Enjoying the Journey Quotes

That’s why it is important to enjoy the journey not just the destination. In this world, we will never arrive at a place where everything is perfect and we have no more challenges. As admirable as setting goals and reaching them maybe, you can’t get so focused on accomplishing your goals that you make the mistake of not enjoying where you are right now.

People sacrifice the present for the future. But life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now.

I don't want to think too much about the future. I want to go step by step, and we'll see what's next.

Love life more than the meaning of it?

The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.

People say to me, 'What are you going to be doing in five years?' The thing is, I don't care! It's what I'm doing today that matters.

If you live long enough, lots of nice things happen.

I'm one of those people who lives for the moment. If you concern yourself with what's going to happen a year from now, or five years from now, you defuse the moment. Whatever comes, comes. For this time I enjoy the ascent. I don't worry about anything except getting thinner thighs.

What I like to do is get the family in the pick-up truck... and then we just go for a drive. That's it!

It's great to arrive, but the trip's most always most of the fun.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Dream big . . . don't let anybody or anything break your wishbone. Stay strong, full of faith, and courageous... keep that backbone straight. And along the way, don't forget to laugh and enjoy the journey.

Life always has an unhappy ending, but you can have a lot of fun along the way, and everything doesn't have to be dripping in deep significance.

To my surprise, my 70s are nicer than my 60s and my 60s than my 50s, and I wouldn't wish my teens and 20s on my enemies.

You don't really want to be always thinking about the future, always thinking about where you're heading for. You've got to think about how you're getting there.

Its OK to grow up, just as long as you don't grow old. Face it you are young.

We all get report cards in many different ways, but the real excitement of what you're doing is in the doing of it. It's not what you're gonna get in the end - it's not the final curtain - it's really in the doing it, and loving what you're doing.

One thing I've learned to do with my age, I really don't look ahead. For years, I've been preaching the precious present and having to always subscribe to it.

It is perfectly possible to get what you think you want and be miserable. It's possible too, to never get it but deeply enjoy the process of trying. In this world, there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

Life's a climb. But the view is great.

I've never chased a dream. I believe in living in the present, so I see myself happy and cooking. That's all.

The real thing is not the goal, the real thing is the beauty of the movement. The real thing is not reaching, the real thing is the journey. Remember, the real thing is the journey, the very traveling. It is so beautiful, why bother about the goal? And if you are too bothered about the goal, you will miss the journey, and the journey is life - the goal can only be death.

Dreams are so important. You need to have big goals and expect a lot of yourself but you have to enjoy the ride too.

One of my favorite things in books is watching someone make the mistake. You know it's going to happen. You keep thinking: 'Don't do it!' But of course they're going to do it. It's riveting. You learn through them that it's okay. It's the ecstatic fall, where you watch someone make that terrible decision, and there's such pleasure in it.

The process is the most beautiful part.