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Quotes About Journey

Just as a stag's antlers Are split into tines, So I must go willy-nilly Separated from my friend.
~ Matsuo Bash?
To talk casually About an iris flower Is one of the pleasures Of the wandering journey.
~ Matsuo Bash?
First winter rain – I plod on, Traveller, my name.
~ Matsuo Bash?
Still alive I am At the end of a long dream On my journey, Fall of an autumn day.
~ Matsuo Bash?
Não buscamos imitar os mestres, procuramos o que eles procuravam.
~ Matsuo Bash?
Sora and I were separated by the distance of a single night, but it was just the same as being separated by a thousand miles.
~ Matsuo Bash?
55. Yellow rose petals/thunder-/a waterfall 65. Butterfly-/Winds curve into white poppy. 67. First winter rain-/I plod on,/traveler my name. 75. Wake butterfly-/it's late, we've miles/to go together. 93. Peony-/the bee can't bear to part. 94. Has it returned,/the snow/we viewed together? 95. No moon, no flowers, no friend-/and he drinks sake, 96. Unknown spring-/plum blossom/behind the mirror. 136. Wintry day,/on my horse/a frozen shadow.
~ Matsuo Bash?
Higher than the lark I climbed into the air, Taking breath At the summit of a pass.
~ Matsuo Bash?
From five to six miles I walk every day In search of you, Cherry blossoms.
~ Matsuo Bash?
Every turn of the road brought me new thoughts and every sunrise gave me fresh emotions.
~ Matsuo Bash?
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.
~ Matsuo Basho
Seek not to follow in the footsteps of men of old; seek what they sought.
~ Matsuo Basho
I come weary, In search of an inn— Ah! These wisteria flowers!
~ Matsuo Basho
But when you read books you almost feel like you're out there in the world. Like you're going on this adventure right with the main character. At least, that's the way I do it. It's actually not that bad. Even if it is mad nerdy.
~ Matt de la Pena
sometimes you find your path gets blocked, and you have to take a step back – back home, even – to move forward.
~ Matt Dunn
This isn't how I would have chosen my life to turn out at all, but maybe this is my way of fulfilling my life's purpose and trying to raise awareness for these rare diseases that really do actually need it.
~ Matt Fitzgerald
The new Rob saw the restoration of his ability to run as a gift, a precious and fragile blessing that he wished to honor by racing not for respect or attention as before but for the inner journey, and by listening to his body and respecting rest, and also by investing himself in the trail running community.
~ Matt Fitzgerald
To talk about memories is to live them a little.
~ Matt Haig
When you stay too long in a place, you forget just how big an expanse the world is. You get no sense of the length of those longitudes and latitudes. Just as, she supposed, it is hard to have a sense of the vastness inside any one person. But once you sense that vastness, once something reveals it, hope emerges, whether you want it to or not, and it clings to you as stubbornly as lichen clings to rock.
~ Matt Haig
Don't aim for perfection. Evolution, and life, only happen through mistakes.
~ Matt Haig
You don't have to be an academic. You don't have to be anything. Don't force it. Feel your way, and don't stop feeling your way until something fits. Maybe nothing will. Maybe you are a road, not a destination. That is fine. Be a road. But make sure it's one with something to look at out of the window.
~ Matt Haig
History was, is, a one-way street. You have to keep walking forwards, but you don't always need to look ahead. Sometimes you can just look around and be happy right where you are.
~ Matt Haig
If we keep going in a straight line we'll get out of here. Walking one foot in front of the other, in the same direction, will always get you further than running around in circles. It's about the determination to keep walking forward.
~ Matt Haig
It is not the length of life that matters. It's the depth. But while burrowing, keep the sun above you.
~ Matt Haig