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In bad countries the government takes care of everyone. In the best ones that's not necessary!‏
— Celso Cukierkorn, Secrets of Jewish Wealth Revealed!
In response to my question about how we might rein in the empire, he said, "That's why I'm meeting with you. Only you in the United States can change it. Your government created this problem and your people must solve it. You've got to insist that Washington honor its commitment to democracy, even when deomcratically elected leaders nationalize your corrupting corporations. You must take control of your corporations and your government. The people of the United States have a great deal of power. You need to come to grips with this. There's no alternative. We in Brazil have our hands tied. So do the Venezeulans. And the Nigerians. It's up to you.
— John Perkins, The Secret History of the American Empire: Economic Hit Men, Jackals & the Truth about Global Corruption
Well, then he would be at war with the government, and death was an unfortunate side effect of any revolution. Change always had a price tag. But once he took over, the people would realize he was a better ruler than the disorganized, self-interested mob that called themselves Congress -- men who didn't know anything, being led by a president who knew even less.
— C.J. Hill, Slayers
Are you saying the end of human suffering began with an amusement park?”“I’m saying the end of human suffering is a myth.”“But everyone’s happy.”“You think that just because a person doesn’t question the way the system works that means they agree with it? And if they do agree that must mean they’re happy? Are you happy?
— T.S. Welti, Darklandia
One of the arguments that authoritarian governments use to ward off the call for greater political freedom is to argue that American-style democracy is no guarantee of good policy.... Over the years, I’ve grown used to these arguments, and my response has rarely wavered: Sure, we might make dumb choices sometimes, but we will defend, to the end, the right to make choices at all, because we believe that our collective conscience, freely expressed, will eventually lead us in the right direction. When it comes to guns, it is getting harder to muster that argument abroad. Every new shooting, every new failure of will and citizenship, slashes another hole in our credibility as a way of life.
— Evan Osnos
You are dealing with national security. Anything labeled a national security issie is taken out from the system. There is no due process, no lawyers. They may do with us what they wish. Fear is a government's greatest weapon. With it, they can convince a people that they need to abandon their freedom. In exchange, they get safety. Of course, you just trade one monster for another, but by the time the people realize this, it is too late. -- Excerpt from Superhero.
— Victor Methos
A country of free men is not free if they are owned by somebody else.
— Joseph P. Sekula
One of the most unique aspects among many about the USA is that our transitions of 'power' have almost always been peaceful. This is very unique in all of history and in the world today".
— R. Alan Woods
The pessimists believe that the cosmos is a clock that is running down; the progressives believe it is a clock that they themselves are winding up. But I happen to believe that the world is what we choose to make it, and that we are what we choose to make ourselves; and that our renascence or our ruin will alike, ultimately and equally, testify with a trumpet to our liberty.- The Illustrated London News, July 10, 1920 Issue.
— G.K. Chesterton
Ever since 1945 the federal government has held and indeed increased its importance as the first customer of the American economy. Government spending had been the primary economic stimulant and to increase it had been the goal of hundreds of interest groups; hopes of balanced budgets and cheap, business-like administration always ran aground upon this fact. What was more, the United States was a democracy; whatever the doctrinaire objections to it, and however much rhetoric might be devoted to attacking it, a welfare state slowly advanced because voters wanted it that way. These facts gradually made the old ideal of totally free enterprise, unchecked and uninvaded by the influence of government, unreal.
— J.M. Roberts, The New Penguin History of The World
My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
...they say if you don't vote, you get the government you deserve, and if you do, you never get the results you expected.
— E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
I know the police cause you troubleThey cause trouble everywhereBut when you die and go to heavenYou find no policeman there
— Woody Guthrie
Fools say that they learn by experience. I prefer to profit by others experience.
— Otto von Bismarck
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms, those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny; and it is believed that the most effectual means of preventing this would be, to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large...
— Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson: Public and Private Papers
Try to be pleasant to one another, get plenty of fresh air, read a good book now and then, depose your government when it suspends the free press, try to use the mechanism of the state to adjudicate fairly and employ diplomatic means wherever possible to avoid armed conflict.
— Jasper Fforde, The Big Over Easy
But we don't have to react. That's what I'm saying. A police force, like a government, should be above that. Just because we're provoked doesn't mean we have to act. -- Still Life
— Louise Penny
If your party serves the powerful and well-funded interests, and there's no limit to what you can spend, you have a permanent, structural advantage. We're averaging fifty-dollar checks in our campaign, and trying to ward off these seven- or eight-figure checks on the other side. That disparity is pretty striking, and so are the implications. In many ways, we're back in the Gilded Age. We have robber barons buying the government.
