It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage. — Henry Ward Beecher
There is one voyage, the first, the last, the only one. — Thomas Wolfe
Looking back at my life's voyage, I can only say that it has been a golden trip. — Ginger Rogers
Every day is not just another assignment; it is a small, but contained voyage of discovery. — David Doubilet
Voyage Image Quotes
People don't take trips, trips take people.
Voyages Of Discovery Quotes
What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we cannot cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? — Thomas Merton
We are made of stellar ash. Our origin and evolution have been tied to distant cosmic events. The exploration of the cosmos is a voyage of self-discovery. — Carl Sagan
What everyone in the astronaut corps shares in common is not gender or ethnic background, but motivation, perseverance, and desire - the desire to participate in a voyage of discovery. — Ellen Ochoa
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous. — Thomas Merton
To many people holidays are not voyages of discovery, but a ritual of reassurance. — Phillip Adams
It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure. — Frederick Sanger
The real voyage of discovery consists not seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle them, and, as it were, fondle them. Let them fall open where they will. Make a voyage of discovery, taking soundings of uncharted seas. — Winston Churchill
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acpuire it. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body. — Marcel Proust
Sea Voyage Quotes
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of the infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. — H. P. Lovecraft
Mystery of mysteries, water and air are right there before us in the sea. Every time I view the sea, I feel a calming sense of security, as if visiting my ancestral home; I embark on a voyage of seeing. — Hiroshi Sugimoto
It's hard to tell the difference between sea and sky, between voyager and sea. Between reality and the workings of the heart. — Haruki Murakami
There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures. — William Shakespeare
The man who voyages strange seas must of necessity be a little unsure of himself. It is the man with the flashy air of knowing everything, who is always with it, that we should beware of. — Fred Hoyle
There is a time in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. — William Shakespeare
Where the statue stood Of Newton, with his prism and silent face, The marble index of a mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought alone. — William Wordsworth
We must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures. — William Shakespeare
Now the melancholy of God protect thee, and the tailor make thy doublet of changable taffata, for thy mind is a very opal. I would have men of such constancy put to sea, that their business might be everything, and their intent everywhere, for that's it, that always makes a good voyage of nothing. — William Shakespeare
If the Spray discovered no continents on her voyage, it may be that there were no more continents to be discovered. She did not seek new worlds, or sail to pow-wow about the dangers of the sea. — Joshua Slocum
Travel Journey Quotes
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
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. — Jawaharlal Nehru
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
Christians must lean on the Cross of Christ just as travelers lean on a staff when they begin a long journey. — Anthony of Padua
Wherever you go, east, west, north or south, think of it as a journey into yourself! The one who travels into itself travels the world. — Shams Tabrizi
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
Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home. — Matsuo Basho
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
I have always looked at life as a voyage, mostly wonderful, sometimes frightening. In my family and friends I have discovered treasure more valuable than gold. — Jimmy Buffett
Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts. — Eugene McCarthy
For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps. — Christopher Columbus
I do not care so much for the death of my gunner, as for other passages of my voyage, for I have good friends in England that will bring me off for that. — William Kidd
The ship was masted according to the proportion of the navy; but on my application the masts were shortened, as I thought them too much for her, considering the nature of the voyage. — William Bligh
Every normal human being (and not merely the 'artist') has an inexhaustible store of buried images in his subconscious, it is merely a matter of courage or liberating procedures ... of voyages into the unconscious, to bring pure and unadulterated found objects to light. — Max Ernst
Being on a boat that's moving through the water, it's so clear. Everything falls into place in terms of what's important and what's not. — James Taylor
A revolutionary career does not lead to banquets and honorary titles, interesting research and professorial wages. It leads to misery, disgrace, ingratitude, prison and a voyage into the unknown, illuminated by only an almost superhuman belief. — Max Horkheimer
He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale. — Samuel Johnson
Laughter and irony are at heart reminders that we are not prisoners in this world, but voyagers through it. — Eben Alexander
It was like that all the time, in those years: an endless trip, a gaudy voyage. But powers decay. Time leaches the colors from the best of visions. The world becomes grayer. Entropy beats us down. Everything fades. Everything goes. Everything dies. — Robert Silverberg
The result of the voyage does not depend on the speed of the ship, but on whether or not it keeps a true course. — Albert Schweitzer
For me... it was always about the challenge of making this voyage... It was always a calculated risk, but life is a risk. — Jessica Watson
Suddenly the full long wail of a ship's horn surged through the open window and flooded the dim room—a cry of boundless, dark, demanding grief; pitch-black and glabrous as a whale's back and burdened with all the passions of the tides, the memory of voyages beyond counting, the joys, the humiliations: the sea was screaming. — Yukio Mishima
That's why we sail. So our children can grow up and be proud of whom they are. We are healing our souls by reconnecting to our ancestors. As we voyage we are creating new stories within the tradition of the old stories, we are literally creating a new culture out of the old. — Nainoa Thompson
The world we know at present is in no fit state to take over the dreariest little meteor ... If we have the courage and patience, the energy and skill, to take us voyaging to other planets, then let us use some of these to tidy up and civilize this earth. One world at a time, please. — J. B. Priestley
Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before. — Gene Roddenberry
While you are walking you would learn much more about filmmaking than if you were in a classroom. During your voyage you will learn more about what your future holds than in five years at film school. Your experiences would be the very opposite of academic knowledge, for academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. — Werner Herzog
Night and day the river flows. If time is the mind of space, the River is the soul of the desert. Brave boatmen come, they go, they die, the voyage flows on forever. We are all canyoneers. We are all passengers on this little mossy ship, this delicate dory sailing round the sun that humans call the earth. Joy, shipmates, joy. — Edward Abbey
And what classical music does best and must always do more, is to show this kind of transformation of moods, to show a very wide psychological voyage. And I think that's something that we as classical musicians have underestimated. — Michael Tilson Thomas
The real friends of the space voyager are the stars. Their friendly, familiar patterns are constant companions, unchanging, out there. — Jim Lovell
We can't care for something we don't understand. This is the purpose of why we explore and why we voyage. — Nainoa Thompson
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