Quotes About Journey

There's an old saying that if you come back to the place where you became a man, you will remember all those things you need to be happy... That saying never made sense to me, but I thought it was worth a try.

We all carry around so much pain in our hearts. Love and pain and beauty. They all seem to go together like one little tidy confusing package. It's a messy business, life. It's hard to figure--full of surprises. Some good. Some bad.

Alas, that the longest hill Must end in a vale; but still, Who climbs with toil, wheresoe'er Shall find wings there.

To be a philosopher is to take to the road, never settling down in some place of satisfaction with a theory of the world, not even a place of reformation, nor of some illusory transformation of the conditions of this world. It aims for self- transformation, for the inner metamorphosis which is implied by the notion of a new, or spiritual rebirth.... The adventure of the mystical philosopher is essentially seen as a voyage which progresses towards the Light.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait until the other is ready.

Eastward I go only by force; but westward I go free.

The swiftest traveler is he that goes afoot.

Go where we will on the surface of things, men have been there before us.

As if our birth had at first sundered things, and we had been thrust up through into nature like a wedge, and not till the wound heals and the scar disappears, do we begin to discover where we are, and that nature is one and continuous everywhere.

Not till we are lost, in other words, not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize the infinite extent of our relations.

The man who goes alone can start today but he who travels with another must wait till the other is ready, and it may be a long time before they get off.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

To get to heaven we must take it with us.

Character grows in the stream of the world's life.

El talento se desarrolla en la soledad; el carácter, en el río de la vida".

The best way to get to heaven is to take it with you.

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final. —RAINER MARIA RILKE

Happiness isn't a destination, it's a mode of travel. Don't worry be happy.

Life, as I see it, is not a location, but a journey. Even the man who most feels himself "settled" is not settled—he is probably sagging back. Everything is in flux, and was meant to be. Life flows. We may live at the same number of the street, but it is never the same man who lives there.

Hidup adalah serangkaian pengalaman, Setiap pengalaman membuat kita lebih besar, walau pun kita tidak menyadarinya.

History is not the past, but a map of the past drawn from a particular point of view to be useful to the modern traveler.

He portrays the labours of the etymologist in whimsical terms: 'In search of the progenitors of our speech, we may wander from the tropick to the frozen zone, and find some in the valleys of Palestine, and some upon the rocks of Norway'. Johnson's

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.