One of the things I'm trying to do over and over again in my books is create new mythologies, create new ways to understand the complexity of the world. I think what mythology does is impress upon chaotic experience the patterns, hierarchies and shapes which allow us to interpret the chaos and make fresh sense of it.
I'll be a story in your head. But that's OK. We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh? Because it was, you know; it was the best.
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