137 Inspiring Journey Quotes

Embarking on a journey, whether physical, emotional, or spiritual, is one of life's most enriching experiences. Every path we take is filled with discoveries, challenges, and moments that shape us. In the midst of these travels, words have the power to inspire and guide us, offering insights that resonate with our own stories. This carefully curated collection of 137 inspiring journey quotes aims to capture the essence of exploration and personal growth. From renowned authors to ancient philosophers, these quotes serve as a reminder that the journey itself is as meaningful as the destination. Let's set forth on this voyage of wisdom and inspiration, and let these words fuel your passion for discovering new horizons.

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. “Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.” - Anna Quindlen

3. “The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

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. “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

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

8. “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

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

10. “Out of the new arrivals in our lives--the odd word stumbled upon in a difficult text, the handsome black stranger who bursts in one night through the cat door, the telephone call out of a friend's silence of years, the sudden greeting from the girl-child---we constantly make of ourselves our selves.” - Nancy Mairs

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

12. “Though the road's been rocky it sure feels good to me.” - Bob Marley

13. “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

14. “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think youcontrol it.” - John Steinbeck

15. “We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.” - Henry Ward Beecher

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

17. “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

18. “Perhaps he knew, there in the grass by the waters, that he had before him an immense journey.” - Loren Eiseley

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

20. “Would you like to know your future?If your answer is yes, think again. Not knowing is the greatest life motivator.So enjoy, endure, survive each moment as it comes to you in its proper sequence -- a surprise.” - Vera Nazarian

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

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

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

24. “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

25. “Sluggish and sedentary peoples, such as the Ancient Egyptians-- with their concept of an afterlife journey through the Field of Reeds-- project on to the next world the journeys they failed to make in this one.” - Bruce Chatwin

26. “What's supposed to happen, at the end of a quest? Cheers and accolades, Josh knew; people throw their hats in the air, and you glow with pride as they lift you to their shoulders. What else? Medals, speeches and a great feast, and then a ballad about your exploits, and finally, as the fireworks go off overhead, a soft, clean, fresh bed.” - Isabel Hoving

27. “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

28. “There comes . . . a longing never to travel again except on foot.” - Wendell Berry

29. “A lack of clarity could put the brakes on any journey to success.” - Steve Maraboli

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

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

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

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

34. “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

35. “Set out from any point. They are all alike. They all lead to a point of departure.” - Antonio Porchia

36. “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

37. “I tramp a perpetual journey.” - Walt Whitman

38. “No wonder we cannot appreciate the really central Kafka joke: that the horrific struggle to establish a human self results in a self whose humanity is inseparable from the horrific struggle. That our endless and impossible journey toward home is in fact our home.” - David Foster Wallace

39. “We may run, walk, stumble. drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.” - Gloria Gaither

40. “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

41. “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

42. “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

43. “If you don’t know exactly where you’re going, how will you know when you get there?” - Steve Maraboli

44. “The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and the attempt to bring out of it ideas.It is the night sea journey, the lone fisherman on a tropical sea with his nets, and you let these nets down - sometimes, something tears through them that leaves them in shreds and you just row for shore, and put your head under your bed and pray. At other times what slips through are the minutiae, the minnows of this ichthyological metaphor of idea chasing.But, sometimes, you can actually bring home something that is food, food for the human community that we can sustain ourselves on and go forward.” - Terence McKenna

45. “One’s options in this world are as vast as the horizon, which is technically a circle and thus infinitely broad. Yet we must choose each step we take with utmost caution, for the footprints we leave behind are as important as the path we will follow. They’re part of the same journey — our story.” - Lori R. Lopez

46. “How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top.” - Yvon Chouinard

47. “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

48. “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

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

50. “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

51. “By writing quotes...I mark a trail of my soul's journey in this realm.” - Toba Beta

52. “So I learned two things that night, and the next day, from him: the perfection of a moment, and the fleeting nature of it.” - Margaret George

53. “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

54. “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

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

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

57. “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

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

59. “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

60. “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

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

62. “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

63. “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

64. “This path was not that of my conscious choosing. But after persistent subconscious confrontation, I have finally embraced what is, 'souly' for me...and I am thankful, when called upon, to be able to share and give to those who seek their own way of the path.” - T.F. Hodge

65. “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

66. “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

67. “Love, as life, is a journey. Finding true love for the ever after is an amazing achievement.” - Fadi Hattendorf

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

69. “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

70. “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.

71. “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

72. “One bulb at a time. There was no other way to do it. No shortcuts--simply loving the slow process of planting. Loving the work as it unfolded. Loving an achievement that grew slowly and bloomed for only three weeks each year.” - Jaroldeen Asplund Edwards

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

74. “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

75. “I believe that Marrakech ought to be earned as a destination. The journey is the preparation for the experience. Reaching it too fast derides it, makes it a little less easy to understand.” - Tahir Shah

76. “Every journey conceals another journey within its lines: the path not taken and the forgotten angle.” - Jeanette Winterson

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

78. “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

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

80. “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

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

82. “Previous journeys in search of treasure have taught me that a zigzag strategy is the best way to get ahead.” - Tahir Shah

83. “Previous journeys had taught me the danger of taking too much stuff.” - Tahir Shah

