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28 Beautiful Travel Words that Describe Wanderlust Perfectly

Describe your travels with these unique and beautiful travel words from different languages around the world.

I love travelling and I love languages, so imagine my excitement when I came across a treasure trove of travel words and wanderlust synonyms that describe how we feel before, during, and after we travel. 

Just like a photo can’t fully capture what it feels like to stand on the edge of a fjord , neither can ‘wanderlust’ fully express how we feel when we crave our next adventure. These travel words are literary gems which have been gathered from languages around the world. From Japanese to Swedish , Latin to Greek , travel brochures of the future will be peppered with travel words like of resfeber , livsnjutare, and coddiwomple .

Wanderlust meaning

As you’ll see in the list below, every language has its own variation of how it explains and defines what wanderlust is. In English, wanderlust means to have a strong desire for or impulse to travel, wander and explore the world.

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During these times it can be bittersweet to think about travelling when we have to stay at home and practice social distancing, let this list of wanderlust-filled words inspire you to a learn a language from home and prepare yourself for your next trip. Being travel fluent is the best way to enrich your travel experiences.

Without further ado, here are 28 beautiful travel words you should slip into your vocabulary. When you’re done, take and look at this collection of inspirational travel quotes . I’d love to hear which ones are your favourites in the comment section below.

Table of Contents

• Eleutheromania
• Quaquaversal
• Schwellenangst
• Strikhedonia
• Livsnjutare
• Novaturient
• Coddiwomple

1. Resfeber  (n.)

Origin: Swedish

Definition: The meaning of resfeber refers to the restless race of the traveller’s heart before the journey begins when anxiety and anticipation are tangled together.

It’s that moment just after you buy your plane tickets and excitement and fear floods in all at once, creating a mixture of emotions that make you feel anxious or physically ill.

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2. Sonder (v.)

Origin: Unknown

Definition: The realisation that each passerby is living a life as complex as your own.

The full definition, taken from The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows reads:

[Sonder is] the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries, and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk.

I often feel this way when I pass groups of strangers, speaking a language that is completely foreign to me, and realise just how incredibly big the world is. We all have a life that is full of different connections, memories and possibilities. That’s sonder.

The internet suggests this may not be a real word, either way, the concept is beautiful.

3. Solivagant (adj.)

Origin: Latin

Definition: Wandering alone. A solitary adventurer who travels or wanders the globe.

Not all those who wander are lost, but all those who wander alone are definitely solivagants . From the Latin word solivagus , meaning lonely or solitary, solivagant describes anyone who enjoys meandering around new countries, alone, in order to take it all in.

4. Fernweh (n.)

Origin: German

Definition: This German word,means an ache to get away and travel to a distant place, a feeling  even stronger than wanderlust. If wanderlust wasn’t poetic enough for you, allow me to present fernweh , a German word that literally translates to “distance-sickness.”

While someone with wanderlust might sit at home and happily fantasise about all the places they might visit, someone with fernweh would feel a deeper sense of longing, a sort of homesickness but for foreign lands.  For me, it’s wanting to be back in Rome . Fernweh is one of most those beautiful untranslatable words I’ve ever come across.

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5. Sehnsucht (n.)

Definition: A wistful longing and yearning in the heart for travels past and future.

One author translated it as the “ inconsolable longing in the human heart for we know not what .” Another compared it to “ a longing for a far-off country, but not one which we could identify.”

When you return from travelling and wish you could do it all over again and experience every moment like it was the first.

6. Eleutheromania (n.)

Origin: Greek

Definition: An intense and irresistible desire for freedom.

We all want to be free, and travelling shows us how the freedom in the lives of others that is different from our own. Eleutheromania describes a person who has a strong desire and obsession for freedom.

7. Cockaigne (n.)

Origin: French , Middle French

Definition: An imaginary land of luxury and idleness.

Every destination seem like a wonderland or cockaigne before you set foot there and see it for yourself.

The term c ockaigne ” comes from the Middle French phrase pais de cocaigne, which literally means “the land of plenty.” The word was first popularised in a 13th-century French poem that is known in English as “The Land of Cockaigne.”

8. Quaquaversal (adj.)

Definition: Moving or happening in every direction instantaneously.

