135 Inspiring Journey Quotes

Embarking on a journey, whether literal or metaphorical, often leads to profound personal growth and new perspectives. These experiences, filled with unexpected turns and valuable lessons, are beautifully encapsulated in words that inspire and motivate. Within the twists and turns of life's journey, quotes can serve as guiding stars, offering wisdom and encouragement to keep moving forward. In this collection, we bring you 135 inspiring journey quotes that resonate with the essence of exploration and adventure. Each one is a gentle reminder that the destination is only part of the story, and it's the journey itself where life's true treasures are found. So, whether you're setting out on a new path or reflecting on the road traveled, let these quotes be your companion, inspiring courage and curiosity along the way.

1. “The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that.” - Norton Juster

2. “Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean.” - David Searls

3. “The only journey is the one within.” - Rainer Maria Rilke

4. “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

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

6. “It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” - Ursula K. Le Guin

7. “I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist.” - Billy Joel

8. “For where thy treasure is, there also will thy heart be.” - Anonymous

9. “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” - Anais Nin

10. “The best teachers have showed me that things have to be done bit by bit. Nothing that means anything happens quickly--we only think it does. The motion of drawing back a bow and sending an arrow straight into a target takes only a split second, but it is a skill many years in the making. So it is with a life, anyone's life. I may list things that might be described as my accomplishments in these few pages, but they are only shadows of the larger truth, fragments separated from the whole cycle of becoming. And if I can tell an old-time story now about a man who is walking about, waudjoset ndatlokugan, a forest lodge man, alesakamigwi udlagwedewugan, it is because I spent many years walking about myself, listening to voices that came not just from the people but from animals and trees and stones.” - Joseph Bruchac

11. “...there ain't no journey what don't change you some.” - David Mitchell

12. “Returning home is the most difficult part of long-distance hiking; You have grown outside the puzzle and your piece no longer fits.” - Cindy Ross

13. “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

14. “Never stop just because you feel defeated. The journey to the other side is attainable only after great suffering.” - Santosh Kalwar

15. “You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are.” - Joss Whedon

16. “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.” - Heraclitus

17. “Memory is the basis of every journey.” - Stephen King

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

19. “A journey is a fragment of Hell.” - Bruce Chatwin

20. “When you reach for the stars, you are reaching for the farthest thing out there. When you reach deep into yourself, it is the same thing, but in the opposite direction. If you reach in both directions, you will have spanned the universe.” - Vera Nazarian

21. “I made up my mind not to care so much about the destination, and simply enjoy the journey.” - David Archuleta

22. “The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday.” - Steve Maraboli

23. “At every given moment we are absolutely perfect for what is required for our journey.” - Steve Maraboli

24. “As for the journey of life; at some point you will realize that YOU are the driver and you will drive!” - Steve Maraboli

25. “It's funny how, in this journey of life, even though we may begin at different times and places, our paths cross with others so that we may share our love, compassion, observations, and hope. This is a design of God that I appreciate and cherish.” - Steve Maraboli

26. “I took the sleeper out of Glasgow, and as the smelly old train bumped out of Central Station and across the Jamaica Street Bridge, I stared out at the orange halogen streetlamps reflected in the black water of the river Clyde. I gazed at the crumbling Victorian buildings that would soon be sandblasted and renovated into yuppie hutches. I watched the revelers and rascals traverse the shiny wet streets. I thought of the thrill and danger of my youth and the fear and frustration of my adult life thus far. I thought of the failure of my marriage and my failures as a man. I saw all this through my reflection in the nighttime window. Down the tracks I went, hardly aware that I was going further south with every passing second.” - Craig Ferguson

27. “One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.” - Andre Gide

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

29. “The miracles of our dreams lie beneath our foot soles -- in each and every tiny step we take as we journey to the stars… I reckon the destination isn’t the only miracle.” - Besa Kosova

