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Quotes about Journey


Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey!

Barbara Hoffman

I believe that a worthwhile life is defined by a kind of spiritual journey and a sense of obligation.

Hillary Rodham Clinton

Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.

Adrienne Rich

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

Lyndon Baines Johnson

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

J. Pythagoras

This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey.

Oliver Goldsmith

A man is never more his single separate self than when he sets out on a journey.

John Dos Passos

Life begins as a quest of the child for the man and ends as a journey by the man to rediscover the child.

Laurens Van der Post

And see the rivers how they run Through woods and meads, in shade and sun, Sometimes swift, sometimes slow,-- Wave succeeding wave, they go A various journey to the deep, Like human life to endless sleep!

John Dyer

Now the summer's in prime Wi' the flowers richly blooming, And the wild mountain thyme A' the moorlands perfuming. To own dear native scenes Let us journey together, Where glad innocence reigns 'Mang the braes o' Balquhither.

Robert Tannahill

Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 3.

William Shakespeare

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

Charles Dudley Warner

Today the journey is ended, I have worked out the mandates of fate; Naked, along, undefended, I knock at the Uttermost Gate. Behind is life and its longing, Its trial, its trouble, its sorrow, Beyond is the Infinite Morning Of a day without a tomorrow.

Wenonah Stevens Abbott

Failing yet gracious, Slow pacing, soon homing, A patriarch that strolls Through the tents of his children, The sun as he journeys His round on the lower Ascents of the blue, Washes the roofs And the hillsides with clarity.

William Ernest Henley

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

John Steinbeck

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will --whatever we may think.

Lawrence Durrell

One who journeying Along a way he knows not, having crossed A place of drear extent, before him sees A river rushing swiftly toward the deep, And all its tossing current white with foam, And stops and turns, and measures back his way.

Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")

The marquise has a disagreeable day for her journey.

Louis XV

So little distant dangers seem: So we mistake the future's face, Ey'd thro' Hope's deluding glass; As yon summits soft and fair, Clad in colours of the air, Which to those who journey near, Barren, brown, and rough appear.

John Dyer

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to live, make haste to be kind.

Henri Frederick Amiel

If thou art rich, thou'rt poor, For, like an ass whose back with ingots bows, Thou bear'st thy heavy riches but a journey, And death unloads thee.

William Shakespeare

Wind of the sunny south! oh, still delay In the gay woods and in the golden air, Like to a good old age released from care, Journeying, in long serenity, away. In such a bright, late quiet, would that I Might wear out life like thee, mid bowers and brooks, And, dearer yet, the sunshine of kind looks, And music of kind voices ever nigh; And when my last sand twinkled in the glass, Pass silently from men as thou dost pass.

William Cullen Bryant

Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey!

Barbara Hoffman

Every woman is like a timezone. She is a nocturnal fragment of your journey. She brings you unflaggingly closer to the next night.

Jean Baudrillard

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