Long Journey Quotes:

In a long journey straw waighs.

- George Herbert

source: George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.355

topic: Journey, Long, Long Journey, Straws

If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.

- Dan Rather

source: Twitter post from Jul 22, 2014

topic: Journey, Long, Difficulty, Long Journey

Life is like unto a long journey with a heavy burden.

- Ieyasu Tokugawa

topic: Journey, Long, Life Is Like, Long Journey, Heavy Burdens

What do I believe? It has been a long journey of discovery. There have been hesitations and errors along the way, and no doubt will be more, because I am still learning, both about myself and about life.

- Anne Perry

topic: Believe, Journey, Errors, Long Journey

Let your mind start a journey through a strange new world. Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before. Let your soul take you where you long to be. Close your eyes, let your spirit start to soar, and you’ll live as you’ve never lived before.

- Erich Fromm

topic: Eye, Journey, Long, Spiritual Soul, Long Journey

I like someone who embraces life; who wants to be on a long journey but has no particular plan or destination in mind. An adventurous man, open to the concept of living life in the moment.

- Jill Hennessy

topic: Live Life, Adventure, Journey, Life Journey, Long Journey

Some days are better than others ... It's been a long journey, but we're starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel now.

- Brian Robertson

topic: Journey, Tunnels, Light, Long Journey, End Of The Tunnel

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.

- James Madison

topic: Country, Journey, Medicine, Long Journey

It helps, I think, to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith, to endure, to help each other when we stumble or tire, to weep and press on.

- Mary Caroline Richards

topic: Perseverance, Journey, Thinking, Helping Each Other, Long Journey

And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?

- Rumi

topic: Spiritual, Journey, Long, Inner Journey, Journey Of Self Discovery

If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of man become in its long journey toward the stars?

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

topic: Beautiful, Hope, Stars, Long Journey, Beautiful Rose

I wanted to do my part to help preserve that golden age of travel... I step aboard The Patron Tequila Express railcar, and I go back in time to the days when a long journey was something fun and very special.

- John Paul DeJoria

topic: Fun, Journey, Long, Long Journey, Tequila

A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn.

- William Hazlitt

topic: Journey, Men, Long, Long Journey

Respect your soul: don't keep repeating "I'm going to make it". Your soul already knows that, what it needs is to use the long journey to be able to grow, stretch along the horizon, touch the sky. An obsession does not help you at all to reach your objective, and even ends up taking the pleasure out of the climb. But pay attention: also, don't keep saying "it's harder than I thought", because that will make you lose your inner strength.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Life, Inspiration, Journey, Long Journey

On a long journey of human life, faith is the best of companions; it is the best refreshment on the journey; and it is the greatest property.

- Gautama Buddha

topic: Faith, Journey, Long, Inspirational Buddhist, Long Journey

I find I'm so excited I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it is the excitement only a free man can feel, a free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain. I hope I can make it across the border. I hope to see my friend, and shake his hand. I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope.

- Stephen King

topic: Dream, Journey, Men, Long Journey

For a small reward, a man will hurry away on a long journey; while for eternal life, many will hardly take a single step.

- Thomas a Kempis

topic: Men, Journey, Long, Long Journey

Education is a lifelong journey whose destination expands as you travel.

- Jim Stovall

source: Jim Stovall (2015). “The Ultimate Gift Series”, p.59, David C Cook

topic: Inspirational, Journey, Destination, Lifelong Journey, Long Journey

Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day's journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend.

- Grantland Rice

topic: Night, Journey, Wind, Long Journey, Long Day

All writers--all beings--are exiles as a matter of course. The certainty about living is that it is a succession of expulsions of whatever carries the life force...All writers are exiles wherever they live and their work is a lifelong journey towards the lost land..

- Janet Frame

source: Janet Frame (2001). “An Angel at My Table: The Complete Autobiography”, Womens PressLtd

topic: Writing, Journey, Land, Lifelong Journey, Long Journey

The journey for women, no matter what venue it is - politics, business, film - it's, it's a long journey.

- Kathryn Bigelow

topic: Journey, Long, Matter, Long Journey

The best poems take long journeys. I like poetry best that journeys--while remaining in the human scale--to the other world, which may be a place as easily overlooked as a bee's wing

- Robert Bly

topic: Journey, Other Worlds, Wings, Best Poem, Long Journey

A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a long journey: The ways deep and the weather sharp, The very dead of winter.

- T. S. Eliot

source: "Journey of the Magi" l. 1 (1927)

topic: Time, Winter, Journey, Long Journey, Worst Times

It is impossible - now, at this point in the long journey of human culture - to avoid the sense that pain is necessity; that it is neither accident, nor malformation, nor malice, nor misunderstanding, that it is integral to the human character both in its inflicting and in its suffering, this terrible sense Tragedy alone has articulated, and will continue to articulate, and in so doing, make beautiful...

- Howard Barker

source: Howard Barker (2004). “Death, The One and the Art of Theatre”, p.105, Routledge

topic: Beautiful, Pain, Character, Long Journey

Climbing is my lifelong journey. And in the same way you go running and you have days where you really feel in tune, you have some days where you don't feel that good. It's this never-ending process. Accepting that and enjoying that for what it is, that's really where the life of climbing is.

- Chris Sharma

topic: Running, Journey, Climbing, Lifelong Journey, Long Journey

By 2025 we expect new spacecraft designed for long journeys to allow us to begin the first ever crewed missions beyond the Moon into deep space. So we'll start by sending astronauts to an asteroid for the first time in history. By the mid-2030s I believe we can send humans to orbit Mars and return them safely to Earth. And a landing on Mars will follow and I expect to be around in see it.

- Barack Obama

source: "What's In The Stars For NASA?". "Science Friday", www.npr.org. April 16, 2010.

topic: Future, Believe, Journey, Spacecraft, Long Journey

The most challenging thing for a young entrepreneur is to think long-term. When you are 22 years old, it’s hard to think in 22-year increments since that’s as long as you’ve been alive. But it’s really important to view your life as an entrepreneur as a long journey that consists of many short-term cycles.

- Brad Feld

topic: Thinking, Journey, Young Entrepreneurs, Long Journey, Short Term

Failure is sometimes the best option if you view the process of entrepreneurship as a lifelong journey.

- Brad Feld

source: "Sometimes Failure Is Your Best Option". www.businessinsider.com. May 28, 2013.

topic: Journey, Views, Sometimes, Lifelong Journey, Long Journey

The reason why I like theater is because it's a long journey, and no matter what role you play, we are all in it together.

- Condola Rashad

topic: Journey, Play, Long, Long Journey

It's a long journey - the change can only be measured in increments of five years at a time. For every two steps forward, there is one step back. Don't let that discourage you, because you can play a big part in ensuring that measurable change takes place in the coming decade.

- Jack Norris

topic: Journey, Years, Play, Long Journey, Steps Forward

I want to surf better tomorrow. I want to surf better in 10 years. When I'm 50 I want to be a better surfer than I am now - for me it's a lifelong journey.

- Kelly Slater

source: "Kelly Slater: 'Surfing is my religion'" by Nick Glass and Natasha Maguder, www.cnn.com. June 6, 2013.

topic: Journey, Years, Want, Lifelong Journey, Long Journey

Christians must lean on the Cross of Christ just as travelers lean on a staff when they begin a long journey.

- Anthony of Padua

topic: Christian, Journey, Long, Long Journey

If you simply walk on the beach as we are doing, you have no special color. But if you travel with a purpose, it is different. When you go somewhere important or you return home from a long journey, you build a shape around you and it reaches out ahead to touch your destination.

- Lyall Watson

topic: Beach, Home, Journey, Long Journey

A cold coming they had of it, at this time of the year; just the worst time of the year to take a journey, and specially a long journey, in.

- Lancelot Andrewes

source: Of the Nativity sermon 15 (1622) See T. S. Eliot 68

topic: Journey, Years, Long, Long Journey, Worst Times

With a heavy load and a long journey

- Confucius

topic: Journey, Long, Chinese, Long Journey, Heavy Loads

Rohinton Mistry's celebrated novel 'Such a Long Journey' was pulled off the syllabus of Mumbai University because local extremists objected to its content.

- Salman Rushdie

topic: Journey, Long, Mumbai, Syllabus, Long Journey

Thank you hard taco shells for surviving the long journey from factory, to supermarket, to my plate and then breaking the moment I put something inside you. Thank you.

- Jimmy Fallon

source: "Late Night 'Thank You Notes' From Jimmy Fallon". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. May 23, 2011.

topic: Journey, Long, Shells, Long Journey

It was awkward, revisiting a world you have never seen before: like coming home, after a long journey, to someone else’s house.