30. “With the passage of days in this godly isolation [desert], my heart grew calm. It seemed to fill with answers. I did not ask questions any more; I was certain. Everything - where we came from, where we are going, what our purpose is on earth - struck me as extremely sure and simple in this God-trodden isolation. Little by little my blood took on the godly rhythm. Matins, Divine Liturgy, vespers, psalmodies, the sun rising in the morning and setting in the evening, the constellations suspended like chandeliers each night over the monastery: all came and went, came and went in obedience to eternal laws, and drew the blood of man into the same placid rhythm. I saw the world as a tree, a gigantic poplar, and myself as a green leaf clinging to a branch with my slender stalk. When God's wind blew, I hopped and danced, together with the entire tree.” - Nikos Kazantzakis

31. “The goal of climbing big, dangerous mountains should be to attain some sort of spiritual and personal growth, but this won’t happen if you compromise away the entire process.” - Yvon Chouinard

32. “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

33. “Wouldn't take nothing for my journey now.” - Maya Angelou

34. “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 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

35. “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

36. “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

37. “It's time, Old Captain, lift anchor, sink!The land rots; we shall sail into the night;if now the sky and sea are black as inkour hearts, as you must know, are filled with light.Only when we drink poison are we well —we want, this fire so burns our brain tissue,to drown in the abyss — heaven or hell,who cares? Through the unknown, we'll find the new. ("Le Voyage")” - Charles Baudelaire

38. “Ya no va a dolerme el mar,porque conocí la fuente.” - Gilberto Owen

39. “A journey indeed, in an emotional roller-coaster.” - Ana Monnar

40. “The sea is only the embodiment of asupernatural and wonderful existence.It is nothing but love and emotion;it is the ‘Living Infinite...” - Jules Verne

41. “I have walked a stair of swords,I have worn a coat of scars.I have vowed with hollow words,I have lied my way to the stars-Songs of Sapphique” - Catherine Fisher

42. “If life is a journey then let my soul travel and share your pain.” - Santosh Kalwar

43. “IthakaAs you set out for Ithakahope the voyage is a long one,full of adventure, full of discovery.Laistrygonians and Cyclops,angry Poseidon—don’t be afraid of them:you’ll never find things like that on your wayas long as you keep your thoughts raised high,as long as a rare excitementstirs your spirit and your body.Laistrygonians and Cyclops,wild Poseidon—you won’t encounter themunless you bring them along inside your soul,unless your soul sets them up in front of you. Hope the voyage is a long one.May there be many a summer morning when,with what pleasure, what joy,you come into harbors seen for the first time;may you stop at Phoenician trading stationsto buy fine things,mother of pearl and coral, amber and ebony,sensual perfume of every kind—as many sensual perfumes as you can;and may you visit many Egyptian citiesto gather stores of knowledge from their scholars. Keep Ithaka always in your mind.Arriving there is what you are destined for.But do not hurry the journey at all.Better if it lasts for years,so you are old by the time you reach the island,wealthy with all you have gained on the way,not expecting Ithaka to make you rich. Ithaka gave you the marvelous journey.Without her you would not have set out.She has nothing left to give you now. And if you find her poor, Ithaka won’t have fooled you.Wise as you will have become, so full of experience,you will have understood by then what these Ithakas mean.” - C.P. Cavafy

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

45. “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

46. “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

47. “Sometimes you don’t know when you’re taking the first step through a door until you’re already inside.” - Ann Voskamp

48. “He found himself remembering how on one summer morning they two had started from New York in search of happiness. They had never expected to find it, perhaps, yet in itself that quest had been happier than anything he expected forevermore. Life, it seemed, must be a setting up of props around one - otherwise it was disaster. There was no rest, no quiet. He had been futile in longing to drift and dream, no one drifted except to maelstroms, no one dreamed, without his dreams becoming fantastic nightmares of indecision and regret.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald

49. “It’s not so much the journey that’s important; as is the way that we treat those we encounter and those around us, along the way” - Jeremy Aldana

50. “To envision the future; you must forget the past and make the present a memory” - Jeremy Aldana

51. “The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.” - Wally Lamb

52. “The path of peace is not a passive journey. It takes incredible strength not to open a can of 'whoop-ass', justifiably, when ones button is pushed.” - T.F. Hodge

