
Source: Klairet Levy, R. Interview to José Baroja. http://letras.mysite.com/jbar050923.html
A collection of quotes on the topic of journey, life, use, time.
Source: Klairet Levy, R. Interview to José Baroja. http://letras.mysite.com/jbar050923.html
The Ten Trusts (2003), p. xv
A speech after Bryant's last game, 13 April 2016, posted on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eg0mxPXIpLY&t=5s.
“You must go on a long journey before you can really find out how wonderful home is.”
Source: Comet in Moominland
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
Laozi in the Tao Te Ching, Chapter 64
Misattributed, Chinese
Letter to Leopold Mozart (Mannheim, 2 February 1778), from The letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1769-1791, translated, from the collection of Ludwig Nohl, by Lady [Grace] Wallace (Oxford University Press, 1865, digitized 2006) vol. I, # 91 (p. 164) http://books.google.com/books?vid=0SGwLiCNxu7qZ5ch&id=KEgBAAAAQAAJ&printsec=titlepage&dq=%22The+letters+of+Wolfgang+Amadeus+Mozart,+1769-1791%22&hl=en#PRA1-PA164,M1
“Life is a journey, change takes courage, growth is constant; keep growing and you will succeed.”
Source: https://pin.it/6n49dqWQA
“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey”
Source: The Songlines
Babur writing about the battle against the Rajput Confederacy led by Maharana Sangram Singh of Mewar. In Babur-Nama, translated into English by A.S. Beveridge, New Delhi reprint, 1979, pp. 547-572.
Quoted in The Life of This World Is a Transient Shade by Abdul Malik Al-Qasim
Letter announcing Alzheimer's diagnosis http://www.nationalreview.com/document/reagan_sunset200406070915.asp (5 November 1994)
Post-presidency (1989–2004)
Context: In closing, let me thank you, the American people, for giving me the great honor of allowing me to serve as your president. When the Lord calls me home, whenever that day may be, I will leave with the greatest love for this country of ours and eternal optimism for its future. I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life. I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead. Thank you, my friends. May God always bless you.
Variant: Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!
Source: The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
“On the journey towards the beloved, you live by dying at every step”
Source: The Wasted Vigil
The Race of My Life: An Autobiography Milkha Singh (2013)
Song lyrics, Amarantine (2005)
Canto I, lines 1–3 (tr. Mandelbaum).
Longfellow's translation:
: Midway upon the journey of our life
I found myself within a forest dark,
For the straight-forward pathway had been lost.
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno
“I have lived
and journeyed through the course assigned by fortune.
And now my Shade will pass, illustrious,
beneath the earth.”
Vixi, et, quem dederat cursum Fortuna, peregi;
Et nunc magna mei sub terras ibit Imago.
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book IV, Lines 653–654 (tr. Allen Mandelbaum)
“There is power in understanding the journey of others to help create your own.”
Context: PIPPIN: I didn't think it would end this way.
GANDALF: End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it.
PIPPIN: What? Gandalf? See what?
GANDALF: White shores, and beyond, a far green country under a swift sunrise.
PIPPIN: Well, that isn't so bad.
GANDALF: No. No, it isn't.
“There is only one journey. Going inside yourself.”
“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.”
The Legend of the Baal-Shem (1955),1995 edition, p. 36
“I love the way that each book—any book—is its own journey. You open it, and off you go….”
“There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.”
“The journey is what brings us happiness not the destination.”
Source: Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives
Source: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, The Dragonbone Chair (1988), Chapter 42, “Beneath the Uduntree” (p. 718).
Context: “Never make your home in a place,” the old man had said, too lazy in the spring warmth to do more than wag a finger. “Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You’ll find what you need to furnish it—memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things.” Morgenes had grinned. “That way it will go with you wherever you journey. You’ll never lack for a home—unless you lose your head, of course...”
“Without music and dance, life is a journey through a desert.”
“Journeys end in lovers meeting.”
Variant: Journeys end in lovers meeting,
Every wise man's son doth know.
Source: Twelfth Night
To Secretary of State Sir John Coke, cited by John D. Krugler in English & Catholic: The Lords Baltimore in the Seventeenth Century (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 16 August 2004).
“Will you please go journeying
for your own sake,
till I come living a moment of life?”
<span class="plainlinks"> Entanglements http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1zl7d1</span>
From Poetry
Cited in: " Andy Grove Tells The Truth About What Great Leaders Do http://bobsutton.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/03/andy_grove_tell.html." bobsutton.typepad.com/my weblog. by Bob Sutton, March 11, 2007.
New millennium, Harvard Business School Press conference, 2002
Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p.22
Source: Auguste Rodin: The Man, His Ideas, His Works, 1905, p. 65
2009, First Inaugural Address (January 2009)
Source: Quest for Truth (1999), pp.32-33.
Letter to Clark Ashton Smith (7 November 1930), in Selected Letters III, 1929-1931 edited by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei, p. 214
Non-Fiction, Letters
2015, Commemoration of the 150th Anniversary of the 13th Amendment (December 2015)
Cate Blanchett, The Missing interview, BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2004/02/16/cate_blanchett_the_missing_interview.shtml,
Text of a letter written following his Hajj (1964)
The House of Sixty Fathers (1956)
Sick on a journey –
over parched fields
dreams wander on.
Basho, On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho, London, 1985, p. 81 (Translation: Lucien Stryk)
Travelling, sick
My dreams roam
On a withered moor.
(Unknown translator)
Individual poems
Remarks by the President at LBJ Presidential Library Civil Rights Summit at Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library in Austin, Texas on April 10, 2014. http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/04/10/remarks-president-lbj-presidential-library-civil-rights-summit
2014
Barack Obama’s Remarks in St. Paul http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/03/us/politics/03text-obama.html (3 June 2008)
2008
Robert Burns Woodward, "Art and Science in the Synthesis of Organic Compounds: Retrospect and Prospect," in Pointers and Pathways in Research (Bombay:CIBA of India, 1963).
Speech about the Space Shuttle disaster http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1986/12886b.htm(28 January 1986)
1980s, Second term of office (1985–1989)
Thomas J. Sargent, in Conversations with Economists (1983) by Arjo Klamer
2015, Supreme Court Decision on Marriage Equality (June 2015)
To A Young Beauty http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1728/, st. 3
The Wild Swans at Coole (1919)
"Q & A : Barack Obama" http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2008/januaryweb-only/104-32.0.html?start=1 Interview in Christianity Today (22 January 2008)
2008