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77 Beautiful Journey Quotes & Captions To Inspire An Inner Awakening

Searching for some words to accompany your own journey? I’ve compiled the best list out there of the most beautiful journey quotes to inspire and uplift you…

Maybe the most famous quote about journeys that millions across the globe know is from Lao Tzu.  The ancient Chinese philosopher once said, “a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” And since then, adventurers, journeyers and wanderers have passed on their own journey inspiration. 

Whether your journey is a metaphorical or literal one, you will love my list of the best journey quotes that are guaranteed to lift you up and propel you forward. 

These are the 77 best journey quotes.

The Best Journey Quotes 

You may recognize a number of these quotes about journeys, as they come from the minds of some of the greatest individuals throughout history. These writers, leaders, musicians and adventurers understand the power of a life changing journey. 

1) “If you can’t fly, then run, if you can’t walk run, then walk, if you can’t walk, then crawl, but by all means keep moving.” – Martin Luther King Jr. 

2) “the road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination.” –  don williams, jr., 3) “the best part of life is to decide to make the journey through life like a best selling book. tell a fantastic story when you are ready to tell others how you did it. make sure life the best story ever written through a journey filled with overcoming obstacles, taking risks, and continuing to develop.” – catherine pulsifer, 4) “we are travelers on a cosmic journey, stardust, swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. life is eternal. we have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share. this is a precious moment. it is a little parenthesis in eternity.” – paulo coelho.

5) “If ever there was a metaphor to illustrate the importance of the journey over the destination, it is life itself. For everyone who departs from birth is destined for death, so the journey IS life. Savor it!” – Michele Jennae

6) “life is a journey, and if you fall in love with the journey, you will be in love forever.” – peter hagerty, 7) “the secret of getting ahead is getting started. the secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.” – mark twain, 8) “it is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” – ernest hemingway.

9) “To finish the moment, to find the journey’s end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

10) “our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. but no matter, the road is life.”  ― jack kerouac, 11) “in order to complete our amazing life journey successfully, it is vital that we turn each and every dark tear into a pearl of wisdom, and find the blessing in every curse.” – anthon st. maarten, 12) “this thing we call life is not a destination with an end but a path down which we continue to journey as long as we can breath. life is to be lived not squandered or to give away waiting for the end to close upon us.” – byron pulsifer.

13) “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds that you plant.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

14) “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”” – hunter s. thompson, 15) “sooner or later we must realize there is no station, no one place to arrive at once and for all. the true joy of life is the trip.” — robert j. hastings.

Short Journey Quotes 

Quotes don’t have to be lengthy to capture the spirit of what they are trying to convey. These short journey quotes say so much with so little words. 

16) “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu

17) “learn to trust the journey, even when you do not understand it.” – lolly daskal, 18) “a journey is time suspended.” –  louis l’amour, 19) “take voyages. attempt them. there’s nothing else.” ― tennessee williams.

20) “I’m an idealist. I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way.”  — Carl Sandburg

21) “stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey.” – fitzhugh mullan, 22) “life’s a journey, not a race.” – unknown, 23) “life is a journey. when we stop, things don’t go right.” – pope francis.

24) “It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.” ― Ursula K. Le Guin

25) “you must remain focused on your journey to greatness.” – les brown, 26) “i tramp a perpetual journey.” ― walt whitman, 27) “the real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – marcel proust.

28) “It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln 

29) “life is about waking up. it is a journey of discovery and you’ve already bought the ticket and are sitting on the train.” – michael sheridan,, 30) “the only impossible journey is the one you never begin.” – tony robbins, 31) “without music, life is a journey through a desert.” – pat conroy.

32) “What you learn in tough times can be used in many ways to bless your personal life journey.” – Scott Gordon

33) “accomplishments will prove to be a journey, not a destination.” – dwight d. eisenhower.

Inspiring Journey Quotes  

Searching for the courage to take the first steps on your own journey? These inspiring journey quotes will light a fire under you, guaranteed to give you the courage you seek.

34) “I discovered that a fresh start is a process. A fresh start is a journey – a journey that requires a plan.” – Vivian Jokotade

35) “if you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.” – unknown, 36) “you don’t have to understand my journey. you just need to respect it.” – izey victoria odiase, 37) “when setting out on a journey do not seek advice from someone who never left home.” – rumi, 38) “to get through the hardest journey we need take only one step at a time, but we must keep on stepping.” – chinese proverb, 39) “you have learned a lot, but there are still lots of learning for you as you journey through life. never stop learning.” – kate summers, 40) “when you’re on a journey and you come to a wall, always throw your pack over first, because then you will be sure to follow.” – yongey mingyur rinpoche, 41) “ big things have small beginnings.” – prometheus.

42) “Life is a journey that have a lot different paths, but any path you choose use it as your destiny.” ― Ryan Leonard

43) “this is your journey, your body, your mind, and your spirit. dig deep, own it, and start doing things for you and by you.” – unknown author, 44) “as you journey down the path, don’t forget to be present moment-by-moment and absorb the beauty and richness of simply being alive.” – cary david richards, 45) “life is a journey of either fate or destiny. fate is the result of giving in to one’s wounds and heartaches. your destiny unfolds when you rise above the challenges of your life and use them as divine opportunities to move forward to unlock your higher potential.” – caroline myss.

46) “Temporary setbacks create opportunities for fresh commitment and renewal. There are seasons of sunshine as well as rain.” – T. D. Jakes,

47) “i believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.” – les brown, 48) “to find your confidence, get out of your comfort zone, overcome your fears, and begin the journey to discover and accomplish what you want to do with your life.” – doretha dingler.

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49) “Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.” – Izaak Walton

50) “always say yes to new adventures.”, 51) “it is better to travel well than to arrive.” –  arthur c. custance, 52) “always take the scenic route.”.

53) “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.”

54) “don’t listen to what they say, go and see it for yourself.”, 55) “what’s on my bucket list everywhere.”, 56) “on a hard jungle journey, nothing is so important as having a team you can trust.” – tahir shah.

57) “Travel not to find yourself, but to remember where you have been all long.”

58) “don’t spend your money on things. spend it on experiences”, 59) “leap and the net will appear.” – zen proverb, 60) “all journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” ― martin buber, 61) “life is journey, travel it well.” – unknown.

Funny Journey Quotes 

These funny quotes about journeys are short, punchy and shine a humorous light on some of the many obstacles a journey may come up against. 

62) “Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.” – Confucius

63) “me: “i want to travel more”, the bank account: “”like, to the park”, 64) “i have panicked unnecessarily in all four corners of the globe.” – jon ronson, 65) “good things come to those, who book flights.”.

66) “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” –  John Steinbeck

67) “i crossed a time zone and i feel younger already. if i keep traveling west, i can become immortal” – jarod kintz, 68) “sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.” – jerry seinfeld.

Celebrity Journey Quotes 

Actors, entrepreneurs, musicians and more are the minds behind these poignant celebrity journey quotes that are sure to inspire and make you smile. 

69) “The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance, and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning.” – Oprah Winfrey

70) “sometimes it’s the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination.” – drake, 71) “you can handle just about anything that comes at you out on the road with a believable grin, common sense and whiskey.”– bill murray, 72) “you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. so you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. you have to trust in something; your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. this approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.” – steve jobs.

73) “The main thing that you have to remember on this journey is, just be Nice to everyone and always smile.” – Ed Sheeran

74) “you take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are.” – joss whedon, 75) “if all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.” – dan rather, 76. “every day is a new journey for me, and i feel like, in my lifetime, i’ve been blessed to experience such a lot.” – bindi irwin, 77) “not everyone will understand your journey. that’s okay. you’re here to live your life, not to make everyone understand.” – banksy.

Did I miss any great journey quotes?

Is there a journey quote I missed off my list that is one of your personal faves and that you want to share? Reach out to me with the quote, and I’ll see if I can add it to the my list of the best quotes about journeys!

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100 Powerful and Inspirational Life Path Quotes

By: Author Michelle Ioannou

Posted on Last updated: October 22, 2023

Categories Self Development

Sometimes life can get you down. It can be confusing and challenging beyond belief. These inspirational life path quotes will comfort you.

Sometimes we just feel loss. Whether we recently lost our jobs, sufferered a bad breakup, or feel like all our peers are progressing quicker than we are – those feelings are there. There are times in life we all get that feeling that we don’t really know who we are, what we want, or where we want to go in the future.

Some people believe in the Numerology Life Path Number. As we’ve shared before, this is a combination formula that uses your birth date to place you on a numerology chart. That then gives you a life path number, which is a single digit number. This number then has a special meaning, and can show you a lot about yourself, your personality, and help guide you to the path you should take.

At the very least, you should give the Numerology Life Path Number a try. What do you have to lose? If that still doesn’t work – or if you’re just super wear about it – there are still some things you can do when you’re feeling a bit lost about things.

Confide in a close friend. Take time for yourself each day. Read inspiration life path quotes to help you get set on your journey, and to remind you that you’re not alone. Here are some great ones.

100 Inspirational Life Path Quotes to Learn From

“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.” – Gautama Buddha

“On this path let the heart be your guide.” – Rumi

“As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.” – Rumi 

“Only by perfect virtue can the perfect path, in all its courses, be made a fact.” – Confucius

“Curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.” – Walt Disney

“It’s the circle of life, and it moves us all, through despair and hope, through faith and love, ’till we find our place, on the path unwinding.” – Elton John

“The Lion King” does really teach us a lot about finding our own paths. Just look at Simba. He chose, when Nala found him again, to take the path to being King. It would’ve been a much easier path if he just stayed where he was, but that’s not the one he chose.

“Sometimes the right path is not the easiest one.” – Pocahontas

“The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it.” – J. M. Barrie, “Peter Pan”

You need to believe in yourself, always. Be your own biggest fan. If you believe in yourself, and the path you’re taking, you’re already doing great.

“If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.” – Dolly Parton

“I don’t know what my path is yet. I’m just walking on it.” – Olivia Newton-John

“If you’re walking the path of the dreamer, everything is possible.” – Jared Leto

“Everything you want to be, you already are. You’re simply on the path to discovering it.” – Alicia Keys

“ Don’t be scared to walk alone. Don’t be scared to like it.” – John Mayer

“ I guess destiny isn’t the path chosen for us, but the path we chose for ourselves.” – Will Ferrell

“Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.” – George Lucas

“If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.” – Dan Rather

“Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.” – Oprah Winfrey

Instead of being overwhelmed or scared of choosing our own path, we should switch that perspective and be grateful that we have the opportunity to do so.

“Nothing will work unless you do.” – Maya Angelou

“Life is a journey. When we stop, things don’t go right.” – Pop Francis

“If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.” – Barack Obama

“The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.” – John F. Kennedy

There is another path there – don’t just give up. Take a new path instead.

“Whatever obstacles appear in your path, put your head down and get past them. Those obstacles aren’t real. They’re just God’s way of testing you. He’s asking you, ‘Do you want to make it or not?’” – Russell Simmons

“Go now. Our journey is done. And may we meet again, in the clearing, at the end of the path.” – Stephen King

“Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.” – Helen Keller

“ You got to go down a lot of wrong roads to find the right one.” – Bob Parsons

Don’t be afraid of making mistakes. Don’t be afraid of trying new things. Don’t be afraid of taking a different path than you expected it. It will all lead you to the right path.

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Unless you dream, you’re not going to achieve anything.” – Richard Branson

 “I love walking in the woods, on the trails, along the beaches. I love being part of nature. I love walking alone. It is therapy. One needs to be alone, to recharge one’s batteries.” – Grace Kelly

“Sometimes God will place a wall on your path to force you to go in another direction.” ― Suzy Kassem

“ Paths that cross will cross again.” – Patti Smith

Don’t dwell on a path that crossed in the past but no longer does. If it’s meant to be, they’ll cross again.

“In a forest of a hundred thousand trees, no two leaves are alike. And no two journeys along the same path are alike.” – Paulo Coelho

“Choosing a path means having to miss out on others.” – Paulo Coelho

Yes, FOMO is part of choosing a path. You shouldn’t be on two paths at once. That means there are going to be things you are going to miss. But trust you’re on the right path, see your goal in mind, and listen to your gut.

