Robert M. Pirsig Quotes

I believe if I knew where I was going, I'd lose my way.

Never face reality unless your reality is just the way you want it to be.

The hardest part is starting. Once you get that out of the way, you'll find the rest of the journey much easier.

When you arrive where you thought you wanted to be, you'll just begin a new journey so enjoy each step along the way

The longest way round is the shortest way home

She was my destination. I was always on the way to Lena, even when I wasn't. Even when she wasn't on her way to me.

What a joy it is that the road ahead is an uphill climb. For where it leads is all the way to the top.

The nice thing about being on stage is it's not that I know what to do, but I have a very clear feeling that anything I do is OK. All I'm up there to do is express how I feel. Any way I choose to do that is fine.

I had ambitions to set out and find, like an odyssey or going home somewhere, set out to find this home that I'd left a while back and couldn't remember exactly where it was, but I was on my way there. And encountering what I encountered on the way was how I envisioned it all. I didn't really have any ambition at all. I was born very far from where I'm supposed to be, and so, I'm on my way home, you know?

As with all journeys, the Way has an end, though it should not be imagined as a straight road leading to a fixed destination but rather as a majestic mountain whose peak conceals the presence of God. There are, of course, many paths to the summit-some better than others. But because every path eventually leads to the same destination, which path one takes is irrelevant.

Rather than the destination it is the journey that lends meaning to our lives, great Neelkanth. Being faithful to our path will lead to consequences, both good as well as bad. For that is the way of the universe.

It's not how deep you go, it's how you go deep.

I want to keep looking at ways to stride forward with positivity.

So many of my friends, old friends I haven't seen in years, made their way out there and got lost, then found their way back. That seems believable to me.

I'm only this far, and only tomorrow leads my way.

He goes his way. We travel a spiral. The quickest way is sometimes the longest.

One good maxim to keep in mind, and I can't remember who said it, "You meet the same people on the way down that you meet on the way up, but you're going the other way."

Leadership is a journey. Each one of us has to take our own path, and get there our own way.

What makes me the happiest are the times I get together with my family, those times when I am with my children, grandchildren, my brothers and sisters and my very close friends, as well as when I am with my extended family in each one of my lectures and power journeys. My greatest joy is just to be alive!

Censoring what you say is one of the ways in which people who are not nice can take away your personal freedom.

Nobody’s journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It’s just life’s way of saying, ‘Time to change course.’

Taking delight in the journey takes confidence. It pushes the envelope of design.

We didnt come all this way for no two seats when all of us is tired.

I'm on a roller coaster that only goes up," he said. "And it is my privilege and my responsibility to ride all the way up with you," I said.