— David Axelrod
Conservatives and those on the right are usually willing to settle for thinking themselves correct on political issues; those on the left have always needed to feel not so much that they are correct but that they are also good. Disagree with someone on the right and he is likely to think you obtuse, wrong, sentimental, foolish, a dope; disagree with someone one the left and he is more likely to think you selfish, cold-hearted, a sellout, evil-in league with the devil, he might say, if he didn't think religious terminology too coarse for our secular age. To this day one will hear of people who fell for Communism in a big way let off the hook because they were sincere; if one's heart is in the right place, nothing else matters, even if one's naive opinions made it easier for tyrants to murder millions.
— Joseph Epstein
If I went on a killing spree that left thousands of people dead, I'd be branded as the worst kind of criminal. So why it is okay for the government to do exactly that?
— Michelle Templet
One of the (many) problems with government is not that power corrupts or even that it is magnetic to corruptible people; rather, it is that we have been conditioned to tolerate corruption in power, and so we don't even try to hold our politicians accountable.
— Michelle Templet
Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.
— William Ewart Gladstone
Deep down, I have come to the conclusion that the reason (children) are such a low priority to the great human institutions that seek to control this world, both secular and Christian, is that an invisible battle, a spiritual war, rages over each and every child. It is above us and beyond us and engages the full fury of the hosts of both heaven and hell. Children may be ignored by government, church, and mission – but not by Satan or God Almighty.
— Wess Stafford
Thieves, spies and other wise guys are working everywhere…including in branches of the U.S. government.
— Sherry Morris, Hundred Dollar Bill
Those who, while they disapprove of the character and measures of a government, yield to it their allegiance and support are undoubtedly its most conscientious supporters, and so frequently the most serious obstacles to reform.
— Henry David Thoreau
General assumptions often lead to erroneous conclusions, but one cannot go far wrong in always assuming that whatever one's government is saying is a lie.
— Michelle Templet
[David] Maraniss sees [Barack] Obama as a man with "a moviegoer's or writer's sensibility, where he is both participating and observing himself participating, and views much of the political process as ridiculous or surreal, even as he is deep into it.
— Jane Mayer
One of the (many) problems with government is that they are usually so preoccupied with whether or not they can do something that they fail to consider whether or not they should.
— Michelle Templet
The choice is yours: trust the government or trust Mother Nature.
— John Cannell, Athlete's Edge: Faster, Quicker, Stronger with Vitamin D
Our mission is not to impose our peculiar institutions upon other nations by physical force or diplomatic treachery but rather by internal peace and prosperity to solve the problem of self-government and reconcile democratic freedom with national stability.
— Benjamin Harrison
Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you.You must travel it by yourself.It is not far. It is within reach.Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know. Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land.
— Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
The only journey is the one within.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Sometimes, reaching out and taking someone's hand is the beginning of a journey.At other times, it is allowing another to take yours.
— Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
All I wanted was to live a life where I could be me, and be okay with that. I had no need for material possessions, money or even close friends with me on my journey. I never understood people very well anyway, and they never seemed to understand me very well either. All I wanted was my art and the chance to be the creator of my own world, my own reality. I wanted the open road and new beginnings every day.
— Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles; in search for The Great Perhaps
I have an idea that some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid certain surroundings, but they have always a nostalgia for a home they know not. They are strangers in their birthplace, and the leafy lanes they have known from childhood or the populous streets in which they have played, remain but a place of passage. They may spend their whole lives aliens among their kindred and remain aloof among the only scenes they have ever known. Perhaps it is this sense of strangeness that sends men far and wide in the search for something permanent, to which they may attach themselves. Perhaps some deep-rooted atavism urges the wanderer back to lands which his ancestors left in the dim beginnings of history.
— W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence
A book is as dangerous as any journey you might take. The person who closes the back cover may not be the same one that opened the front one. Treat them with respect.
— Mark  Lawrence, Red Sister
If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
— Anatole France
The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.
— Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed
Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don't have to sit on it.
— Joyce Meyer, Approval Addiction: Overcoming Your Need to Please Everyone
Sometimes you don’t know when you’re taking the first step through a door until you’re already inside.
— Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
Your journey has molded you for your greater good, and it was exactly what it needed to be. Don't think you've lost time. There is no short-cutting to life. It took each and every situation you have encountered to bring you to the now. And now is right on time.
— Asha Tyson
The journey is the treasure.
— Lloyd Alexander, The Golden Dream of Carlo Chuchio
There comes . . . a longing never to travel again except on foot.
— Wendell Berry, Remembering
Wouldn't take nothing for my journey now.
— Maya Angelou, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean.
— David Searls
As for the journey of life
—  at some point you will realize that YOU are the driver and you will drive!
