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Quotes About Journey

The ego is the separate self through which the universal self can experience the adventure of living.
~ Timothy Freke
All he needed was a wheel in his hand and four on the road.
~ Jack Kerouac
Life is too short to be wasted in finding answers. Enjoy the questions.
~ Paulo Coelho
Learning is a friend on the journey; a wife in the house; medicine in sickness; and religious merit is the only friend after death.
~ Chanakya
To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Investigation after declaration of submission leads astray.
~ Wasif Ali Wasif
Where lowland is, that's where water goes. All medicine wants is pain to cure.
~ Jalaluddin Rumi
I have always known that at last I would take this road, but yesterday I did not know that it would be today.
~ Ariwara no Narihira
Whoever travels without a guide, needs two hundred years for a two-day journey.
~ Rumi
The goal of our life's effort is to reach the other shore, Nirvana. Prajna paramita, the true wisdom of life, is that in each step of the way, the other shore is actually reached.
~ Shunryu Suzuki
We do not want to be beginners. But let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything else but beginners, all our life!
~ Thomas Merton
The distance between glorified spirits in heaven and militant saints on earth seems great; but it is not so. We are not far from home-a moment will bring us there.
~ Charles Spurgeon
You come into the world with nothing, and the purpose of your life is to make something out of nothing.
~ H. L. Mencken
Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.
~ Heraclitus, Fragments
One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error.
~ Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
Every choice eventually leads to wisdom.
~ Dan Millman
Learning is like a cow of desire. It, like her, yields in all seasons. Like a mother, it feeds you on your journey. Therefore learning is a hidden treasure.
~ Chanakya
It doesn't matter if the water is cold or warm if you're going to have to wade through it anyway.
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
If you have a guru, leave him; if you don't have, get one. In other words, keep changing your gurus! Ocean's wisdom comes from knowing many ships and many fishes, many storms and many waves!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
God, he was probably too young to be this old, but life had a way of being about experience, rather than calendar days.
~ J.R. Ward, Lover at Last
Humanity has to travel a hard road to wisdom, and it has to travel it with bleeding feet.
~ Nellie L. McClung
We may go to church once a week, but our Christian life is daily - step-by-step.
~ David Jeremiah
The further in you go, the bigger it gets.
~ John Crowley
The farther you go, the less you know.
~ Laozi