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Sometimes, the ocean floor is only a stop on the journey. And it is when you are at this lowest point, that you are faced with a choice. You can stay there at the bottom, until you drown. Or you can gather pearls and rise back up — stronger from the swim and richer from the jewels.
— Yasmin Mogahed, Reclaim Your Heart: Personal Insights on Breaking Free from Life's Shackles
Start your journey where the road ends! Glory lies beyond the ends!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Alcohol let's us go on a journey. It's like paying for a ride. It maybe a ride to nowhere, but at least we get to go on that ride that we paid for. And no journey is the same. We wake up next day, usually with memory loss, usually with regret at something we did or said. But we know, we got our money's worth.
— Robert  Black
It's through traveling you make the great journey into yourself, and it's the clarity of extremes in traveling that forces you to meet yourself like you've never met yourself before.
— Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
Did you not enjoy the fragrant flowers on the trails edge,The cool, crisp drink from the glistening pools at sunset,The song birds that filled the time as you experienced all that I Am, and all that I Am not?Did the dewy raindrops glisten on the gardens giving you a different memory of familiar landscapes?Did the rainbow fill your skies and force a pause of wonder in the midst of your journey?
— Bella Vespira
Every journey has a destination, known or unknown.
— Dean Koontz, Deeply Odd
If patterns exist in our seemingly patternless lives — and they do — then the law of harmony insists that the most harmonious of all patterns, circles within circles, will most often assert itself.
— Dean Koontz, Deeply Odd
There is no brightness without darkness. There is no body without its shadow.
— Jessica Khoury, Vitro
Trust your journey, trust the process, raise your energy and the right people will come into your life
— Steven Aitchison
Its the journey that counts, not the arrival.
— Diane Keaton, Then Again
Through life's journey, may your feet rest on solid ground, your hands touch the prize of life, and your heart find contentment.
— Lorna Jackie Wilson, Black Butterfly: The Journey - The Victory
Enlightenment is not like a Big Bang - it is an ongoing process.
— Sadghuru
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— Real men are men who have devoted their lives to solving the problem of others and giving a helping hand to those they meet in their journey through life. These are the kind of men that history can never forget.
The earth is a spaceship. While you are here, enjoy the ride.
— J.R. Rim, Better to be able to love than to be loveable
Life is an eternal journey in search of beauty.
— Debasish Mridha
Find a unique path and make a successful journey over there! This is the way to have a unique place in the history!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Sometimes people are very predictable: they want a kitten in June, for example, and come the first of September they want someone to drown their cat. So someone does. But other times, people have dreams and things they want they can keep. Eriksson was the man who fulfilled these dreams. No one knew exactly what he found for himself along the way - probably a lot less than people thought. But he went on doing it anyway, perhaps for the sake of the search.
— Tove Jansson
My journey defines me
—  but I AM the journey. Be your own journey
Life lessons are not journeys traveled in straight lines but are crossroadsformed years and miles apart.
— Gina Greenlee, Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road
The first step is the best step in a journey towards a destination.
— Debasish Mridha
It is inevitable that I will leave a legacy simply because I cannot walk through life without leaving footprints as I walk. Therefore, I would be wise to consider the path before I make the prints.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Your life is your journey. You have to enjoy it because no one can feel or see it for you.
— Debasish Mridha
Reading a book is like going on a great journey. You don't know what'll happen, but something is bound to change. And for me, that change has always been good.
— Shannon Hale, The Forgotten Sisters
There will be something very wrong with any place we go.
— Dean Koontz, Odd Apocalypse
I wanted to make people think, to open their minds, to give them a full picture of what was happening in Iraq so they can decide whether they supported our presence there.
— Lynsey Addario
If the road behind me is not growing ever longer, then it is likely that the feet underneath me are not moving any longer. And if my feet are not moving, I have somehow, somewhere traded this most glorious journey for lesser endeavors.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
You want it to be easy? But if it was easy, everyone Would be doing it.. And if everyone is doing it? Why do you want to be the same... Trust that the struggle you face Is your path to success & remember If it's easy, it's not worth it.
— Nikki Rowe
It's our journey to search for that piece of our soul with our life's purpose written on it." Cinderella in Focus: Cindy's Secret
— hlbalcomb
Happenstance is the myth of the simple mind, for it is the deliberate genius of God that what appears entirely disjointed always reveals itself to be stunningly seamless. And it is in reflecting on such stunning ingenuity that our faith becomes seamless.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
May you find new opportunities in every encounter.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Few born liars ever intentionally embark in truth’s direction, even those who believe that such a journey might axiomatically set them free.
— Mary Karr
There isn't a need to sugar coat life anymore, Cant we see we live through enough lies, deciet and painful realities to create more, by stagnating the growth of the ones your suppose to make an Impact on and more importantly yourself. Let life be funny, but never a joke.
— Nikki Rowe
You can ignore your heart and mind, but it will always find its way home.
— Shannon L. Alder
Approach the goal you’ve set with a positive, grateful attitude, and your perception about the goal and the journey will feel less like work, and more like fun.
