Quotations

These are my favourite philosophical quotations around the subject of walking. These can also be found by clicking on the small black circles in my digital map. There are over 100 of them, collected over the years. All of the resonate with a developing stoical personality.

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“I haven’t got any special religion this morning. My God is the God of Walkers. If you walk hard enough, you probably don’t need any other god.” – Bruce Chatwin

“The distance is nothing, only the first step is difficult” – Madame du Deffand

• “I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking down the same river” – Zhuangzi
• “Now shall I walk or shall I ride? Ride, pleasure said, walk, joy replied” – William Henry Davies
• “Walking is man’s best medicine” – Hippocrates
• “Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking” – Machado
• “It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to” – Bilbo Baggins

“On every mountain, height is rest” – Goethe

“But the beauty is in the walking — we are betrayed by destinations.” – Gwyn Thomas

• “One meeting by chance is worth a thousand meetings by appointment” – Arab saying
• “In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “A pedestrian is a man in danger of his life. A walker is a man in possession of his soul.” – David McCord
• “For knowledge, add; For wisdom, take away.” – Charles Simic
• “To go fast, go alone; to go far, go together” – African proverb

“When you have worn out your shoes, the strength of the shoe leather has passed into the fiber of your body.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In every walk with nature, one receives far more than one seeks.” – John Muir

• “When you have worn out your shoes, the strength of the shoe leather has passed into the fiber of your body.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple, and love without measure.” – Tibetan Proverb
• “When I rest my feet my mind also ceases to function” – J. G. Hamann
• “It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks” – Anatole France
• “To be everywhere is to be nowhere” – Seneca
• “One meeting by chance is worth a thousand meetings by appointment” – Arab saying
• “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step” – Lao Tzu
• “One meeting by chance is worth a thousand meetings by appointment” – Arab saying
• “I like the bicycle for oblivion it gives. I can walk, I think. On a bicycle I go in the wind, I do not think, and nothing is so delicious.” – Emile Zola
• “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step” – Lao Tzu
• “The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.” – Goethe
• “I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.” – Abraham Lincoln
• “My grandmother started walking 5-miles a day when she was sixty. She’s ninety-seven now, and we don’t know where the heck she is.” – Ellen DeGeneres
• “I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out until sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.” – John Muir
• “Not all those who wander are lost” – J.R.R. Tolkien
• “It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.” – Rumi
• “Blessed are the curious, for they shall have adventures.” – Lovelle Drachman
• “Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.” – Jack Kerouac
• “When I see a person on a bicycle, I have hope for the future of the human race.” – H.G.Wells
• “Life is like riding a bicycle; to keep your balance you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein
• “The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.” – The Buddha
• “Feeling light within, I walk.” – Native American Sayings
• “I have two doctors: my left leg and my right leg”
• “Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.” – Carl Jung
• “If we are facing in the right direction; all we have to do is keep on walking” – Buddist Proverb
• “Who needs a weather forecast when you can see the future?” – Papay Ranger
• “The sum of the whole is this: walk and be happy; walk and be healthy” – Charles Dickens
• “The world reveals itself to those who travel on foot” – Werner Herzog
• “There’s nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept” – Ansel Adams (one for photographers)
• “For whom are you walking?” 
• “As you start to walk on the way, the way appears” – جلال‌الدین مُحمّد رُومی (Rumi)
• “All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.” – T.E.Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom.
• “It is not me that is walking the way; it is the way that is shaping me” – a Camino Pilgrim
• “Listen to the silence; it has much to say” – Rumi
• “Go n-éirí an bóthar leat” – (may the road rise to meet you) – traditional Irish blessing
• “Prayers lay in the road where you will plant your feet” – Maya Angelou
• “I have wandered all my life, and I have traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” – Hilaire Belloc
• “If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.” – Seneca
• “Perforate the sky’s eyes and get to know the earth through the sole of your feet.” – Roberto Matte
• “Great things are done when men and mountains meet” – William Blake
• “It is in man’s heart that the life of nature’s spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it.” – Jean-Jaques Rousseau

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