Journey Quotes

"For all at last return to the sea�to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the ever-flowing stream of time, the beginning and the end." -- Rachel Carson, The closing words of the book The Sea Around Us (1951).

The destination of all journeys is their beginning. Angela Olive Carter, From the book The Passion of Eve (1977).

"My ambition had placed a load of misery on my shoulders and the further I carried it, the heavier it became, but the only purpose of all the efforts was to reach the goal of peaceful happiness." -- Saint Augustine, Confessions

"When things are displaced, they are always on the move until they come to rest where they are meant to be." -- Saint Augustine, Confessions

"Give Thy blessing, we pray Thee, to our daily work, that we may do it in faith, and heartily." ~Thomas Arnold (1795-1842)

"Everything sacred moves in a circle." ~Black Elk, Hopi Elder

"Carefully observe the way your heart draws you and the choose that way with all your strength." ~Hasidic saying

"There came a day when the clouds drifting along with the wind aroused a wanderlust in me, and I set off on a journey to roam along the seashores..." ~Matsuo Basho

"What do you have that can get past them?" ~Robert Bly

"True pilgrimage changes lives, whether we go halfway around the world or out to our own backyards." ~Martin Palmer, Sacred Journeys

"Does the road wind uphill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend." ~Christina Rossetti, 1867

"In each of us dwells a pilgrim. It is the part of us that longs to have direct contact with the sacred." ~Phil Cousineau

"Here we must deal with awe, fascination, and terror, with ignorance shot through with the lightening of certainty, and with feelings of exhuberance, love and bliss..." ~Francis Huxley

"We usually don't look, we overlook." ~Alan Watts

"The pilgrim is a poetic traveler, one who believes that there is poetry on the road, at the heart of everything." ~Phil Cousineau

"Nothing comes from doing nothing." ~William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

"Keeping to the main road is easy, but people love to be sidetracked." ~Lao Tzu (6th century BCE)

"Are you alive now at home? Are you going to stay in your coffin of mediocrity, [or] break out of your cage, and take a journey to discover this in order to find yourself?" ~Phil Cousineau

"If you come to a fork in the road, take it!" ~Yogi Berra

"The beauty of the way is that there is no 'way'." ~Loy Ching-Yuen, The Book of the Heart

"Experience is not what happens to you, it is what you do with what happens to you." ~Aldous Huxley

"To know something, then, we must be scrubbed raw, the fasting heart exposed." ~Gretel Ehrlich

"A journey is a fragment of hell." ~Mohammed

"An inch of surprise leads to a mile of gratefulness." ~Brother David Steindl-Rast

"Things are always different from what they might be." ~Henry James

"If you utilize obstacles properly, then they strengthen your courage, and they also give you more intelligence, more wisdom." ~Dalai Lama

"I stood at a crossroads and fate came to meet me..." ~Liz Greene

"It's not the road ahead that wears you out -- it's the grain of sand in your shoe." ~old Arabian proverb

"Place your mind before the mirror of eternity! Place your soul in the brilliance of glory!" ~Saint Clare of Assisi

"This is a great moment, when you see, however distant, the goal of your wandering. The thing which has been living in your imagination suddenly becomes a part of the tangible world." ~Feya Stark

"If you miss the moment, you miss your life." ~John Daido Loori

"This was the moment. I felt the thrilling moment of destiny." ~James P. Carse

"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old, seek what they sought." ~Matsuo Basho

"Make your universe your companion, always bearing in mind the true nature of all creation -- mountains and rivers, trees and grasses, and humankind..." Matsuo Basho

"We must be still and still movinginto another intensity..." ~T.S. Eliot, East Coker

"Blessings on the head of Cadmus or the Phoenicians, or whatever it was that invented books." ~Thomas Carlyle

"Never forget that your days are blessed. You may know how to profit by them, or you may not, but they are blesses." ~Nadia Boulanger

"How long the road is. But for all the time the journey has already taken, how you have needed every second of it in order to learn what the road passes by." ~Dag Hammarskjold, Markings

"It is a strange thing to come home. While yet on the journey, you cannot at all realize how strange it will be." ~Selma Lagerlof (1858-1940)

"If a man set out from home on a journey,and kept right on going, he would come back to his own front door." ~Sir John Mandeville, 14th century

"I only went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found was really going in." ~John Muir, Naturalist

"What every traveler confronts sooner or later is that the way we spend each day of our travel...is the way we spend our lives." ~Phil Cousineau

"Ask what is in the wind as what is sacred." ~Margaret Atwood

"May the stars light your way and may you find the interior road. Forward!" ~traditional Irish farewell

"The heart at rest sees a feast in everything." ~Hindi proverb

"Let us live in peace and harmony to keep the land and all life in balance. Only prayer and meditation can do that." ~Thomas Banyacya, Hopi Elder

"The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance ofall that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory." ~Howard Zinn