Walking Quotes

“Why are people okay with not walking?
Does Father not miss his daily walks to the shrine and his shop?
What about Mother and her long walk to her parents' home?
Does Bobeh not get bored now that she can't kill time watching people walk on the streets?
What happened to my sister who lived her life outside; going to college with her friends, walking long distances to make umpteen visits to her tailor?
I miss playing hopscotch on the streets.
I miss walking in the courtyards and the run to buy kyencza.
Why can't I play hide-and-seek in with Mogli's daughter in our courtyard again?
Who walks in the by-lanes, on the bridges, outside the school?
Who can walk to the bakeries?
These are not built for walking.”
― Farah Bashir, Rumours of Spring: A Girlhood in Kashmir

“I go on the same walk once or twice each week. There is one part of the walk, around one kilometre, which is my favourite part. And when I walk down that short part, I get the most remarkable ideas, especially related to my writing, often quotes. At some point, I recognized this as a pattern, and so now it always occurs, like magic. I have always felt that certain geographical areas vary in energy, some good for me, and some less good, even bad energy. Countries, areas, and cities vary in this way. So, when you find that special energy place, you can collect good energy, and other benefits, from simply walking through it.”
― Jack Freestone

“My feet scuffed through the golden leaves carpeting the wide sidewalks. Sunlight and shadow danced on ivy-covered walls.”
― Ben Carson, Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story

“You don't walk to kill time but to welcome it, to pick off its leaves and petals one by one, second by second.”
― Frédéric Gros, A Philosophy of Walking

“Don't fear walking alone. Fear walking in wrong direction.”
― Garima Soni - words world

“We're running in a place
Where only walking is allowed.”
― D.C. Thomas, Her Suns And Their Daughters: Daughters Of The Universe Seen

“The larger lesson is clear: brains have evolved for movement. If you're going to be stuck, unmoving, in one place, with all your food around you, then why do you need a costly brain?”
― Shane O'Mara, In Praise of Walking: A New Scientific Exploration

“Everything we do is falling. Even walking is a kind of controlled falling. But that's not the same as failing.”
― Jeanette Winterson, The Gap of Time

“My meditations and reveries are never more delightful than when I forget myself. I feel ecstasies and inexpressible delight when I melt, so to speak, into the system of beings and identify myself with the whole of nature.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Reveries of the Solitary Walker, Botanical Writings, and Letter to Franquières

“Walking around is a hobby, my lord,
The rest of the man, I'm just plain.”
― Kalpesh Radadiya

“When we take a monotasking approach to our walks, including the preparation that happens before we put our shoes on or go outside, we can come up with creative solutions. Walking inside is one option—plan a route through your home, walk in the hallways or stairwells where you live or work, or use the space of a nearby mall or shopping center to walk. Safety concerns may be overcome by walking with friends, taking daytime walks on your day off, or taking a trip to a well-populated and brightly lit destination. Many of these approaches will create distractions of their own but that will encourage you to elevate your monotasking.”
― Thatcher Wine, The Twelve Monotasks: Do One Thing at a Time to Do Everything Better

“For most of us, the act of walking itself is simple, but that’s precisely the challenge. Simple tasks in our multitasking world can be among the hardest to do without giving in to the temptation of doing something else at the same time.”
― Thatcher Wine, The Twelve Monotasks: Do One Thing at a Time to Do Everything Better

“It is something similar that always marks out people of real biblical faith. Their horizons are filled with much, much more than their personal circumstances, much more than just ‘how God can fit into my life and bless me’. It is the other way round entirely in fact, for people of faith are taken up with the future that God is unfolding for the whole world, with what it means to be righteous before God, ‘walking blamelessly’ before him, as Luke tells us that these people were (1:6).”
― William J.U. Philip, Songs for a Saviour's Birth: Journey Through Advent With Elizabeth, Mary, Zechariah, The Angels, Simeon And Anna

