Langston Hughes Quotes

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

It's not getting from A to B. It's not the beginning or the destination that counts. It's the ride in between...This train is alive with things that should be seen and heard. It's a living, breathing something -- you just have to want to learn its rhythm.

I go too fast to see much, only the tops of everything. I've got to prowl slow some time through this country.

When someone seeks," said Siddhartha, "then it easily happens that his eyes see only the thing that he seeks, and he is able to find nothing, to take in nothing because he always thinks only about the thing he is seeking, because he has one goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: having a goal. But finding means: being free, being open, having no goal.

But I suppose there's a lot to see everywhere, if only you keep your eyes open.

If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.

'The Searcher,' as the title suggests, is about someone in search of something, and I have always loved quest stories and so was drawn to writing one myself.

If one does not search for things, how will he ever find anything?

There are so many amazing parts to life, so many amazing things to write about.

I'm talking about enjoying and finding pleasure and interest and happiness and curiosity every moment.

The Venturer is one who keeps his eye on the hedgerows and wayside groves and meadows while he travels the road to Fortune.

Travel is hard, but entertaining is joy.

Something that's very important is to preserve the sense of surprise, the sense of discovery. The eye of the person you are talking to, your shadow on the ground. It's important not to get suffocated by all the things in life and lose that sense of surprise.

When you have something to enjoy, it is important that you do.

I've discovered the joys of happiness.

Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.

There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something.

Observation is the most enduring of the pleasures of life.

We all look. The lucky find.

The old wanderlust had gotten into his blood, the joy of the unbound life, the joy of seeking, of hoping without limit.

Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.

We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.

Find what you want. I will find you.

It's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching and rarely discovered--so many locks not enough keys.

The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast, and you miss all you are traveling for.