“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu

“Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise.” – Alice Walker

“Don’t follow the path. Blaze the trail.” – Jordan Belfort

“In life, one has a choice to take one of two paths: to wait for some special day-or to celebrate each special day.” – Rasheed Ogunlaru

“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” – Maria Robinson

“Never be afraid to tread the path alone. Know which is your path and follow it wherever it may lead you; do not feel you have to follow in someone else’s footsteps.” – Eileen Caddy

“If you ask the Universe to be your partner and guide you on the path to wholeness, it will oblige.” – Debbie Ford

“Reality is harsh. It can be cruel and ugly. Yet no matter how much we grieve over our environment and circumstances nothing will change. What is important is not to be defeated, to forge ahead bravely. If we do this, a path will open before us.” ~ Daisaku Ikeda

“In life, one has a choice to take one of two paths: to wait for some special day or to celebrate each special day.” – Rasheed Ogunlaru

“The obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.” – Ryan Holiday

“Our way is not soft grass, it’s a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upwards, forward, toward the sun.” – Ruth Westheimer

“ There are many trails up the mountain, but in time they all reach the top.” – Anya Seton

“Over every mountain, there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.” – Theodore Roethke

Think about a mountain – you can’t see what’s on the other side. But you know there’s some sort of path on the other side of the mountain, even though you can’t see it just now. Just because you can’t see it doesn’t mean it’s not real.

“But remember, nothing comes without a price. Our paths are not mapped; they’re made.” – Priya Ardis

“Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.” – Erol Ozan

“Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.” – Sarah Ban Breathnach

“Often what may appear as a detour in life is actually the most direct and empowering path to your destination.” – James Arthur Ray

“There is no path to Happiness. Happiness is the path. There is no path to Love. Love is the path. There is no path to Peace. Peace is the path.” – Dan Millman

“I don’t always know where this life is going. i can’t see the end of the road, but here is the great part: courage is not about knowing the path. It is about taking the first step.” – Katie Davis

“Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process.” – Anne Wilson Schaef

“If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place.” – Nora Roberts

“Your path and purpose will become crystal clear when you begin to trust your vision.” – Bill Walsh

Trusting in yourself is so powerful, remember that. Trust your gut, trust your mind, and trust your heart. Don’t let skepticism from others cause you to not listen to yourself.

“Just because someone stumbles and loses their path, doesn’t mean they’re lost forever.” – Charles Xavier

“Chances are, if you are following the crowd, you’re following the wrong path.” – Bob Proctor

“Remember when life’s path is steep to keep your mind even.” – Horace

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” – Kierkegaard

You won’t really understand your path until you’re on it and at the end of it. Try not to question too many things while you’re on it. Like they say, hindsight’s 20/20 and that’s the same for your life path. It may not be clear now, but it will be!

“If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.” – Joseph Campbell

“A year from now you may wish you had started today.”– Karen Lamb

It’s so true – a year goes by faster than you may even realize! And if you started today, a year from now you’ll be well on the right path.

“Follow your own path, no matter what people say.” – Karl Marx

“ Wisdom is knowing the right path to take. Integrity is taking it.” – M.H. McKee

“Sometimes we can choose the paths we follow. Sometimes our choices are made for us. And sometimes we have no choice at all.” – Neil Gaiman

There is no recipe or one-size-fits-all solution when it comes to finding your path. Everyone has their own path and it’s shown to them differently.

“There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.” – Gavriel Kay

“When the path reveals itself, follow it.”– Cheryl Strayed

“Happiness, success, excellence: They are not something you get for knowing the path; they are something you experience by walking it.” – Dr. Steve Mataboli

“ To be lost is as legitimate a part of your process as being found.” – Alex Ebert  

“It is not too late to take another path.” – David Suzuki

If you’re thinking you’re already too far deep into another path or that opportunity has already passed you by – it hasn’t! You can always get on a new path. It just involves taking some risk and stepping out of your comfort zone.

“Most people are searching for a path to success that is both easy and certain. Most paths are neither.” – Seth Godin

“ No, sometimes life beats you down. Sometimes life deserts you, and your only choice is to find another path.” – Rebekah Crane

There is always another path. You may not think there is, but there is.

“ There are two paths of which one may choose in the walk of life; one we are born with, and the one we consciously blaze.” – T.F. Hodge

“If you’re not excited about it, it’s not the right path.” – Abraham Hicks

“Take the path where no one else dares to.” – Tina Panossian

“If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.” – Anatole France

If you’re happy, don’t question it, just enjoy it.

“The only things I regret, and the only things I’ll ever regret are things I didn’t do. In the end, that’s what we mourn. The paths we didn’t take. The people we didn’t touch.” – Scott Spencer

“Life teaches us the right path is rarely the easy one.” – Roy T. Bennett

“It’s better to walk alone, than with a crowd going in the wrong direction.” – Diane Grant

Don’t fall into peer pressure and end up on a path that’s not for you! Just because everyone else is doing it doesn’t mean you have to. If your gut tells you something’s up, listen to it. Or if you want to try something else and go a different route, don’t be worried about not following everyone else.

“ It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It’s also a very clear path to happiness.” – Sheryl Sandberg

“ Pay attention to the things you are naturally drawn to. They are often connected to your path, passion, and purpose in life. Have the courage to follow them.” – Ruben Chavez

If you’re having a hard time figuring out what path you should be on, pay attention to what makes you happy. Your path will have obstacles, but it should lead you to happiness. Pay attention to what makes you happy and set yourself up on a path towards that.

“A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one’s own path, not chasing after the dreams of others.” – Chin-Ning Chu

“Walking your path doesn’t mean you don’t hurt, it means the pain is worth the progress. Sometimes you have to break something down in order to remake it, and that includes yourself, or it did for me. There were moments when I wept for an easier road, but in the end I would not trade my path for anyone else’s. It is mine and the traveling of it has made me who I am, and continues to shape and remold me into the best, happiest, most productive, most playful me, I’ve ever been.” – Laurell K. Hamilton

“How others treat me is their path; how I react is mine.” – Wayne Dyer

“With everything that has happened to you, you can either f eel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.” – Wayne Dyer

“The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.” – Tony Robbins

“The path to success is to take massive, determined action.” – Tony Robbins

“When you’re feeling lost, take heart. It’s just your brain gathering the information it needs to make good decisions.” – Josh Kaufman

“ Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?” – Garth Nix

“A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” – John A. Shedd

Just like a ship is built for sailing, we are built to take risks, and journey on our life paths.

“ One can rarely achieve greatness on the path of least resistance.” – Wes Fesler

“ Most often, walking alone with my shadow is how I find my answer, the result of gathering together all agreeable parties.” – Robert Breault

You are not going to agree with everyone. But you need to agree with yourself and trust yourself on your path.

“I believe we all create our paths before we are born to each lifetime, in partnership with a higher presence, the Source. I also believe, once born, we are given the highest gift of free will. Intuition is our link between our chosen journey on our life path and our earthly choices using free will.” – Christine Whelan

“ Even though the path is dark there is always a way through.” – Rhonda Savage Thompson

Think of physical paths – just because it’s nighttime or dark, the path is still there, leading to an exit. Just because things seem dark around you right now doesn’t mean that the path leading to an exit isn’t there – it is, and at times like those, you need to especially remember that.

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Watch your step.” – Thomas S. Monson

“No matter what your age or your life path, whether making art is your career or your hobby or your dream, it is not too late or too egotistical or too selfish or too silly to work on your creativity.” – Julia Cameron

“A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.” – Jean de La Fontaine

“Younger people are younger a little longer these days, so we know a lot of 32-year-olds who are still quite young, haven’t quite gotten their life paths completely decided yet.” – Daniel Palladino

“It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” – Ursula K. Le Guin

“I think we live in a unique time – the verbs that make up our online and mobile lives haven’t been completely invented or imagined for us. That was kind of a life path I was on.” – Mark Pincus

Nowadays we have so many resources available to us. We can figure out anything with the touch of a button. It can be overwhelming, but we should also use it to our advantage, to help us on our paths.

“ There is only one path to Heaven. On Earth, we call it Love.” – Henry David Thoreau

Final Thoughts on Inspirational Life Path Quotes

In numerology, your life path number can tell you a lot about the direction of your life, your strengths, your weaknesses, and how you approach things. Of course, this is not the be all end all of anything, but keeping it in mind can give you interesting insight into your best path. Remember, small steps can lead to big changes in this journey of life. You are not alone if you don’t have it all figured out.

We hope these inspirational life path quotes inspire you to be true to yourself. Leave your favorite quote in the comments!

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51 Meaningful Quotes About How Life is a Journey

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They say that life is about the journey and not the destination. But what does that really mean?

You’ve probably heard this line a million times before, but maybe you couldn’t quite understand what it was trying to illustrate. 

The most successful people will tell you that the process of accomplishing something is far more valuable than the end result. You learn much more from all of your experiences and encounters than you do from arriving at the destination.

Ultimately, the process is the greatest reward. The sweetest moments come when you realize that you have attained the final goal because of everything you have experienced.

You look back on the mistakes, the challenges, and everything you had to endure—but you also celebrate the fact that you faced your problems head-on. Your journey through life is what makes you human.

In this article, we share with you a list of quotes about how life is a journey . We hope that, through these words, you’ll be able to enjoy everything that life has to offer. Even more so, we hope that they will inspire you to live a more meaningful and happier life .

But before we check out our list, let’s discuss how reading these quotes can get you motivated.

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Why Read Quotes About How Life Is a Journey?

Reading these quotes can inspire you to live a better and more fulfilling life.

They are, after all, from people who have found their journeys through life enjoyable and gratifying. There’s no better way to motivate yourself than to get inspiration from people who have already lived wonderful lives.

In the same vein, these quotes can help you appreciate the gift of life. They help you realize that you only live once, so you must relish the moments you have been given.

Finally, reading these quotes can encourage you to share your life with others. You will realize that, in order to be able to live your life to the fullest, you need someone to share both your joys and sorrows with. You require companions to fully live in the moment .

Now that you know why it’s important to read journey quotes, let us check out our list!

Meaningful Life is a Journey Quotes

• “If you can’t fly, then run. If you can’t run, then walk. If you can’t walk, then crawl. But by all means, keep moving.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
• “Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• “The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.” – Tony Robbins
• “The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance, and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning.” – Oprah Winfrey
• “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds that you plant.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
• “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.” – Heraclitus
• “Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know. Perhaps it is everywhere – on water and land.” – Walt Whitman
• “The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that.” – Norton Juster
• “The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday.” – Steve Maraboli

• “Some beautiful paths can't be discovered without getting lost.” – Erol Ozan
• “For me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn’t end.” – Michelle Obama
• “I am no longer afraid of becoming lost because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist.” – Billy Joel
• “Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.” – Pat Conroy
• “Never stop just because you feel defeated. The journey to the other side is attainable only after great suffering.” – Santosh Kalwar
• “There is a strange comfort in knowing that no matter what happens today, the Sun will rise again tomorrow.” – Aaron Lauritsen
• “Sometimes it’s the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination.” – Drake
• “ Transformation is a process , and as life happens there are tons of ups and downs. It’s a journey of discovery – there are moments on mountaintops and moments in deep valleys of despair.” – Rick Warren
• “The journey is never-ending. There’s always gonna be growth, improvement, and adversity; you just gotta take it all in and do what’s right, continue to grow, continue to live in the moment.” – Antonio Brown
• “Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.” – Greg Anderson
• “On your journey, don’t forget to smell the flowers. Take time out to notice that you are alive. You can only live one day.” – Ray Fearon

• “If my ship sails from sight, it doesn’t mean my journey ends. It simply means the river bends.” – Enoch Powell
• “It’s not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place because it frees you.” – Tyler Perry
• “Aim for the sky, but move slowly, enjoying every step along the way. It is all those little steps that make the journey complete.” – Chanda Kochhar
• “Sometimes we make the process more complicated than we need to. We will never make a journey of a thousand miles by fretting about how long it will take or how hard it will be. We make the journey by taking each day step by step and then repeating it again and again until we reach our destination.” – Joseph B. Wirthlin
• “Your journey never ends. Life has a way of changing things in incredible ways.” – Alexander Volkov
• “Each one of us has our own evolution of life, and each one of us goes through different tests which are unique and challenging. But certain things are common. And we do learn things from each other's experiences. On a spiritual journey, we all have the same destination.” – A. R. Rahman
• “Going by my past journey, I am not certain where life will take me, what turns and twists will happen; nobody knows where they will end up. As life changes direction, I'll flow with it.” – Katrina Kaif
• “Enjoy the journey and try to get better every day. And don't lose the passion and the love for what you do.” – Nadia Comaneci

