“To Travel is Better Than to Arrive”
“Some famous guy once said, ‘To travel is better than to arrive‘. and I was like ‘What!?’ Well, because I used to think that there was only one path to take to where you wanna get to be in life. But if you choose that one path, that doesn’t mean you have to abandon all the others. I realized that it’s actually what happens along the way….that counts. The stumbles or the falls. The friendships. It’s the journey. Not the destination. You just gotta -I guess- trust the future will work itself out like it’s supposed to.”
-Moose (Adam G. Sevani)
This quote was taken from the movie Step Up 3D. My brother and I watched it last week and at first I wasn’t too sure what to expect. I like the quote “To travel is better than to arrive,” because it truly is about the journey we take in life. Sometimes the journey isn’t what we expected. I, for one, know that first hand. However, it’s the knowledge we gain, the people we meet, and the mistakes we learn from that gets us to where we want to be in life.
In my opinion, when we just have the destination in mind it skews the direction we want to go in and the way we ultimately perceive things. By only seeing the destination in mind we don’t realize the obstacles we’re going to have to go through to get there. I think this quote truly defines that we won’t get anywhere in life without having to work hard for whatever it is we want to achieve or where we want to get. We WILL have to work hard and put in the effort to learn. We WILL meet people, make friendships, and build relationships–some that last and some that don’t, unfortunately. And we WILL make mistakes. With those mistakes (and failures) we’ll have to learn to pick ourselves back up.
I also think that this quote is telling us not to take the simple things in life for granted. Every day we’re fortunate enough to just take a breathe of fresh air. A lot of us don’t think about the lives we live on a daily basis (sometimes thinking we’re miserable). We don’t realize that there are kids and families around the world who barely make $1 dollar a day, don’t have food on the table (or even a table to enjoy meals at), and their main focus is survival. We’re so caught up about the way we look and what others may think about us when in reality it doesn’t matter. We often think too much about the future and what’s up ahead than just enjoying the now.
What makes life so precious? It’s the journey we go through. What we experience and what we gain from those experiences while headed towards the destination. The end result.
I’d like to hear what your thoughts are about this quote and even the experiences and journeys you’ve gone through in life! Feel free to share in the comments below! I’ll be looking forward to hearing back from anyone who reads this!
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happy to have come across your site! i was searching for this quote! i just saw step up 3D and was surprised at how much i enjoyed it.
i just watch step up 3d recently.when i heard the quote,i was feeling the same thing. previously i have been going through some rough journey.but through that, i get to learn a lot of things and meet some amazing people.the experience i gained i will treasure forever in my life and i wouldn’t replace it with anything. i’m glad that i went on that journey, cause if i didn’t, i wouldn’t be the better and wiser person i am today..
The quotation actually is, “It is better to travel well than to arrive”
It was quoted by Buddha and was used in the film step up:D
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The quote, “To travel is better than to arrive,” has a lot of meaning for me. I was at a point in life where I had achieved a lot of my goals then I had a major medical crisis, and I lost my job, my home and a lot of other things. I have had to basically re-build my life. What I have learned from this experience of building a new life is how strong I actually am. I don’t know whether I will ever return to my former level of material success; however, I have learned that I can handle things that I never imagined anyone to have to handle. So the “traveling” along this path has really taught me about my strengths.
Worked 10 years 20 hours a day just to loose it all in 12 months. I guess a quarter million dollars wasn’t enough. Now I’m burned out and just travel now and then with the last 10K$, it gives me more pleasure than just building up a huge amount of money. In the end it is not the world, it is just the equivalent of a home. And my job. And if it continues probably my wife also.
This famous person was BUDDHA
I think this quote have a lot of stuff to say, but we are not capable to decrypt the wisdom inside it. when we have a dream in mind and we work for it, it means we are on one path and we are focussed . now just think if a person acheives his/her dream then what will he/she do after reaching the destnation. It simply says you will always travel in search of your destination, and in each and every coming moment you will realise more and more that you know nothing, thats wahy you will traveland travel, bit if you say that you have reached the destination, it means you are lost.
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Gregg Hawkins is a graduate of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. He received his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a concentration in Marketing Management in December 2009. Gregg manifests an entrepreneurial mindset that he displays through leadership, dedication, motivation, perseverance, focus, honesty, and character.
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