— John    Manning, The Disciplined Leader: Keeping the Focus on What Really Matters
My mother says it can't stay like this, but I believe it will. The Pants are like an omen. They stand for the promise we made to one another, that no matter what happens, we stick together. But they stand for a challenge too. It's not enough to stay in Bethesda, Maryland, and hunker down in air-conditioned houses. We promise one another that someday we'd get out in the world and figure some stuff out.
— Ann Brashares, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
It's only life. We all get through it.Not all of us complete the journey in the same condition. Along the way, some lose their legs or eyes in accidents or altercations, while others skate through years with nothing worse to worry about than an occasional bad-hair day.
— Dean Koontz, Odd Hours
You know you have arrived when you have stopped caring about the destination
— Srividya Srinivasan
At the end of the day, only what we do for Christ will last. Appreciate each day, one another, and the vessels God may use to acknowledge our individual and collective skillsets and let’s always remember the importance of planting seeds in our own lives, i.e., investing in ourselves and our spiritual purpose. If we can achieve this, we will be able to reflect on the journey and see the legacy we have built for our loved ones and the blessings we have sewn for God’s glory.
— Lorna Jackie Wilson, Black Butterfly: The Journey - The Victory
Throughout history, there have been people who mattered more. Some of them, like Ulysses S. Grant and Winston Churchill and Jonas Salk, changed the course of history in grand strokes. Others, like Reuben Styrlund and Dora Salk, made a meaningful difference on a smaller stage...Remembered or not lived out in a small town or on the world's stage, the journey of relevance matters.
— Marian Deegan, Relevance: Matter More
I am ready for the most exhilarating time of my life, discovery before me, negativity behind me, through the road to ruin, I will find within me, my most unshakeable truth.
— Nikki Rowe
Whenever people see birds flying through the sky, it's said that they get the urge to go on a journey.
— Kino no Tabi
A journey of a thousand miles starts with just ten digits.
— Gayle Forman, Where She Went
Pro-crasinaton kills the dream. Let it go
— Nikki Rowe
A journey is a dismal thing when there can be no homecoming.
— Stanisław Lem, The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy
It was a perfect spring day. The air was sweet and gentle and the sky stretched high, an intense blue. Harold was certain that the last time he had peered through the net drapes of Fossebridge Road (his home), the trees and hedges were dark bones and spindles against the skyline; yet now that he was out, and on his feet, it was as if everywhere he looked, the fields, gardens, trees, and hedgerows and exploded with growth. A canopy of sticky young leaves clung to the branches above him. There were startling yellow clouds of forsythia, trails of purple aubrietia; a young willow shook in a fountain of silver. The first of the potato shoots fingered through the soil, and already tiny buds hung from the gooseberry and currant shrubs like the earrings Maureen used to wear. The abundance of new life was enough to make him giddy.
— Rachel Joyce, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
As I embarked on; what was to be the greatest adventure of my life; critics appeared before me. ' you can't, you won't, what if?' Noise filled the air with meaningless words as they confessed their hidden fears, with opinionations of my path. They saw me as crazy, but only those whom were yet to understand themselves.
— Nikki Rowe
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.
— Gregory Maguire
A true spiritual teacher will never guide you through the door, only to the door.
— Nikki Rowe
Life is a journey, so go on your way. Be a messenger of peace.
— Debasish Mridha
Our life is a journey toward happiness.
— Debasish Mridha
Happiness is not a destination but the journey itself.
— Debasish Mridha
Nature, take my breath with you; renew it with the wild breeze and fill my being up with so much soul, ego learns to fade away.
— Nikki Rowe, Once a Girl, Now a Woman
There are three keys for your journey. Humility, wisdom, love. Don’t leave without them - they will enrich you all the way. And they will bless those around you.
— Anusha Atukorala
finding peace will help pave your path.you have to be [fully] present to experienceand understand what you need to keep going.
— Alexandra Elle
I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That's what this world is about. You look at someone like Gandhi, and he glowed. Martin Luther King glowed. Muhammad Ali glows. I think that's from being bright all the time, and trying to be brighter.
— Jay-Z
A great leader never fears criticism and welcomes them with openness and love as if they are the beauty of the journey.
— Debasish Mridha
There is no excuse for being derogatory or dismissive about other's beliefs, paths, choices. Everyone is where they need to be at the right time to learn the right things for them and their personal journey through life.
— Jay Woodman
Our destinations are Booleans – we reach them or we don’t – but our journeys are spectrums, because there are so many paths we can take to our destination that make getting there that much better.
— A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
One of the unsettling things about my journey, mentally, physically, and emotionally, was that I wasn’t sure when or where it was going to end. I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I felt that I was starting over and over again. I was always on the move, always going somewhere. While we walked, I sometimes lagged behind, thinking about these things. To survive each passing day was my goal in life. At villages where we managed to find some happiness by being treated to food or fresh water, I knew that it was temporary and that we were only passing through. So I couldn’t bring myself to be completely happy. It was much easier to be sad than to go back and forth between emotions, and this gave me the determination I needed to keep moving. I was never disappointed, since I always expected the worst to happen. There were nights when I couldn’t sleep but stared into the darkest night until my eyes could see clearly through it. I thought about where my family was and whether they were alive.
