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Journey Quotes
"We want to make good time, but for us now this is measured with the emphasis on 'good' rather than on 'time'...."
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"There is no easy way to the journey of life. Those who follow the easy road cannot fully appreciate life."
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"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."
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"There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto."
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"You leave home, I have learned, counting the trip day by day. If you ever get to return, you count the trip miracle by miracle."
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"When you feel least interested in following the Way which you have entered, this may be the time when it is most appropriate for you."
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"Life has no destination, it is a journey to see the beauty."
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"The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to."
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"If my goal is simply to survive the journey, then I'm not on the journey in the first place."
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"It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive."
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"Your real journey starts when you stop running away."
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"We don't need a destination or a way of navigating, because we'll go wherever it takes us."
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"A journey, I reflected, is of no merit unless it has tested you."
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"While you'll feel compelled to charge forward it's often a gentle step back that will reveal to you where you and what you truly seek."
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"What is life but God's daring invitation to a remarkable journey? And what is human nature but a staunchly inbred tendency toward self-preservation? And because of the rigidly paradoxical nature of these things, the road of life is seldom trod beyond a few scant steps."
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"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."
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"The journey I'm taking is inside me. Just like blood travels down veins, what I'm seeing is my inner self and what seems threatening is just the echo of the fear in my heart."
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"There was a smile dancing on his lips, although it was a wary smile, for the world is a bigger place than a little graveyard on a hill; and there would be dangers in it and mysteries, new friends to make, old friends to rediscover, mistakes to be made and many paths to be walked before he would, finally, return to the graveyard or ride with the Lady on the broad back of her great grey stallion."
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"You have to pay attention to the road even if you don't know where you're going."
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"It had occurred to her many times that on board it didn't matter where you were coming from or where you were heading. Each voyage had its own charisma. Like writing a book " word by word " or crossing a country " step by step " each minute had to be lived moment by moment."
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"One thing: you have to walk, and create the way by your walking; you will not find a ready-made path. It is not so cheap, to reach to the ultimate realization of truth. You will have to create the path by walking yourself; the path is not ready-made, lying there and waiting for you. It is just like the sky: the birds fly, but they don't leave any footprints. You cannot follow them; there are no footprints left behind."
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"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."
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"And meanwhile the Galaxy ran through space and left behind those signs old and new and I still hadn't found mine."
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"He claimed the waters must have, indeed, been healing, because look how hard his journey was on him to get there, and how easy it was on him to get home."
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"My path gets more beautiful when you walk it with me."
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