Quotes: Japanese proverb

"When you have completed 95 percent of your journey, you are only halfway there." 

–– Japanese proverb 

via: Commonplace Book, 2013-2014, 2014, p. 189. 

Quotes: Lao Tzu

"Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step."

–– Lao Tzu (c. 500 BCE), Chinese philosopher and writer 

Quotes: Paulo Coelho

"Maybe the journey isn't so much about becoming anything. Maybe it's about unbecoming everything that isn't really you, so you can be who you were meant to be in the first place."

–– Paulo Coelho (b. 1947), Brazilian writer and lyricist 

Source: Peter Attia. Outlive. New York: Harmony Books, 2023; p. 408.

via: Aboveground Art Supplies Sketchbook 2020, 2024, p. 31.

Quotes: Meredith Grey from Grey's Anatomy

"Sometimes, the key to making progress is to recognize how to take that very first step. Then you start your journey. You hope for the best and you stick with it, day in and day out. Even if you're tired, even if you want to walk away. You don't. Because you are a pioneer. But nobody ever said it'd be easy." 

–– Meredith Grey, character from the TV series Grey's Anatomy, Episode 10.11 "Man on the Moon." 

via: Sketchbook 23, 2014, p. 13. 

Quotes: Bashō

"Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home." 

–– Bashō (1644-1694), Japanese poet 

via: Sketchbook A, 2018, p. 65.