Top 100 Quotes About Journeys
#1. There is always an enormous temptation to diddle around making itsy-bitsy friends and meals and journeys for itsy-bitsy years on end.
Annie Dillard
#2. Everyone journeys through character as well as through time. The person one becomes depends on the person one has been.
Dick Francis
#3. Some boats are rotten in the ports; some boats shine in the hard journeys!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#4. Thinking and saying you are handicapable instead of handicapped will not change anything about your disease or illness. It will help you think more positively about it though.
Tom Cunningham
#5. I suppose that every wanderer started in a garden somewhere. So few of us are born into motion.
Candas Jane Dorsey
#6. I'm seeking out a God who is the insatiable author of countless journeys, but who can still be intimately engaged with every minuscule facet of my journey.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#7. Journeys start from where we are. Everything starts from where we are. Where we are is where we're supposed to be.
Evelyn Eaton
#8. As a genre, videogames take our minds on journeys, and we can control and experience them much more interactively than passively - especially when they are well-designed.
John Maeda
#9. Worn out by suffering, we lie on our great backs, tossing grass up to heaven - as a distraction, not a prayer. That's not humility you see on our long final journeys: it's procrastination. It hurts my heavy body to lie down. - DAN CHIASSON, The Elephant
Jodi Picoult
#10. I am drawn to characters that go on journeys, characters that are real people, that have life.
Penelope Wilton
#11. In the end, it is not by knowledge that we make our journeys but by hope and faith: hope that our walk will be worthy of our steps and faith that we are going somewhere. And only when we come to the end of our journeys do we truly understand that every step of the way we were walking on water.
Richard Paul Evans
#12. Sometimes the shortest journeys take longest, don't they?
Sarah Waters
#13. Several months later, and I have finally read one of the three (books), even though I wanted to read all three of them immediately. What happened in between? Other books, is what happened. Other books, other moods, other obligations, other appetites, other reading journeys.
Nick Hornby
#14. Sometimes the hardest journeys are the ones that begin with little hope. But we need to take them anyway.
Richard Finney
#15. The destination is not the journey. The destination is the person you choose to enjoy the journey with.
Shannon L. Alder
#16. The joy at the dramatic return of the younger son in no way means that the elder son was less loved, less appreciated, less favored. The father does not compare the two sons. He loves them both with a complete love and expresses that love according to their individual journeys.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#17. Some journeys lead nowhere, but they set the spirit free
Jocelyn Murray
#19. It's not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness.
Mary Astor
#20. They each have their own journeys. It's hard to accept, but people leave us along the way. People don't always stay with us until the end of the story.
Yasmine Galenorn
#21. We all carry pieces of our journeys within us," Roland said. "We all learn from our mistakes. Who's to say we don't deserve happiness?
Lauren Kate
#22. The older I got the more I appreciated the role of travel as a stimulus to memories, and the way in which journeys even to new places were somehow always awakening memories of places seen in an ever-receding past.
Michael Jacobs
#23. The people who carried the burden, who marked in strange field in search of an answer, and ended their journeys an unwilling hero.
Phil Ochs
#24. Ultimately, it's a sense of camaraderie and friendship with local people that is core to my journeys.
Tim Cope
#25. I don't like to see things done badly on either. At the moment, I am tired of journeys. It is time I arrived somewhere.
Dorothy Dunnett
#26. You know, when I was a kid waiting on the bus, I remember that was when I imagined my life. I imagined everything that I was gonna be when I grew up and I imagined all of these amazing journeys and amazing people I'd meet. Of course, all of it has kind of come to fruition.
Glen Hansard
#27. All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.
Martin Buber
#28. I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there were good scientific explanations for the heavenly out-of-body journeys described by those who narrowly escaped death.
Eben Alexander
#29. Even the elephant carries but a small trunk on his journeys. The perfection of traveling is to travel without baggage.
Henry David Thoreau
#30. But it is always easy to put together stories about a past which nobody any longer remembers, like those about journeys to countries where nobody has ever been.
Marcel Proust
#31. When every aspect of your life is impeccable, then you will find that there's no limit to your journeys into the infinite.
Frederick Lenz
#32. A wise human life contains several journeys among several experiences, each of them takes him/her to a new level of wisdom in which makes him/her refuses to return to how he/she was before that experience.
Sameh Elsayed
#33. We think in terms of apostolic journeys. God dares to put His greatest ambassadors in chains.