• “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.” – Emma Watson
• “The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.” – Wally Lamb
• “Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.” – Oliver Goldsmith
• “The Sun will rise and set regardless. What we choose to do with the light while it's here is up to us. Journey wisely.” – Alexandra Elle
• “We may run, walk, stumble. drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.” – Gloria Gaither
• “Whole life is a search for beauty. But, when the beauty is found inside, the search ends and a beautiful journey begins.” – Harshit Walia
• “Not everyone will understand your journey. That's okay. You're here to live your life, not to make everyone understand .” – Banksy
• “I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.” – Les Brown
• “It was being a runner that mattered, not how fast or how far I could run. The joy was in the act of running and in the journey, not in the destination.” – John Bingham
• “As you journey down the path, don't forget to be present moment-by-moment and absorb the beauty and richness of simply being alive.” – Cary David Richards
• “If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.” – Dan Rather

• “Life is a journey of either Fate or Destiny. Fate is the result of giving in to one's wounds and heartaches. Your Destiny unfolds when you rise above the challenges of your life and use them as Divine opportunities to move forward to unlock your higher potential.” – Caroline Myss
• “I know it can be tough to imagine how to get from where you are today to where you want to be tomorrow. But I’m here to tell you that change is possible if you enter into this journey with your eyes wide open, and with real intention.” – David Hauser
• “Part of the challenge that comes with striving for success is how the entire journey comes with its own fair share of failures and disappointments.” – Rupert Johnson
• “The only thing that is ultimately real about your journey is the step that you are taking at this moment. That's all there ever is.” – Alan Watts
• “Life is a journey and it's about growing and changing and coming to terms with who and what you are and loving who and what you are.” – Kelly McGillis
• “Time is a companion that goes with us on a journey. It reminds us to cherish each moment because it will never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we have lived.” – Captain Jean-Luc Picard
• “I just constantly tell myself that I should be the only one to define my worth and what I'm capable of and how I perceive myself. And that I should never source that worth from other people, especially strangers on social media. They don't know who I am, the length of my journey, who I am as a person.” – Catriona Gray
• “ You have learned a lot, but there are still lots of learning for you as you journey through life. Never stop learning.” – Kate Summers

• “One of the most important things that I have learned in my 57 years is that life is all about choices. On every journey you take, you face choices. At every fork in the road, you make a choice. And it is those decisions that shape our lives.” – Mike DeWine
• “I'm different than most people. When I cross the finish line of a big race, I see that people are ecstatic, but I'm thinking about what I'm going to do tomorrow. It's as if my journey is everlasting, and there is no finish line.” – David Goggins
• “The journey matters as much as the destination. By engaging at the moment on set, I've stopped rushing and now find pleasure in the collaborative process – the characters, the costumes – rather than worrying about the finished product.” – Michelle Dockery
• “It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.” – Mariska Hargitay

Final Thoughts on Life & Journey

Life is a journey, and we all take different paths.

There are those who take the road less traveled and enjoy unique accomplishments, while others go with the crowd but still end up loving the lives they’ve chosen as well. Regardless of our choices, we will all have the potential to become successful in the ways we personally define success.

We hope that these quotes inspired you to enjoy your life’s journey and make it more meaningful. Enjoy the moment and live happy!

And if you want more inspirational quotes, be sure to check out these blog posts:

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Finally, if you want to use these quotes to make a lasting change to your life, then check out and recite these 57 affirmations for success .

Life is a journey (quotes)

Life is a journey.

• Living life is a participatory art. A path. A journey that begins with you. Gil Fronsdal
• Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home. Bashô
• The journey is the reward. Taoist saying
• The journey is the treasure. Lloyd Alexander
• Life is a voyage. Victor Hugo
• A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. Lao Tzu
• I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom. Les Brown
• Make voyages. Attempt them. There is nothing else. Tennessee Williams
• Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations. Oliver Goldsmith
• The journey is my home. Muriel Rukeyser
• I tramp a perpetual journey. Walt Whitman
• Keep walking, though there’s no place to get to. Don’t try to see through the distances. That’s not for human beings. Move within, but don’t move the way fear makes you move. Rumi
• The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction, not a destination. Carl Rogers
• For everyone, well-being is a journey. The secret is committing to that journey and taking those first steps with hope and belief in yourself. Deepak Chopra
• Follow your own path ,  Life is a process ,  The journey inwards ,  Life is a climb ,    Enjoy the process of a goal ,  Travel

It is a journey of self-discovery

• Our life’s journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey’s characteristics are common to all of us. Stuart Wilde
• Embarking on the journey to self-discovery involves your willingness to endure some perspiration as well as inspiration. Michael Bernard Beckwith
• This is a lifelong journey—no matter how old you are, this process of finding what works and discovering your path gives your life meaning. You continually develop your understanding of your relationship to the highest goal. By creating from your highest goal and living on your path toward it, you inspire others. And this becomes your greatest legacy. Michael Ray
• Heroes take journeys, confront dragons, and discover the treasure of their true selves. Carol Pearson
• We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. Marcel Proust
• Sometimes in your life you will go on a journey. It will be the longest journey you have ever taken. It is the journey to find yourself. Katherine Sharp
• We have stories to tell, stories that provide wisdom about the journey of life. What more have we to give one another than our ‘truth’ about our human adventure as honestly and as openly as we know how? Rabbi Saul Rubin
• Each man’s life represents a road toward himself. Herman Hesse
• There is great meaning in life for those who are willing to journey. Jim England
• Our first journey is to find that special place for us. Earl Nightingale
• The more side roads you stop to explore, the less likely that life will pass you by. Robert Brault
• Self-knowledge ,  Discovery

It is a journey of personal growth and transformation

• Life is a continuous journey of transformation. Sukant Ratnakar
• The path of development is a journey of discovery that is clear only in retrospect, and it’s rarely a straight line. Eileen Kennedy- Moore
• The journey between what you once were and who you are now becoming is where the dance of life really takes place. Barbara DeAngelis
• The tricky part of the human journey is to transform ourselves continually as our life directions change. Donna L. Friess
• Growth ,  Transformation

Let your life be a journey about learning to love

• Love is the spirit that motivates the artist’s journey. Eric Maisel
• Your life is a journey of learning to love yourself first and then extending that love to others in every encounter. Oprah Winfrey
• It helps, I think, to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith, to endure, to help each other when we stumble or tire, to weep and press on. Mary Richards
• One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it… and the journey is always towards the other soul. H. Lawrence
• Love ,  Learning ,  Evolution

Appreciate and cherish those you journey with

• Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. Izaak Walton
• Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life. Pythagoras
• An agreeable companion on a journey is as good as a carriage. Publilius Syrus
• A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles. Tim Cahill
• It’s funny how, in this journey of life, even though we may begin at different times and places, our paths cross with others so that we may share our love, compassion, observations, and hope. Steve Maraboli
• Sometimes, reaching out and taking someone’s hand is the beginning of a journey. At other times, it is allowing another to take yours.  Vera Nazarian
• It’s not so much the journey that’s important; as is the way that we treat those we encounter and those around us, along the way. Jeremy Aldana
• Cherish every moment with those you love at every stage of your journey. Jack Layton
• Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That’s why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand. Emily Kimbrough
• We’re all just walking each other home. Ram Dass
• Appreciation

Follow your own unique path

• It’s up to you where your life journey goes. Follow your own path.
• You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the only one who’ll decide where you’ll go. Dr. Seuss
• Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility. Oprah Winfrey
• All of life is a journey which paths we take, what we look back on, and what we look forward to is up to us. We determine our destination, what kind of road we will take to get there, and how happy we are when we get there.
• They will say you are on the wrong road if it is your own. Antonio Porchia
• It’s easy to get caught up in where the world is going and lose sight of the direction we were headed. Terry A O’Neal
• You must define your own life. Don’t let other people write your script. Oprah Winfrey
• Follow your own path

Never be scared to venture off the beaten track

• We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey. John Hope Franklin
• Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less travelled by, and that has made all the difference. Robert Frost
• Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Never be afraid to tread the path alone. Know which is your path and follow it… wherever it may lead you. Do not feel you have to follow someone else. Eileen Caddy
• This is my way; where is yours? — Thus, I answered those who asked me ‘the way.’ For the way—that does not exist. Friedrich Nietzsche
• You enter the forest at the darkest point, where there is no path. Where there is a way or a path, it is someone else’s path. You are not on your own path. If you follow someone else’s way, you are not going to realize your potential. Joeseph Campbell
• Our way is not soft grass, it’s a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upwards, forward, toward the sun. Ruth Westheimer
• I’m afraid of taking steps that are not on the map, but by taking those steps despite my fears, I have a much more interesting life. Paulo Coelho
• There are grand rewards for those who pick the high hard roads, but those rewards are hidden by years. Richard Bach
• To find a mountain path all by oneself gives a greater feeling of strength than to take a path that is shown. Karen Horney
• Take … the path that runs along the cliff–that one, the one without any guardrails. Take that path, and know the exhilaration of the ride and the pride you feel when you reach the end will inspire you to take that path again and again. And that experience … every day, will make you more fulfilled, more complete, and more alive. Harry Beckwith
• Exploration

Be assured that getting lost at times is part of the journey

• It may be when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey. Wendell Berry
• Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves. Henry David Thoreau
• In order to find yourself you need to get lost in the forest of life. Mike Dolan
• Better to start up a thousand wrong roads than to spend your life going nowhere because you know the way. Robert Brault
• It is good to feel lost… because it proves you have a navigational sense of where “Home” is. You know that a place that feels like being found exists.  And maybe your current location isn’t that place but, Hallelujah, that unsettled, uneasy feeling of lost- ness just brought you closer to it.    Erika Harris
• How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else. Buckminster Fuller
• Once we’re thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it’s only here that the new and the good begins. Leo Tolstoy
• I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist. Billy Joel
• In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost. Dante Alighieri
• The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn’t matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark. Barbara Hall
• There are several ways to react to being lost. One is to panic. Another is to abandon yourself to lostness, to allow the fact that you’ve misplaced yourself to change the way you experience the world. Audrey Niffenegger
• Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the only certainty is that the trip has to be made. Bruce Catton
• As you start to walk out on the way, the way appears.   Rumi

Travel light

• Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough. Charles Dudley Warner
• He who would travel happily must travel light. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears. Glenn Clark

Your journey will have many twists and turns and you’ll never know what to expect

• Your journey never ends. Life has a way of changing things in incredible ways. Alexander Volkov
• Some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity. Gilda Radner
• Every day is a journey filled with twists and turns. Every day, if you smile, you will feel alive, my son. Santosh Kalwar
• Would you like to know your future? If your answer is yes, think again. Not knowing is the greatest life motivator.  So enjoy, endure, survive each moment as it comes to you in its proper sequence — a surprise.  Vera Nazarian

The way will reveal itself as you go

• As you start to walk out on the way, the way appears. Rumi

Every so often, check that you’re on the right path

• No amount of travel on the wrong road will bring you to the right destination. Ben Gaye
• What is the use of running when we are on the wrong road? Bavarian proverb
• When we are sure that we are on the right road there is no need to plan our journey too far ahead. No need to burden ourselves with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar our progress. We cannot take more than one step at a time. Orison Swett Marden

How do you know if you’re on the right path?

• Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn’t, it is of no use. Carlos Castaneda
• There is no right path. Only the one that allows you to sleep soundly and wake up excited. Jennifer Louden
• The way is not in the sky, the way is in the heart. For the traveller who knows his direction, there is always a favourable wind. Stuart Avery Gold

On your journey, it can help to have a destination in mind

• If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there. George Harrison
• If you don’t know where you are going, how can you expect to get there? Basil S. Walsh
• There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The successful one has this over his rivals: he knows where he is going. Mark Caine
• You are not likely to get anywhere in particular if you don’t know where you want to go. Percy H. Johnson
• You must know for which harbour you are headed if you are to catch the right wind to take you there. Seneca
• We are more in need of a destination and less in need of a road map. Stephen Covey
• You got to be careful if you don’t know where you’re going, because you might not get there. Yogi Berra
• Begin with the end in mind

However, do not become so preoccupied with the destination that you forget the journey itself

• The rat racer’s illusion is that reaching some future destination will bring him lasting happiness; he does not recognize the significance of the journey. Tal Ben-Shahar
• Sooner or later we must realize there is no station, no one place to arrive at once and for all. The true joy of life is the trip. Robert J. Hastings
• In our obsessive wish to arrive, we often forget the most important thing, which is the journey. Paulo Coelho
• It is better to travel well than to arrive. Buddha
• It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end. Ursula K. Le Guin
• Life is a journey, not a destination. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Too often we are so preoccupied with the destination, we forget the journey.
• Success is a journey, not a destination – half the fun is getting there. Gita Bellin
• It is the story that matters not just the ending. Paul Lockhart
• The journey not the arrival matters. S. Eliot
• Don’t miss all the beautiful colours of the rainbow looking for that pot of gold.
• This moment is your life. It is the process of living, the journey, that is life itself, and we often wish away our lives by focusing only on what tomorrow could, should, would bring. Sarah Ban Breathnach

Focus on enjoying the journey itself, not just the arriving

• I made up my mind not to care so much about the destination, and simply enjoy the journey. David Archuleta
• If you are not enjoying the journey, you probably won’t enjoy the destination.
• Enjoy the process of getting there, not just the attainment of the goal.
• Enjoyment is not meant to be the final end state of a long and arduous process of attainment. It is meant to be woven through the tapestry of our lives now. In the present. And throughout the process along the way. Tom Morris
• It makes no difference how many peaks you reach if there was no pleasure in the climb. Oprah Winfrey
• Once you realize that the road is the goal and that you are always on the road, not to reach a goal, but to enjoy its beauty and its wisdom, life ceases to be a task and becomes natural and simple, in itself an ecstasy. Nisargadatta Maharaj
• The reason you want every single thing that you want, is because you think you will feel really good when you get there. But, if you don’t feel really good on your way to there, you can’t get there. You have to be satisfied with what- is while you’re reaching for more. Abraham-Hicks
• When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor… it’s to enjoy every step of the way. Wayne Dyer
• Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating. Denis Waitley
• You cannot have a happy ending to a miserable journey. Abraham-Hicks
• Life is not a journey to the grave with intentions of arriving safely in a pretty well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out and loudly proclaiming … WOW! What a ride!
• Enjoy the journey, enjoy every moment, and quit worrying about winning and losing. Matt Biondi
• We’ve been focusing so much on getting there that we haven’t been enjoying the ride. Elizabeth Eulberg
• Life is a process ,  Enjoy the process of a goal

Savour each step, noticing the flowers at your feet

• Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. Climb slowly, steadily, enjoying each passing moment; and the view from the summit will serve as a fitting climax for the journey. Harold V Melchert
• When you are on a journey, it is certainly helpful to know where you are going or at least the general direction in which you are moving, but don’t forget: The only thing that is ultimately real about your journey is the step that you are taking at this moment. That’s all there ever is. Eckhart Tolle
• In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet. Albert Schweitzer
• The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is “look under foot.”
• The landscape changes, so enjoy it: of course, you have to have an objective in mind – to reach the top. But as you are going up, more things can be seen, and it’s no bother to stop now and again and enjoy the panorama around you. At every meter conquered, you can see a little further, so use this to discover things that you still had not noticed. Paulo Coelho
• Don’t forget to stop and smell the roses along the way. Old English Proverb
• We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way. Gloria Gaither
• When you travel towards your objective, be sure to pay attention to the path. The path teaches us the best way to arrive and enriches us while we are traveling along it.  Paulo Coelho
• Somewhere on your journey, don’t forget to turn around and enjoy the view.
• You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut. Seuss
• Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey! Barbara Hoffman
• Let go of the idea that the path will lead you to your goal. The truth is that with each step we take, we arrive. Repeat that to yourself every morning: ‘I’ve arrived.’ That way you’ll find it much easier to stay in touch with each second of your day. Paulo Coelho
• No matter how long your journey appears to be, there is never more than this: one step, one breath, one moment – Now. Eckhart Tolle

It is in the journey, not the destination, that true happiness, joy and growth are to be found

• The journey is what brings us happiness not the destination. Dan Millman
• Attaining lasting happiness requires that we enjoy the journey on our way toward a destination we deem valuable. Happiness is not about making it to the peak of the mountain nor is it about climbing aimlessly around the mountain; happiness is the experience of climbing toward the peak. Tal Ben-Shahar
• Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it. Greg Anderson
• Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling. Margaret Lee Runbeck
• Happiness, as we will show you, is much more of a process than an emotional destination. People frequently overlook the process side of happiness in their pursuit of the good life. Ed Diener & Robert Biswas- Diener
• I have been running so sweaty my whole life, urgent for a finish line, and I have been missing the rapture this whole time of being forever incomplete. Alanis Morissette
• It turns out that the process of working toward a goal, participating in a valued and challenging activity, is as important to well- being as its attainment. Sonja Lyubomirsky
• It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfilment, it is in the happiness of pursuit. Denis Waitley
• I’ve learned that everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it. Andy Rooney
• The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination. Don Williams, Jr.
• We get more pleasure from making progress toward our goals than we do from achieving them because, as Shakespeare said, “Joy’s soul lies in the doing.” Jonathan Haidt
• Happiness ,  Joy ,  Growth

Approach your life journey as an exciting adventure

• May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. Edward Abbey
• One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure. William Feather
• A good life is one hero journey after another. Over and over again, you are called to the realm of adventure, you are called to new horizons. Joseph Campbell

Approach your journey as an exhilarating ride

• 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!” Hunter S. Thompson

The end of one stage of your journey is always the start of another

• Life’s a marathon, not a sprint. Phillip C. McGraw
• Be prepared to climb one kilometre more: the way up to the top of the mountain is always longer than you think. Don’t fool yourself, the moment will arrive when what seemed so near is still very far. But since you were prepared to go beyond, this is not really a problem. Paulo Coelho
• The end of one stage is only the beginning of another. Any dangers overcome are the necessary preparation to do better in the next stage. Paulo Coelho
• Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever- lengthening, ever- ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb. Winston Churchill
• If my ship sails from sight, it doesn’t mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends. John Enoch Powell
• When you have completed 95 percent of your journey, you are only halfway there. Japanese Proverb

Your spiritual life is a journey too…

• We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey. Stephen Covey
• The spiritual path – is simply the journey of living our lives. Everyone is on a spiritual path; most people just don’t know it. Marianne Williamson
• The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one. M. Scott Peck
• A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose. Peace Pilgrim
• Let your mind start a journey through a strange new world. Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before. Let your soul take you where you long to be. Erich Fromm
• Journey from the self to the Self and find the mine of gold. Leave behind what is sour and bitter and move toward the sweet. Rumi
• The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. Marianne Williamson
• Spirituality

… a journey that takes you to unmapped places deep within

• The only journey is the journey within. Rainer Maria Rilke
• The longest journey of any person is the journey inward. Agné Carl Hammarskjold
• I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within. Lillian Smith
• I think that I travelled not outwards but within… Imtiaz Dharker
• And you? When will you begin your long journey into yourself? Rumi
• The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart. Julien Green
• Your mind, this globe of awareness, is a starry universe. When you push off with your foot, a thousand new roads become clear. Rumi
• A traveler am I, and a navigator, and every day I discover a new region within my soul. Kahlil Gibran
• Within my body are all the sacred places of the world, and the most profound pilgrimage I can ever make is within my own body. Saraha
• There is a great deal of unmapped country within us. George Eliot
• Let your mind start a journey through a strange new world. Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before. Let your soul take you where you long to be. Close your eyes, let your spirit soar and you’ll live as you’ve never lived before. Erich Fromm
• For the sake of it, you journey to sacred shrines and holy rivers; but this priceless jewel is within your own heart. Sri Guru Granth
• The inward journey is about finding your own fullness, something that no one else can take away. Deepak Chopra
• And You? When will you begin that long journey into Yourself? Rumi
• Few can foresee whither their road will lead them, till they come to its end. R.R. Tolkien
• The journey inwards
• I know that every day is a stepping stone on my pathway. Louise Hay
• A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. John Steinbeck
• Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, margarita in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming WOO HOO what a ride!
• The journey of a thousand miles begins with a broken fan belt and a flat tire.
• If you look like your passport photo, in all probability, you need the journey. Earl Winston
• May your journey through life be vibrant and full of colourful rainbows. Harley King
• Parenting is a stage of life’s journey where the milestones come about every fifty feet. Robert Brault
• So, a thought crossed your mind? Must have been a long and lonely journey.

77 Positive and Inspiring Journey Quotes

Embark on a journey of a lifetime with these inspiring journey quotes. Life’s a thrilling ride, filled with ups and downs.

It’s about braving the storms and cherishing time spent with loved ones.

So whether your path is spiritual, an exciting travel adventure, or just starting something new in life, let these quotes fuel your spirit for exploration and discovery.

Journey quotes to begin your path towards greatness

1. “Never give up on your dreams, no matter how painful and difficult your journey is.” – Lisa

2. “The journey is never ending. There’s always gonna be growth, improvement, adversity; you just gotta take it all in and do what’s right, continue to grow, continue to live in the moment.” – Antonio Brown

3. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” – Lao Tzu

4. “Sometimes its more about the journey than the destination.” – Jamal Crawford

5. “Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.” – Arthur Ashe

6. “Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.” – Greg Anderson

New journey quotes to inspire your success

7. “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

8. “Sometimes it’s the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination.” – Drake

9. “Sometimes we make the process more complicated than we need to. We will never make a journey of a thousand miles by fretting about how long it will take or how hard it will be. We make the journey by taking each day step by step and then repeating it again and again until we reach our destination.” – Joseph B. Wirthlin

10. “Enjoy the journey and try to get better every day. And don’t lose the passion and the love for what you do.” – Nadia Comaneci

11. “Struggle teaches you a lot of things, and I am happy that I witnessed a roller coaster ride. The journey has improved me as a person and made me more matrure.” – Manoj Bajpayee

12. “Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.” – Henri Frederic Amiel

Life is a journey quotes

13. “Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.” – Oliver Goldsmith

14. “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” – Robert Frost

15. “Learn to trust the journey, even when you do not understand it.” – Lolly Daskal

16. “Life is a journey that have a lot of different paths, but any path you choose, use it as your destiny.” – Unknown

17. “The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday.” – Steve Maraboli

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18. “Life is a journey, not a destination.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

19. “Everyday you got a chance to make your journey more beautiful than yesterday.” – Nitin Namdeo

20. “Every day is a journey and the journey itself is home.” – Matsuo Basho

21. “Everybody has their own story; everything has their own journey.” – Thalia

Enjoy the journey quotes

22. “Enjoy the journey as much as the destination.” – Marshall Sylver

23. “Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame.” – Benedict Cumberbatch

24. “Enjoy the journey and try to get better everyday. And don’t lose the passion and the love for what you do.” – Nadia Comaneci

25. “Enjoy the journey, the destination will come.” – Verghese

26. “Don’t wait for everything to be perfect before you decide to enjoy your life.” – Joyce Meyer

27. “Dream big, stay positive, work hard, and enjoy the journey.” – Urijah Faber

28. “The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance, and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning.” – Oprah Winfrey

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

30. “Enjoy the journey, enjoy every moment, and quit worrying about winning and losing.” – Matt Biondi

31. “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey.” – Babs Hoffman

32. “I haven’t been everywhere but its on my list.” – Susan Sontag

33. “You must remain focused on your journey to greatness.” – Les Brown

Inspirational journey quotes

34. “You can never regret anything you do in life. You kind of have to learn the lesson from whatever the experience is and take it with you on your journey forward.” – Aubrey O’Day

35. “Life is a journey. When we stop, things don’t go right.” – Pope Francis

36. “There’s no map for you to follow and take your journey. You are Lewis and Clark. You are the mapmaker.” – Phillipa Soo

37. “I’m different than most people. When I cross the finish line of a big race, I see that people are ecstatic, but I’m thinking about what I’m going to do tomorrow. It’s as if my journey is everlasting, and there is no finish line.” – David Goggins

38. “We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.” – Marcel Proust

39. “Though the road’s been rocky it sure feels good to me.” – Bob Marley

40. “We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we’ve established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.” – Earl Nightingale

41. “Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.” – Steve Jobs

42. “If my ship sails from sight, it doesn’t mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.” – Enoch Powell

Motivational journey quotes 

43. “Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.” – Tennessee Williams

44. “Gotta take that adventure in order to understand your journey.” – Jennifer Pierre

45. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt

46. “The beauty of my journey is that it’s always been pretty unpredictable, so stay tuned.” – Andreja Pejic

47. “The journey not the arrival matters.” – T.S. Eliot

48. “The future depends on what you do today.” – Mahatma Gandhi

49. “The goal is to die with memories, not dreams.” – Unknown

50. “Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.” – Theodore Roosevelt

