Journey Quotes

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.

Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.

The only journey is the one within.

Sometimes the hardest part of the journey is believing you're worthy of the trip.

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.

The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that.

All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.

In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.

You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are.

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

I knew that if I allowed fear to overtake me, my journey was doomed. Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story from the one women are told. I decided I was safe. I was strong. I was brave. Nothing could vanquish me.

It may be that when we no longer know which way to go that we have come to our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.

What people forget is a journey to nowhere starts with a single step, too.

To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist.

And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by a spiritual journey, a journey of one inch, very arduous and humbling and joyful, by which we arrive at the ground at our own feet, and learn to be at home.

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.

We are not mad. We are human.We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.

The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the "ﾂ廊iving Infinite...

There is always the temptation in life to diddle around making itsy-bitsy friends and meals and journeys for years on end. It is all so self conscience, so apparently moral...But I won't have it. The world is wilder than that in all directions, more dangerous...more extravagant and bright. We are...raising tomatoes when we should be raising Cain, or Lazarus.

You must go on a long journey before you can really find out how wonderful home is.

If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.

Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking.

I've learned two things in my life. One that love is the beginning and end of all meaning. And two that it is the same thing whatever shape our souls have taken on this journey. Love is love. Is love.

It was being a runner that mattered, not how fast or how far I could run. The joy was in the act of running and in the journey, not in the destination. We have a better chance of seeing where we are when we stop trying to get somewhere else. We can enjoy every moment of movement, as long as where we are is as good as where we'd like to be. That's not to say that you need to be satisfied forever with where you are today. But you need to honor what you've accomplished, rather than thinking of what's left to be done (p. 159).

The map is not the territory.

All paths are the same: they lead nowhere. ... Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't, it is of no use. Both paths lead nowhere; but one has a heart, the other doesn't. One makes for a joyful journey; as long as you follow it, you are one with it. The other will make you curse your life. One makes you strong; the other weakens you.

Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.

I really do believe that all of you are at the beginning of a wonderful journey.As you start traveling down that road of life, remember this: There are never enough comfort stops. The places you're going to are never on the map. And once you get that map out, you won't be able to re-fold it no matter how smart you are. So forget the map, roll down the windows, and whenever you can pull over and have picnic with a pig. And if you can help it never fly as cargo.

Real adventure is defined best as a journey from which you may not come back alive, and certainly not as the same person.

When we fully understand the brevity of life, its fleeting joys and unavoidable pains; when we accept the facts that all men and women are approaching an inevitable doom: the consciousness of it should make us more kindly and considerate of each other. This feeling should make men and women use their best efforts to help their fellow travelers on the road, to make the path brighter and easier as we journey on. It should bring a closer kinship, a better understanding, and a deeper sympathy for the wayfarers who must live a common life and die a common death.

Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

It's about the journey—mine and yours—and the lives we can touch, the legacy we can leave, and the world we can change for the better.

Cherish every moment with those you love at every stage of your journey.

... Whatever condition we are in, we must always do what we want to do, and if we want to go on a journey, then we must do so and not worry about our condition, even if it's the worst possible condition, because, if it is, we're finished anyway, whether we go on the journey or not, and it's better to die having made the journey we're been longing for than to be stifled by our longing.

Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.

The journey is the treasure.

Simplicity in all things is the secret of the wilderness and one of its most valuable lessons. It is what we leave behind that is important. I think the matter of simplicity goes further than just food, equipment, and unnecessary gadgets; it goes into the matter of thoughts and objectives as well. When in the wilds, we must not carry our problems with us or the joy is lost.

Note that this journey is uniquely yours, no one else's. So the path has to be your own. You cannot imitate somebody else's journey and still be true to yourself. Are you prepared to honor your uniqueness in this way?

The true story of every person in this world is not the story you see, the external story. The true story of each person is the journey of his or her heart.

I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.

The first step in the journey is to lose your way.

Light is the only connection we have with the Universe beyond our solar system, and the only connection our ancestors had with anything beyond Earth. Follow the light and we can journey from the confines of our planet to other worlds that orbit the Sun without ever dreaming of spacecraft. To look up is to look back in time, because the ancient beams of light are messengers from the Universe's distant past.

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.

Let's be naughty and save Santa the trip.

Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.

Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.

If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.

I haven't got any special religion this morning. My God is the God of Walkers. If you walk hard enough, you probably don't need any other god.

For the first forty days a child is given dreams of previous lives. Journeys, winding paths, a hundred small lessons and then the past is erased.

It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.

There are many trails up the mountain, but in time they all reach the top.

The Initial Mystery that attends any journey is: how did the traveler reach his starting point in the first place~?

It's not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness.

The way through the worldIs more difficult to find than the way beyond it.

It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.

Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

Our journey is about being more deeply involved in life, and yet less attached to it.

Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival. When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house. But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.

The journey is difficult, immense. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like to see or to learn all that we hunger to know.

All walking is discovery. On foot we take the time to see things whole.

Walking is a virtue, tourism is a deadly sin.

There are ways in, journeys to the center of life, through time; through air, matter, dream and thought. The ways are not always mapped or charted, but sometimes being lost, if there is such a thing, is the sweetest place to be. And always, in this search, a person might find that she is already there, at the center of the world. It may be a broken world, but it is glorious nonetheless.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

To be alive, to able to see, to walk...it's all a miracle. I have adapted the technique of living life from miracle to miracle.

The journey is the reward.

When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.

The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.

Success is a journey, not a destination.

We came off the road of the last tour very inspired to just keep playing, so we went to Canada.

Grief is perhaps an unknown territory for you. You might feel both helpless and hopeless without a sense of a 'map' for the journey. Confusion is the hallmark of a transition. To rebuild both your inner and outer world is a major project.

From the point of ignition. To the final drive. The point of the journey is not to arrive.

A word grows to a thought – a thought to an idea – an idea to an act. The change is slow, and the Present is a sluggish traveler loafing in the path Tomorrow wants to take.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.

Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.

As a general rule of biology, migratory species are less 'aggressive' than sedentary ones. There is one obvious reason why this should be so. The migration itself, like the pilgrimage, is the hard journey: a 'leveller' on which the 'fit' survive and stragglers fall by the wayside. The journey thus pre-empts the need for hierarchies and shows of dominance. The 'dictators' of the animal kingdom are those who live in an ambience of plenty. The anarchists, as always, are the 'gentlemen of the road'.

The church is not a place where perfect people gather to say perfect things, or have perfect thoughts, or have perfect feelings. The Church is a place where imperfect people gather to provide encouragement, support, and service to each other as we press on in our journey to return to our Heavenly Father.

Focus on the journey, not on arriving at a certain destination.

I know you're supposed to set goals for yourself. I see all that motivational stuff on television. Think about the future, what's next! But I'm all into the journey. It's fascinating to me. So if I make certain what I want moment to moment, I'm cool at the crossroads.

To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.

All your travelling is together, you eat together, you're on stage as a band together, when you get to the sound-check the band and the crew are all together.

For this is the journey that men and women make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much else what they find.

Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.

For me, writing is exploration; and most of the time, I'm surprised where the journey takes me.