Quotes on My Journey

It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.

The only journey is the one within.

When I was young, I believed that life might unfold in an orderly way, according to my hopes and expectations. But now I understand that the Way winds like a river, always changing, ever onward.. My journeys revealed that the Way itself creates the warrior; that every path leads to peace, every choice to wisdom. And that life has always been, and will always be, arising in Mystery.

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

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.

NOT I - NOT ANYONE else, can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself.

because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.

I will not close my eyes, neither those in my head nor those in my soul, as the ship carries me away, along with my future, my dreams, and my beliefs. Buru Island is no happy land somewhere; it's but a way station on my journey in life—though to believe even that much will require no small measure of hope.

I think it's my adventure, my trip, my journey, and I guess my attitude is, let the chips fall where they may.

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 in truth (as I now see) I had the wish to put off my journey as long as I could. Not for any peril or labour it might cost; but because I could see nothing in the whole world for me to do once it was accomplished. AS long as this act lay before me, there was, as it were, some barrier between me and the dead desert which the rest of my life must be.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policies and coercion are fruitless. We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes 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.

When I was young, my father used to say, ‘If you are alive, there is hope for a better day and something good to happen. If there is nothing good left in the destiny of a person, he or she will die.’ I thought about these words during my journey, and they kept me moving even when I didn’t know where I was going. Those words became the vehicle that drove my spirit forward and made it stay alive.

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

Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

As I go through all kinds of feelings and experiences in my journey through life -- delight, surprise, chagrin, dismay -- I hold this question as a guiding light: 'What do I really need right now to be happy?' What I come to over and over again is that only qualities as vast and deep as love, connection and kindness will really make me happy in any sort of enduring way.

Along my journey / through this transitory world, / new year's housecleaning.

Embrace what makes you unique, even if it makes others uncomfortable. i didn't have to become perfect because I've learned throughout my journey that perfection is the enemy of greatness.