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Journey Quotes by Famous Authors

1. “Gone before To that unknown and silent shore.”

Charles Lamb

Death, Journey, Mystery, Afterlife, Farewell

2. “I was born. When I was 23 I started telling jokes. Then I started going on television and doing films. That’s still what I am doing. The end.”

Steven Wright

Life, Career, Comedy, Journey, Simplicity

3. “Drugs may lead to nowhere, but at least it’s the scenic route.”

Steven Wright

Drugs, Journey, Choices, Humor, Perspective

4. “Don't force a destination upon something that is a journey.”

Ankur Warikoo

Journey, Destination, Patience, Process, Flow

5. “No one sees the multiple failures before that one ‘huge success’.”

Ankur Warikoo

Failure, Success, Journey, Perception, Effort

6. “I don’t set goals, for two reasons: – You do it for a destination, instead of becoming someone in the process – You invariably start chasing another destination, upon reaching one.”

Ankur Warikoo

Goals, Process, Growth, Purpose, Journey

7. “Daydreaming about a destination is almost always bad. Daydreaming about a journey is almost always good.”

Ankur Warikoo

Daydreaming, Journey, Destination, Process, Mindset

8. “You will discover your passion along the way. Not find it one fine day!”

Ankur Warikoo

Passion, Discovery, Journey, Patience, Growth

9. “Made it to top college. Or didn't. Got a job. Or not. Got married. Or not. To the world, our life is just multiple events of success and failure. To us, our life is what happens between those events.”

Ankur Warikoo

Life, Events, Perception, Journey, Meaning

10. “It is an insult to your journey. And an insult to what all you have endured to get here.”

Ankur Warikoo

Journey, Respect, Effort, Endurance, Value

11. “No one sees how you overcame your habits and systems despite having ‘failed’, because they focus on the end result, that you failed.”

Ankur Warikoo

Effort, Failure, Perception, Journey, Resilience

12. “Success we all get to see. Stories we rarely get to hear. The lesson is in the story. Not the success.”

Ankur Warikoo

Success, Story, Lesson, Journey, Wisdom

13. “Once you succeed, people see only success. If you fail, they see only failure. They don’t see the journey. Only you do. It is on this journey, that your life was lived!”

Ankur Warikoo

Journey, Success, Failure, Perception, Life

14. “Faith implies a continuing search, not necessarily a final answer.”

Jimmy Carter

Faith, Search, Uncertainty, Belief, Journey

15. “Wherever life takes us, there are always moments of wonder.”

Jimmy Carter

Life, Wonder, Exploration, Perspective, Journey

16. “That was the best time. The last day, the day of leaving. It was a good journey. It became different at the other end.”

V.S. Naipaul

Journey, Change, Departure, Experience, Reflection

17. “The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.”

V.S. Naipaul

Intuition, Writing, Life, Uncertainty, Journey

18. “Luck is very important. Of course you can’t wait for luck, because it won’t come. While you start a journey, luck may eventually come to you.”

Jack Ma

Luck, Success, Effort, Opportunity, Journey

19. “Do not say that I’ll depart tomorrow because even today I still arrive.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

Presence, Journey, Awareness, Life, Mindfulness

20. “Your journey to a healthier weight is not a journey that you start and then give up. It is a journey that you are living every day for the rest of your life.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

Health, Journey, Commitment, Lifestyle, Perseverance

21. “Every path, every street in the world is your walking meditation path.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

Meditation, Path, Walking, Presence, Journey

22. “Take my hand. We will walk. We will only walk. We will enjoy our walk without thinking of arriving anywhere.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

Journey, Presence, Walking, Simplicity, Mindfulness

23. “The way must be in you; the destination also must be in you and not somewhere else in space or time. If that kind of self-transformation is being realized in you, you will arrive.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

Journey, Self-transformation, Path, Destination, Realization

24. “Our walking is not a means to an end. We walk for the sake of walking.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

Walking, Journey, Presence, Awareness, Simplicity

25. “You have to do it by yourself. You can not do it alone.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

Self-reliance, Support, Journey, Effort, Wisdom

26. “I have arrived. I am home. My destination is in each step.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

Arrival, Presence, Mindfulness, Peace, Journey

27. “In the mountains of wisdom no climbing is in vain.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

Wisdom, Journey, Learning, Effort, Growth

28. “The raft is used to cross the river. It isn’t to be carried around on your shoulders. The finger which points at the moon isn’t the moon itself.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

Wisdom, Detachment, Understanding, Journey, Metaphor

29. “I still arrive, in order to laugh and to cry, to fear and to hope. The rhythm of my heart is the birth and death of all that is alive.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

Life, Emotions, Journey, Change, Experience

30. “It is difficult to walk at one and the same time many paths of life.”

Pythagoras

Life, Choices, Difficulty, Journey, Wisdom

31. “Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.”

Pythagoras

Friendship, Support, Journey, Perseverance, Happiness

32. “A life without festivity is a long road without an inn.”

Democritus

Life, Joy, Celebration, Journey, Happiness

33. “I’ll be marching through the morning, Marching through the night, Moving ’cross the borders Of My Secret Life.”

Leonard Cohen

Journey, Determination, Struggle, Mystery, Life

34. “Every heart to Love will come, but like a refugee.”

Leonard Cohen

Love, Refuge, Journey, Seeking, Heart

35. “Well, I’ve been waiting, I was sure we’d meet between the trains we’re waiting for I think it’s time to board another Please understand, I never had a secret chart to get me to the heart of this or any other matter.”

Leonard Cohen

Destiny, Waiting, Journey, Uncertainty, Fate

36. “So the great affair is over but whoever would have guessed, It would leave us all so vacant and so deeply unimpressed, It’s like our visit to the moon or to that other star, I guess you go for nothing if you really want to go that far.”

Leonard Cohen

Love, Disillusionment, Journey, Distance, Emotion

37. “As we make our way toward the finish line that some of us have already crossed, I never thought I'd get a Grammy Award. In fact, I was always touched by the modesty of their interest.”

Leonard Cohen

Achievement, Recognition, Humility, Surprise, Journey

38. “All men will be sailors then Until the sea shall free them.”

Leonard Cohen

Freedom, Destiny, Journey, Metaphor, Exploration

39. “I never had the sense that there was an end: that there was a retirement or that there was a jackpot.”

Leonard Cohen

Life, Journey, Persistence, Uncertainty, Reality

40. “How far have I to go to find you in whom I have already arrived.”

Thomas Merton

Search, Spirituality, Journey, Realization, Faith

41. “The geographical pilgrimage is the symbolic acting out an inner journey. The inner journey is the interpolation of the meanings and signs of the outer pilgrimage. One can have one without the other. It is best to have both.”

Thomas Merton

Journey, Inner Growth, Symbolism, Exploration, Perspective

42. “Our real journey in life is interior; it is a matter of growth, deepening, and of an ever greater surrender to the creative action of love and grace in our hearts. Never was it more necessary to respond to that action.”

Thomas Merton

Journey, Growth, Surrender, Love, Grace