Journey Quotes

Jesus incarnated when our Western civilization was changing from being predominantly baby soul to predominantly young. We are now in a similar transition, from young to mature.

~ Shepherd Hoodwin

Life is a journey

~ Ricky Maye

Being kind, being compassionate, being respectful does not make you weak. More often, it's the harder path to take.

~ Liza M. Wiemer

Help people help themselves. Don’t judge, just help. In this process, be cautious to simply point them in the right direction and help them get moving. Don’t make your journey theirs, nor make their journey yours.

~ Steve Maraboli

In my own shire, if I was sadHomely comforters I had:The earth, because my heart was sore,Sorrowed for the son she bore;And standing hills, long to remain,Shared their short-lived comrade's pain.And bound for the same bourn as I,On every road I wandered by,Trod beside me, close and dear,The beautiful and death-struck year:Whether in the woodland brownI heard the beechnut rustle down,And saw the purple crocus paleFlower about the autumn dale;Or littering far the fields of MayLady-smocks a-bleaching lay,And like a skylit water stoodThe bluebells in the azured wood. Yonder, lightening other loads,The season range the country roads,But here in London streets I kenNo such helpmates, only men;And these are not in plight to bear,If they would, another's care.They have enough as 'tis: I seeIn many an eye that measures meThe mortal sickness of a mindToo unhappy to be kind.Undone with misery, all they canIs to hate their fellow man;And till they drop they needs must stillLook at you and wish you ill.

~ A.e. Housman

If you don’t want to leave your home, how can you begin your journey to what you want?

~ Debasish Mridha

Your journey will end in an unknown planet. Fully enjoy your journey.

~ Debasish Mridha M.d.

Not all those who wander are lost.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

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

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

All that is gold does not glitter,Not all those who wander are lost.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.

~ Pat Conroy

I keep going backas if Im looking for something I have lostback to the motherland, sisterland, fatherlandback to the beacon, the breastthe smell and taste of the breeze,and the singing of the rain.

~ Heather Nova

The journey is part of the experience - an expression of the seriousness of one's intent. One doesn't take the A train to Mecca.

~ Anthony Bourdain

The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only an adventurer; and his sons are born in exile.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

Whither will my path yet lead me? This path is stupid, it goes in spirals, perhaps in circles, but whichever way it goes, I will follow it.

~ Hermann Hesse

They spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent altogether as is often the way with travelers approaching the end of a journey.

~ Cormac Mccarthy

Set out from any point. They are all alike. They all lead to a point of departure.

~ Antonio Porchia

I knew then that I wanted to go home, but I had no home to go to--and that is what adventures are all about.

~ Trina Schart Hyman

Sluggish and sedentary peoples, such as the Ancient Egyptians-- with their concept of an afterlife journey through the Field of Reeds-- project on to the next world the journeys they failed to make in this one.

~ Bruce Chatwin

To me, travel is more valuable than any stupid piece of bling money can buy.

~ Raquel Cepeda

What's supposed to happen, at the end of a quest? Cheers and accolades, Josh knew; people throw their hats in the air, and you glow with pride as they lift you to their shoulders. What else? Medals, speeches and a great feast, and then a ballad about your exploits, and finally, as the fireworks go off overhead, a soft, clean, fresh bed.

~ Isabel Hoving

Hip-hop...has been the proverbial key that’s opened the door for me to roam this breathtaking planet.

~ Raquel Cepeda

On a harsh expedition, there's no space for anyone who does not intend to finish.

~ Tahir Shah

I believe that Marrakech ought to be earned as a destination. The journey is the preparation for the experience. Reaching it too fast derides it, makes it a little less easy to understand.

~ Tahir Shah

There's nothing like a pack of mules to give one a sense of entourage.

~ Tahir Shah

A journey of observation must leave as much as possible to chance. Random movement is the best plan for maximum observation

~ Tahir Shah

A traveller with an open mind grows richer with each journey, with each encounter, with each conversation.

~ Jane Wilson-Howarth

On life’s journey, every person met, every place, every new word, language, scent & sound changes the traveller a little: forms who they are and whom they become

~ Jane Wilson-Howarth

The purpose of a pilgrimage is about setting aside a long period of time in which the only focus is to be the matters of the soul. Many believe a pilgrimage is about going away but it isn’t; it is about coming home. Those who choose to go on pilgrimage have already ventured away from themselves; and now set out in a longing to journey back to who they are. Many a time we believe we must go away from all that is familiar if we are to focus on our inner well-being because we feel it is the only way to escape all that drains and distracts us, allowing us to turn inward and tend to what ails us. Yet we do not need to go to the edges of the earth to learn who we are, only the edges of ourself.

~ L.m. Browning

My ideal journey: set out early and never arrive.

~ Marty Rubin

Walk on the path of lights.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Sitting full in the moment, I practiced on the god-awful difficulty of just paying attention. It's a contention of Heat Moon's - believing as he does any traveler who misses the journey misses about all he's going to get - that a man becomes his attentions. His observations and curiosity, they make and remake him.

~ William Least Heat-Moon

my dear life separating you through the journey i actually bend all those easy paths for me was waiting .looking keel of end edge of today's canvas ,life visits stranger to me . i myself kept out me from my own journey

~ Litymunshi

The idea and experience of travel can mean many things: it involves movement of some kind, sometimes through unknown places, at other times just between home and the world. Journeys can also be inward, marking rites of passage or a growth into a new dimension. We travel in search of profit, pleasure or curiosity, to labour and survive, to flee from tyranny or sorrow, and into real and imagined utopias.

~ Teju Behan

Travel is the treasure of time.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Everywhere, I have travel to, I felt loved.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Trouble with a long journey like this,' continued the Captain, 'is that you end up just talking to yourself a lot, which gets terribly boring because half the time you know what you’re going to say next.

~ Douglas Adams

I get butterflies every time I wander beautiful places I've never been.

~ Katrice Cabral

I only had to drop acid once to know that Timothy Leary was right about questioning authority.Motorcycling is like life. There's nothing solid about it. Something not even the asphalt under your tires.Time on a motorcycle is unlike time spent anywhere else. There are moments lost in the landscape, seconds devoted solely to balance, and long stretches spent spiraling inward.

~ Barbara Schoichet

The journey is greater than the destination.

~ Rick Riordan