— Ishmael Beah
The most amazing journey on earth is the journey of oneself.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Life isn't about the destinationIt is a journey to see the creation.
— Debasish Mridha
Then we got into a labyrinth, and, when we thought we were at the end,came out again at the beginning, having still to see as much as ever.
— Plato
Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.
— John Lancaster Spalding
My journey, my life.My life can only be navigated by me.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Love, happiness, peace - these are not final destinations. They are in every moment, every breath, everything.
— Vironika Tugaleva
Takes birth in me,also, dies in debris.I am a Potpourri.A mix of dead petals,effusing divine fragrance.Walking on the journey,of controversy.I am a Potpourri.
— Jasleen Kaur Gumber
The best journeys in life are those that answer questions you never thought to ask
— Rich Ridgeway
The journey as a writer is not so much about our stories, but the stories of others we meet along the way on our wonderful path. #grateful
— Lee Bice-Matheson
Out ahead of them, Arkady began something very like a marching song, chanting lines answered by the other ferals, their voices ringing out across the sky, each to each. Temeraire added his own to the chorus, and little Iskierka began to scrabble at his neck, demanding, "What are they saying? What does it mean?""We are flying home," Temeraire said, translating. "We are all flying home.
— Naomi Novik, Black Powder War
When we are aware that we are eternal beings, when we become enlightened to the fact that our life is something eternal that cannot be harmed by anything, then we have no attachments to the past of anxiety about the future and are able to focus on the present moment the now.
— Ilchi Lee, The Call of Sedona: Journey of the Heart
And if the worst, or best, happens, and Death comes for you in the snow, he comes disguised as Sleep, and you greet him rather as a welcome friend than a gruesome foe.
— Apsley Cherry-Garrard, The Worst Journey in the World
Be grateful for everything. The good, the bad, the ugly. Our entire life is a precious gift. It’s all part of our path.
— Dawn Gluskin
Celebrate the journey. It’s not all about the destination. Savor all of your successes, even the small ones.
— Dawn Gluskin
I’m thinking of the protector who wants to be protected and a fighter who loves the right battle but will lay down her arms to go on a quest.
— Donna Lynn Hope
Oh, I thought of calling it Journeyings in Germany. It sounds well, and would be correct. Or Jottings from German Journeyings--I haven't quite decided yet... (Minora)
— Elizabeth von Arnim, Elizabeth and Her German Garden
Lord bless our journey on earth.Lord grant us the grace and will-power to fulfill our mission in the world.
— Lailah GiftyAkita
Life is full of highs and lows. We need them both to grow to our fullest potential. Just hang on tight & enjoy the ride.
— Dawn Gluskin
There is no final destination to our journey.
— Raphael Zernoff
This is my journey.My unique path.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
All good knights, pilgrims, sons in search of fortune, seekers after truth, and plain ordinary fools, turn towards the city they have left and take farewell according to their nature. This is a full moment in all journeying, the time when girths are tightened in preparation for the miles that lie ahead.
— H.V. Morton, In Search Of England
God bless our journey on earth.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Everywhere is home, let is go home
— Dzuco Huỳnh
...people don’t take trips—trips take people.
— John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Curious how a place unvisited can take such hold on the mind so that the very name sets up a ringing.
— John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America
A cell is just a room if you don't lock the door.
— Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance
...many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased. I remember a man in Salinas who in his middle years traveled to Honolulu and back, and that journey continued for the rest of his life. We could watch him in his rocking chair on his front porch, his eyes squinted, half-closed, endlessly traveling to Honolulu.
— John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Energies expended on sideshows, never on the main event. Where the hell was the main event? Was there a main event?
— Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance
The journey of life is unique for every one.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The journey is where we find perspective.
— Alison Levine, On the Edge: The Art of High-Impact Leadership
For an infinite journey, we need an endless road, an immortal vehicle and an eternal body!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
A wise human’s life contains several journeys among several experiences, each of them takes him/her to a new level of wisdom in which makes him/her refuses to return to how he/she was before that experience.
— Sameh Elsayed
I have spent most of the time there and infect traveling is my passion as well memories always remind us the fact of our life - Joyful & precious journey of my life.
— Avinash Advani
Sometimes we must leave our true homes for something greater to come.
— Mary-Jean Harris, Aizai the Forgotten
Great leaders create memorable journeys
— John  Stein, Building the Pyramid
Great journeys live long in the memory of those who participate in them
— John  Stein, Building the Pyramid
Getting there, that's what's important even if you can't get back.
— Thomas O'Malley, This Magnificent Desolation
Though a lifetime of listening to the music of the world has passed, even now the tone of the rain on the roof of my home is the sweetest sound I have ever heard.
— Kensi Brianne Smith
Fatalism accounts for life as a whole. Whatever happens can be fit within the large generality of individuation, or my journey, or growth. Fatalism comforts, for it raises no questions. There's no need to examine just how events fit in.