84. “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

85. “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

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

87. “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

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

89. “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

90. “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

91. “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

92. “Each of our lives’ is a separate and precious journey. No matter how happy, sad, painful, tragic or confusing it may by, it is unique and beautiful. No matter if we hurt others or if we ourselves were hurt, it happened and it is part of our story. If we think we can have complete control over this journey, our journey will wake us up… usually with a very unpleasant surprise.More than genetics, money or education, it is our journey who defines who we are. It defines what kind of person you are. Not the experiences you encountered nor the happy or traumatic events you may have endured. But rather how we dealt with those events and how we continue to deal with those events; when we evaluate ourselves and how we treat others. Your journey is part of your story. But it is not the complete story of who and how you are. You are a soul, a spirit, who has traveled through this life and along the way; you learned and gathered bits and pieces from here and there. And you, yourself, have woven together a soul, a spirit. And that is who you are today. You define… you.Oh, and just in case you thought your journey, your story was over… surprise, its not. So keep weaving. You are not finished yet. It is never to late to define who you are.” - José N. Harris

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

94. “When you walk on the face of a world, then forgiveness comes.” - Orson Scott Card

95. “Old religious dogma attempts to convince you that you are on a journey to God, then makes you pay tolls along that roadway.” - Steve Maraboli

96. “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

97. “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

98. “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

99. “If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.” - Anatole France

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

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

102. “Our route toward spiritual evolution is radiantly clear. We all have our own unique individual journey to walk toward enlightenment. Living on the brink of evolutionary change means that new ground is being broken and new consciousness is being raised. Truth is of the essence – we have no dogma, no set formula, no prescribed rules, no false standards to follow. All we have is the truth within our souls. I believe most of us want to follow the light, the path of healing and not destroying our earth, but we don't have the courage, the lion heart, to follow our individual truth toward enlightenment. Giving in to our fears, we bury our “gold” beneath the false value systems of our societies, and we attempt to comfort ourselves with the notion that we have no power or responsibility for what is happening to our world. The reality is that, potentially, we all have the power of light – the White Lion – within us. The very first step is to overcome our fears. Thereafter, our hearts will lead the way.” - Linda Tucker

103. “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

104. “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

105. “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

106. “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

107. “If you can't lay an egg or milk a cow” - Rebbecca D. Myers

108. “Each journey is an experience of the past.” - Robert Better

109. “You have not traveled enough," she said. "Or you'd know that every journeymakes its own map across your heart.” - Sharon Shinn

110. “If you only enjoy the journey of writing, that's reward enough.” - Deray Ogden

111. “I loved Enso Roshi’s teachings. I loved learning about life. I loved life. It was a good thing to feel. I loved life, and I loved learning, and I was still learning. I was not, yet, done. At the end of our journeys, there would be an end to the journey. Maybe. If I was lucky. If providence shone down upon me gently. I would find love. I would find acceptance. Complete love. Complete acceptance. I would know, that the self, is an illusion. I would come to enlightenment, but that would also mean, there would be no ‘I’ there. I would realize that the ‘I’ was an illusion, all along, just like some great dream. This is what the wise sages say, the great teachings, the mystical teachings, not only from the East, but also from the West. The Gospel of Saint Thomas. Thomas Merton. Thomas, like I was Thomas, and also doubting, the main reasons I’d chosen the name. If nothing else, it was lovable, just as it is. My life. Even the parts I didn’t love, could I love them? The struggles. It was all part of the journey, and would I not look back fondly on this, at some time? Look at how arduous and sincere I’d been. Look at how worried I’d been. Look at how insecure I’d been. Look at how I’d struggled. Trying to find my way. Would I not look back upon myself, affectionately and fondly and with love?” - T. Scott McLeod

112. “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

113. “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

114. “Sometimes it's worth lingering on the journey for a while before getting to the destination.” - Richelle Mead

115. “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

116. “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

117. “It's not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you.” - Tyler Perry

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

119. “For my part, i travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move” - Robert Louis Stevenson

120. “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

121. “Nobody ever talks about the pyramids that weren't built, the books that weren't written, the songs that weren't sung. Stop letting your fear condemn you to mediocrity. Get out of your own way. Your dreams are a poetic reflection of your soul's wishes. Be courageous enough to follow them. There is no greater time than now to experience the full power of your potential. Make this the day you take the first step in the beautiful journey of bringing your dreams to life.” - Steve Maraboli

122. “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

123. “It is only path bending. Don't let it be mind bending.” - T. Scott McLeod

124. “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

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

126. “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

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

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

129. “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

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

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

132. “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

133. “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

134. “I want my life to be the greatest story. My very existence will be the greatest poem.Watch me burn.Love always, Charlotte” - Charlotte Eriksson

135. “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

136. “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

137. “Fine art refers to an accomplished or advanced skill being used to testify and reveal the knowledge, ability, and wisdom of the creator. There is no art more exquisite than the work of the Master Artist Himself. Even those who choose to deny Him credit for His own creation are often engaged as an admirer of His work. Refusing to acknowledge the Source will never minimize His glory or extinguish the truth.With God’s loving guidance our life can be a great masterpiece filled with beauty, adventure, hope and purpose.” - Traci Lea LaRussa