51. “The harder you work from something, the greater you’ll feel when you achieve it.” – Sudhashree Acharya

52. “Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.” – Pat Conroy

53. “The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.” – ILHQ

54. “When setting out on a journey do not seek advice from someone who never left home.” – Rumi

Positive journey quotes

55. “You may only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” – Mae West

56. “Every day you got a chance to make your journey more beautiful than yesterday.” – Nitin Namdeo

57. “Stay positive. Better days are on their way.” – Unknown

58. “Your destiny is to fulfill those things upon which you focus most intently. So choose to keep your focus on that which is truly magnificent, beautiful, uplifting and joyful. Your life is always moving toward something.” – Ralph Marston

59. “You make a life out of what you have, not what you’re missing.” – Kate Morton

60. “Every sunset is an opportunity to reset. Every sunrise begins with new eyes.” – Richie Norton

61. “Life is very interesting. In the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.” – Drew Barrymore

62. “Your journey has molded you for your greater good, and it was exactly what it needed to be. Don’t think you’ve lost time. There is no short-cutting life. It took each and every situation you have encountered to bring you to the now. And now is right on time.” – Asha Tyson

63. “And suddenty you know…It’s time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.” – Meister Eckhart

64. “Find out who you are and do it on purpose.” – Dolly Parton

65. “Your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.” – Michelle Obama

66. “Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.” – Oscar Wilde

67. “If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” – Wayne Dyer

Journey of life quotes

68. “The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.” – Tony Robbins

69. “When you have a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let go.” – Carol Burnett

70. “Life is 10% of what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.” – Charles R. Swindoll

71. “You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame.” – Erica Jong

72. “If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.” – Dan Rather

73. “It’s your reaction to adversity, not adversity itself that determines how your life’s story will develop.” – Dieter F. Uchtdorf

74. “Your Monday morning thoughts set the tone for your whole week. See yourself getting stronger, and living a fulfilling, happier & healthier life.” – Germany Kent

75. “Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.” – Lou Holtz

76. “Our lives are the journey we take to find our true selves!” – Alyssa Gonzalez

77. “Your braver than you believe, stronger that you seem, and smarter than you think.” – A.A. Milne

Which of these journey quotes were your favorites?

We all have the potential within us to be great.

But greatness isn’t about luck. It’s a choice.

We must choose to succeed and take steps towards it.

Remember, the path to success is a journey, not a quick leap.

Let these quotes inspire you to stay focused on your goals and dreams, no matter what obstacles get in your way along the path.

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65 Long Way Quotes On Success In Life

These long way quotes will inspire you. A long way , a great distance.

A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging long way quotes, long way sayings, and long way proverbs.

Best Long Way Quotes

• “Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is.” ~ Douglas Adams
• “We have to acknowledge the progress we made, but understand that we still have a long way to go. That things are better, but still not good enough.” ~ Barack Obama
• “My greatest victory has been to be able to live with myself, to accept my shortcomings. I’m a long way from the human being I’d liked to be, but I’ve decided I’m not so bad after all.” ~ Audrey Hepburn
• “We have a long way to go, some tough issues ahead of us, and I’m sure there will be some obstacles in the path … But the good faith effort that’s being put into this absolutely is encouraging to me and gives me hope.” ~ Dick Durbin

“A little bit of attention can go a long way.” ~ Nicholas D. Kristof

• “Nothing dates like hate and in literature a little of it goes a very long way.” ~ Cyril Connolly
• “But trust can take you a long way. And my faith takes me a long way. And I think that our pains, our vulnerabilities, and our insecurities can fuel us to be better. To try harder. To dig deeper.” ~ Mariska Hargitay
• “And I watch my words from a long way off. They are more yours than mine. They climb on my old suffering like ivy.” ~ Pablo Neruda
• “Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people to know “why” I look this way. I’ve traveled a long way and some of the roads weren’t paved.” ~ Will Rogers

“I just have a vision of something, and it seems to go a long way. One thought goes a long way.” ~ Sammy Hagar

• “I do not believe the border is secure and I still believe we have a long, long way to go.” ~ John Cornyn
• “Humor is important in everything. Dress with a little humor and you can go a long way.” ~ Iris Apfel
• “Americans of our own time – minority and majority Americans alike – need the continued guidance that the Voting Rights Act provides. We have come a long way, but more needs to be done.” ~ Elijah Cummings
• “My mother was a strong-willed and opinionated woman – a Sicilian! – and if she didn’t like something, she’d let you know about it. So her undying support of her kids went a long way in proving to us that we were on the right path.” ~ Marlo Thomas

“The Stars are a long way off, and their words get somewhat dulled in the message.” ~ Bram Stoker

• “You love the accidental. A smile from a pretty girl in an interesting situation, a stolen glance, that is what you are hunting for, that is a motif for your aimless fantasy. You who always pride yourself on being an observateur must, in return, put up with becoming an object of observation. Ah, you are a strange fellow, one moment a child, the next an old man; one moment you are thinking most earnestly about the most important scholarly problems, how you will devote your life to them, and the next you are a lovesick fool. But you are a long way from marriage.” ~ Soren Kierkegaard
• “We have gone a long way toward civilization and religious tolerance, and we have a good example in this country. Here the many Protestant denominations, the Catholic Church and the Greek Orthodox Church do not seek to destroy one another in physical violence just because they do not interpret every verse of the Bible in exactly the same way. Here we now have the freedom of all religions, and I hope that never again will we have a repetition of religious bigotry, as we have had in certain periods of our own history. There is no room for that kind of foolishness here.” ~ Harry S. Truman
• “A man whose yesterdays rest on his horizon travels forward into his past. The result is that he goes a very long way to nowhere.” ~ Catherine Anderson
• “The principle objectives in life are love, the creation and enjoyment if aesthetic experience, the pursuit of knowledge. Love comes a long way first.” ~ John Maynard Keynes , Long way quotes love

“When you’re trying to create a career as a writer, a little delusional thinking goes a long way.” ~ Michael Lewis

• “Fashion is very judgmental. It’s something where you have to be careful. I have a long way to go before I can be a designer. I’d love to one day, but we’ll see.” ~ Sloane Stephens
• “I’ve done festivals in the past where I’d be a guest, it was like, Wow, maybe someday I could play Town Hall – but that’ll be a long way off. So it’s very exciting.” ~ John Mulaney
• “UNICEF is successfully giving children and young people all over the world opportunities and hope. Just like the ones we met on the Long Way Down – protecting them from exploitation and giving them chances in life.” ~ Ewan McGregor , Long way quotes down
• “We have been led to believe that we have come a long way toward world nuclear disarmament. But that is not the case. Our government is not doing all that it could. We must urge our leaders to fulfill the obligations of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The United States must assume world leadership to end once and for all the threat of nuclear war. It is our moral responsibility.” ~ Harrison Ford

“What are you doing this weekend to improve your financial situation? Sacrifice made today goes a long way for a better tomorrow.” ~ Robert Kiyosaki

• “I like looking at the countryside as well as anyone… a little countryside goes a long way, but it’s almost like the DNA of a civilisation is in its cities.” ~ Jonathan Meades
• “Besides my fast and slooow songs, I further divide my work into three main song types: the ballad or story song, the variation on a theme (saying the same thing over and over and over again) song, and the weird song. It’s important to have weird songs, but I find that a little weirdness goes a long way.” ~ David Massengill
• “A little reciprocity goes a long way.” ~ Malcolm Forbes
• “New Republican Presidential candidate Jon Huntsman is fluent in Chinese. In a short period of time the Republicans have come quite a long way. The last Republican president wasn’t even fluent in English.” ~ David Letterman

“What a long way it is from one life to another: yet why write if not for that distance; if things can be let go, every before replaced by an after.” ~ Yiyun Li

• “On this important anniversary, we must remember that while we have come a long way in eliminating barriers, critical work remains to ensure all Americans can live up to their full potential.” ~ Jim Ramstad
• “A little personality goes a long way.” ~ Jean Chatzky
• “As a woman in sport media, you have to be smart. You use what you can to your advantage and make sure you know what you’re talking about or you’re A) not going to last very long or B) never going to get a good job. I think we’ve come a long way and probably still have a ways to go, but… I just don’t take any of this super seriously. I’m not curing cancer and I’m not a doctor. It’s just television. I don’t know why some people get so worked up about it.” ~ Michelle Beadle
• “We haven’t met… I’m Kori Daniels. If you don’t get that gun out of my face, I’m gonna take it, then I’m gonna break your jaw so I can unhinge it and shove your pistol down your throat. That way the bullet goes through the long way.” ~ Rachel Vincent

“I’ve come a long way to get nowhere at all, I thought. And I’ve spent everything I have to get here.” ~ Richard Kadrey

• “Being in darkness and confusion is interesting to me. But behind it you can rise out of that and see things the way the really are. That there is some sort of truth to the whole thing, if you could just get to that point where you could see it, and live it, and feel it. I think it is a long, long, way off. In the meantime there’s suffering and darkness and confusion and absurdities, and it’s people kind of going in circles. It’s fantastic. It’s like a strange carnival: it’s a lot of fun, but it’s a lot of pain.” ~ David Lynch
• “And I watch my words from a long way off. They are more yours than mine. They climb on my old suffering like ivy. It climbs the same way on damp walls. You are to blame for this cruel sport. They are fleeing from my dark lair. You fill everything, you fill everything. Before you they peopled the solitude that you occupy, and they are more used to my sadness than you are. Now I want them to say what I want to say to you to make you hear as I want you to hear me.” ~ Pablo Neruda
• “She was tired of being told how it was by this generation, who’d botched things so badly. They’d sold their children a pack of lies: God and country. Love your parents. All is fair. And then they’d sent those boys, her brother, off to fight a great monster of a war that maimed and killed and destroyed whatever was inside them. Still they lied, expecting her to mouth the words and play along. Well, she wouldn’t. She knew now that the world was a long way from fair. She knew the monsters were real.” ~ Libba Bray
• “Max – you have a bigger mission than finding the flock’s parents. Focus on helping the whole world, not just your friends. I held my wings steady, coasting for a long, long way on a warm updraft. It was like floating on a cloud, the best feeling you can imagine. I wish you could try it with me. Maybe next time. You know, Voice, I thought finally, my friends are my world.” ~ James Patterson

“Sometimes you have to travel a long way to find what is near” ~ Paulo Coelho

• “I was young, and by instinct of self-preservation I had to collect my energy on something, if I were not to be whirled away with the dusk on the farm-roads, or the smoke on the plain. I begun in the evenings to write stories, fairy-tales, and romances, that would take my mind a long way off, to other countries and times.” ~ Isak Dinesen
• “A little love and attention can go a long way…too bad more people don’t realize that.” ~ Frank Peretti
• “Just smiling goes a long way toward making you feel better about life. And when you feel better about life, your life is better. With an optimistic, positive attitude toward life, the possibilities for your second prime are tremendous.” ~ Art Linkletter
• “Let us be patient with one another, And even patient with ourselves. We have a long, long way to go. So let us hasten along the road, The road of human tenderness and generosity. Groping, we may find one another’s hands in the dark.” ~ Emily Greene Balch

“Women have come a long way over the past 20 years, but in substance abuse and addiction, women have come the wrong way.” ~ Joseph A. Califano, Jr.

• “A fundamental concern for others in our individual and community lives would go a long way in making the world the better place we so passionately dreamt of.” ~ Nelson Mandela
• “Death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before encountering an authentic corpse.” ~ George Wald
• “The wise learn from the experience of others, and the creative know how to make a crumb of experience go a long way.” ~ Eric Hoffer
• “Hard work certainly goes a long way. These days a lot of people work hard, so you have to make sure you work even harder and really dedicate yourself to what you are doing and setting out to achieve.” ~ Lakshmi Mittal

“And these little things may not seem like much but after a while they take you off on a direction where you may be a long way off from what other people have been thinking about.” ~ Roger Penrose

• “Too much mystery is merely an annoyance. Too much adventure is exhausting. And a little terror goes a long way.” ~ Dean Koontz
• “Our collection of men is very antique, they stand in my list thus: A man of sense, a little rusty, a beau a good deal the worse for wearing, a coxcomb extremely shattered, a pretty gentleman very insipid, a baronet very solemn, a squire very fat, a fop much affected, a barrister learned in Coke upon Littleton, but who knows nothing of `long ways for marry as will’, an heir apparent, very awkward; which of these will cast a favourable eye upon me I don’t know.” ~ Elizabeth Montagu
• “I can be a much better player. I’ve got a long ways to go.” ~ Lauren Jackson
• “Being compared to him [Ron Francis] is pretty cool for me, but I know I am a long way away. I feel really comfortable at center, being able to roam the ice and do your thing.” ~ Eric Staal

“Communicating is a bit of a problem. Playing in New York is great but there are times when I feel a long way from home.” ~ Chien-Ming Wang

• “A long way of saying I’ve seen a lot of kind of more systemic and processed changes. Although we still are providing the kind of material you’re still seeing out there now.” ~ Susan Downey
• “Of course, we’re so lucky to be in a time where that’s not our reality anymore. I just thought it was very interesting to go back to that time now, and to look at all of these issues that are still relevant today, but just in such a different way, and to see how we approach them and try to overcome them. Yeah, we’ve come a long way with medicine and women’s health in the Western world, but in a lot of parts of the rest of the world, that’s still a huge issue.” ~ Eve Hewson
• “For me as a midfielder, Paul Scholes was the best possible teacher. When people ask me my hardest opponent, I always refer to Paul in training. Facing him improved me so much because his astonishing quality gave me something to aim for. He never gave the ball away, he could nutmeg you, he could make you look a fool, his range of passing was remarkable, his touch and awareness, everything was top notch. Seeing Scholesy made you stand back and realize you had a long way to go, because he was awesome.” ~ Darren Fletcher
• “Because our Father in Heaven and His Son, Jesus Christ, are perfect, our dearest aspiration is to become like Them and eventually achieve the perfection that is possible and promised, even though each of us has such a long way to go.” ~ Cecil O. Samuelson

“Love, what a long way, to arrive at a kiss.” ~ Pablo Neruda

• “I can’t stand whining. I can’t stand the kind of paralysis that some people fall into because they’re not happy with the choices they’ve made. You live in a time when there are endless choices … Money certainly helps, and having that kind of financial privilege goes a long way, but you don’t even have to have money for it. But you have to work on yourself … Do something!” ~ Hillary Clinton
• “Do you suppose that I should have lived as long as I have if I had moved in the sphere of public life, and conducting myself in that sphere like an honorable man, had always upheld the cause of right, and conscientiously set this end above all other things? Not by a very long way, gentlemen; neither would any other man.” ~ Socrates

“We’ve come a long way, we’ve come a long way and we never even left L.A.” ~ Michelle Shocked

• “It had the old double keyboard, an entirely different set of keys for capitals and figures so that the paper seemed a long way off, and the machine was as big and solid as a battlecruiser. Typing was then a muscular activity. You could ache after it. If you were not familiar with those vast keyboards, your hand wandered over them like a child lost in a wood. The noise might have been that of a shipyard on the Clyde. You would no more have thought of carrying one of those grim structures as you would have thought of traveling with a piano.” ~ J. B. Priestley
• “We are a long way from getting back the jobs lost since President Bush took office.” ~ Pete Stark

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35 Quotes To Inspire You On Your Journey Of Success

Journey is defined as a long and often difficult process of personal change and development; traveling from one place to another. The path to success might be tough, but once gain momentum, everything will fall to its place. Always remember to enjoy the journey because sometimes it’s more worthwhile the the destination itself. Don’t forget to thank all the people you helped you on your way. Everyone’s journey is different, so try not to compare yours to others. May these quotes inspire you on your journey to greatness .

1.  “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” Lao Tzu

2.  “Don’t expect anyone to understand your journey , especially if they’ve never walked your path.”

3.  “The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday.” Steve Maraboli

4.  “It’s all about the journey not the outcome.” Carl Lewis

5.  “The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.” Tony Robbins

6.  “The true journey is one that is traveled with an inner GPS fully activated.” Alexis Brooks

7.  “The journey is yours. Enjoy each and every step .” Anonymous

8.  “Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.” Arthur Ashe

9.  “Embrace the journey.” Anonymous

10.  “Stay patient and trust your journey.” Anonymous

11.  “The journey is long but the goal is in each step.” Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

12.  “Life is a journey.” Anonymous

13.  “The journey is the fun part.” Jaime Tardy

14.  “Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.” Matsuo Basho

15.  “Sometimes it’s the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination.” Drake

16.  “Life is not a race but a journey to be savored each step of the way.” Anonymous

17.  “This is your journey, your body, your mind, and your spirit. Dig deep, own it and start doing things for you and by you.” Anonymous

18.  “Your journey has molded you for the greater good .” Asha Tyson

19.  “Life is a journey filled with unexpected miracles.” Anonymous

20.  “The end of a journey means the start of another.” Anonymous

21.  “There is only one map to the journey of life and it lives within your heart .” Willie Nelson

22.  “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” Martin Buber

23.  “To travel is to take a journey into yourself.” Danny Kaye

24.  “You must remain focused on your journey to greatness.” Les Brown

25.  “Take the journey even if it means alone.” Anonymous

26.  “Love is the spirit that motivates the artist’s journey.” Eric Maisel

27.  “Our journey is about being more deeply involved in life and yet, less attached to it.” Ram Dass

28.  “Sometimes the people around you won’t understand your journey. They don’t need to, it’s not for them.” Anonymous

29.  “So the single most vital step on your journey towards enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind.” Eckhart Tolle

30.  “Maybe the journey isn’t so much about becoming anything. Maybe it’s about unbecoming everything that isn’t really you, so you can be who you were meant to be in the first place.” Anonymous

31.  “We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.” Kenji Miyazawa

32.  “The best journey always takes us home.” Anonymous

33.  “The journey is much easier when you are not carrying your past.” Anonymous

34.  “The journey to freedom is paved by the substance of our character.” Erwin McManus

35.  “The only journey is the one within.” Rainer Maria Rilke

I hope these Journey Quotes inspired you to aim for success. Do let us know which one was your favorite in the comments section below.

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March 28, 2019 at 6:14 pm

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Comment: The quotes are very inspirational, they give me more courage to push harder

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Life is like unto a long journey with a heavy burden.

What do I believe? It has been a long journey of discovery. There have been hesitations and errors along the way, and no doubt will be more, because I am still learning, both about myself and about life.

Let your mind start a journey through a strange new world. Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before. Let your soul take you where you long to be. Close your eyes, let your spirit start to soar, and you’ll live as you’ve never lived before.

I like someone who embraces life; who wants to be on a long journey but has no particular plan or destination in mind. An adventurous man, open to the concept of living life in the moment.

Some days are better than others ... It's been a long journey, but we're starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel now.

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.

It helps, I think, to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith, to endure, to help each other when we stumble or tire, to weep and press on.

And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?

If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of man become in its long journey toward the stars?

I wanted to do my part to help preserve that golden age of travel... I step aboard The Patron Tequila Express railcar, and I go back in time to the days when a long journey was something fun and very special.

A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn.

Respect your soul: don't keep repeating "I'm going to make it". Your soul already knows that, what it needs is to use the long journey to be able to grow, stretch along the horizon, touch the sky. An obsession does not help you at all to reach your objective, and even ends up taking the pleasure out of the climb. But pay attention: also, don't keep saying "it's harder than I thought", because that will make you lose your inner strength.

On a long journey of human life, faith is the best of companions; it is the best refreshment on the journey; and it is the greatest property.

I find I'm so excited I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it is the excitement only a free man can feel, a free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain. I hope I can make it across the border. I hope to see my friend, and shake his hand. I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope.

For a small reward, a man will hurry away on a long journey; while for eternal life, many will hardly take a single step.

Education is a lifelong journey whose destination expands as you travel.

Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day's journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend.

All writers are exiles wherever they live and their work is a lifelong journey towards the lost land.

The journey for women, no matter what venue it is - politics, business, film - it's, it's a long journey.

The best poems take long journeys. I like poetry best that journeys--while remaining in the human scale--to the other world, which may be a place as easily overlooked as a bee's wing

A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a long journey: The ways deep and the weather sharp, The very dead of winter.

It is impossible - now, at this point in the long journey of human culture - to avoid the sense that pain is necessity; that it is neither accident, nor malformation, nor malice, nor misunderstanding, that it is integral to the human character both in its inflicting and in its suffering, this terrible sense Tragedy alone has articulated, and will continue to articulate, and in so doing, make beautiful...

Climbing is my lifelong journey. And in the same way you go running and you have days where you really feel in tune, you have some days where you don't feel that good. It's this never-ending process. Accepting that and enjoying that for what it is, that's really where the life of climbing is.

By 2025 we expect new spacecraft designed for long journeys to allow us to begin the first ever crewed missions beyond the Moon into deep space. So we'll start by sending astronauts to an asteroid for the first time in history. By the mid-2030s I believe we can send humans to orbit Mars and return them safely to Earth. And a landing on Mars will follow and I expect to be around in see it.

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What Happens When You Still Have Long COVID Symptoms?

BY KATHY KATELLA October 27, 2023

[Originally published: June 7, 2023. Updated: Oct. 27, 2023.]

Note: Information in this article was accurate at the time of original publication. Because information about COVID-19 changes rapidly, we encourage you to visit the websites of the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), World Health Organization (WHO), and your state and local government for the latest information.

Long COVID, the condition where symptoms that surface after recovering from COVID-19 linger for weeks, months, or even years, is still a mystery to doctors and researchers.

The symptoms, such as chronic pain, brain fog , shortness of breath, chest pain, and intense fatigue, can be debilitating. Severe cases of Long COVID can even affect the body’s organs. But imaging tests don’t always show the origins of those symptoms. And we still don’t know why only some people develop the condition or why others can get it after a mild COVID infection.

Research has offered some insights but not enough to provide a solid understanding of how Long COVID progresses in the body. That knowledge will be essential to developing treatments.

“There is no one pill or strategy that helps everybody,” says neurologist Lindsay McAlpine, MD , director of the Yale NeuroCovid Clinic and one of many Yale Medicine specialists who care for Long COVID patients. But there is a growing understanding that people experience the condition in different ways, leading to an individualized approach to treating their symptoms.

Personalized care is the focus of the Yale New Haven Long COVID Multidisciplinary Care Center , which launched in spring 2023 and is directed by internist Lisa Sanders, MD . Although Yale Medicine has been caring for Long COVID patients since the pandemic began, the new centralized program adds a multidisciplinary approach: Patients are evaluated and, if necessary, referred to cardiologists, neurologists, pulmonologists, rheumatologists, and other specialists who have experience treating the condition. The program also offers on-site physical therapy and social work services—the latter because Long COVID can affect relationships, finances, job security, and quality of life.

Specialists in Long COVID answered questions about what we now know about the condition and what we can do about it.

1. How is Long COVID defined?

The World Health Organization (WHO) defines Long COVID , also known as Post-COVID Conditions, as “the continuation or development of new symptoms 3 months after the initial SARS-CoV-2 infection, with these symptoms lasting for at least 2 months with no other explanation.”

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) adds that Long COVID includes a wide range of ongoing health problems that can last weeks, months, or years. The condition might appear to be an extension of the original COVID symptoms or they may recur after the initial illness subsided, or they may be new symptoms that weren’t present during COVID. They can affect any part of the body, and serious cases may affect multiple body systems, including the heart, lungs, kidneys, skin, and brain.

Each patient is different. Not everyone with Long COVID has had a severe case of COVID. Some acquired the condition after a mild case, and others may have developed symptoms but never tested positive for COVID. “We usually call those patients ‘presumed COVID,’” says Yale Medicine pulmonologist Denyse Lutchmansingh, MBBS , associate director of the Winchester Center for Lung Disease.

2. What are researchers learning about Long COVID?

Akiko Iwasaki, PhD , a Yale School of Medicine immunobiologist, is director of the Yale Center of Infection & Immunity and leads multiple studies investigating the pathobiology of Long COVID. Iwasaki says research has shown that Long COVID is not a single disease.

She also lists four hypotheses on her laboratory website that could explain Long COVID's initiation and progression:

• After a person has COVID, a persistent virus or remnants of it cause chronic inflammation and ongoing symptoms.
• The body’s disease-fighting B and T cells trigger an immune response—and subsequent inflammation—in a process called autoimmunity. The stimulus that triggers this occurs continuously in the body, making it difficult to pinpoint and shut down.
• Latent (or dormant) viruses inside an individual reactivate. (Every person carries multiple viruses that are dormant. Under certain circumstances, they can be reactivated.)
• Chronic changes occur in the body after the acute inflammatory response (COVID infection). Inflammation in one tissue can damage other tissues.

