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Journey Quotes


"It is not within my power to refuse the journey of life regardless of the nature of my fears or the depth of my selfishness, for the definitions of 'journey' and 'life' are indistinguishably synonymous. I can however sufficiently inhibit them and amply fight them to the point that I have accepted the journey, but the journey is now solely defined as my effort to forsake the journey."


"Forgiveness is not simply a single act, it is a full process."


"The best part was watching Journey grow into this monster. The band was huge, playing these enormous gigs."


"It's funny. I met a man once who did a lot of mountain climbing. I asked him which was harder, ascending or descending? He said without a doubt descending, because ascending you were so focused on reaching the top, you avoided mistakes.The backside of a mountain is a fight against human nature, he said. "You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up."


"Jiu Jitsu is the vehicle. Not the road."


"To understand the journey you have to do the walking."


"When I go out with Journey, it is a complete cakewalk. I can afford my own bus."


"Life has no destination, it is a journey to see the beauty."



"Every man should care (be concerned) about these three things: Which station have I come from? Which station did I get off? Which station am I going to?"


"The journey is not about reaching somewhere, it is about enjoying each step."


"A man travels fastest who travels alone."


"If you have a very strong will to travel, the road will suddenly appear before!"



"A path is a prior interpretation of the best way to traverse a landscape."


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


"No one stands at the beginning of a race and then finds himself at the end having never taken a step forward. And if that were to happen-the sweat and struggle avoided-what stories would he have to tell? The goal includes the journey, it's all part of the dream."


"So long, in fact, as you remain in ignorance of what to aim at and what to avoid, what is essential and what is superfluous, what is upright or honorable conduct and what is not, it will not be travelling but drifting. All this hurrying from place to place won't bring you any relief, for you're travelling in the company of your own emotions, followed by your troubles all the way."


"It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive."


"There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto."


"We script our own psyche. We each journey alone. The path that we take through life proves to be every person's supreme test of mental, physical, and emotional stamina, and the final determiner of his or her intellectual, ethical, and spiritual attainment."


"Through sheer volume of passing days you will travel a great distance in your lifetime. Imagine where you might stand if your footsteps steered toward a single goal."


"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."


"Cutting my roots and leaving my home and family when I was 18 years old forced me to build my home in other things, like my music, stories and my journey. The last years I have more or less constantly been on my way, on the road, always leaving and never arriving, which also means leaving people. I've loved and lost and I have regrets and I miss and no matter how many times you leave, start over, achieve success or travel places it's other people that matter. People, friends, family, lovers, strangers " they will forever stay with you, even if only through memory. I've grown to appreciate people to the deepest core and I'm trying to learn how to tell people what I want to tell them when I have the chance, before it's too late."


"I can't always tell what's betterlong drivesin the star-spangled desertsor long walksalong winding tea gardens."


"At the end of hours of train-dreaming, we may feel we have been returned to ourselves - that is, brought back into contact with emotions and ideas of importance to us. It is not necessarily at home that we best encounter our true selves. The furniture insists that we cannot change because it does not; the domestice setting keeps us tethered to the person we are in ordinary life, but who may not be who we essentially are."
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