"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.’"
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"Even without comparing ourselves to the world's greatest, we set such high standards for ourselves that neither we nor anyone else could ever meet them-and nothing is more destructive to creativity than this. We fail to realize that mastery is not about perfection. It's about a process, a journey. The master is the one who stays on the path day after day, year after year. The master is the one who is willing to try, and fail, and try again, for as long as he or she lives."
"But it's a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can tell you things, you have to go out there and make your own mistakes in order to learn."
"It's important, when going after a goal, to never lose sight of the integrity of the journey."
"Of all exercises, walking is the best."
"And that is why the man who wants to see clearly, before he will believe, never starts on the journey."
"I can only be the best version of myself and understand that the only way that we as a people can heal is to understand that the next person's journey may not be your own, but it doesn't mean that you have to marginalize them in any way."
"We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour."
"Luck is very important. Of course you can't wait for luck, because it won't come. While you start a journey, luck may eventually come to you."
"For, as I think I have said, I can only meditate when I am walking. When I stop I cease to think; my mind only works with my legs."
"My fellow Americans, let us take that first step. Let us...step back from the shadow of war and seek out the way of peace. And if that journey is a thousand miles, or even more, let history record that we, in this land, at this time, took the first step."
"Some journeys take us far from home. Some adventures lead us to our destiny."
"We are kindred all of us, killer and victim, predator and prey, me and the sly coyote, the soaring buzzard, the elegant gopher snake, and trembling cottontail, the foul worms that feed on our entrails; all of them, all of us. Long live diversity, long live the earth!"
"No wonder we cannot appreciate the really central Kafka joke: that the horrific struggle to establish a human self results in a self whose humanity is inseparable from the horrific struggle. That our endless and impossible journey toward home is in fact our home."
"Success is not arriving at the summit of a mountain as a final destination. It is a continuing upward spiral of progress. It is perpetual growth."
"If life's journey be endless where is its goal? The answer is, it is everywhere. We are in a palace which has no end, but which we have reached. By exploring it and extending our relationship with it we are ever making it more and more our own."
"Meditation is a journey without movement. In the external world you have to move in order to go ahead, in meditation you don't move, yet you attain."
"I look at my cancer journey as a gift: It made me slow down and realisethe important things in life and taught me to not sweat the small stuff."
"Your journey begins with a choice to get up, step out, and live fully"
"Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased."