Quotes on Difficult Journeys

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

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.

Follow your passion, we’re often told. But how do you find your passion? Let me put it another way: what is it that breaks your heart about the world? It’s there that you begin to find what moves you. If you want to find your passion, surrender to your heartbreak. Your heartbreak points towards a truer north — and it’s the difficult journey towards it that is, in the truest sense, no mere passing idyllic infatuation, but enduring, tempestuous passion.

An athlete who tells you the training is always easy and always fun simply hasn't been there. Goals can be elusive which makes the difficult journey all the more rewarding.

Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don't have to sit on it.