Watchman Nee
#34. [Introverts,] the world needs you and it needs the things you carry. So I wish you the best of all possible journeys and the courage to speak softly.
Susan Cain
#35. I take my books everywhere. Plane journeys are a good opportunity to study, or also when I'm having my hair done.
Lily Cole
#36. How do those people who don't read books plug the gaps in their day? The journeys, the break-times, the evenings when the telly is crap, the time in bed before sleep arrives?
Robert Craig
#37. The one thing all famous authors, world class athletes, business tycoons, singers, actors, and celebrated achievers in any field have in common is that they all began their journeys when they were none of these things.
Yet still, they began their journeys.
Mike Dooley
#38. While understanding that we need this matrix to experience life on earth, we should also be able to enjoy a certain sense of detachment from it, and thus feel more empowered to make our own choices. We should thus come out feeling much more in control of our own personal journeys.
Julia Woodman
#40. Roy Blount, who is the funniest person I know, journeys deep into the dark heart of humor and brings back a wonderfully insightful, superbly crafted song of the soul that had me laughing and crying too
Dave Barry
#41. Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.
Henry Rollins
#42. As the President has indicated, my life has been a life of travel - for 60 years constantly moving over the wide world on journeys which first and last have taken me to 83 countries, and, what is more significant, to most of them again and again.
John Raleigh Mott
#43. The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.
Alain De Botton
#44. Everyone's life is an evolution of emotions, spirit and beliefs. The storyline changes, plots thicken, main characters mature and new spiritual journeys begin. This is true of inspirational authors. Their books represent only the stages of their life. New triumphs of the soul have yet to be written!
Shannon L. Alder
#45. I looked up at the shelf that held my books. I had dozens now. Faithful friends who took me on journeys without judgement and without pity.
Kaje Harper
#46. We're put here on Earth to learn our own lessons. No one can tell you what your lessons are; it is part of your personal journey to discover them. On these journeys we may be given a lot, or just a little bit, of the things we must grapple with, but never more than we can handle.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
#47. Our journeys to the stars will be made on spaceships created by determined, hardworking scientists and engineers applying the principles of science, not aboard flying saucers piloted by little gray aliens from some other dimension.
Robert A. Baker
#48. In the theatre, people talk. Talk, talk until the cows come home about journeys of discovery and about what Hazlitt thought of a line of Shakespeare. I can't stand it.
Anthony Hopkins
#49. I love the challenge of playing characters forced on life-changing emotional journeys. To work on a project with Billy Crudup and Sam Rockwell is just a dream come true.
Douglas Booth
#50. The soul of every living being, including human, has a much longer life span than his carnal body. It usually takes few journeys through many bodies for a single soul to complete its lifetime in the material world.
Stevan V. Nikolic
#51. The most influential people you will ever meet were once held together by the encouragement of others.
Shannon L. Alder
#52. Giving birth is priestess work; it requires a woman to pass through a painful and dangerous initiation in which she journeys to the threshold between worlds and risks her own life to help another soul cross over.
Jalaja Bonheim
#53. Sometimes journeys begin long before their first step is taken
Colin Thubron
#54. The best journeys are the ones that answer questions that at the outset you never even thought to ask.
-Rick Ridgeway
Susan Magsamen
#55. Why did people insist on starting journeys before the sun got warm? It couldn't be healthy.
Patrick W. Carr
#56. A library is the first step of a thousand journeys, portal to a thousand worlds.
Orson Scott Card
#57. Even the worst moments and the weariest journeys must come to an end ...
Baroness Orczy
#58. Humility is by definition a starting point - and it sends you off on a journey from there. The arrogance of certainty is both a starting point and an ending point - no journeys needed.
Tim Urban
#60. When you focus on the journey, you will be blessed with guardian angels to direct your path.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#61. Most people's journeys haven't been as disjointed as mine.
Delta Goodrem
#62. As a historian, I love every little detail, but whole long passages about wood paneling and journeys on horseback and every stop at every inn had to go out the window. I decided the history in the books should be like spice in a soup - a little went a long way. Like cilantro.
Deborah Harkness
#63. Martin Buber said, 'All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware.
Frances Mayes
#64. Great journeys live long in the memory of those who participate in them
John Stein
#65. The four-day elevator ride might be nothing more than a prelude to further journeys, some of which might take her to places with little to no bandwidth, and nothing was worse than getting stuck in a situation like that with nothing to read.
Neal Stephenson
#66. I think self-exploration is one of the journeys in life that we are blessed to be able to have.