— James Hillman, The Soul's Code: In Search of Character and Calling
Obviously the choices of other people affect our lives, but we are the primary creators of our experience.
— Shepherd Hoodwin, Journey of Your Soul: A Channel Explores the Michael Teachings
A significant number of people diagnosed with mental illness have psychic abilities not yet under control. They may have true mental illness as well, including faulty neurological wiring and chemical imbalance. However, some people have mental breaks because of psychic abilities they don’t know how to handle.
— Shepherd Hoodwin, Journey of Your Soul: A Channel Explores the Michael Teachings
I can’t tell you what to do. Only you know what is best for you, but I can tell you this much: love isn’t a destination, it’s a journey. You have to be willing to walk together or you will end up walking further and further apart.
— Michelle Frost, Wisdoms of the Light
Although we experience our nonphysical levels of self as potential, they are also functional in our lives. An acorn is a potential oak tree, but the oak tree could be seen as the essence of the acorn, guiding its development into the oak tree.
— Shepherd Hoodwin, Journey of Your Soul: A Channel Explores the Michael Teachings
All true teachings expand awareness, not limit it.
— Shepherd Hoodwin, Journey of Your Soul: A Channel Explores the Michael Teachings
To know someone, we must experience him, and that knowing will not exceed our self-knowledge—we cannot know someone else to a greater depth than we know ourselves.
— Shepherd Hoodwin, Journey of Your Soul: A Channel Explores the Michael Teachings
Through channeling, we can make conscious contact with higher planes. We can also communicate with beings who are physical but nonhumans, such as devas (nature spirits), dolphins and whales, and extraterrestrials.
— Shepherd Hoodwin, Journey of Your Soul: A Channel Explores the Michael Teachings
Still, we always have some level of choice, even if it only how we react and make use of what life brings us.
— Shepherd Hoodwin, Journey of Your Soul: A Channel Explores the Michael Teachings
Today, many of us are trying to understand just what male and female energies are, since we are calling old rigid stereotypes into questions. There is a risk of replacing such stereotypes with even more politically correct rigid stereotypes. The destructive aspect of the masculine has been emphasized in recent years, but both the feminine and the masculine have destructive sides. (The evil witch in fairy tales is an example of the destructive feminine.) Love is the ultimate nature of everything; it is not just the feminine that is loving. We tend to think of female energy as nurturing because it is undirected—it includes everything—but perhaps one could say that the feminine loves and nurtures in a being way, and the masculine does so in a doing way. We are each capable of loving in both ways.
— Shepherd Hoodwin, Journey of Your Soul: A Channel Explores the Michael Teachings
Truth is infinite and is therefore vast enough to hold an infinite number of facets. It has been said that the measure of an idea’s greatness is the degree to which its opposite is also true. For example, love is gentle; love is also strong.
— Shepherd Hoodwin, Journey of Your Soul: A Channel Explores the Michael Teachings
An infinite soul incarnates in order to catalyze massive spiritual change in a civilization, generally during a shift from one average soul age to another. An incarnation of a transcendental soul usually precedes it in order to catalyze massive social change.
— Shepherd Hoodwin, Journey of Your Soul: A Channel Explores the Michael Teachings
With any spiritual teaching, we are working with rounded-off truths, because we cannot work directly with the whole truth—it’s too big.
— Shepherd Hoodwin, Journey of Your Soul: A Channel Explores the Michael Teachings
One of the most confusing issues in channeling is that of accuracy.
— Shepherd Hoodwin, The Journey of Your Soul: A Channel Explores Channeling and the Michael Teachings
As we move into unprecedented changes in our world, new and better tools are needed for meeting the challenges. The Michael teachings are one such tool.
— Shepherd Hoodwin, Journey of Your Soul: A Channel Explores the Michael Teachings
Purpose is not that far my child---it's just a journey's walk.It is the One at the end of the journey,it is the end of the journey, and it is the journeyitself.And when you thirst, do you not drink?And when you are cool, do you not warm yourself?and when you are weary, do you not rest?And if you need meaning, should you not reach out?I said out! My child, out! In all simplicity those in need reach out and receive beyondthemselves.He's at the end of the quench, and the relief of the warmth, the satisfaction of a rest, and thesalvage of a soul.
— Quinesia Johnson, Growth In Expression: Modern Christian Poems
No one on any plane of existence is infallible or knows everything we need to know.
— Shepherd Hoodwin, Journey of Your Soul: A Channel Explores the Michael Teachings
On the way down the hill we walked three abreast in the cobblestone street, drunk and laughing and talking like men who knew they would separate at dawn and travel to the far corners of the earth.
— Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary
The only real voyage consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes; in seeing the universe through the eyes of another, one hundred others-in seeing the hundred universes that each of them sees. Marcel Proust, translated by Kiyotesong
— Rob Brezsny, Pronoia is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World is Conspiring to Shower You With Blessings
People will insist on building high and wide barriers directly in your path, often with the intent of closing you in. If you treat these obstacles like fencing walls, they will prove mightily so. I choose to see them as grand towers meant to be scaled and conquered, providing an added victory as well as a great view of the journey ahead.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
Life had broken her; just as it had broken him. But when they got together, their pieces became whole. And they continued on their journey, together, mended as one.
