Parker Palmer Quotes

The journeythe journey, I promise you, is the greatest thing ever. The destination always takes care of itself.

The journey is the treasure.

There's no destination. The journey is all that there is, and it can be very, very joyful.

There's no glory in climbing a mountain if all you want to do is to get to the top. It's experiencing the climb itself - in all its moments of revelation, heartbreak, and fatigue - that has to be the goal.

The longest journey begins with a single step, not with the turn of an ignition key. That’s the best thing about walking, the journey itself. It doesn’t much matter whether you get where you’re going or not. You’ll get there anyway. Every good hike brings you eventually back home. Right where you started.

Well, once you get the groove of your life and you sort out the aspects of your life that you prefer, and you’ve performed all your responsibilities as a father and as a partner. And just discovery and the great adventure of having eyes wide open. There’s so much of this beautiful planet that is still actually spectacular and stimulating. There are so many amazing people that you meet along the way. By using my career as the wind in the sails of my adventures, I could see so many things and so many people that I might have missed had my career gone a different direction.

True success is not a project but a journey.

Sometimes it's a little better to travel than to arrive

You'll learn more about a road by traveling it than by consulting all the maps in the world.

The traveler has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and one has to wander through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end.

A true journey, no matter how long the travel takes, has no end.

When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.

Why is every great children's story about a journey? Maybe that's because we are always on one.

I am happy to continue with my journey through time.

Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path.

I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance.

By not going to school I learned that the world is a beautiful place and needs to be discovered.

My whole life has been one of seeking experience.

One of my favourite kinds of movie is the American picaresque, in which the characters make their way across the country, learning about life against the gorgeous backdrops of that vast land.

Life drew me and I followed it.

You don't just have a story - you're a story in the making, and you never know what the next chapter's going to be. That's what makes it exciting.

We must get beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths... and tell the world the glories of our journey.

There are many spokes on the wheel of life. First, we're here to explore new possibilities.

I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

A life lived unexplored is a life not worth living.