- Umberto Eco

topic: Home, Journey, Long, Long Journey

It had not been a long journey, but the memory of it filled her like an infection. She had felt tethered by time to the city behind her, so that the minutes stretched out taut as she moved away, and slowed the farther she got, dragging out her little voyage.

- China Mieville

topic: Memories, Journey, Cities, Long Journey

We had been everywhere. We had really seen nothing. And I catch myself thinking today that our long journey had only defiled with a sinuous trail of slime the lovely, trustful, dreamy, enormous country that by then, in retrospect, was no more to us than a collection of dog-eared maps, ruined tour books, old tires, and her sobs in the night — every night, every night — the moment I feigned sleep.

- Vladimir Nabokov

topic: Country, Dog, Book, Slime, Long Journey

You must go on a long journey before you can really find out how wonderful home is.

- Tove Jansson

source: Tove Jansson (2014). “Comet in Moominland: Can Moomintroll save his beloved valley?”, p.99, Macmillan

topic: Home, Journey, Long, Long Journey

Surrender is the quantum leap from mind to no-mind, from ego to egolessness. And in a single step the whole journey is contained. It is not a long journey from you to God, it is a single-step journey. It is not a gradual phenomenon; it is not that slowly slowly, gradually you come to the divine. It is a quantum leap! One moment you were in darkness and the next moment all is light. All that is needed is to put the ego aside.

- Rajneesh

topic: Journey, Light, Long, Long Journey, Quantum Leap

Pace is crucial. Fine writing isn't enough. Writing students can be great at producing a single page of well-crafted prose; what they sometimes lack is the ability to take the reader on a journey, with all the changes of terrain, speed and mood that a long journey involves. Again, I find that looking at films can help. Most novels will want to move close, linger, move back, move on, in pretty cinematic ways.

- Rose Tremain

topic: Moving, Writing, Journey, Long Journey

I who once wrote songs with keen delight am now by sorrow driven to take up melancholy measures. Wounded Muses tell me what I must write, and elegiac verses bathe my face with real tears. Not even terror could drive from me these faithful companions of my long journey. Poetry, which was once the glory of my happy and flourishing youth, is still my comfort in this misery of my old age.

- Boethius

topic: Music, Song, Real, Long Journey

Live in rooms full of light. Avoid heavy food. Be moderate in the drinking of wine. Take massage, baths, exercise, and gymnastics. Fight insomnia with gentle rocking or the sound of running water. Change surroundings and take long journeys. Strictly avoid frightening ideas. Indulge in cheerful conversation and amusements. Listen to music.

- Aulus Cornelius Celsus

topic: Running, Drinking, Wine, Long Journey, Health And Fitness

When we helped prevent the massacre of civilians trapped on a distant mountain, here's what one of them said: "We owe our American friends our lives. Our children will always remember that there was someone who felt our struggle and made a long journey to protect innocent people." That is the difference we make in the world.

- Barack Obama

topic: Children, Struggle, Journey, Long Journey, Isil

long journeys are strange things: if we were always to continue in the same mind we are in at the end of a journey, we should never stir from the place we were then in: but Providence in kindness to us causes us to forget it. It is much the same with lying-in women. Heaven permits this forgetfulness that the world may be peopled, and that folks may take journeys to Provence.

- Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

topic: Travel, Kindness, Lying, Long Journey, End Of Journey

Now it is autumn and the falling fruit and the long journey towards oblivion. The apples falling like great drops of dew to bruise themselves an exit from themselves.

- D. H. Lawrence

source: D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6883, Delphi Classics

topic: Death, Fall, Autumn, Long Journey

I think plans failing is a really interesting question. I've been on a long journey. I'm 54 now and that's seriously old. I hope I still have heaps of years to go. Every day there's new success and some failures. But believe you me you can always get better - but things don't always go how you'd expect all the time. What you have to do is pick yourself up and keep going. That's part of life.

- Fiona Wood

topic: Believe, Journey, Thinking, Long Journey

Indie record stores are as important to a touring musician as an incredible thrift store. I can't overstate how good it feels to place an original pressing of 'veedon fleece' in your most underused of shirts and pack it into your suitcase, anxiously awaiting the day you get home so that you can play it as though it was your reward or trophy from the long journey you had just finished embarking on.

- Nate Ruess

topic: Home, Journey, Play, Long Journey, Embarking