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The richness of the human journey is here. Listen. Pass it on. So that there will not pass from our future the enchantment that begins with the honored words, Once upon a time, long ago and far away, in a deep forest, there lived a child - much like you.
-Anon.
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Life is a journey, not a destination - we determine our destiny by the direction we take.
-Anon.
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I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.
-Douglas Adams
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In the middle of the journey of our life
I found myself astray in a dark wood
where the straight road had been lost sight of.
-Dante Alighieri
La Commedia Divina (Seamus Heaney trans.)
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All of childhood's unanswered questions must finally be passed back to the town and answered there. Heroes and bogey men, values and dislikes, are first encountered and labeled in that early environment. In later years they change faces, places and maybe races, tactics, intensities and goals, but beneath those penetrable masks they wear forever the stocking-capped faces of childhood.
-Maya Angelou
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But one of the things that has to be faced is
-Ella Baker
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Every time I say sure when I mean no, every time I smile brightly when I'm exploding with rage, every time I imagine my man's achievement is my own, I know the cheerleader never really died. I feel her shaking her ass inside me and I hear her breathless, girlish voice mutter T-E-A-M, Yea, Team.
-Louise Bernikow
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The American experience stirred mankind from discovery to exploration. From the cautious quest for what they knew (or thought they knew) was out there, into an enthusiastic reaching to the unknown. These are two substantially different kinds of human enterprise.
-Daniel J. Boorstin
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Furthermore, we have not even to risk the journey alone; for the heroes of all time have gone before us; the labyrinth is thoroughly known; we have only to follow the thread of the hero-path. And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence; where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world.
-Joseph Campbell
The Hero With A Thousand Faces
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
-G. K. Chesterton
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Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.
-Christopher Columbus
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The journey between what you once were and who you are now becoming is where the dance of life really takes place.
-Barbara De Angelis
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Our life is like a land journey: too even and easy and dull over long distances across the plains, too hard and painful up the steep grades; but on the summits of the mountain, you have a magnificent view - and feel exalted - and your eyes are full of happy tears - and you want to sing - and you wish you had wings! And then - you can't stay there, but you must continue your journey - you begin climbing down the other side, so busy with your footholds that your summit experience is forgotten.
-Lloyd Douglas
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We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started... and know the place for the first time.
-TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot
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Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot
(widely attributed to Emerson, possibly 'anonymous')
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We are like a ship fastened to the shore. It floats on the water of the sea, but it does not leave its moorings; it merely bobs up and down. We are like a swimmer who prefers to walk rather than take to the water. O my God, sever these moorings, loosen the thread from the wings of my soul, plunge me into the sea.
-Peter Julian Eymard, March 14, 1865
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Go West, young man, and grow up with the country.
-Horace Greeley
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Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
-Dag Hammarskjold
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The readiness to initiate the journey cannot be forced nor can people be faulted if it has not occurred in them as yet. The level of consciousness has to have advanced to the stage where such an intention would be meaningful and attractive.
-David R. Hawkins
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Lord, with what care hast Thou begirt us round! Parents first season us; then schoolmasters deliver us to laws; they send us bound to rules of reason, holy messengers, pulpits and Sundays, sorrow dogging sin, afflictions sorted, anguish of all sizes, fine nets and stratagems to catch us in, bibles laid open, millions of surprises, blessings beforehand, ties of gratefulness, the sound of glory ringing in our ears: without, our shame; within, our consciences; angels and grace, eternal hopes and fears. Yet all these fences and their whole array one cunning bosom-sin blows quite away.
-George Herbert
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The spiritual journey does not consist of arriving at a new destination where a person gains what he did not have, or becomes what he is not. It consists in the dissipation of one's own ignorance concerning one's self and life, and gradual growth of that understanding, which begins a spiritual awakening. The finding of God is coming to one's self.
-Aldous Huxley
found attributed
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Hardly ever can a youth transferred to the society of his betters unlearn the nasality and other vices of speech bred in him by the associations of his growing years. Hardly ever, indeed, no matter how much money there be in his pocket, can he ever learn to dress like a gentleman-born. The merchants offer their wares as eagerly to him as to the veriest swell, but he simply cannot buy the right things.
-William James
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A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.
-Lao-Tzu
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It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.
-Ursula K. LeGuin
The Left Hand of Darkness, 1969
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The road not taken was not your path.
-Michael Lipsey
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Books about Journeys
