Journey Quotes - Page 18

• Without gospel truths, man's efforts to reach his goals are like the northbound explorer who drove his dog sled feverishly northward on an ice pack that was flowing southward - only to find himself farther from his destination at the end of a hard day's journey than he had been at dawn!

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Dog, Men, Ice

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• [Cycling] is easily the quickest way around central London, faster than bus, Tube or taxi. You can predict precisely how long every journey will take, regardless of traffic jams, Tube strikes or leaves on the line. It provides excellent exercise. It does not pollute the atmosphere. It does not clog up the streets.

  Jeremy Paxman

  Exercise, Cycling, Long

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• A leaf that falls into a stream (or a leaf we intentionally drop into a stream) just where the water disappears into the ground...will come out again at the next opening, because the underground stream has faithfully carried it there, though during this journey it has been beyond the reach of any outside interference. In the same way, an idea that has been introduced into our minds (or that we ourselves have intentionally introduced) will produce its effects after longer or shorter subconscious development.

  Charles Baudouin

  Fall, Ideas, Water

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• I learned that the richness of life is found in adventure. . . . It develops self-reliance and independence. Life then teems with excitement. There is stagnation only in security.

  William O. Douglas

  Nature, Adventure, Richness Of Life

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• That is the charm of a map. It represents the other side of the horizon where everything is possible. It has the magic of anticipation without the toil and sweat of realization. The greatest romance ever written pales before the possibilities of adventure that lie in the faint blue trails from sea to sea. The perfect journey is never finished, the goal is always just across the next river, round the shoulder of the next mountain. There is always one more track to follow, one more mirage to explore. Achievement is the price which the wanderer pays for the right to venture.

  Rosita Forbes

  Lying, Adventure, Blue

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• Sweet pliability of man's spirit, that can at once surrender itself to illusions, which cheat expectation and sorrow of their weary moments! - long - long since had ye numbered out my days, had I not trod so great a part of them upon this enchanted ground. When my way is too rough for my feet, or too steep for my strength, I get off it, to some smooth velvet path which fancy has scattered over with rose-buds of delights; and have taken a few turns on it, come back strengthened and refreshed.

  Laurence Sterne

  Sweet, Taken, Men

  Laurence Sterne (1805). “The Works of Laurence Sterne ...”, p.94

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• So the single most vital step on your journey towards enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Mind, Enlightenment, Steps

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.21, New World Library

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• Accept your loneliness. It is one stage, and only one stage, on a journey that brings you to God. It will not always last. Offer up your loneliness to God, as the little boy offered to Jesus his five loaves and two fishes. God can transform it for the good of others. Above all, do something for somebody else!

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Jesus, Loneliness, Boys

  Elisabeth Elliot (1999). “Taking Flight: Wisdom for Your Journey”, Baker Publishing Group

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• We should not expect the state to appear in the guise of an extravagant good fairy at every christening, a loquacious companion at every stage of life's journey, and the unknown mourner at every funeral.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Government, Funeral, Fairy

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• Today, we need a Church capable of walking at people's side, of doing more than simply listening to them; a Church which accompanies them on their journey.

  Pope Francis

  People, Listening, Church

  "Pope Francis Gives Candid Speech On 'Exodus' Of Followers From The Catholic Church" by Philip Pullella, www.businessinsider.com. July 27, 2013.

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• Walking I am unbound, and find that precious unity of life and imagination, that silent outgoing self, which is so easy to loose, but which a high moments seems to start up again from the deepest rhythms of my own body. How often have I had this longing for an infinite walk - of going unimpeded, until the movement of my body as I walk fell into the flight of streets under my feet - until I in my body and the world in its skin of earth were blended into a single act of knowing.

  Alfred Kazin

  Feet, Hiking, Knowing

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• I was walking an average of about two and a half miles a day, which is still more than most Americans. Most Americans don't even walk that.

  Morgan Spurlock

  Average, Two, Hiking

  Interview With Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. May 4, 2004.

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• If you want to know if your brain is flabby, feel your legs.

  Bruce Barton

  Hiking, Brain, Legs

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• If you are for a merry jaunt, I will try, for once, who can foot it farthest.

  John Dryden

  Feet, Hiking, Trying

  William Whitehead, Mr. John Crown, Mr. John Dryden, Nicholas Rowe (1720). “A Select Collection of the Best Modern English Plays: Vol. IV.”, p.48

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• I stroll along serenely, with my eyes, my shoes, my rage, forgetting everything.

  Pablo Neruda

  Eye, Shoes, Hiking

  Pablo Neruda (2015). “I Explain a Few Things: Selected Poems”, p.15, Macmillan

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• Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth.

  Robert Frost

  Sorry, Taken, Two

  Robert Frost, Gary D. Schmidt (1994). “Robert Frost”, p.21, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• I travel not to go anywhere, but to go.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Hiking, Sauntering, Trekking

  Travels with a Donkey "Cheylard and Luc" (1879)

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• The rhythm of walking generates a kind of rhythm of thinking, and the passage through a landscape echoes or stimulates the passage through a series of thoughts. The creates an odd consonance between
  internal and external passage, one that suggests that the mind is also a landscape of sorts and that walking is one way to traverse it. A new thought often seems like a feature of the landscape that was
  there all along, as though thinking were traveling rather than making.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Thinking, Hiking, Echoes

  Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.11, Penguin

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• Every walk is a sort of crusade, preached by some Peter the Hermit in us.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Hiking, Sauntering, Peter

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walking: Top Essays”, p.1, 谷月社

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• I was the world in which I walked.

  Wallace Stevens

  Hiking, World, Sauntering

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.90, Vintage

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• .... the brisk exercise imparts elasticity to the muscles, fresh and healthy blood circulates through the brain, the mind works well, the eye is clear, the step is firm, and a day's exertion always makes the evening's repose thoroughly enjoyable.

  David Livingstone

  Eye, Exercise, Blood

  David Livingstone (2012). “The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868”, p.42, tredition

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• We souls on foot, with foot-folk meet: For we that cannot hope to ride For ease or pride, have fellowship.

  William Barnes

  Pride, Feet, Hiking

  William Barnes (1869). “Poems of Rural Life in Common English”, p.132

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• I now resolved to go to bed early, with a firm purpose of also rising early the next day to revisit this charming walk; for I thought to myself, I have now seen this temple of the modern world imperfectly; I have seen it only by moonlight.

  Karl Philipp Moritz

  Next Day, Hiking, Bed

  Karl Philipp Moritz (1886). “Travels in England in 1782”

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• Wilderness is a place where the wild potential is fully expressed, a diversity of living and nonliving beings flourishing according to their own sorts of order. In ecology we speak of "wild systems." When an ecosystem is fully functioning, all the members are present at the assembly. To speak of wilderness is to speak of wholeness. Human beings came out of that wholeness, and to consider the possibility of reactivating membership in the Assembly of All Beings is in no way regressive.

  Gary Snyder

  Order, Ecosystems, Hiking

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• Walking is the number one exercise for your feet as well as your body. Barefoot walking is the ideal.

  Stephanie Tourles

  Exercise, Hiking, Numbers

  Stephanie Tourles (1998). “Natural Foot Care: Herbal Treatments, Massage, and Exercises for Healthy Feet”, Storey Publishing

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