Journey Quotes And Sayings
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“As long as we’re caught up in always looking for certainty and happiness, rather than honoring the taste and smell and quality of exactly what is happening, as long as we’re always running from discomfort, we’re going to be caught in a cycle of unhappiness and discomfort, and we will feel weaker and weaker. This way of seeing helps us develop inner strength. And what’s especially encouraging is the view that inner strength is available to us at just the moment when we think that we’ve hit the bottom, when things are at their worst. ”
– Pema Chodron
“Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. What does the world want of me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back to where I came from because I don’t have the courage to say “yes” to life?”
– Paulo Coelho
“Man improves himself as he follows his path; if he stands still, waiting to improve before he makes a decision, he’ll never move.”
– Paulo Coelho
“We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.”
– Stephen R. Covey
“For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin-real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.”
– Alfred D’ Souza
“A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.”
– Jean de la Fontaine
“The journey between what you once were and who you are now becoming is where the dance of life really takes place.”
– Barbara DeAngelis
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.’
– Annie Dillard
“Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the blessings of fair weather.”
– Alexandre Dumas
“Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.”
– Meister Eckhart
“The one who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The one who walks alone, is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.”
– Albert Einstein
“Strange is our situation here on Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men — above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends. ”
– Albert Einstein
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Life is a festival only to the wise.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I’m grateful for anything that reminds me of what’s possible in this life. Books can do that. Films can do that. Music can do that. School can do that. It’s so easy to allow one day to simply follow into the next, but every once in a while we encounter something that shows us that anything is possible, that dramatic change is possible, that something new can be made, that laughter can be shared.”
– Jonathan Safran Foer
“You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.”
– Viktor Frankl
“Let your mind start a journey thru a strange new world. Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before. Let your soul take you where you long to be…Close your eyes, let your spirit start to soar, and you’ll live as you’ve never lived before.”
– Erich Fromm
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.”
– Robert Frost
“How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.”
– Buckmeister Fuller
“We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.”
– Gloria Gaither
“Say not, I have found the truth, but rather, I have found a truth. Say not, I have found the path of the soul, Say rather, I have met the soul walking upon my path. For the soul walks upon all paths. The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed. The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.”
– Kahlil Gibran
“Instead of wondering where your next vacation is, maybe you ought to set up a life you don’t need to escape from.”
– Seth Godin
“It‘s not where we stand but in what direction we are moving.”
– Goethe
“The way is not in the sky, the way is in the heart. For the traveler who knows his direction, there is always a favorable wind.’
– Stuart Avery Gold
“Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.”
– Natalie Goldberg
“Step forward into your life as you did when you were a child, when you believed anything was possible.”
– Vince Gowmon
“There is no enlightenment outside of daily life.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh
“Sooner or later we must realize there is no station, no one place to arrive at once and for all. The true joy of life is the trip. ”
– Robert J. Hastings
“The future remains uncertain and so it should, for it is the canvas upon which we paint our desires. Thus always the human condition faces a beautifully empty canvas. We possess only this moment in which to dedicate ourselves continuously to the sacred presence which we share and create.”
– Frank Herbert
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