— Steve Maraboli
On our Journey, we should not dwell on the guilt emerging because of dropping back to Ego-dominated state; instead, we should celebrate that we are in the state of the Presence!
— Frank Wanderer
Every journey starts with the first step and the thousands upon thousands steps before you reach the end. Enjoy every step.
— Pamela Cummins, Psychic Wisdom on Love and Relationships
The Wanderer then leaves behind the spiritual seeker, with all the accumulated knowledge and lofty spiritual experience, and takes the first step on the Journey.
— Frank Wanderer
In one of the verses of Lal Ded, or Lalla, a fourteenth-century mystic from Kashmir, Lalla says: “At the end of a crazy-moon night the love of God rose. I said “It’s me, Lalla.”“It’s me, Lalla,” becomes “It’s me…whoever you are,” proclaiming that we no longer stand on the sidelines but are leaping directly into the center of our lives, our truth, our full potential. No one can take that leap for us; and no one has to. This is our journey of faith.
— Sharon Salzberg, Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience
The Kalambo River and Waterfall exemplify life and afterlife: From birth at its source, the river twists and turns to overcome hurdles on its way to enhance the life of others before falling off the edge in death to flow quietly into Lake Tanganyika, while it's mist rises to heaven, freed from the burden of the body of water that held it.
— Kamil Ali, The Initiates
Behind lay loneliness and delusions. Ahead lay answers, and yes, Riley. So bent double beneath my load, but naked no longer, I followed the two demons deeper into Hell.
— Heather Heffner
I have deeper journeys to take. Metaphysical journeys to see Christ. Shaman journeys. It's what I have been elected by God to do.
— Clive Barker
Every journey conceals another journey within its lines; the path not taken and the forgotten angle. These are the journeys I wish to record. Not the ones I made, but the ones I might have made, or perhaps did make in some other place or time.
— Jeanette Winterson
How many of us walk around being weighed down by the baggage of our journey? You can’t possibly embrace that new relationship, that new companion, that new career, that new friendship, or that new life you want while you’re still holding on to the baggage of the last one. Let go… and allow yourself to embrace what is waiting for you right at your feet.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
We cleave our way through the mountains until the interstate dips into a wide basin brimming with blue sky, broken by dusty roads and rocky saddles strung out along the southern horizon. This is our first real glimpse of the famous big-sky country to come, and I couldn't care less. For all its grandeur, the landscape does not move me. And why should it? The sky may be big, it may be blue and limitless and full of promise, but it's also really far away. Really, it's just an illusion. I've been wasting my time. We've all been wasting our time. What good is all this grandeur if it's impermanent, what good all of this promise if it's only fleeting? Who wants to live in a world where suffering is the only thing that lasts, a place where every single thing that ever meant the world to you can be stripped away in an instant? And it will be stripped away, so don't fool yourself. If you're lucky, your life will erode slowly with the ruinous effects of time or recede like the glaciers that carved this land, and you will be left alone to sift through the detritus. If you are unlucky, your world will be snatched out from beneath you like a rug, and you'll be left with nowhere to stand and nothing to stand on. Either way, you're screwed. So why bother? Why grunt and sweat and weep your way through the myriad obstacles, why love, dream, care, when you're only inviting disaster? I'm done answering the call of whippoorwills, the call of smiling faces and fireplaces and cozy rooms. You won't find me building any more nests among the rose blooms. Too many thorns.
— Jonathan Evison, The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving
The love of your life is out there… but they won’t just drop on your lap, nor you on theirs… so stop living an on-hold life! Go out there and experience your life, write your story, and live your fairy tale… It is on that journey that you’ll cross paths with the love that’s worthy of the story…
— Steve Maraboli
Sometimes we focus too much on the lyrics that we forget to dance to the music. And sometimes we dance to the music and don't listen to the lyrics. Let the rhythm guide you. Let the lyrics inspire you.
— Alexa Anderson
So walk, or run if you can to your dreams. It doesn't matter if it's far or near. You can pause along the way but never stop, OK? Then hug it when you finally meet it! Embrace the moment. Love it and never let it go. Hold its opportunities and kiss its lessons with full of sincerity. Remember every moment of it - specially - the journey. It is what matters most.
— Diana Rose Morcilla
Nowhere near the driver's seat, and I love this journey God's got me on!
— Dolls Bowman
You must make the Journey along the road, nobody is able to do it for you!
— Frank Wanderer
Life takes up one long, winding road to fulfill its seemingly endless journey, and when we find ourselves stumble upon forks in the road, we choose wisely.
— Amani Abbas
It’s YOUR journey. Ask yourself who you are, where you want to go, and how you’d like to get there. Graciously accept advice from everyone, but don’t look left and right and wonder why you’re not taking the path of your peers. Enjoy the path you’re on and make the most of it. Carpe College!