If you could do it, I suppose, it would be a good idea to live your life in a straight line - starting, say, in the Dark Wood of Error, and proceeding by logical steps through Hell and Purgatory and into Heaven. Or you could take the King's Highway past the appropriately named dangers, toils, and snares, and finally cross the River of Death and enter the Celestial City. But that is not the way I have done it, so far. I am a pilgrim, but my pilgrimage has been wandering and unmarked. Often what has looked like a straight line to me has been a circling or a doubling back. I have been in the Dark Wood of Error any number of times. I have known something of Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven, but not always in that order. The names of many snares and dangers have been made known to me, but I have seen them only in looking back. Often I have not known where I was going until I was already there. I have had my share of desires and goals, but my life has come to me or I have gone to it mainly by way of mistakes and surprises. Often I have received better than I deserved. Often my fairest hopes have rested on bad mistakes. I am an ignorant pilgrim, crossing a dark valley. And yet for a long time, looking back, I have been unable to shake off the feeling that I have been led - make of that what you will.
— Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow
It is the story that matters not just the ending.
— Paul  Lockhart, A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form
How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top.
— Yvon Chouinard, Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman
The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn't matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark.
— Barbara Hall
Every journey conceals another journey within its lines: the path not taken and the forgotten angle.
— Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry
I'm always wondering about the what-ifs, about the road not taken.
— Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before
Whether we like it or not, we all come from someplace. And at some point in our lives, we have to make peace with that place.
— Jeffrey Stepakoff, The Orchard
The people he met, the places he passed, were all steps in his journey, and he kept a place inside his heart for each of them.
— Rachel Joyce, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
Do you know that pain of leaving when you look back expecting to see a face waving goodbye at you but all you see is a dark abandoned corner?There won't be any reason to return then.All you can do is look ahead and not to stumble and fall on the pit ahead waiting for you.
— Sanhita Baruah
A journey indeed, in an emotional roller-coaster.
— Ana Monnar
If I just keep putting one foot in front of the other, it stands to reason that I'm going to get there.
— Rachel Joyce, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
All my life I've always come back to one thing,my need to feel free and the need to feel the breeze,the ride provides a freedom this gypsy needs,where every road is another blessed memory,a new experience to carry inside my journey,a sense of belonging to a familiar tribe,a brotherhood that goes beyond a bloodline.
— Jess "Chief" Brynjulson, Highway Writings
No single decision you ever made has led in a straight line to where you find yourself now. You peeked down some roads and took a few steps before turning back. You followed some roads that came to a dead end and others that got lost at too many intersections. Ultimately, all roads are connected to all other roads.
— Deepak Chopra, The Book of Secrets: Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life
We’ve been focusing so much on getting there that we haven’t been enjoying the ride
— Elizabeth Eulberg, Take a Bow
A labyrinth is a symbolic journey . . . but it is a map we can really walk on, blurring the difference between map and world.
— Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking
It is far. But there is no journey upon this earth that a man may not make if he sets his heart to it. There is nothing, Umbopa, that he cannot do, there are no mountains he may not climb, there are no deserts he cannot cross; save a mountain and a a desert of which you are spared the knowledge, if love leads him and he holds his life in his hand counting it as nothing, ready to keep it or to lose it as Providence may order.
— H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines
A journey, I reflected, is of no merit unless it has tested you.
— Tahir Shah, In Search of King Solomon's Mines
Every journey begins with the first step of articulating the intention, and then becoming the intention.
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
The things that come to us easily, our propensities, are carried on a deep subconscious level into our next life. There are no coincidences.
— Raquel Cepeda, Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina
I feel really blessed for the journey, all that I have learnt & the enormity of emotions that exist because of the presence of you.
— Truth Devour, Wantin
Everything was going according to plan. What caught me off guard, however, was the fact that this eagerly awaited phase brought a sense of loss to me that triggered a whole new wave of soul searching I had not anticipated.
— Carolyn Custis James, The Gospel of Ruth: Loving God Enough to Break the Rules
I tramp the perpetual journeyMy signs are a rain-proof coat, good shoes, and a staff cut from the woods, No friend of mine takes his ease in my chair, I have no chair, no philosophy, I lead no man to a dinner-table, library, exchange, But each man and each woman of you I lead upon a knoll, My left hand hooking you round the waist, My right hand pointing to landscapes of continents and the public road. Not I, not any one else can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself. It is not far, it is within reach, Perhaps you have been on it since you were born and did not know, Perhaps it is everywhere on water and on land. Shoulder your duds dear son, and I will mine, and let us hasten forth, Wonderful cities and free nations we shall fetch as we go. If you tire, give me both burdens, and rest the chuff of your hand on my hip, And in due time you shall repay the same service to me, For after we start we never lie by again. This day before dawn I ascended a hill and look'd at the crowded heaven, And I said to my spirit When we become the enfolders of those orbs, and the pleasure and knowledge of every thing in them, shall we be fill'd and satisfied then? And my spirit said No, we but level that lift to pass and continue beyond. You are also asking me questions and I hear you, I answer that I cannot answer, you must find out for yourself. Sit a while dear son, Here are biscuits to eat and here is milk to drink, But as soon as you sleep and renew yourself in sweet clothes, I kiss you with a good-by kiss and open the gate for your egress hence. Long enough have you dream'd contemptible dreams, Now I wash the gum from your eyes, You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life. Long have you timidly waded holding a plank by the shore, Now I will you to be a bold swimmer, To jump off in the midst of the sea, rise again, nod to me, shout, and laughingly dash with your hair.
