End Of Journey Quotes

• The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started.

  T. S. Eliot

  Travel, Adventure, Science

  Four Quartets "Little Gidding" pt. 5 (1942)

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• It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.151, Penguin

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• Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.

  Arthur Ashe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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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

  Life, Positive, Travel

  Douglas Adams (2016). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.354, Simon and Schuster

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• To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Positive, Wisdom

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.207, Penguin

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• Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.

  Matsuo Basho

  Inspirational, Nature, Healing

  Matsuo Basho (2014). “Basho's Narrow Road: Spring and Autumn Passages”, p.31, Stone Bridge Press, Inc.

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• Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.

  Pat Conroy

  Inspirational, Life, Travel

  FaceBook post by Pat Conroy from Dec 19, 2013

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• Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends.

  Pat Conroy

  Travel, Adventure, Vacation

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Prince of Tides: A Novel”, p.110, Open Road Media

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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.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Four Quartets "Little Gidding" pt. 5 (1942)

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• Find the journey's end in every step.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Journey, Steps, Ends

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.192

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• Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey.

  Tad Williams

  Inspiring, Travel, Memories

  Tad Williams (2005). “The Stone of Farewell: Book Two of Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn”, p.156, Penguin

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• Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end.

  Christina Rossetti

  Journey, Wind, Doe

  "Up-Hill" l. 1 (1862)

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• They spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent altogether as is often the way with travelers approaching the end of a journey.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Journey, Way, Lasts

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West”, p.315, Vintage

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• To live the greatest number of good hours is wisdom.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wisdom, Numbers, Hours

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Portable Emerson”, p.177, Penguin

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• . . . 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 . . .

  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

  Journey, Long, Mind

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• 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

  Life, Night, Journey

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• Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey. Nothing shakes the heart so much as meeting-far, far away-what you last met at home.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Travel, Home, Heart

  Cynthia Ozick (1987). “The Messiah of Stockholm: a novel”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey-double and treble reason for loving as well as working while it is day.

  George Eliot

  Journey, Thinking, Years

  George Eliot, John Walter Cross (2010). “George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals”, p.320, Cambridge University Press

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• Though the most beautiful creature were waiting for me at the end of a journey or a walk; though the carpet were of silk, the curtains of the morning clouds; the chairs and sofa stuffed with cygnet's down; the food manna, the wine beyond claret, the window opening on Winander Mere, I should not feel -or rather my happiness would not be so fine, as my solitude is sublime.

  John Keats

  Happiness, Beautiful, Morning

  John Keats (2015). “John Keats - The Man Behind The Lyrics: Life, letters, and literary remains: Complete Letters and Two Extensive Biographies of one of the most beloved English Romantic poets”, p.709, e-artnow

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• 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

  Travel, Kindness, Lying

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• My father was my mother's home, the one place that she knew she could be safe. It was all a journey of faith for him, and I think he felt like if you don't find more love and understanding at the end of a journey like that, then you are lost - and if you only find hate and resentment, it will destroy you. I believe that.

  Rula Jebreal

  Mother, Father, Hate

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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