53. “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

54. “Let's not grow with our roots in the ground.” - Criss Jami

55. “It is the story that matters not just the ending.” - Paul Lockhart

56. “For everything in this journey of life we are on, there is a right wing and a left wing: for the wing of love there is anger; for the wing of destiny there is fear; for the wing of pain there is healing; for the wing of hurt there is forgiveness; for the wing of pride there is humility; for the wing of giving there is taking; for the wing of tears there is joy; for the wing of rejection there is acceptance; for the wing of judgment there is grace; for the wing of honor there is shame; for the wing of letting go there is the wing of keeping. We can only fly with two wings and two wings can only stay in the air if there is a balance. Two beautiful wings is perfection. There is a generation of people who idealize perfection as the existence of only one of these wings every time. But I see that a bird with one wing is imperfect. An angel with one wing is imperfect. A butterfly with one wing is dead. So this generation of people strive to always cut off the other wing in the hopes of embodying their ideal of perfection, and in doing so, have created a crippled race.” - C. JoyBell C.

57. “For me, a journey to Damascus is an amazing hunt from beginning to end, a slice through layers of history in search of treasure.” - Tahir Shah

58. “May your journey through life be vibrant and full of colorful rainbows.” - Harley King

59. “Life is a valuable and unique opportunityto discover who you are.But it seems as soon as you nearanswering that age-old question,something unexpected always happensto alter your course.And who it is you thought you weresuddenly changes.Then comes the frustrating realizationthat no matter how long life endures,no matter how many experiencesare muddled through in this existence,you may never really be ableto answer the question....Who am I? Because the answer, like the seasons,constantly, subtly, inevitably changes.And who it is you are today,is not the same person you will be tomorrow.” - Richelle Goodrich

60. “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

61. “What you're missing is that the path itself changes you.” - Julien Smith

62. “I had always turned to books, to knowledge, to help me get through everything in my life—and,sometimes, to escape it. But grief was a journey through a forest of razor blades. I walked through everypainful inch of it—no shortcuts and no anesthesia.” - Michele Bardsley

63. “Funny how "question" contains the word "quest" inside it, as though any small question asked is a journey through briars.” - Catherynne M. Valente

64. “Failure is not the end. In fact it is the beginning of a beautiful journey.” - Jade Youssef

65. “I knew then that I wanted to go home, but I had no home to go to--and that is what adventures are all about.” - Trina Schart Hyman

66. “On a hard jungle journey nothing is so important as having a team you can trust.” - Tahir Shah

67. “My journey to the land of the Shuar tribe had taught me the importance of practical gifts.” - Tahir Shah

68. “If hot food is they key to maintaining an expedition's stamina, then low grade gut-rot alcohol is the key to sustaining its sense of pleasure.” - Tahir Shah

69. “The ability to tell a good route from a terrible one is a valuable skill when leading an expedition. Unfortunately for us all, it was a skill I did not possess.” - Tahir Shah

70. “On a harsh expedition, there's no space for anyone who does not intend to finish.” - Tahir Shah

71. “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

72. “A man who embarks on a journey must know when to end it.” - Tahir Shah

73. “It was exciting to be off on a journey she had looked forward to for months. Oddly, the billowing diesel fumes of the airport did not smell like suffocating effluence, it assumed a peculiar pungent scent that morning, like the beginning of a new adventure, if an adventure could exude a fragrance.” - E.A. Bucchianeri

74. “There's nothing quite like a good quest for getting your blood pumping.” - Tahir Shah

75. “A journey, I reflected, is of no merit unless it has tested you.” - Tahir Shah

76. “When I am about to embark on a difficult journey, I comfort myself by reading the accounts of the great nineteenth-century travellers, men like Stanley, Burton, Speke, Burckhardt and Barth.” - Tahir Shah

77. “As far as Samson was concerned I was just another foreigner in pursuit of a lunatic quest.” - Tahir Shah

78. “The first rule of an expedition is that everyone should stick together.” - Tahir Shah

79. “There's nothing like a pack of mules to give one a sense of entourage.” - Tahir Shah