“There was a joy, she said, to finding that her body was adequate to get her where she was going, and it was a gift to develop a more tangible, concrete relationship to her neighbourhood and its residents.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking

“Why believe that you walk on the ground when in truth you are floating on clouds?”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“You used to walk across town in the pouring rain to use our encyclopedias. We're pretty confident that we can get your kid to click and drag." I think it was the kid's walk in the rain that constituted the real education, at least of the senses and the imagination., Perhaps the child with the CD-ROM encyclopedia will stray from the task at hand, but wandering in a book or a computer takes place within more constricted and less sensual parameters. It's the unpredictable incidents between official events that add up to a life, the incalculable that gives it value. Both rural and urban walking have for two centuries been prime ways of exploring the unpredictable and the incalculable, but they are now under assault on many fronts.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking

“Here is what I learn about walking.
Walking, like running, is about finding a pace. Stride out too quickly and you soon tire and become disheartened. Stroll too slowly and the journey can sit heavy in the bowl of your stomach.
It is not passing across a landscape. Instead, it is feeling the landscape pass under you, as if the pushing of your feet into the ground turns the Earth further away from you, like balancing on a giant ball.
You do not walk with your feet. You walk with your boots. Bad boots make the walking harder.
When you walk, you notice the details. You notice the colours and shapes and precise movements of everything around you, from blades of grass to birds to creatures scurrying through the undergrowth. It is a way of becoming intimate with the landscape.
Walking on flat roads is too easy. It lets you think too much.
Walking over uneven rocky ground is a way to escape from the mind.
Wet shoes weigh you down.
Walking on a full stomach is like a sickness.
Walking on an empty stomach is worse.
Footsteps do not make a noise at the point where your boots hit the tarmac. They also sound in your head. They echo like an organ note in a cathedral.
Even when your body sweats, the ends of your fingers are still cold.
Feet can be hot and cold at the same time.”
― Katie Hale, My Name is Monster

“The random, the unscreened, allows you to find what you don't know you are looking for, and you don't know a place until it surprises you. Walking is one way of maintaining a bulwark against this erosion of the mind, the body, the landscape, and the city, and every walker is a guard on patrol to protect ineffable.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking

“If you keep seeing the same landscape, there’s a good chance that you’re standing at the same place on the same road. And when that happens, we soon forget that roads were meant for traveling, not standing.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Sometimes, leaving the road, I would walk into the sea and pull it voluptuously over my head and stand momentarily drowned in the cool blind silence, in a salt-stung neutral nowhere.”
― Laurie Lee, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning

“A lot of people spend all of their lives sorting through maps. And while that might make them an expert regarding the route, they never set foot on the road.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“the landscape never looks the same coming and going, so turn around periodically and look at the view you'll see coming back.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking

“A man who knows very well where he is going, even when walking alone, walks with high self-confidence as if he is walking with ten thousand people!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“If your walking inspires others a lot then you should walk a lot because the good you give to others will definitely come back to you!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“The pilgrimage is one of the basic modes of walking, walking in search of something intangible”
― Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking

“for pilgrims, walking is work.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking

“Flaneur is the French word for walker, or saunterer. A flaneur is someone who walks as self-expression and exploration. For the flaneur, it is not about getting from point A to point B, or about getting into shape. The act of walking is its own reward. A flaneur walks the City in order to experience it, to fully participate through observation and peregrination.”
― Karen Duffy, Backbone: Living with Chronic Pain without Turning into One

“The joy some people get from driving a flashy car is not even a hundredth of that some people get from walking for pleasure.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Walking didn’t solve the problem, but it gave me a way to keep moving. Walking didn’t bring me to a destination, yet it gave me a way to negotiate the unknown. By holding space for my doubts, walking rescued me.”
― Ranjani Rao, Rewriting My Happily Ever After - A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery

“Walking was not a passive act; walking was my moving meditation.”
― Ranjani Rao, Rewriting My Happily Ever After - A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery