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"A tree that can fill the span of a man's arms grows from a downy tip; A terrace nine stories high rises from level earth; A journey of a thousand miles starts from beneath one's feet."
"Living your best life is your most important journey in life."
"Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end."
"The farther the outward journey takes you, the deeper the inward journey must be."
"It is a great art to saunter !"
"A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us."
"If we restructure things to see that the hero's journey is a degree in astrophysics rather than a journey to star in a reality show, that's a better world."
"An entrepreneur's life is always a continuous journey."
"All through school, I was losing hundreds of pounds in school, so that's a journey - that's an old journey. I'm tired of that. I know that road."
"The journey with a 1000 miles begins with one step."
"[There are] seven gifts God gives you when you commit your life to Christ: a new relationship, a new citizenship, a new family, a new purpose, a new power, a new destiny, and a new journey."
"When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment."
"The journey toward self-discovery is life's greatest adventure."
"...who can say where a voyage starts - not the the actual passage but the dream of a journey and its urge to find a way?"
"The human soul is on its journey from the law to love, from discipline to liberation, from the moral plane to the spiritual."
"So coming back from a journey, or after an illness, before habits had spun themselves across the surface, one felt that same unreality, which was so startling; felt something emerge. Life was most vivid then."
"Everyday I am reminded that our life's journey is really about the people that touch us."
"You are an individual, and you came here on your own as a child, and you will die on your own. The fact that you may live in a community or with your family does not change the solitude of your spiritual journey. By cluttering your life with many things, you soon lose sight of who you are and what you came for."
"Keeping our eyes on journey's end is what we need - the place where we see at last the world that is greater than the world, the new creation that cannot be contained in present thought or social order or piety."
"Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it."