— Michael  Metzler, Carpe College! Seize Your Whole College Experience
When I started to climb, the sky seemed to be sunny and blue. But being up here on the oak tree it is cloudy and foggy.
— Sandra Harner, Ema's Odyssey: Shamanism for Healing and Spiritual Knowledge
Exploration is a quite legitimate purpose for a journey. You have the opportunity to learn the territories of the Upper and Lower Worlds and their assets, which you can employ as needed in the future.
— Sandra Harner, Ema's Odyssey: Shamanism for Healing and Spiritual Knowledge
Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
— Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red
The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.
— Anthony Robbins
Not all forms of abuse leave bruises.
— Danielle Steel
Train journeys are about possibilities. They denote a change in state. When you arrive, you are no longer the same person who departed.
— Vikas Swarup, Q & A
You can never appreciate the scent of a flower by another's description. Some things are left to experience. Journey of self.
— Truth Devour
The courage is light of one’s life,is the beauty of today.The hope of one’s soul,is the promise of a tomorrow.The times of our past,is a wisdom for anytime.The labour of our sacrifice and love,is a masterpiece of our moments.The voyage of one’s mind,is a journey towards discovery.The joy in one’s heart,is a gift for everyone.The faith of a soul,is a key to hope and to love.The true unconditional love of a heartis a priceless treasure one can ever give.For our mind, heart and soulIn any journey of rise or fall,Let faith, hope and love breathe!As you share it for whom your heart beats.
— Angelica Hopes, Rhythm of a Heart, Music of a Soul
The point isn't to win the game. The point is to play a beautiful game. (paraphrased)
— Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear
The territorialism and desire to possess things comes directly from the ego, which strives to own and control things. Your spirit already knows you own nothing. It is a matter of realizing that your happiness does not depend on your ownership of things. They help you in your journey but they are not the journey itself.
— Karen Kingston, Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui
Life is a journey that have a lot different path, but any path u choose use it as your destiny.
— Ryan Leonard
Life is a journey; let's enjoy it, seeing some exciting things, and having fun along the way.
— Ellen J. Barrier
I've learned to stay the course. There are no shortcuts. No detours. They take you further away from your goal.
— irene fantopoulos
But then it is important for some people to make an exit, to get down and walk the paths they were destined to because if people always made an entrance and never left either for the better or worse, then we would feel suffocated and confused like those people in the bus, the purpose of the journey would lose its essence and the journey altogether would neither be worthwhile nor smooth.
— Chirag Tulsiani
In this world of endless opportunities our dreams compete. If we wait to start a journey, the destination may not be anymore what we wanted to find.
— Gisela Hausmann, Naked Determination: 41 Stories About Overcoming Fear
It's like algebra, that's all. I just have to figure it out, step by step.
— Hollis Seamon, Somebody Up There Hates You
Saying 'I don’t know' is one of the most powerful things you can say because it creates the potential to find out.
— Kyle Schmalenberg
And I felt, in the silence that followed, everything that had happened on the trip to bring me to this place.
— Morgan Matson, Amy & Roger's Epic Detour
With peaks of joy and valleys of heartache, life is a roller coaster ride, the rise and fall of which defines our journey. It is both scary and exciting at the same time.
— Sebastian Cole, Sand Dollar: A Story of Undying Love
I would enter the desert alone, to leave in the sand endless footprints only to be obliterated by the wind, to walk the same path each day expecting the same path tomorrow, and perhaps to cease wondering at the bloom and wither of lilies only to linger for death. But no, even in the desert, I would seek a new sanctuary, to contemplate a grain of sand in a sea of dryness...
— Leonard Seet, Meditation on Space-Time
If there was one thing I learned from all my research, it was that the majority of the early pioneers didn’t dwell on the hard times; they indeed related every aspect of their lives to their relationship with God, specifically in regards to this disastrous journey. They thanked Him for their lives and the fact that they made it through. Most didn't blame leaders or those around them. They learned to accept their plight and move forward with faith.
— Mike Ericksen, Upon Destiny's Song
Last night you sat there singing to me 'nothing to hide, believe what I say' and not ten hours later you're standin' in front of me lyin
— Kristen Ashley, Rock Chick Reckoning
I don’t think my journey has to be harrowing to be important. Simply doing the tasks of the day is enough. Such as getting up every morning to go to work to support my family and sacrificing personal time in service to others, teaching my children to give thanks for what they have and to care for others.
— Mike Ericksen, Upon Destiny's Song
For a Comfortable Journey of Life,Just Reduce the Luggage of Desires.
— Ednan Ali
Angels of highest light and love,  Angels that radiate beams of pure energy from the heavens above.Please join us and be with us on this very night, As the soul of our beloved joins you in flight.We pray that you send this soul embraced in your lovely wings, During his journey may he hear harps, and trumpets and strings.