— Walt Whitman, Song of Myself
May your journey through life be vibrant and full of colorful rainbows.
— Harley King
No one has a problem with the first mile of a journey. Even an infant could do fine for a while. But it isn't the start that matters. It's the finish line.
— Julien Smith, The Flinch
She would search for him. In the land that lay east of the sun and west of the moon. But there was no way there.
— Edith Pattou, East
You forsake all that you hold dear,for a dream that is not your own;you would rather live a liethan live your life aloneUniverse of Us and on thoughtcatalog
— Lang Leav, The Universe of Us
A journey is a fragment of Hell.
— Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines
They laid up in the shade of a rock shelf until past noon, scratching out a place in the gray lava dust to sleep, and they set forth in the afternoon down the valley following the war trail and they were very small and they moved very slowly in the immensity of that landscape.Come evening they hove toward the rimrock again and Sproule pointed out a dark stain on the face of the barren cliff. It looked like the black from old fires. The kid shielded his eyes. The scalloped canyon walls rippled in the heat like drapery folds.
— Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
And when long years and seasons wheeling brought around that point of time ordained for him to make his passage homeward, trials and dangers, even so, attended him even in Ithaca, near those he loved.
— Homer
A journey of 1,000 miles starts with just 10 digits.
— Gayle Forman, Where She Went
Perhaps he knew, there in the grass by the waters, that he had before him an immense journey.
— Loren Eiseley, The Immense Journey
You cannot have a happy ending to an unhappy journey.
— Abraham Hicks
Abram: .. One [Sentient] often believes it best to choose the higher path over the companionship of another. But, this circumstance draws to mind a point which Seers might forget to easily.Lily: What's
— Jennifer DeLucy, Seers of Light
Funny how "question" contains the word "quest" inside it, as though any small question asked is a journey through briars.
— Catherynne M. Valente, Under in the Mere
All these people moving through life, all around me, and no one, not a single person, knows what I'm going through.
— Lee Thompson
Most journeys have a clear beginning, but on some the ending is less well-defined. The question is, at what point do you bite your lip and head for home?
— Tahir Shah, In Search of King Solomon's Mines
When your efforts run in the face of conventional wisdom and accepted mastery, persistence can look like madness. If you succeed in the end, this extreme originality reformulates into a new level of mastery, sometimes even genius; if you fail in the end, you remain a madman in the eyes of others, and maybe even yourself. When you are in the midst of the journey…there’s really no way of knowing which one you are.” (p.129)
— Hilary Austen, Artistry Unleashed: A Guide to Pursuing Great Performance in Work and Life
The first rule of an expedition is that everyone should stick together.
— Tahir Shah, In Search of King Solomon's Mines
A man who embarks on a journey must know when to end it.
— Tahir Shah, House of the Tiger King: The Quest for a Lost City
I will have a deeper and personal relationship with my life. I will not have a casual fling with my life. I will find peace in that. I want to contribute to the world around me. Casual debauchery is not fulfilling. I want to send good messages and good meanings along the way. The journey is about spreading love and understanding. Not using each other. Not distraction. Tools for presence in life. I want to bond with like-minded people who echo my appreciation and awareness for them.
— Hannah Hart, Buffering: Unshared Tales of a Life Fully Loaded
We never know the journey another person has walked, so be kind to everyone.
— Lynette Mather
Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path .. A thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do .. To find this path, and walk in it, is the one thing needful for him.
— Thomas Carlyle
Previous journeys had taught me the danger of taking too much stuff.
— Tahir Shah, House of the Tiger King: The Quest for a Lost City
Spend sixteen weeks in the jungle and you being to question your own sanity, especially when you are the one goading everyone else ahead.
— Tahir Shah
They hurried when they could, and dozed when they had to, hiding in tangles of bloodtwig and heartsease at the edge of the road.
— Erin Bow, Plain Kate
There's nothing quite like a good quest for getting your blood pumping.
— Tahir Shah, In Search of King Solomon's Mines
As far as Samson was concerned I was just another foreigner in pursuit of a lunatic quest.
— Tahir Shah, In Search of King Solomon's Mines
The joy is in the climb. Appreciate the process. To build or perfect anything takes time and effort. That time and effort adds value. Embrace the journey.
