Journey of Life Quotes

The story of my recent life.' I like that phrase. It makes more sense than 'the story of my life', because we get so many lives between birth and death. A life to be a child. A life to come of age. A life to wander, to settle, to fall in love, to parent, to test our promise, to realize our mortality- and in some lucky cases, to do something after that realization.

Life is like a book that never ends. Chapters close, but not the book itself.

Life is a predicament which precedes death.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I can rest only for a moment, for with freedom come responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not yet ended.

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

Life is apogee, apex, decline; life is death - and everything else is open to discussion.

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

It’s better to think of my life like that— part miracle, part madness. It’s better if I accept that I can’t control any of the things that matter. My life is a trail of shipwrecks and set-sails. There are no arrivals, no destinations; there are only sandbanks and shipwreck; then another boat, another tide.

Man no longer lives in the beginning--he has lost the beginning. Now he finds he is in the middle, knowing neither the end nor the beginning, and yet knowing that he is in the middle, coming from the beginning and going towards the end. He sees that his life is determined by these two facets, of which he knows only that he does not know them

There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.

Metaphorically speaking, it's easy to bump into one another on the journey from A to B and not even notice. People should take time to notice, enjoy and help each other.

Fate is like a train. When it flies past, you can choose if you want to get on it or not, to say no or say yes.

Life is a train ride, and at the many stations along the route, people important to us debark, never to get aboard again, until by the end of the journey, we sit in a passenger car where most of the seats are empty.

Aim for the sky, but move slowly, enjoying every step along the way. It is all those little steps that make the journey complete.

I'll never reach my destination, If I never try, So I will sail my vessel, 'Til the river runs dry.

In reality, we are all travelers - even explorers of mortality.

Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we have learned to walk.

I always liken life to a book where you turn the pages one at a time.

Valuing the road over the goal was a Taoist goal in itself.

Living a life is much like climbing mountains-the summits are always further off than you think, but when a man has a goal, he always feels he's working toward something.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Life is a slope. As long as you're going up you're always looking towards the top and you feel happy, but when you reach it, suddenly you can see the road going downhill and death at the end of it all. It's slow going up and quick going down.

Life is the train and not the station.

Create the way by your walking; you will not find a ready-made path

Everyone has their own journey. I am very grateful for where I am.