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Enjoy the Journey Quotes

    “The uncomfortable truth is that the humps don’t end, even if we win the lottery, shed twenty pounds, or get hired as a Nutella taste tester.  Our lives, and all the things worth enjoying in them, don’t come after the humps—they are the humps.  The ups and downs, problems and solutions, challenges and triumphs are what pave this journey.  They don’t always make it look pretty, but no one ever promised they would.” ~ Humble the Poet, Things No One Else Can Teach Us (Page 133)

      “Focusing on the rainbow instead of the pot of gold isn’t just one of many philosophies we can adapt—it’s the most sustainable way for us to keep going.  The present is all we have, and we can promise ourselves only so much contentment before we realize that the story doesn’t end until we take our last breath.  Once we accept that, we can enjoy the journey, celebrating every baby step we take, not toward a treasure on a map, but in a direction that steadily improves the way we feel about ourselves, our lives, and the world around us.” ~ Humble the Poet, Things No One Else Can Teach Us (Page 95)

        “Your life’s journey has an outer purpose and an inner purpose.  The outer purpose is to arrive at your goal or destination, to accomplish what you set out to do, to achieve this or that, which, of course, implies future.  But if your destination, or the steps you are going to take in the future, take up so much of your attention that they become more important to you than the step you are taking now, then you completely miss the journey’s inner purpose, which has nothing to do with where you are going or what you are doing, but everything to do with how.  It has nothing to do with future but everything to do with the quality of your consciousness at this moment.” ~ Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now (Page 88)

          “Accomplishments will prove to be a journey, not a destination.” ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

              “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” ~ Lao Tzu

              Enjoy the journey

                Enjoy the journey

                Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

                  “If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat. Just get on.” ~ Sheryl Sandberg

                    “Success is not the destination; it’s a way to travel.” ~ Denis Waitley