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Quotes About Journey

Clay lies still, but blood's a rover Breath's a ware that will not keep. Up lad: when the journey's over There'll be time enough to sleep.
~ A. E. Housman
Someday the sun is going to shine down on me in some faraway place.
~ Mahalia Jackson
We must each find our separate meaning in the persuasion of our days until we meet in the meaning of the world.
~ Christopher Fry
Music touches places beyond our touching.
~ Keith Bosley
Whether one is twenty, forty, or sixty; whether one has succeeded, failed or just muddled along; whether yesterday was full of sun or storm, or one of those dull days with no weather at all, life begins each morning I
~ Leigh Mitchell Hodges
Thus, I steer my bark, and sail On even keel, with gentle gale.
~ Matthew Green
The night is dark, and I am far from home.
~ John Henry Newman
It is a matter first of beginning-and then following through.
~ Richard L. Evans
The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
By perseverance the snail reached the Ark.
~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon
If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.
~ Ancient Buddhist proverb
I'm not there yet, but I'm closer than I was yesterday.
~ Anonymous
Think of a fine painter attempting to capture an inner vision, beginning with one corner of the canvas, painting what he thinks should be there, not quite pulling it off, covering it over with white paint, and trying again, each time finding out what his painting isn't, until he finally finds out what it is. And when you finally do find out what one corner of your vision is, you're off and running.
~ Anne Lamott
Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we learn to walk.
~ Cyril Connolly
As long as one keeps searching, the answers come.
~ Joan Baez
He turns not back who is bound to a star.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Like ships, men flounder time and time again.
~ Henry Miller
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat went to sea In a beautiful pea-green boat.
~ Edward Lear
We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well.
~ George MacDonald
He who has lived a day has lived an age.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
Each day, each hour, an entire life.
~ Juan Ramón Jiménez
Happiness is to be found along the way, not at the end of the road, for then the journey is over and it is too late. Today, this hour, this minute is the day, the hour, the minute for each of us to sense the fact that life is good, with all of its trials and troubles, and perhaps more interesting because of them.
~ Robert R. Updegraff
Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. Climb slowly, steadily, enjoying each passing moment; and the view from the summit will serve as a fitting climax for the journey.
~ Harold B. Melchart
To accomplish our destiny ... we must cover before nightfall the distance assigned to each of us.
~ Dr. Alexis Carrel