This perfectly describes my state when I’m in a new place and want to see and do everything at once.

9. Dérive (n)

Origin: French

Definition: A spontaneous and unplanned journey where the traveller leaves their life behind allows themselves to be guided by the landscape and architecture.

Literally translated as “drift”,  dérive is the idea that even if you drift you will end up on the right path. This could describe life in general, but it also describes small journeys. When you’re wandering through a new city and you just happen to wander on a path that takes you to great discoveries.

10. Ecophobia (n.)

Origin: English

Definition: This word came into English word via Greek and means a fear or dislike of one’s home.

I don’t dislike my home, but recently I can’t stop thinking about going back to Lofoten, Norway.

11. Numinous (adj.)

Definition: A powerful feeling of both fear and fascination, of being in awe and overwhelmed by what is before you.

Originally, this word refers to having a strong religious or spiritual quality; but it can also be used to describe how you feel when you see things that are so beautiful that you realise how wonderful the world is and the small part you play in it.   Hiking Trolltunga was a numinous moment for me.

12. Schwellenangst (n.)

Definition: Fear of crossing a threshold to begin a new chapter.

From s chwelle (“threshold”) and a ngst (“anxiety”), this word explains that feeling you get before deciding to set out on a new journey. Argh! Did I make the right decision?

13. Strikhedonia (n.)

Definition: The pleasure of being able to say “to hell with it”.

Another personal favourite word on this list. Not only is it the joy I feel, but the freedom to be able to say “to hell with it” and book that next trip and embark on your next adventure.

14. Vagary (v.)

Definition: A whimsical or roaming journey.

From Latin, vagārī meaning “ to roam”, is an unpredictable idea, desire or action to travelling without knowing the destination, and not caring.

15. Livsnjutare (n)

Definition: Literally meaning, “enjoyer of life”, this describes a person who loves life deeply and lives it to the extreme.

If you’re reading this, that’s probably you!  Need more inspiration?

16. Commuovere (v.)

Origin: Italian

Definition: To stir, to touch, to move to tears.

Just like the euphoric emotions I felt whilst whale watching.

17. Sturmfrei (adj.)

Definition: The freedom of being alone and being able to do what you want.

Literally translating to “stormfree”, this describes the freedom of not being watched by others and being alone in a place where you have the freedom and ability to do what you want.

Another great German word. Travelling solo can be especially rewarding because you have complete control. No compromises, no one else to please. Just you and the big wide world.

18. Saudade (n.)

Origin: Portuguese

Definition: This Portuguese word describes the emotional state of nostalgia and longing for someone or something distant. S audade  was once described as “the love that remains” after someone is gone.

Saudade  is the recollection of feelings, experiences, places, or events that brought excitement and happiness but now triggers the senses and makes one live again.

19. Yūgen (n.)

Origin: Japanese

Definition: A profound and mysterious sense of the beauty of the universe.

An awareness of the Universe that triggers emotional responses too deep and powerful for words.

20. Acatalepsy (n.)

Definition: The impossibility of comprehending the universe.

Henry Miller said “ One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things. ” Do we ever really understand the world and what we see on our  travels,  and how they mould us? Sometimes, if at all, it takes time to discover how these things change our lives.

21. Trouvaille (n.)

Definition: A chance encounter with something wonderful.

Whether it’s stumbling across a hidden back street, a quaint cafe, or connecting with a local, trouvaille describes those magical moments we experience in our journeys. 

22. Hygge (n.)

Origin: Danish

Definition: Pronounced hue-guh , hygge describes the warm feeling you get while enjoying the company of great friends and all life has to offer.

Hygge is the conscious appreciation of recognising everything you have and enjoying to the present moment.

23. Onism (n.)

Definition: The world is a big place as not everyone will get to see it. Onism describes understanding that we’ll never get to see it all. It’s the frustration of being stuck in just one body that can only inhabit one place at a time. I felt this way before going to Copenhagen !

Similar to the Swedish word ‘resfeber’, onism describes the feeling of knowing that you’ll never be able to see it all. They say that the more you travel, the harder it gets to stay in one place.

24. Novaturient (adj.)

Definition: A desire to change and alter your life.