— Akiroq Brost
You realize the speed at which you are going to move while ascending. You can reckon the speed at which you were going while descending. In between, you are too engrossed in the journey.Neelam ka gyaan
— Neelam Saxena Chandra
Your life is your responsibility. Choose the right paths for journey of a life time.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Let's go from no where to somewhere! Trust, Its just a step ahead.
— Mahrukh
At the end when you reach the destination, you will realize all that matters was the journey.
— Mahrukh
We are all in the same boat,boat of life. Does not seemto be a rudder with oarsman.Perhaps my words may find a path, path through currents and wateras we continue our journey onriver of life. -River of Life
— Robert Trabold, Watching the River Flow By: Selected Poems
We have tried to run from our love, but our souls crave this magic.
— Nikki Rowe
Take time for the clearance of the mind, preparing for adherence to perseverance for the journey of another thousand miles.
— Curtis Tyrone Jones
Your on your way, beauty at every turn.You will find challenge and wonder along the way. Others will seek their beauty on your path. The journey is first the destination last
— Brent M. Jones
Our journey without judgment can begin today.
— Ron Baratono, The Writings of Ron Baratono
I may walk a different path than you, but it doesn't mean that either one of us is lost.
— Toni Sorenson
Ignorance to Awareness is the true journey of Life, called ‘Life’.
— Harrish Sairaman
A journey of a quarter million miles ended with a Giant Step..
— Ankala Subbarao
All paths eventually lead home.
— Toni Sorenson
And that would be my method of locomotion, the Lion concluded. Not diplomas earned, but friendships bungled. Campaigns aborted. Errors in judgment and public humiliations.
— Gregory Maguire, Out of Oz
Sometimes life takes you on a journey that changes everything you thought you wanted.
— Melaina Rayne, Given
I plan for all obstacles, I prepare with care, I worry endlesslyfor the road aheadIn all this, I forgetto enjoy small momentsof my present journey
— Vijaya Gowrisankar
If you're going on a journey take a rainbow with you because you never know who you are going to meet.
— Anthony T. Hincks
If it was all about the destination, we'd spend our nights sleeping in graves.
— Karishma Magvani
No more,' I told him. 'No more running in the wrong direction... You run to me'.
— Wendy Higgins, Sweet Peril
We should all live as though someone is writing a book about us.
— J.R. Rim
When you wake up one morning realizing you have piled so much on yourself that you feel you can't afford to get out, GET THE FUCK OUT!
— DC Allen
So he'll keep dragging himself up this bridge between possible worlds, this rickety ruin of light, trying to imagine it might matter if he makes it to the other side.
— Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire
The absence of a skyline makes him doubt he'll ever get where he's going, and behind him, where he's come from might as well not be there.
— Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire
The proverb, "Where there's a will.." sums it up for a writer who had just started in his writing life; for himself, the fictional characters and the audience of his works. It's a trinity of perspectives; one of his struggle, another of the story character which he writes about and the last one of the reader's expectation of his protagonists.
— Lucas Michael
There are dark and alone times when you move forward to pursue your own journey, but the beauty in the light at the end of the tunnel is worth every sacrifice you thought you made.
— DC Allen
Walk in the right path.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Their locked hands offered a stark reminder of how many scars lingered … shards of war and distressing anguish forever branded them. Yet in this endearing moment of comfort, their adversity became skinspeak between survivors phoenixing from the ashes of their perilous journey—their burning eagerness for survival overcoming the forces that once tried to stifle their light.
— Becca Vry, Musings: An Argyle Empire Anthology
She has a long journey ahead of her. She doesn’t need to hear she will lose before she even begins
— If I Wake
There are no shortcuts through the wilderness of life.
— Seth Adam Smith, Rip Van Winkle and the Pumpkin Lantern
The boat from India was a crowded place
—  all long sea voyages on boats feel crowded. When you are stuck at sea for weeks there is nowhere to escape from people.
Our life is a journey, through winter and night, We look for our way, in a sky without light. (Song of the Swiss Guards, 1793)
— Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
Planning helps you to avoid potholes in the journey of life
— Topsy Gift
Are you tired? Are you feeling that you will not be able to reach your destination? Then all you have to remember is that those who reached their far and hard destinations also felt the same way on their way! Knowing what others felt will give you a great power to complete your journey!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Love is a perpetual journey that is extraordinary because it will never find itself terminated by a destination.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
One cannot trust a path, because the path is different for each person who takes it. One can only trust a person to choose the path that best represents their values and experiences.
— April White, Cheating Death
Life is a worthwhile journey.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The journey into God’s heart will lead you into such depths of love as you have never dreamt possible
— Sunday Adelaja
A tire spins aimlessly, being pulled a different direction by forces larger and stronger and with little consideration of its wasted effort. Sometimes, no matter how hard you try, you can't leave the road you're on.