80. “The geographical pilgrimage is the symbolic acting out of an inner journey. The inner journey is the interpolation of the meanings and signs of the outer pilgrimage. One can have one without the other. It is best to have both.” - Thomas Merton

81. “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

82. “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

83. “Cherish every moment with those you love at every stage of your journey.” - Jack Layton

84. “You are not on a journey to God; you are on a journey WITH God.” - Steve Maraboli

85. “One of the greatest journeys in life is overcoming insecurity and learning to truly not give a shit.” - J. A. Konrath

86. “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

87. “In any age, there is no shortage of people willing to embark on a hazardous adventure. Columbus and Magellan filled eight ships between them for voyages into the void. One hundred and fifty years ago, the possibilities offered by missionary service were limitless and first-rate. Later, Scott and Shackleton turned away droves after filling their crews for their desperate Antarctic voyages. In 1959 ... sailor H.W. Tilman, looking for a crew for a voyage in an old wooden yacht to the Southern Ocean, ran this ad in the London Times: "Hand [man] wanted for long voyage in small boat. No pay, no prospects, not much pleasure." Tilman received more replies than he could investigate, one from as far away as Saigon.” - Peter Nichols

88. “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

89. “The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only an adventurer; and his sons are born in exile.” - Ursula K. Le Guin

90. “That roads are for journeys, ma'am, not destinations” - Margaret Landon

91. “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

92. “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

93. “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

94. “Any experience deeply felt makes some men better and some men worse. When it has ended, they share nothing but the recollection of a commitment in which each was tested and to some degree found wanting. [...] The consequences of the journey change the voyager so much more than the embarking or the arrival.” - Murray Kempton

95. “I am a butterfly poetbirthed from painflying with the freedomof my verses.” - Susie Clevenger

96. “Only those who never step, never stumble.” - Richard Paul Evans

97. “End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.” - J.R.R. Tolkien

98. “To embark on the journey towards your goals and dreams requires bravery. To remain on that path requires courage. The bridge that merges the two is commitment.” - Steve Maraboli

99. “This town of churches and dreams; this town I thought I would lose myself in, with its backward ways and winding roads leading to nowhere; but, I found myself instead. -Magic in the Backyard (excerpt from American Honey)” - Kellie Elmore

100. “Everything and everyone has a place to be, Echo. It’s just a matter of how they get there and when. You have a place; you just have to find it.” - Nadège Richards

101. “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.” - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

102. “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

103. “There is a wide world out there, full of pain, but filled with joy as well. The former keeps you on the path of growth and the latter makes the journey tolerable.” - R.A. Salvatore

104. “There is little faith involved in setting out on a journey where the destination is certain and every step in between has been mapped in detail. Bravery, trust, is about leaving camp in the dark, when we do not know the route ahead and cannot be certain we will ever return.” - Bear Grylls

105. “Between here and there is a journey illuminated by the rising and setting of a radiant sun. Don't miss its splendor in your all-fired hurry to cross the finish line.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

106. “Healing can be a long and winding road or a straightforward march to the finish line.” - Alice McCall

107. “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

108. “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

109. “The Initial Mystery that attends any journey is: how did the traveler reach his starting point in the first place?” - Louise Bogan

110. “Goals are my north star.  My compass.  The map that guides me along the road I wish to travel.  Goals are motivations with wind in their sails—they carry me forward despite the storms.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

111. “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.” - Don Roff

112. “Some boats are rotten in the ports; some boats shine in the hard journeys!” - Mehmet Murat ildan

113. “Every journey is personal. Every journey is spiritual. You can't compare them, can't replace, can't repeat. You can bring back the memories but they only bring tears to your eyes.” - Riana Ambarsari

114. “For most of my life I have thought of grace as a hope of a bright tomorrow in spite of the darkness of today--and this is true. In this way we are all like Pamela, walking a road to grace--hoping for mercy. What we fail to realize is that grace is more than our destination, it is the journey itself, manifested in each breath and with each step we take. Grace surrounds us, whirls about us like the wind, falls on us like rain. Grace sustains us on our journeys, no matter how perilous they may be and, make no mistake, they are all perilous. We need not hope for grace, we merely need to open our eyes to its abundance. Grace is all around us, not just in the hopeful future but in the miracle of now.” - Richard Paul Evans