This was exactly how I felt when I quit my job and moved to Rome . There was this strong urge that pulled me towards my dream of pursuing a life of speaking Italian and travelling. I knew I  wouldn’t be living my life if I didn’t go.

25. Yoko meshi (n.)

Definition: This untranslatable gem describes the stress of speaking a foreign language .

The Japanese word ‘meshi’ literally means ‘boiled rice’ and ‘yoko’ means ‘horizontal,’ together it means ‘a meal eaten sideways.’ The Japanese have created a beautiful way of describing the unique kind of stress you experience when speaking a foreign language. Furthermore, ‘yoko’ also references the fact that Japanese is normally written vertically, whereas most foreign languages are written horizontally. Clever, right?

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26. Selcouth (adj.)

Origin: Old English

Definition: When everything you see and experience is unfamiliar and strange, yet you find it marvellous anyway.

It’s that feeling you get when you travel to a foreign land and food, culture, customs, or language, is strange and different to everything you’ve experienced before, yet you love it and find it fascinating.

27. Eudaimonia (n.)

Definition: A state of being happy whilst travelling and everything feels great.

That intense excitement and appreciation when you travel and everything feels great. Seeing the Northern Lights was one of the best experiences of my life, a feeling I won’t forget.

28. Coddiwomple (v.)

Origin: English slang

Definition: To travel purposefully towards an unknown destination.

A brilliant word, coddiwomple is when you have a vague idea of your destination within a care for how long it takes to arrive. A great example is when you go hiking, you know you’ll eventually reach the summit, but every part of the trail along the way is just as beautiful.    Like the time I hiked Norway’s Trolltunga.

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Amazing list! One word I’d add is the Dutch word “gezellig” or “gezelligheid” – similarly to hygge, it describes a feeling of warmth/comfort/coziness/quaintness in certain settings or around certain people.

Thank you so much for sharing this Heba. So interesting to learn that Dutch has a similar word 🙂

This is such a fun article! Love these words and phrases!

Glad to hear it! Thank you so much, Eric 🙂

So many of these describe me or my feelings about seeing the world. But, if I had to pick one, the one that best describes how I choose my destinations would be “selcouth”. I so want to be a stranger in a strange land. To have my belief that there is no such thing as “normal” affirmed again and again and over again.

What a beautiful word. Thanks for sharing, Janet 🙂

Thanks Michele what a wonderful list of inspirational words. It nearly made me cry as I realised that I suffer from acute eleutheromania! ha

Thanks Juliana 🙂 I’m so glad you enjoyed this list. Eleutheromania? I know how you feel hehe

Unique list i must say – If you want to add one more word than check this !

In Hindi language (India) traveler called as “Musafir”

thanks Niraj 🙂

Thanks for sharing this! Really enjoyed it a lot ❤

Thanks Donah, I’m so glad you enjoyed it 😉

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51 Meaningful Quotes About How Life is a Journey

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They say that life is about the journey and not the destination. But what does that really mean?

You’ve probably heard this line a million times before, but maybe you couldn’t quite understand what it was trying to illustrate. 

The most successful people will tell you that the process of accomplishing something is far more valuable than the end result. You learn much more from all of your experiences and encounters than you do from arriving at the destination.

Ultimately, the process is the greatest reward. The sweetest moments come when you realize that you have attained the final goal because of everything you have experienced.

You look back on the mistakes, the challenges, and everything you had to endure—but you also celebrate the fact that you faced your problems head-on. Your journey through life is what makes you human.

In this article, we share with you a list of quotes about how life is a journey . We hope that, through these words, you’ll be able to enjoy everything that life has to offer. Even more so, we hope that they will inspire you to live a more meaningful and happier life .

But before we check out our list, let’s discuss how reading these quotes can get you motivated.

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Why Read Quotes About How Life Is a Journey?

Reading these quotes can inspire you to live a better and more fulfilling life.

They are, after all, from people who have found their journeys through life enjoyable and gratifying. There’s no better way to motivate yourself than to get inspiration from people who have already lived wonderful lives.

In the same vein, these quotes can help you appreciate the gift of life. They help you realize that you only live once, so you must relish the moments you have been given.