— Kimberly Morgan, On Angels and Rabbit Holes
It's a long road. Setbacks don't actually matter.
— Sundar Pichai
Unless we can interpret that ecstatic trip in a way that better grounds our physical reality, trance isn’t worth much.
— S. Kelley Harrell, Life Betwixt: Essays on Allies in the Everyday and Shamanism Among
And see ye not that braid braid roadThat lies across that lily leven?That is the path of wickednessThough some call it the road to heaven
— Thomas the Rhymer (ballad)
And time inherently creates a story. Things begin and they end. How they end is the story. Or maybe it's what happens between when they begin and end that's the story.
— Arianna Huffington, Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder
If ever there was a metaphor to illustrate the importance of the journey over the destination, it is life itself.For everyone who departs from birth is destined for death, so the journey IS life. Savor it!
— Michele Jennae
You don't get to a place by constantly moving, even if your journey is only one of sitting still and waiting. Every once in a while you have to stop in your tracks and admire the view, a small cloud and a tree outside your window. You have to see what you did not see before. And then you have to sleep.
— Rachel Joyce, The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy
There was no desire in him for a state or condition, no picture in his mind of the thing to be when he had followed his longing; but only a burning and a will overpowering to journey outward and outward after the earliest risen star.
— John Steinbeck, Cup of Gold: A Life of Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer, with Occasional Reference to History
Life knows what you want, and gives you exactly the same thing, at the moment. You attract exactly what you want in the moment. You have to remain present in the moment. If you are already lost in yourself, you can never understand the ways of life.
— Roshan Sharma
The spiritual path is an inward journey. On the spiritual path, the external life remains the same, but you begin the inward journey towards the truth.
— Roshan Sharma
All along, I was less concerned about walking a path of integrity and more caught up in a compass calibrated by greed. And with a compass such as this, how is it that I’m having a hard time understanding why I am where I am?
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
The step that we are on is only a step to the next place, and no step regardless of how massive is ever a destination.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Everyone is on a journey at any given moment in their lives
— Carrie Hope Fletcher, All I Know Now: Wonderings and Reflections on Growing Up Gracefully
We can only climb the mountains because there’s a valley that makes the mountain a mountain.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
It is only through seeking that we find what we are looking for.
— Seth Adam Smith, Rip Van Winkle and the Pumpkin Lantern
We can only get to God through God. Every other possible avenue is a dead-end before it even starts.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
The Source …Who are YouWhere lay your pathWhy be on your journey...The Source …Your marvel amazesYour mystique invokesYour magnificence entrances(Page 88)
— Neena Verma, A Mother's Cry... A Mother's Celebration
My brand new sandals are a little stiff, and I think they'll give me blisters. But I love them, so I'll probably wear them out.With cautious feet, we move forward. Today is the first step of our new lives.
— Inio Asano, Solanin
Why do you forget oh man, that life has no destination. That even if it does, it results in physical death?It is about the journey, not the destination. Enjoy every minute of this journey, for the totality of life is in the journey.
— Magnus Nwagu Amudi
Of all the crowns that Bruenor had worn or would, none was more important than that of Father.
— R.A. Salvatore, The Halfling's Gem
Bad stories can create good people, and I wanted to protect them from those bad stories so they could live with the good person they'd created without ever worrying about what I had to go through to become that person. I kept those secrets because I needed to . . . and sometimes it's OK to make those kinds of decisions for the sake of your own happiness.
— Carrie Hope Fletcher, On the Other Side
It's hard to leave the only place you've known.
— Lois Lowry, Messenger
If you travel in space for three years and come back, four hundred years will have passed on Earth. I am only an armchair astronomer, but I have the odd sense that I have returned from a journey to a world where nothing quite makes sense.
— Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
Everyday you have a new chapter to write about your journey of life. As you write that chapter do it so well such that if others read it, you would still be proud of yourself.
— Gugu Mona
A verbal trap; after the end there is nothing, since if there were something, the end would not be the end. Nonetheless, we are always setting forth to meet…, even though we know that there is nothing, or no one, awaiting us. We go along, without a fixed itinerary, yet at the same time with an end (what end?) in mind, and with the aim of reaching the end. A search for the end, a dread of the end: the obverse and the reverse of the same act. Without this end that constantly eludes us we would not journey forth, nor would there be any paths. But the end is the refutation and the condemnation of the path: at the end the path dissolves, the meeting fades away to nothingness. And the end—it too fades away to nothingness.
— Octavio Paz, The Monkey Grammarian
Where is truth??Somewhere in the story... somewhere around the facts.- There should be a truth some kind of feature, if there isn't... it goes interesting how in the hell is build a story with a truth... It's pretty interesting journey!
— Deyth Banger
I wish I could tell you the road from here to where you're going is straight and without obstacles. That is not the truth. The journey to greatness is just not that way.
