Need Some Inspiring Quotes about Life Journeys?
The Journey of Your Life
Are you just starting out on your journey through life? Are you seeking to find yourself or know yourself better? Or is this a journey into the unknown? How well do you know your heart? Your mind? Your intentions?
Highlighted here are inspiring quotes and sayings about life's journey and finding your life path. Like the life goal quotes ...they speak to our need to find your own way through life and the struggles and life lessons along the way.
Life is a Journey
We have stories to tell, stories that provide wisdom about the journey of life. What more have we to give one another than our 'truth' about our human adventure as honestly and as openly as we know how?
- Rabbi Saul Rubin
I learned that sometimes a [life] journey can take you to a place that is not on any map.
If you are facing in the right direction, all you need to do is keep on walking.
- Buddhist saying
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labor.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
The journey is the reward.
- Taoist saying
It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Life is like a very short visit to a toy shop between birth and death.
- Desmond Morris
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
- Danny Kaye
Our life is an endless journey; it is like a broad highway that extends infinitely into the distance. The practice of meditation provides a vehicle to travel on that road. Our journey consists of constant ups and downs ...
- Chogyam Trungpa
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
- Edward Abbey
Critical Tasks on Life's Journey
To know the road ahead, ask those who are coming back.
- Chinese proverb
If life's journey be endless where is its goal? The answer is, it is everywhere. We are in a palace which has no end, but which we have reached. By exploring it and extending our relationship with it we are ever making it more and more our own. The i ...
- Rabindranath Tagore
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
- Sir Winston Churchill
Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most roads lead men homewards, My road leads me forth
- John Masefield
Each man's life represents a road toward himself.
- Herman Hesse
I took the road less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
- (Robert Frost) The Road Not Taken
Live! That's the message. Yes! Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death ... Oh Michael (key 14), I'm going to open doors for you (key 3). Doors you never even dreamed existed.
- Auntie Mame (movie with Rosa.lind Russ.el)
Stories {myths, legends, fairy tales, folk tales} show us how to win ... and in your case defeat death.
- Arabian Nights (Hallmark movie)
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.
The distance of the road to success becomes shorter as soon as you take the first step.
Challenges
Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
- Boris Pasternak
Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
- Goethe
Life is notes under our fingers -- we just have to figure out what notes to play.
- Jamie Fox
No amount of travel on the wrong road will bring you to the right destination.
- Ben Gaye, III
Right Hand Path
In life, we can let our life goal, what we strive for and use as a measure of meaningfulness and success, be determined by others ... our family, generation or culture. This, in Joseph Campbell's words, is following the right hand path ... the one handed to you at birth by your circumstances and place in time.
You look as if you lived on duty and it hadn't;t agreed with you.
- Ellen Glasgow
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
- Joseph Campbell
Left Hand Path
But, we also have the freedom to choose another life goal ... one that better reflects who we are and why we came into existence, and where we want to end up. That is known as choosing the left hand path ... one wielded by the eternal dancer.
It's when we're given choice that we sit with the gods and design ourselves.
- Dorothy Gilman
More damage has been done to others by persons leading lives of quiet desperation (that is doing what they felt they "had" to do ) [right hand path] than ever was done by persons freely doing what they wanted to do [left hand path].
- unknown
Choosing Your Path on Life's Journey
Remember that imagination is the faculty of the soul and that when it suggests new pathways to us we are being invited to explore the territory of the soul in ways that will certainly change and re enchant us.
- Caitlin Matthews
I don't mind going nowhere, as long as it's an interesting path.
- Ronald Mabbitt