Finally, reading these quotes can encourage you to share your life with others. You will realize that, in order to be able to live your life to the fullest, you need someone to share both your joys and sorrows with. You require companions to fully live in the moment .

Now that you know why it’s important to read journey quotes, let us check out our list!

Meaningful Life is a Journey Quotes

• “If you can’t fly, then run. If you can’t run, then walk. If you can’t walk, then crawl. But by all means, keep moving.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
• “Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• “The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.” – Tony Robbins
• “The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance, and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning.” – Oprah Winfrey
• “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds that you plant.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
• “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.” – Heraclitus
• “Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know. Perhaps it is everywhere – on water and land.” – Walt Whitman
• “The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that.” – Norton Juster
• “The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday.” – Steve Maraboli

• “Some beautiful paths can't be discovered without getting lost.” – Erol Ozan
• “For me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn’t end.” – Michelle Obama
• “I am no longer afraid of becoming lost because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist.” – Billy Joel
• “Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.” – Pat Conroy
• “Never stop just because you feel defeated. The journey to the other side is attainable only after great suffering.” – Santosh Kalwar
• “There is a strange comfort in knowing that no matter what happens today, the Sun will rise again tomorrow.” – Aaron Lauritsen
• “Sometimes it’s the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination.” – Drake
• “ Transformation is a process , and as life happens there are tons of ups and downs. It’s a journey of discovery – there are moments on mountaintops and moments in deep valleys of despair.” – Rick Warren
• “The journey is never-ending. There’s always gonna be growth, improvement, and adversity; you just gotta take it all in and do what’s right, continue to grow, continue to live in the moment.” – Antonio Brown
• “Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.” – Greg Anderson
• “On your journey, don’t forget to smell the flowers. Take time out to notice that you are alive. You can only live one day.” – Ray Fearon

• “If my ship sails from sight, it doesn’t mean my journey ends. It simply means the river bends.” – Enoch Powell
• “It’s not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place because it frees you.” – Tyler Perry
• “Aim for the sky, but move slowly, enjoying every step along the way. It is all those little steps that make the journey complete.” – Chanda Kochhar
• “Sometimes we make the process more complicated than we need to. We will never make a journey of a thousand miles by fretting about how long it will take or how hard it will be. We make the journey by taking each day step by step and then repeating it again and again until we reach our destination.” – Joseph B. Wirthlin
• “Your journey never ends. Life has a way of changing things in incredible ways.” – Alexander Volkov
• “Each one of us has our own evolution of life, and each one of us goes through different tests which are unique and challenging. But certain things are common. And we do learn things from each other's experiences. On a spiritual journey, we all have the same destination.” – A. R. Rahman
• “Going by my past journey, I am not certain where life will take me, what turns and twists will happen; nobody knows where they will end up. As life changes direction, I'll flow with it.” – Katrina Kaif
• “Enjoy the journey and try to get better every day. And don't lose the passion and the love for what you do.” – Nadia Comaneci

• “But it's a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can tell you things, you have to go out there and make your own mistakes in order to learn.” – Emma Watson
• “The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.” – Wally Lamb
• “Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.” – Oliver Goldsmith
• “The Sun will rise and set regardless. What we choose to do with the light while it's here is up to us. Journey wisely.” – Alexandra Elle
• “We may run, walk, stumble. drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.” – Gloria Gaither
• “Whole life is a search for beauty. But, when the beauty is found inside, the search ends and a beautiful journey begins.” – Harshit Walia
• “Not everyone will understand your journey. That's okay. You're here to live your life, not to make everyone understand .” – Banksy
• “I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.” – Les Brown
• “It was being a runner that mattered, not how fast or how far I could run. The joy was in the act of running and in the journey, not in the destination.” – John Bingham
• “As you journey down the path, don't forget to be present moment-by-moment and absorb the beauty and richness of simply being alive.” – Cary David Richards
• “If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.” – Dan Rather