— Kami Guildner, Firedancer: Your Spiral Journey to a Life of Passion and Purpose
Everybody starts the journey but not everybody completes it
—  and even those who reach the destined point reach there in different forms and they form different destinies. Be careful as you journey in life!
You forsake all that you hold dear,for a dream that is not your own;you would rather live a liethan live your life alone
— Lang Leav
Phædrus wrote a letter from India about a pilgrimage to holy Mount Kailas, the source of the Ganges and the abode of Shiva, high in the Himalayas, in the company of a holy man and his adherents.He never reached the mountain. After the third day he gave up, exhausted, and the pilgrimage went on without him. He said he had the physical strength but that physical strength wasn’t enough. He had the intellectual motivation but that wasn’t enough either. He didn’t think he had been arrogant but thought that he was undertaking the pilgrimage to broaden his experience, to gain understanding for himself. He was trying to use the mountain for his own purposes and the pilgrimage too. He regarded himself as the fixed entity, not the pilgrimage or the mountain, and thus wasn’t ready for it. He speculated that the other pilgrims, the ones who reached the mountain, probably sensed the holiness of the mountain so intensely that each footstep was an act of devotion, an act of submission to this holiness. The holiness of the mountain infused into their own spirits enabled them to endure far more than anything he, with his greater physical strength, could take.
— Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
Awareness is the starting point of every quest and the outcome of every journey.
— Azim Jamal & Brian Tracy, What You Seek Is Seeking You
I think that the great trick in life, wherever you are in the journey, is to do what you love and let the universe support it. When we do what we love, every day is a holiday.
— Robert Moss, Active Dreaming: Journeying Beyond Self-Limitation to a Life of Wild Freedom
The ink line drawing flowed the cursive journey,created on paper canvas that brought the story to life.
— Jazz Feylynn
Now, what’s stirring in this murky sea of complexity and foolishness is an almost suffocating need to breathe fresh history.
— Laurie Perez, The Look of Amie Martine
The landscape started hard, sharp black mountains over my shoulder and thirsty young saguaros hugging patchy dirt. Gradually it let go, began to green on me a little. I crossed a river, watched succulents get fatter and farmland start to wave, hoarding the blue above and the few clouds it had to spare.I knew the route somehow, knew the curves, the directions, the exact way to go. I knew it the way you know the stars are still up in the sky even though white sun obscures them. Everything that had happened before Lukeville and Sonoita began to liquify in memory, feeling more like fiction than personal history. Funerals and pain, girlfriends and mothers, roommates and priests all tumble away with the desert behind me. The only thing that's real is the road I see ahead. The only person in my life is the man sitting silently beside me. The place I'm going is the only place I've ever wanted to go.
— Laurie Perez, Torpor: Though the Heart Is Warm
God has given us our own unique paths to follow in life. What's interesting is no one's journey is ever the same.
— Courtney Brooks, S.H.E. Serenity, Hope, & Encouragement: For Daily Motivation
You want to go back, and so you hold on to the habits you learned while you were traveling, because it's better than admitting the journey's over.
— Seanan McGuire, Every Heart a Doorway
In India, where there are no passports or identity discs, and where religions counts for so much- except among those few who have crossed the 'black water' - I believe that a man wearing a saffron robe, or carrying a beggar's bowl , or with silver crosses on his headgear and chest, could walk from Khyber Pass to Cape Comorin without once being questioned about his destination, or the object of his journey,
— Jim Corbett, The Man-Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag
We don't need a destination or a way of navigating, because we'll go wherever it takes us
— Lemony Snicket, The End
I'm a loserIn the moon lightStill a beginnerBeats of heartSweating a lotOut of breathBut still not gonna leaveThe way I chooseIn the pitch of darkStill can hearThe melody of staffWith the beat of bandYea, I'm not gonna quitCircling round and roundNot firm of a thingBut I will find the wayI want to walk onBy myselfLeaving all aloneThis is what I learnFrom the way of my life.
— Irfa Adam
When travelling, concentrate on the path! Don’t sleep! Don’t read! Just live the journey in full by observing the path instead of wandering in your own world!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
But the artist began to have misgivings as the wall underwent its transformation. Bigger than any pavement project he had yet undertaken, it made him restless. Over the years, a precise cycle had entered the rhythm of his life, the cycle of arrival, creation, and obliteration. Like sleeping, waking and stretching, or eating, digesting and excreting, the cycle sang in harmony with the blood in his veins and the breath in his lungs. He learned to disdain the overlong sojourn and the procrastinated departure, for they were the progenitors of complacent routine, to be shunned at all costs. The journey -- chanced, unplanned, solitary -- was the thing to relish.Now, however, his old way of life was being threatened. The agreeable neighborhood and the solidity of the long, black wall were reawakening in him the usual sources of human sorrow: a yearning for permanence, for roots, for something he could call his own....