— Molly Friedenfeld, The Book of Simple Human Truths
Journey gives us a chance to start all over again and be a new personality
— Dian Nafi, Mesir Suatu Waktu
The destination is made more meaningful by and through the journey. Don't give up!" HS/EL
— Evinda Lepins, A Cup of Hope for the Day: Coffee Hour with Chicklit Power
Our days and years are strung upon The thread that runs so true. The game of life is played and Lost to love. -Nancy JanesNancy Janes
— Nancy Janes, The Boy Who Walked a Way
I'm not cruisin' this opportunity in time and space for you to like or dislike my 'get-down'
—  I'm here 'cause I'm down to get it right by the time I return to the 'mothaship'. I remain a work in progress.
It's the journey, not the destination, that changes us!" HS/el
— Evinda Lepins, Back to Single
Life's meant to be sweet! Grab a cupcake and enjoy the ride!
— Kimmie Easley, Souls Set Free
Echoes of my past will always have a low frequency vibration in my present lest I forget the road travelled to reach the enjoyment of today.
— Truth Devour, Wantin
When life gives you lemons ~ write about 'em!
— Kimmie Easley, Souls Set Free
Maybe journey is not so much a journey ahead, or a journey into space, but a journey into presence.
— Nelle Morton, The Journey is Home
The journey towards success is more like a traveller lost in a desert, desperate to find an oasis, desperate to quench his thirst. But it is not about how grave the thirst is but about how long he chooses to walk thirsty.
— Chirag Tulsiani
It is an unnecessary burden to make negative judgmental assumptions about others. We are all on a journey.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Note that this journey is uniquely yours, no one else's. So the path has to be your own. You cannot imitate somebody else's journey and still be true to yourself. Are you prepared to honor your uniqueness in this way?
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
Will you remember this day, Gogol?" his father had asked, turning back to look at him, his hands pressed like earmuffs to either side of his head. "How long do I have to remember it?" Over the rise and fall of the wind, he could hear his father's laughter. He was standing there, waiting for Gogol to catch up, putting out a hand as Gogol drew near. "Try to remember it always," he said once Gogol reached him, leading him slowly back across the breakwater, to where his mother and Sonia stood waiting. "Remember that you and I made this journey, that we went together to a place where there was nowhere left to go.
— Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake
Men dream more about coming home than about leaving.
— Paulo Coelho
The whole thing was the precise opposite of what I figured it would be: slow and patient and quiet and neither particularly painful nor particularly ecstatic
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
You have traveled far, but the hardest part of a journey is always the next step.
— Jackie Morris, East of the Sun, West of the Moon
You cannot disown what is yours. Flung out, there is always the return, the reckoning, the revenge, perhaps the reconciliation. There is always the return. And the wound will take you there.
— Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
The journey has many bumps, twists and turns. But one day you will reach your destination. You'll know for sure then that it was all worth it. So keep on trusting and keep on walking. The end will be more glorious than you can imagine.
— Anusha Atukorala
One never stops climbing, Julie, unless he wants to stop and vegetate. There’s always something just ahead.
— Irene Hunt, Up a Road Slowly
You were born to journey in the direction of your purpose. Anything that halts your progress is contrary to your design.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
I did not reach thee,	But my feet slip nearer every day;	Three Rivers and a Hill to cross,	One Desert and a Sea—	I shall not count the journey one	 When I am telling thee.	Two deserts—but the year is cold	So that will help the sand—	One desert crossed, the second one	Will feel as cool as land.	 Sahara is too little price	To pay for thy Right hand!	The sea comes last. Step merry, feet!	So short have we to go	To play together we are prone,	 But we must labor now,	The last shall be the lightest load	That we have had to draw.	The Sun goes crooked—that is night—	Before he makes the bend	 We must have passed the middle sea,	Almost we wish the end	Were further off—too great it seems	So near the Whole to stand.	We step like plush, we stand like snow—	 The waters murmur now,	Three rivers and the hill are passed,	Two deserts and the sea!	Now Death usurps my premium	And gets the look at Thee.
— Emily Dickinson
Your life have to be filled with interesting tales that it should not bore your grandchildren, when you tell them someday.
— Pradeepa Pandiyan
No,' she says, as if the suggestion is ridiculous. 'I wouldn't go back to where I'm from. I'd go someplace I've never been.
— Ally Condie, Reached
Life is good. Even when it isn't. Because there's always HOPE beckoning you from ahead.
— Anusha Atukorala
Aside from a very select few, there are no overnight success stories. Most of the time that single step took a thousand miles to get to it.
— Carl Henegan, Darkness Left Undone
Oh I don't know,' he said. 'But maybe, maybe love should be a kind of journey
— Anthony McDonald, Adam
It is only path bending. Don't let it be mind bending.
— T. Scott McLeod
That thing, that tiny part of The Land of Elyon, is gone but not entirely forgotten. Elyon had his reason for sending you and me on this journey. Sometimes we see something as plain as a dying leaf and our hearts grow sad, but we must always hold true and fight on, Alexa. Whatever happens to us, we will not be forgotten in the end. He will remember us.
— Patrick Carman, The Tenth City
A little known fact: I read all the time. books were the one thing that got me out of Gatlin, even if it was only for a little while.
— Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures
Armed with my positive attitude and inherent stubborn nature, I keep my mind focused and my life moving forward. I stop to rest, pout and even cry sometimes, but always, I get back up. Life is giving me this challenge and I will plow through it, out of breath with my heart racing if I have to.
— Amy B. Scher
Only those who never step, never stumble.
— Richard Paul Evans, Lost December
I wanted to create a voyage to the moon just for her, but what Ishould have given her was a real journey on earth.
— Mathias Malzieu, La Mécanique du cœur
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking things.
— Henry Miller
As much as we look up at the stars and know there is more than life on earth, the divinity of dogs is just as unexplainable and profound. They may be the purest example of divine love in an earthly soul many of us ever experience. If we take their lead, open our hearts, and embrace their love, we may just find our own journey a lot more enlightening.
— Jennifer Skiff, The Divinity of Dogs: True Stories of Miracles Inspired by Man's Best Friend
A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles.
— Tim Cahill
It is a sweet thing that we serve a dissatisfied God who has destinations in mind for us that we would never choose for ourselves. It really is a good thing that he will not be satisfied until he has gotten us exactly where he created us and re-created us to be. Most of us would have been satisfied to stay at home, and many of us would have quit the journey long before it was completed. But our heavenly Father won't give up until each one of his children has completed the journey.
— Paul David Tripp, A Quest For More: Living For Something Bigger than You
He also learned to regard each port of call as part of the journey and not as destination. Every voyage begins when you do.
— E.L. Konigsburg, The View from Saturday
I am a butterfly poetbirthed from painflying with the freedomof my verses.
— Susie Clevenger, Dirt Road Dreams
If you only enjoy the journey of writing, that's reward enough.
— Deray Ogden
So is death a journey? Is it to another place?" she asked. "Is it another planet?""Many have wondered this very question,"replied rovender. "But there is an old Caerulan saying: When your journey reaches its destination here, may you walk on through the memories of those still with us.
— Tony DiTerlizzi, A Hero For WondLa
When you put fear behind the wheel, you're bound to crash, but when you drive in faith the ride will be rough, but preceding into a journey of your lifetime.
— Anthony Liccione
There is nothing in the path of life that we don't already know before we start. Nothing important is learned
—  it is simply remembered.
I used to believe that the world is a journey that takes you on a mystical ride across time. I don't anymore.
— Girl234
Each journey is an experience of the past.
— Robert Better
That roads are for journeys, ma'am, not destinations
— Margaret Landon
Life didn’t go how I had planned, but I couldn’t have planned a better life. Somewhere in between the beginning and eternity, I fought the war that we all must fight–the journey that in 	taking, forces us to come face to face with our own realities.
— Laura     Miller, Butterfly Weeds
It's nice to think that picking uncertain paths may not necessarily alter their destination too drastically, simply the journey undertaken to reach it.
— Emma Cameron
We are still on our journey, still suffering and still laughing together. But I feel like the tide has turned, and I think we will have our happy ending yet. Even if it doesn’t look like what we were expecting.
— Meg Keene, A Practical Wedding: Creative Ideas for Planning a Beautiful, Affordable, and Meaningful Celebration
Some boats are rotten in the ports
—  some boats shine in the hard journeys!
There is no right or wrong way to write a novel. Each journey is different for every individual work and for every writer. The first error is never to begin
—  the second is never to finish.
There is beauty in all we know and beauty in all we don't know. Our journey is to love it all.
— Thomas Warfield
If you can't lay an egg or milk a cow
— Rebbecca D. Myers
I want to take one last journey together, just the three of us, and go back to Easterbury… and let the Corporal relax and rest in peace. I’ll be with you, Kieli, I’ll still be with you… Won’t that do…?
— Yukako Kabei, Kieli, Volume 7: As the Deep Ravine's Wind Howls
It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise.
— Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
In the end that was the choice you made, and it doesn't matter how hard it was to make it. It matters that you did.
— Cassandra Clare, City of Glass
Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?''That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat.'I don't much care where -' said Alice.'Then it doesn't matter which way you go,' said the Cat.'- so long as I get SOMEWHERE,' Alice added as an explanation.'Oh, you're sure to do that,' said the Cat, 'if you only walk long enough.
— Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
Sometimes you have to choose between a bunch of wrong choices and no right ones. You just have to choose which wrong choices feels the least wrong.
— Colleen Hoover, Hopeless
I can do anything I want. Be with anyone I want. And it'll be my choice.
— Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me
You are fettered," said Scrooge, trembling. "Tell me why?""I wear the chain I forged in life," replied the Ghost. "I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.
— Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
— James     Baldwin
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
— Roy Disney
Everything has a price.
— Anne Bishop
Whatever you decide, don't let it be because you don't think you have a choice.
— Hannah Harrington, Saving June
It's our choices that matter in the end. Not wishes, not words, not promises.
— Alexandra Bracken, Passenger
The right choice is hardly ever the easy choice.
— Rick Riordan, The Throne of Fire