Said the river: imagine everything you can imagine, then keep on going.

- Mary Oliver

We were sent into the world alive with beauty. As soon as we choose Beauty, unseen forces conspire to guide and encourage us towards unexpected forms of compassion, healing, and creativity

- John O’Donohue

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

- Mary Oliver

Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.

- Jack Kerouac, On the Road

Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas... with the music at top volume and at least a pint of ether.

- Gonzo

For millions of years, an ancient conversation has continued between the chorus of the ocean and the silence of the stone.

- John O'Donohue, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

This is a great moment, when you see, however distant, the goal of your wandering. The thing which has been living in your imagination suddenly become part of the tangible world. It matters not how many ranges, rivers or parching dusty ways may lie between you; it is yours now for ever.

- Freya Stark

The life and passion of a person leave an imprint on the ether of a place. Love does not remain within the heart, it flows out to build secret tabernacles in a landscape.

- John O’Donohue, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

As we crossed the Colorado-Utah border I saw God in the sky in the form of huge gold sunburning clouds above the desert that seemed to point a finger at me and say, "Pass here and go on, you're on the road to heaven."

- Jack Kerouac, On the Road

You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.

- Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

The ancient rhythms of the earth have insinuated themselves into the rhythms of the human heart. The earth is not outside us; it is within: the clay from where the tree of the body grows.

- John O'Donohue, Beauty: The Invisible Embrace

The road must eventually lead to the whole world.

- Jack Kerouac, On the Road

I'll go anywhere as long as it's forward.

- David Livingstone

At its heart, the journey of each life is a pilgrimage through unforeseen sacred places that enlarge and enrich the soul. On the way time often unveils its eternal interior.

- John O'Donohue, Divine Beauty: The Invisible Embrace

It’s important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.

- Roger von Oech

The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else.

- Elias Canetti

If you do not love too much, you do not love enough.

- Blaise Pascal

I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding.

- John O’Donohue

Sal, we gotta go and never stop going 'till we get there.' 'Where we going, man?' 'I don't know but we gotta go.

- Jack Kerouac, On the Road