— Rohinton Mistry, Such a Long Journey
Life is a journey from God to God.
— Moosa Rahat
Free your mind and be in flow of life's ups and downs. Be accepting of wherever you are on your journey
— Karon Waddell
Life is a journey through either experiences or experiment.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If I get up just one less time than the number of times I’ve been knocked down, I have done one of the most devastating things possible; I have halted my life at that very spot.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Autumn's Journey: Deep Growth in the Grief and Loss of Life's Seasons
We belong far less to where we've come from than where we want to go.
— Franz Werfel
For the longest time, I saw them as the end of my journey, but now I think they were always meant to represent the beginning of yours.
— Alexandra Bracken, Passenger
Betsy dreamed about going away from Deep Valley, but she didn't for a moment suspect that around a bend in her Winding Hall of Fate a journey was actually waiting.
— Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy in Spite of Herself
A hopeful journey is more important than the destination.
— Dan Groat
Becoming unshakeable through this storm.
— Nikki Rowe
I knew in that moment that I was full of it. I didn't know who I was. I only knew my routine. I knew who I was suppose to be, who I was expected to be.
— Stacie Hammond, Ana J. Awakens
His words started to wedge their way into me, and they would stay for a long time; twisting me up, and causing me to look at life in a whole new way.
— Stacie Hammond, Ana J. Awakens
After all, hope is a form of planning.
— Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road
It's important for someone who could play the game - and win - to say: 'the game isn't worth shit.
— Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road
I grin, and he beams with 
— A.G. Howard, Unhinged
What I am mourning is perhaps not worth saving, but I regret its loss nevertheless.
— John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America
The start and the end is same for all of us. We were all born, and we will all die - in the same state. It is the journey where we experience Happiness.
— Manoj Arora, Happiness Unlimited: How to be happy always
If you are happy with the journey you can give up the destination!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Truth is always a quest and if it looks anything like a destination, it is proof that we are on to illusion. Thus, unique is each quest!
— R. N. Prasher
Watch carefully the journeys of others because the beginning of your own journey is hidden in the journeys of others!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
I took a part-time editing job to pay the rent. It was work I could do at home, but when suddenly I was expected to spend two days a week in the office, I quit, bought an ice cream cone, and walked the sunny streets of Manhattan.
— Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road
I would be an utter fool to let my journey be defined by the denial of the journey.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
Time is the journey. Life, the universe and everything is the result.
— Khalid Masood
There is an end to every journey.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The journey is the REWARD! NOT the destination.
— Matthew Donnelly
The journey itself IS the reward. NOT the destination or future event.
— Matthew Donnelly
We all cross a hundred peaks to get even this far. And there will be more before we each make it to whatever God has fated for us.
— Nadia Hashimi, When the Moon is Low
It's fun to think about what kind of car you want to have. You compare specifications and customize everything your way. More importantly than the type of vehicle you want to get, is where you want to go with it. Where will this car take you if you were to have it today. Perhaps it's already yours. Now where will you drive tomorrow, next month, next year, for the rest of your life? Make your journey memorable by looking ahead into the distance. The distance is where we find our ultimate destination.
— J.R. Rim
Let the devil bar my way, I will come back to ye.
— Susanna Kearsley, The Winter Sea
Are the returns on my journey equal to the length of the road behind me? And if not, have I realized the pressing need to surrender to God the road in front of me?
— Craig D. Lounsbrough, Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Profound Living
We will find our sacred-path.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
I searched for a deeper existence. What I found was myself. The next moment the journey towards self discovery began all over again.
— Matthew Donnelly
Life is just a flow spontaneous, whatsoever you think of it, whatsoever you claim to do for it – it just doesn’t really matter- for you are in a flow and you are being carried to where it has to go! Philosophically you would say - a destination known as death, ocean, eternity or whatever! Even that doesn’t really matter- you just flow and it has to be so! Be still and relish the path unknown; for ultimately it is the journey that matters!
— Preeth Nambiar, The Voyage to Eternity
If my goal is simply to survive the journey, then I’m not on the journey in the first place.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Autumn's Journey: Deep Growth in the Grief and Loss of Life's Seasons
Explore your inner creative genius through the medium you love and enjoy the journey!
— Ken Poirot, Go Viral!: The Social Media Secret to Get Your Name Posted and Shared All Over the World!
The viral marketing seeds have already been sown and you can come along with me on this journey...
— Ken Poirot, Go Viral!: The Social Media Secret to Get Your Name Posted and Shared All Over the World!
Your story should inspire others. Your journey should inspire you.
— Tony Curl
Dear girl, it will be a very long road if you spend more time looking backwards than forward.
— Soman Chainani, The Last Ever After