Anne Heche
#67. Be a helpful friend, and you will become a green tree with always new fruit, always deeper journeys into love.
Rumi
#68. At night in this part of the West the stars, as I had seen them in Wyoming, were as big as Roman Candles and as lonely as the Prince who's lost his ancestral home and journeys across the spaces trying to find it again, and knows he never will.
Jack Kerouac
#70. Not all meanings are meant to be clear at once. Some ideas take time. Some words are designed to lead us on inner journeys, with truth hidden deep inside them.
Brian Froud
#71. Ultimately, we are not seeking others to bow to, but to reinforce our individual natures, to help us suffer our own choices, to guide us on our own particular journeys.
Patti Smith
#72. THE CHAMP A novel by Daniel Martin Eckhart Dedicated to my wife Nathalie and our children Nick, Milo and Eliza for all their love, laughter and patience. Thank you for letting me be part of your journeys. Copyright
Daniel Martin Eckhart
#74. The challenge is to keep learning and creating higher-order solutions rather than merely repeating the failed journeys of the past.
Kevan Hall
#75. A free ride is life's most difficult journey.
James Cook
#76. No two journeys are alike. Nobody can pretend to know the journey another person takes to achieve his dreams.
Georges St-Pierre
#77. Can you allow yourself to be impaled on the present moment?
T. Scott McLeod
#78. I make good music for long journeys.
The Weeknd
#79. My husband and I have enjoyed many summer holidays on the Continent, and many people say that their most memorable trips have been the journeys made on the spur of the moment.
Margaret Beckett
#80. Distance and time might keep people apart, but the heart and mind will always stay connected by memories, miracles and the power of two unlikely souls that were destined to meet.
Shannon L. Alder
#81. Without opium, plans, marriages and journeys appear to me just as foolish as if someone falling out of a window were to hope to make friends with the occupants of the room before which he passes.
Jean Cocteau
#82. Our lives are our mythic journeys, and our happy endings are still to be won.
Terri Windling
#83. I have come to believe that we do not walk alone in this life. There are others, fellow sojourners, whose journeys are interwoven with ours in seemingly random patterns, yet, in the end, have been carefully placed to reveal a remarkable tapestry. I believe God is the weaver at that loom.
Richard Paul Evans
#84. Student journeys which were important to me were Sicily, Greece, and Egypt, where I really saw these buildings, and that is where you're able to grasp what things mean.
Ben Nicholson
#85. My father went to work by train every day. It was half an hour's journey each way, and he would read a paperback in four journeys. After supper, we all sat down to read - it was long before TV, remember!
Maeve Binchy
#86. We need long train journeys on which we have no wireless signal
Alain De Botton
#87. In my spiritual and academic journeys, I have learned that it is imperative for Christians to pursue truth at all costs.
Daniel B. Wallace
#89. Some journeys make you realize that you are running for a wrong goal.
Nicko Shoid
#90. China
Whales follow
the whale-roads.
Geese,
roads of magnetized air.
To go great distance,
exactitudes matter.
Yet how often
the heart
that set out for Peru
arrives in China,
Steering hard.
consulting the charts
the whole journey.
Jane Hirshfield
#91. She thinks: all journeys are the same journey, whether you're moving or not. And the things that look like endings are all just stations on the way.
M.R. Carey
#92. What scientists are attached to is journeys into the unknown and discovering things that are completely unexpected and baffling and surprising.
Brian Cox
#93. I relate to Nora's transformation in Henrik Ibsen's 'A Doll's House,' and I also relate to both sisters' journeys in John Madden's film 'Proof.'
Autumn Reeser
#94. I think creative blocks come from people's life journeys. If you don't know who you are or what you're about or what you believe in it's really pretty impossible to be creative.
Rainn Wilson
#95. On your daily journeys, listen to those inner signals that help you make the right choices no matter what anyone thinks.
Wayne Dyer
#96. Life lessons are not journeys traveled in straight lines but are crossroads
formed years and miles apart.
Gina Greenlee
#97. The knowledge of the realm of death makes it possible for the shaman to move freely back and forth and mediate these journeys for other people.
Stanislav Grof
#98. Previous journeys in search of treasure have taught me that a zigzag strategy is the best way to get ahead.
Tahir Shah
#100. If you want to see what this nation is all about, you have to ride the rails. Look outside as you speed through, and you'll find the true face of America. It was a joke, then, from the start. There was only darkness outside the windows on her journeys, and only ever would be darkness.
Colson Whitehead
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