“Our research thus far has shown hints of all of these,” Iwasaki says. “It’s also possible that these things can happen in sequence. You may start with a persistent virus that then leads to the reactivation of latent viruses, leading to inflammation. It's also possible that some people have only one of these things going on while others have all of them.”

3. Isn’t Long COVID on the decline?

In the U.S., the Household Pulse Survey , an ongoing survey conducted by the Census Bureau and National Center for Health Statistics, suggests that the incidence of Long COVID may be decreasing. The percentage of participants who had COVID and reported having new or continuing COVID symptoms (when they responded to the survey) dropped to 11% in January 2023 from 19% in June 2022.

While there isn’t a clear explanation for the decline, Yale Medicine cardiologist Erica Spatz, MD, MHS , tracks Long COVID as part of a CDC-funded study called INSPIRE (Innovative Support For Patients with SARS-CoV-2 Infections Registry). “Our data—as well as other data—suggests the incidence of prolonged or emergent symptoms is declining as more people are vaccinated and as we have been seeing milder variants,” she says.

At the same time, no one knows exactly how many people have Long COVID, although one study estimates that 65 million people worldwide have the condition , and experts say the number is probably much higher. Many cases of COVID likely have not been reported, especially with the increase in rapid testing at home since 2022 (and, thus, decreased reporting of positive infections). And people who had difficulty distinguishing between COVID and colds or similar health issues may not have sought testing or medical advice.

But, doctors are still diagnosing new cases, in addition to caring for patients who developed Long COVID at earlier points in the pandemic, adds Dr. Lutchmansingh. “Since 2020, Yale specialists have had over 1,000 referrals for patients with persistent symptoms following COVID,” she says.

4. Who is getting Long COVID?

Anyone at any age can get Long COVID. “I've seen Long COVID in every age, including plenty of 20- or 30-somethings who have no history of illness,” says Dr. McAlpine.

However, you may be at higher risk if you had a severe COVID illness, especially if you were hospitalized or in intensive care, according to the CDC. Your risk is also higher if you had a chronic disease, such as diabetes , before COVID-19, if you had multisystem inflammatory syndrome, or MIS (a rare but serious condition in which different body parts become inflamed) during or after COVID-19, or if you did not get a COVID vaccine, the CDC says.

In March 2023, a study of 800,000 people published in Health Affairs added another possible predictor: People with Long COVID were, on average, more likely to be older and women.

5. Are new cases of Long COVID milder than older ones?

This can be a difficult question to answer, partly because Long COVID data is limited. But Yale Medicine doctors say they have seen a shift as Omicron and its milder subvariants have replaced the early Alpha and Delta variants, as well as the original strain of the virus. “I think about Long COVID patients in terms of the years they were infected because they're not all the same,” says Dr. Lutchmansingh. “Anecdotally, my patients who were infected in 2021 and 2022 seem to get better faster than those who were first infected in 2020.”

While there are new patients who struggle with symptoms, “I don't have as many patients on full-time disability as I did earlier in the pandemic,” she says. Disability is a major concern among people with Long COVID, to the point where the condition is officially considered a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Affordable Care Act (ACA). A report in 2022 estimated 2 to 4 million Americans were out of work due to Long COVID.

6. Will I need to see a specialist for my Long COVID symptoms?

It depends on the symptoms. Because there is currently no cure for Long COVID, doctors aim to treat the symptoms associated with the condition.

As many as 200 Long COVID symptoms were identified in an international study published in 2021 in EClinicalMedicine (a Lancet journal) that surveyed more than 3,700 people with Long COVID. Many symptoms are sorted into categories by specialty, where treatments are similar to what they would be for non-COVID patients with similar symptoms.

The specialists you may need to see for Long COVID include:

Pulmonologists: These doctors have played a central role in treating both COVID and Long COVID since the early days of the pandemic, when many patients went to the hospital with urgent symptoms, such as low oxygen levels and lung issues. They treat breathing difficulties, sometimes prescribing treatments like an inhaler (a handheld device that delivers a puff of medicine into the lungs). “For some of my Long COVID patients with asthma -type symptoms, biologic treatments are making a difference,” Dr. Lutchmansingh says.

Exercise may also be beneficial for some patients, she adds. “It's just a different way of exercising than we're accustomed to,” she says. While rehabilitation for non-COVID pulmonary patients may involve a push to build muscle and strength, that type of exercise method can worsen symptoms for some Long COVID patients. “So, we have to figure out a way to get them to exercise that targets their needs but isn't detrimental to them,” she says.

Neurologists: "Long COVID can cause a variety of neurological symptoms, and one patient can have multiple types," Dr. McAlpine says. “There can be a constellation of symptoms.” She has treated patients for headaches, including new or worsening migraine symptoms . Some have developed neuropathy, a disease of the peripheral nerves that causes numbness or weakness.

But the most common neurological symptoms Dr. McAlpine sees are cognitive difficulties, including issues with attention and memory recall, and language and executive functioning. “Patients will say, ‘I can't find my words. I lose track of my thoughts in the middle of my sentences. I have to write everything down. I can't multitask anymore,’” she says. “With the Alpha and Delta variants, the cognitive impairment was quite severe around the acute illness. Then, it would very slowly get better.”

Gastroenterologists: Some patients report bloating, constipation , diarrhea, vomiting, and other signs of stomach distress. In March 2023, a study in Nature Communications reported that people who had COVID experienced significantly more gastrointestinal symptoms a year after their infection than people who had not had the virus. The study compared almost 150,000 people who were infected in the early days of the pandemic with 5.6 million similar patients who had not had the virus. In the first group, conditions, including GERD (gastroesophageal reflux disease) and peptic ulcer disease, were among the most commonly reported symptoms.

Cardiologists: Cardiovascular symptoms are less common than some in other specialties, accounting for about 5% to 10% of Long COVID issues, explains Dr. Spatz. Acute COVID can lead to myocarditis, which causes significant inflammation of the heart muscle, she adds. It also can cause other cardiovascular problems, including thrombosis and acute stress to the heart, resulting in cardiomyopathy or arrhythmia . “We are learning to look for the potential for any of those issues to have occurred and their residual effects,” she says.

Heart specialists also care for Long COVID patients who develop chest pain, palpitations, or exercise intolerance, or those who may have a cardiovascular syndrome, such as postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), a blood circulation disorder that causes lightheadedness or fainting when standing up from a lying down position.

Another potential concern is heart rate fluctuation, which can be caused by tachycardia (a fast heart rate) and bradycardia (a slow heart rate). Yet another issue is a chest pain syndrome that may be related to endothelial dysfunction, in which the arteries become narrow even though there is no blockage.

7. What about Long COVID symptoms that aren’t easy to categorize?

Not every symptom falls into just one category. A challenging one is what’s called “post-exertional malaise (PEM),” which Dr. McAlpine describes as a kind of “energy crash” or worsening of other symptoms, such as fatigue, brain fog, and muscle pain after exercise—even if the activity was mild. PEM can range in severity. “Some people will walk up the stairs and then not be able to get out of bed for the rest of the day. Others will go on a 10-minute walk or run errands and then be out of commission for a couple of days,” she says.

Physical problems like PEM can lead to anxiety and depression. “It can be a very scary experience,” Dr. McAlpine says. “People feel disoriented, and this can cause new mental health issues. It can be a long road.” In these cases, mental health treatments, such as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and medications, can help, she adds.

“Another critical issue is sleep,” says Dr. McAlpine, who has referred patients to sleep specialists. They often come back with varying diagnoses, including insomnia and sleep apnea, although it can be difficult to say whether Long COVID is the cause. “Patients who have had COVID are sensitive to sleep deprivation and disruption , and sleep is so critical to cognitive function, to healing, to headaches—to everything.”

8. With so many different symptoms, how can I be sure I have Long COVID?

There is no laboratory test to confirm Long COVID. And blood tests, chest X-rays, and electrocardiograms may show normal results even if a person has serious symptoms.

To diagnose Long COVID, a clinician will ask a patient about their health history, perform a physical examination, and gather information about how their COVID infection was diagnosed. There is an understanding that some Long COVID patients can’t prove they had the virus, either because they don’t have records of proper testing or they didn’t even know they had COVID.

Tests may range from a routine assessment of blood pressure to cognitive testing to a 6-minute walking test and/or a one-minute sit-to-stand test. Depending on symptoms, the doctor may order diagnostic tests such as bloodwork and a chest X-ray.

A key part of the diagnosis is ruling out other conditions, Dr. Lutchmansingh adds. “That’s one of the most important things about having an internist who coordinates the care of Long COVID patients,” she says.

9. Can Paxlovid help Long COVID patients?

There is not enough evidence to show that Paxlovid , the primary treatment for COVID, is an effective treatment for Long COVID. But, Iwasaki and cardiologist and scientist Harlan Krumholz, MD, SM , are co-leading a randomized clinical trial to investigate whether it could help some patients.

“Studying Paxlovid is important because people with Long COVID have no therapies available to them,” Iwasaki says. “Even though we don't understand fully what the underlying mechanisms of the disease are, it's important that we start the trial and learn who benefits from specific medications.”

Iwasaki and Dr. Krumholz believe that Long COVID may have different pathologies in different patients, which suggests that not everyone would benefit from the same treatments. “We're collecting blood samples before, during, and after Paxlovid delivery, so we will be able to classify people who respond positively to it versus those who respond negatively—or not at all,” Iwasaki says.

Participants can give samples at specified locations and otherwise participate in the study from home. (The trial is currently available to people who live in Connecticut, New York, and Florida, and it may expand to other states.)

Once such classifications are made, the researchers will be able to recruit people for a larger trial to learn more about those who have a positive response to Paxlovid. “We're looking for the kind of signal that will help us administer the proper therapies to people,” Iwasaki says. “Even if it benefits 10% of people, that's still a lot.”

(Anyone wishing to participate in the clinical trial can email [email protected] for more information.)

10. Can vaccines prevent or help treat Long COVID?

It’s unclear whether vaccines  can prevent Long COVID. Researchers are still looking for answers. “There have been so many studies on this topic,” Iwasaki says. “Now, the consensus is that there is about a 30% reduction of risk of Long COVID in those who were vaccinated prior to infection.”

While the 30% figure is based on prevention, vaccination may also impact the severity of a person’s Long COVID symptoms, Iwasaki says, adding that more research is needed.

11. Can I recover from Long COVID?

There is research showing that many people do get better. A study from Israel published in the British Medical Journal ( BMJ ) in January 2023 found most cases of Long COVID in almost 300,000 children and adults who had mild COVID infections resolved within a year of diagnosis. The research covered a period between March 2020 and October 2021, before the Omicron variant emerged, and it included vaccinated and unvaccinated participants.

Anecdotally, Dr. Lutchmansingh says she has two sets of patients who remain in her pulmonary practice. One includes people whose condition has improved, even if they are not back to their pre-COVID baseline. “The other includes those who continue to have difficulty. These are patients who still have multiple symptoms, including pulmonary issues, fatigue, and neurological problems,” she says.

In both groups, there aren't many patients who feel they’ve gotten better to the point where they forgot they had COVID, Dr. Lutchmansingh adds. “Their body knows something happened to them, but they're not as debilitated as they were in 2020 or 2021,” she says.

12. COVID is no longer considered a public health emergency. Does that mean Long COVID will go away?

It’s impossible to know what Long COVID will look like in a year or five years, Iwasaki explains.

With Omicron, Long COVID is seemingly less common, and the severity may be lower. “But we'll have to see,” she says, noting that while the public health emergency may have ended, the SARS-CoV-2 virus is unpredictable. “If a new variant comes along that significantly evades immune responses, then we don't know what the outcome would be,” she says.

13. What about those who think Long COVID shouldn't be taken seriously?

Yale Medicine doctors say it’s important to know that Long COVID is a real condition, and people with it can benefit from medical attention. “There's a proportion of people who have difficulty accepting Long COVID because the science hasn't caught up with it,” says Dr. Lutchmansingh, adding that it can be frustrating when a patient is reporting symptoms, but clinical testing doesn’t show any abnormality.

“I don't think that's a reason not to believe the patient,” she says. “We want to affirm that this is a real condition and let people know we are working on strategies and treatments to help them.”

Information provided in Yale Medicine articles is for general informational purposes only. No content in the articles should ever be used as a substitute for medical advice from your doctor or other qualified clinician. Always seek the individual advice of your health care provider with any questions you have regarding a medical condition.

