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Quotes About Journey

Priceless diamonds often shape in worthless dirt.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Short prayers with long legs travel far.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Small steps add up to complete big journeys.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Step by step a mountain is conquered.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The soul's steps are greater than the heart's leaps.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Your brightest light will take you to your greatest heights.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Your deepest valleys lead you to your highest mountaintops.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
~ Unknown
On a journey, ill,And over fields all withered, dreamsGo wandering still.
~ Matsuo Bash?
The months and days are the travelers of eternity. The years that come and go are also voyagers…. I too for years past have been stirred by the sight of a solitary cloud drifting with the wind to ceaseless thoughts of roaming.
~ Matsuo Bash?
Days and months are travellers of eternity. So are the years that pass by. Those who steer a boat across the sea, or drive a horse over the earth till they succumb to the weight of years, spend every minute of their lives travelling. There are a great number of ancients, too, who died on the road. I myself have been tempted for a long time by the cloud-moving wind - filled with a strong desire to wander.
~ Matsuo Bash?
Along this road goes no one, this autumn eve.
~ Matsuo Bash?
On this road where nobody else travels autumn nightfall.
~ Matsuo Bash?
The moon and sun are eternal travelers. Even the years wander on. A lifetime adrift in a boat or in old age leading a tired horse into the years, every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home. —Bash?: Oku-no-hosomichi
~ Matsuo Bash?
Had I crossed the pass Supported by a stick, I would have spared myself The fall from the horse.
~ Matsuo Bash?
Falling ill on a journey, my dreams wander the withered fields
~ Matsuo Bash?
There are also times when we feel like taking to the road ourselves, seizing the raincoat lying nearby, or times when we feel like sitting down till our legs take root, enjoying the scene we picture before our eyes. (Written by Soryu as a postscript)
~ Matsuo Bash?
Come, let's go Snow-viewing Till we're buried.
~ Matsuo Bash?
Sick while traveling dream of a withered field wandering around
~ Matsuo Bash?
I do not seek to walk in the paths of the wise men of old, I seek what they sought.
~ Matsuo Bash?
Violets – how precious on a mountain path.
~ Matsuo Bash?
Come, let's go snow-viewing till we're buried.
~ Matsuo Bash?
Year's end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
~ Matsuo Bash?
Sick on a journey - over parched fields dreams wander on.
~ Matsuo Bash?