115. “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

116. “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

117. “So we found the end of our journey.So we stood, alive in the river of light,Among the creatures of light, creatures of light.” - Ted Hughes

118. “You were born to journey in the direction of your purpose. Anything that halts your progress is contrary to your design.” - Steve Maraboli

119. “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

120. “Dich hab ich nicht erreicht-Doch nähert Tag für TagSich dir mein FußDrei Flüsse noch und ein BergIch überqueren muss.Noch Eine Wüste, noch ein Meer,Die Reise aber zähl ich nicht,Wenn ich dann vor Dir steh.Wir schreiten leicht, wie Schnee wir stehen,die Wasser murmeln leis.Flüsse, Wüsten, Berg und Meersind von uns durchlaufen.Doch Tod entreißt mir meinen Preis,Dich schauend, er gewinnt.” - Emily Dickinson

121. “On any journey, we must find out where we are before we can plan the first step.” - Kathy Boevink

122. “Men dream more about coming home than about leaving.” - Paulo Coelho

123. “The journey of success requires a map for effective navigation. Establish a destination by defining what you want. Once you have a destination, take physical action by making choices that move you towards that destination.” - Steve Maraboli

124. “It is an unnecessary burden to make negative judgmental assumptions about others. We are all on a journey.” - Steve Maraboli

125. “Whereas the health of an individual depends on the ego's regular descent and return to and from the unconscious, a society's longevity depends on actual people journeying into the unknown and returning with ideas.” - Dan Harmon

126. “Life is good. Even when it isn't. Because there's always HOPE beckoning you from ahead.” - Anusha Atukorala

127. “A HaltLie still, my soul, the Sun of GraceIs warm within this garden spaceBeneath tall kindly trees.The quiet light is green and fair;A fragrance fills the swooning air;Lie still, and take thine ease.This silent noon of Jesu's loveIs warm about thee and above-A tender Lord is He.Lie still an hour- this place is HisHe has a thousand pleasaunces,And each all fair and fragrant is,And each is all for thee.Then, Jesu, for a little spaceI rest me in this garden place,All sweet to scent and sight.Here, from this high-road scarce withdrawn,I thrust my hot hands in the lawnCool yet with dew of far-off dawnAnd saturate with light.But ah, dear Saviour, human-wise,I yearn to pierce all mysteries,To catch Thine Hands and see Thine EyesWhen evening sounds begin.There, in Thy white Robe, Thou wilt waitAt dusk beside some orchard gate,And smile to see me come so late,And, smiling, call me in.” - Robert Hugh Benson

128. “Every journey begins with the first step of articulating the intention, and then becoming the intention.” - Bryant McGill

129. “Life is a journey that gives you the liberty to draw your own map, and choose your own route.” - Dennis E. Adonis

130. “I thought that if I owned nothing, had nothing, was nothing, I would have nothing left to lose, and I wouldn't be scared anymore. Because my whole life I’ve been so damn scared. Scared to live because I was scared to die. But at the same I was so scared of living, so I wanted to die. Or maybe so scared of dying that I refused to live. You don't have to be afraid to fall, when you're already on the ground. You don't have to be scared to lose someone, when there's no one around to lose.” - Charlotte Eriksson

131. “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

132. “You read and write and sing and experience, thinking that one day these things will build the character you admire to live as. You love and lose and bleed best you can, to the extreme, hoping that one day the world will read you like the poem you want to be.” - Charlotte Eriksson

133. “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

134. “You go to bed different... tossing and turning is the norm... you wake to a sunny day but clouds follow you wherever you go. You wonder if you are strong enough to climb out of the depression you are living in and your prayers to God seem empty because you are sooo very tired of telling him the same thing over and over again..... if we are really being real... there may even be moments after impact you forget how to pray... maybe you don't even want to.” - Erica Stone

135. “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