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Deuteronomy 14:24-26 New King James Version

24  But if the journey is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry the tithe, or ( A ) if the place where the Lord your God chooses to put His name is too far from you, when the Lord your God has blessed you, 25  then you shall exchange it for money, take the money in your hand, and go to the place which the Lord your God chooses. 26  And you shall spend that money for whatever your heart desires: for oxen or sheep, for wine or similar drink, for whatever your heart desires; you shall eat there before the Lord your God, and you shall ( B ) rejoice, you and your household.

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• Deuteronomy 14:26 : Deut. 12:7

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Not long after their 2022 wedding, Trev Lukather (son of Toto guitarist Steve Lukather) and Madison Cain-Lukather (daughter of Journey keyboardist Jonathan Cain) were playing some vintage tunes on a road trip. They came across Journey’s 1986 song “It Could Have Been You,” which neither of them had ever heard. “We were just blown away,” Trev Lukather tells Rolling Stone . “I loved the funkiness of it, and Steve Perry ‘s vocals were just insane. We kept playing that song on repeat.”

Trev Lukather was just nine years old when he first met Perry at the studio of songwriter Randy Goodrum, co-writer of Perry’s 1984 solo hits “Foolish Heart” and “Oh Sherrie.” They reconnected 11 years later, once again via Goodrum, when Trev came to Steakhouse Studios in North Hollywood to play on one of his father’s solo albums. They started chatting, and Trev invited Perry into his car to hear some music he’d created on his own. “He was like, ‘Oh my gosh, man, this is great,'” Lukather recalls. “‘When are you going to be in the studio next?’ He wound up coming by the studio. And from that moment on, Steve has just been a mentor to me, along with my dad, and just a dear brother.”

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“It’s bedhead, bro,” Lukather responds. “I wake up like this, as people say.”

The conversation quickly drifts to Perry’s initial impressions of the young Lukather. “When I hear somebody that’s musically got talent, just God-given talent and not somebody who wants to be something, but truly has got this drive in them, I can’t stay away from it,” says Perry. “And that’s what happened when I heard Trev play the first time. I thought, ‘Jesus, man, this kid has taken his DNA to the next level.'”

Early in their relationship, after watching Lukather shred on the guitar, Perry gave him a crucial piece of advice that stuck with him. “He was like, ‘Let me ask you a question,” Lukather recalls. “‘What do you want in the front row: guys or girls?’ I was 20. I was like, ‘Steve, of course I want girls in the front row.’ He said, ‘Stop playing that and play front-row licks.’ That’s three words that I’ll remember for the rest of my life. And he said, ‘Sing with that guitar. If you sing with that guitar, you will have girls in the front row. If you shred, you’ll have guys in the front row.’

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The years that followed weren’t always easy, however. He recorded an entire album with an early band, but they broke up before it ever came out due to behind-the-scenes drama. The bitter situation soured him on groups until he randomly came across singer Emmett Lee Stang’s cover of “In Your Eyes” on Instagram. He sent him a DM, they got on the phone, and decided to try making music together. Around that time, he connected with Nic Collins on a trip to Miami. “We first met at a Phil Collins concert in 2018,” says Lukather. “And when went out for dinner years later with his girlfriend Isabella, we were instant bros.”

Lukather, Collins, and Stang dubbed themselves the Effect, and they released the singles “Toxic Envy,” “Something Wrong,” and “Unwanted” last year. When they started thinking about songs to cut for a full album, Lukather played Collins and Stang “It Could Have Been You.” “They were like, ‘What is this?'” Lukather says. “Their reaction was the same as mine. That’s what sparked the idea of redoing it. I thought it would be sacrilegious to try to touch the greatest hits of Journey. Leave that to the gems that they are. But I was like, ‘This could be something that we can make our own and be really cool.'”

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Northern lights may be visible over Washington this weekend

Washington state residents may get a glimpse at the northern lights through the weekend starting tonight, thanks to unusually strong solar activity and clear skies in the forecast across the Northwest.

On Thursday  NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) reported  that one of the largest and most powerful clusters of solar flares witnessed since 2005 erupted from the Sun’s surface, and that the resulting geomagnetic storm it produces is expected to sweep across earth’s northern latitudes for the next two days.

The northern lights, or aurora borealis, may be seen as far south as northern California and even Alabama, according to the Space Weather Prediction Center.

"This is an unusual and potentially historic event," Clinton Wallace, director of the Space Weather Prediction Center, said in a  statement .

The northern lights are the most benign result of solar activity, according to USA TODAY. Strong solar storms – including the rare category of G4s, which are possible for May 11 – can also disrupt some radio communications, harm satellites and even knock out power systems, forecasters warned.

The Space Weather Prediction Center only rarely issues "severe" storm watches. The last time such an alert was issued was January 2005. "Watches at this level are very rare," the center said.

The colorful aurora forms when particles flowing from the sun get caught up in Earth's magnetic field. The particles interact with molecules of atmospheric gases to cause the famed glowing green and reddish colors of the aurora.

The best aurora is usually within an hour or two of midnight, looking to the north from a location that is further away from city lights, according to NOAA. The best viewing conditions for the aurora are expected across the northern Plains and the Pacific Northwest, where mainly cloud-free conditions will lead to great views of the night sky,  AccuWeather  meteorologist Brian Lada said.

Reporting from USA TODAY was used in this report.

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Read the latest on the northern lights this weekend: Saturday's forecast says parts of U.S. could see auroras .

A series of strong solar flares that the sun has been emitting since Wednesday morning could cause the northern lights to become visible this weekend to a wide swath of the United States.

The coronal mass ejections (CMEs) hurtling toward Earth prompted the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to issue a rare  Severe (G4) Geomagnetic Storm Watch on Thursday for the first time in 19 years. The geomagnetic storms that the CMEs would produce pose a limited threat to our communications, but they can also trigger the aurora borealis, better known as the northern lights.

And because the sun is at the height of its 11-year-cycle, the auroras have a very good chance of being seen by more Americans than usual .

Here's what to know about the northern lights, and when and where you may catch a glimpse of them this weekend.

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What are the northern lights?

The auroras are a natural light display in Earth's sky that are famously best seen in high-latitude regions.

The northern lights materialize when energized particles from the sun reach Earth's upper atmosphere at speeds of up to 45 million mph, according to Space.com . Earth's magnetic field redirects the particles toward the poles through a process that produces a stunning display of rays, spirals and flickers that has fascinated humans for millennia.

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When might the northern lights be most visible?

This week's solar activity brings with it the increased possibility of seeing the aurora across the U.S.

Though the timing is uncertain and the northern lights can be a particularly fickle forecast , officials at NOAA said the coronal mass ejections could reach Earth as early as Friday evening into Saturday, Shawn Dahl, a space weather forecaster at SWPC, told reporters Friday morning during a news briefing.

Experts from NOAA said auroras could be visible into Sunday.

The best aurora is usually within an hour or two of midnight (between 10:00 p.m. and 2:00 a.m. local time). These hours expand towards evening and morning as the level of geomagnetic activity increases, according to NOAA.

Where might the northern lights be best seen in the US?

The northern half of the U.S. is forecasted to be in the view path where the auroras may be most visible.

The best chances appear to be in northern Montana, Minnesota, Wisconsin and the majority of North Dakota, according to SWPC's  experimental Aurora viewline . The visibility for viewing will also depend on local weather conditions and city lights.

Experts at NOAA said the northern lights may even be visible as far south as Alabama and Northern California. If all else fails, experts even recommend taking a photo of the night sky with your cell phone – you never known what you may capture.

"Things that the human eye can't see, your phone can, so it'll be interesting to see just how far south we're getting aurora images this time," said Brent Gordon, Chief of Space Weather Services Branch for SWPC, on the Friday call with reporters.

The National Weather Service on Friday shared an aurora forecast for Friday night and early Saturday morning, showing more than a dozen states with at least a chance to see the lights.

How does the solar maximum influence the northern lights?

Explosive bursts of radiation known as solar flares and coronal mass ejections (eruptions of solar material) drive the geometric storms, releasing solar particles and electromagnetic radiation toward our planet.

As the frequency of coronal mass ejections increases at the height of its 11-year cycle,  which NASA said is expected to be in 2025 , electromagnetic activity on the sun peaks. What that so-called "solar maximum" means for us is that the risk increases for disruption to satellite signals, radio communications, internet and electrical power grids.

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Last December , a powerful burst of energy created the largest solar flare that NASA had detected since 2017.

The last G4 level solar storm hit Earth in March , one of only three storms of that severity observed since 2019, according to NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center .

Just like in March, the upcoming solar storm will have particles flowing from the sun that get caught up in Earth's magnetic field, causing colorful auroras to form as they interact with molecules of atmospheric gases. The resulting glowing green and reddish colors of the aurora may be quite a sight to see.

Contributing: Doyle Rice, USA TODAY

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WASHINGTON ― The Internal Revenue Service today reminded the 1 million people who didn’t file their tax year 2020 returns they may be eligible for a refund if they file by the May 17 deadline.

The IRS estimates more than $1 billion in refunds remain unclaimed because people haven’t filed their 2020 tax returns yet. The state-by-state table below shows how many people are potentially eligible for these refunds, and the average median refund in each state.

There's no penalty for failure to file if a refund is due. However, a return claiming a refund must be filed within three years of its due date for a refund to be allowed. After the expiration of the three-year period, the refund statute generally prevents the issuance of a refund check and the application of any credits, including overpayments of estimated taxes or withholding amounts, to other tax years that are underpaid.

For 2020 tax returns, people have a little more time than usual to file their claim for refunds. Typically, the filing deadline to claim old refunds falls around the tax deadline of April 15. However, the 2020 filing deadline was pushed to May 17, due to COVID-19, making the three-year window deadline for 2020 unfiled returns May 17, 2024. The IRS issued Notice 2023-21 on Feb. 27, 2023, providing legal guidance on claims required by the postponed deadline.

Many people who didn’t file may be eligible for more

By missing out on filing a tax return, people stand to lose more than just their refund of taxes withheld or paid during 2020. The estimate does not include credits that non-filers may be eligible to receive. Credits include the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) , the Recovery Rebate Credit or other credits that may be applicable.

Many low- and moderate-income workers may be eligible for the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). For 2020, the EITC was worth as much as $6,660 for taxpayers with qualifying children. The EITC helps individuals and families whose incomes are below certain thresholds.

The IRS has previously reminded those who may be entitled to the COVID-era Recovery Rebate Credit in 2020 that time is running out to file a tax return and claim their money. The Recovery Rebate Credit is a refundable credit for individuals who did not receive one or more Economic Impact Payments, also known as stimulus payments, distributed in 2020 and 2021.

Plan to file? IRS offers options to get key documents

Gathering all the necessary documents and forms to file a return for 2020 may take some time. People should start as soon as possible to make sure they have enough time to file before the May 17 deadline for 2020 refunds. Here are some options:

• Request copies of key documents. Taxpayers who are missing Forms W-2, 1098, 1099 or 5498 for the years 2020, 2021 or 2022 can request copies from their employer, bank or other payers.  
• Use Get Transcript Online at IRS.gov. Taxpayers who have lost contact with their employer or other payers can order a free wage and income transcript at IRS.gov using the Get Transcript Online tool. For many taxpayers, this is by far the quickest and easiest option.  
• Request a transcript. Another option is for people to file Form 4506-T, Request for Transcript of Tax Return , with the IRS to request a “wage and income transcript.” A wage and income transcript shows data from information returns received by the IRS, such as Forms W-2, 1099, 1098, Form 5498 and IRA contribution information. Taxpayers can use the information from the transcript to file their tax return. But plan ahead – these written requests can take several weeks; people are strongly urged to try the other options first.  
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Taxpayers who are unsure if they are required to file a return can visit Do I need to file a tax return? or refer to Publication 17, Your Federal Income Tax (For Individuals) .

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For individuals who have not filed a federal income a tax return for 2020, the IRS offers tools and resources on IRS.gov. Free support includes the Interactive Tax Assistant (ITA) , information on What to do if you haven’t filed your return , and Frequently asked questions and answers (FAQs) .

Qualified taxpayers can also access free tax preparation assistance through the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance and the Tax Counseling for the Elderly programs . Use the VITA Locator Tool or call 800-906-9887 to locate the nearest VITA site.

The IRS also reassures taxpayers there is no penalty for claiming a refund on a late-filed tax return. Direct deposit is recommended as the quickest and simplest way to receive a tax refund.

State-by-state estimates of individuals who may be due 2020 income tax refunds

The IRS estimated the number of individuals in each state and the median potential refund a filer may be entitled to receive. The actual refund amount will vary based on a household’s tax situation.

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