• “Life is a journey of either Fate or Destiny. Fate is the result of giving in to one's wounds and heartaches. Your Destiny unfolds when you rise above the challenges of your life and use them as Divine opportunities to move forward to unlock your higher potential.” – Caroline Myss
• “I know it can be tough to imagine how to get from where you are today to where you want to be tomorrow. But I’m here to tell you that change is possible if you enter into this journey with your eyes wide open, and with real intention.” – David Hauser
• “Part of the challenge that comes with striving for success is how the entire journey comes with its own fair share of failures and disappointments.” – Rupert Johnson
• “The only thing that is ultimately real about your journey is the step that you are taking at this moment. That's all there ever is.” – Alan Watts
• “Life is a journey and it's about growing and changing and coming to terms with who and what you are and loving who and what you are.” – Kelly McGillis
• “Time is a companion that goes with us on a journey. It reminds us to cherish each moment because it will never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we have lived.” – Captain Jean-Luc Picard
• “I just constantly tell myself that I should be the only one to define my worth and what I'm capable of and how I perceive myself. And that I should never source that worth from other people, especially strangers on social media. They don't know who I am, the length of my journey, who I am as a person.” – Catriona Gray
• “ You have learned a lot, but there are still lots of learning for you as you journey through life. Never stop learning.” – Kate Summers

• “One of the most important things that I have learned in my 57 years is that life is all about choices. On every journey you take, you face choices. At every fork in the road, you make a choice. And it is those decisions that shape our lives.” – Mike DeWine
• “I'm different than most people. When I cross the finish line of a big race, I see that people are ecstatic, but I'm thinking about what I'm going to do tomorrow. It's as if my journey is everlasting, and there is no finish line.” – David Goggins
• “The journey matters as much as the destination. By engaging at the moment on set, I've stopped rushing and now find pleasure in the collaborative process – the characters, the costumes – rather than worrying about the finished product.” – Michelle Dockery
• “It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.” – Mariska Hargitay

Final Thoughts on Life & Journey

Life is a journey, and we all take different paths.

There are those who take the road less traveled and enjoy unique accomplishments, while others go with the crowd but still end up loving the lives they’ve chosen as well. Regardless of our choices, we will all have the potential to become successful in the ways we personally define success.

We hope that these quotes inspired you to enjoy your life’s journey and make it more meaningful. Enjoy the moment and live happy!

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77 Positive and Inspiring Journey Quotes

Embark on a journey of a lifetime with these inspiring journey quotes. Life’s a thrilling ride, filled with ups and downs.

It’s about braving the storms and cherishing time spent with loved ones.

So whether your path is spiritual, an exciting travel adventure, or just starting something new in life, let these quotes fuel your spirit for exploration and discovery.

Journey quotes to begin your path towards greatness

1. “Never give up on your dreams, no matter how painful and difficult your journey is.” – Lisa

2. “The journey is never ending. There’s always gonna be growth, improvement, adversity; you just gotta take it all in and do what’s right, continue to grow, continue to live in the moment.” – Antonio Brown

3. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” – Lao Tzu

4. “Sometimes its more about the journey than the destination.” – Jamal Crawford

5. “Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.” – Arthur Ashe

6. “Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.” – Greg Anderson

New journey quotes to inspire your success

7. “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

8. “Sometimes it’s the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination.” – Drake

9. “Sometimes we make the process more complicated than we need to. We will never make a journey of a thousand miles by fretting about how long it will take or how hard it will be. We make the journey by taking each day step by step and then repeating it again and again until we reach our destination.” – Joseph B. Wirthlin

10. “Enjoy the journey and try to get better every day. And don’t lose the passion and the love for what you do.” – Nadia Comaneci

11. “Struggle teaches you a lot of things, and I am happy that I witnessed a roller coaster ride. The journey has improved me as a person and made me more matrure.” – Manoj Bajpayee

12. “Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.” – Henri Frederic Amiel

Life is a journey quotes

13. “Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.” – Oliver Goldsmith

14. “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” – Robert Frost

15. “Learn to trust the journey, even when you do not understand it.” – Lolly Daskal

16. “Life is a journey that have a lot of different paths, but any path you choose, use it as your destiny.” – Unknown

17. “The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday.” – Steve Maraboli

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18. “Life is a journey, not a destination.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

19. “Everyday you got a chance to make your journey more beautiful than yesterday.” – Nitin Namdeo

20. “Every day is a journey and the journey itself is home.” – Matsuo Basho

21. “Everybody has their own story; everything has their own journey.” – Thalia

Enjoy the journey quotes

22. “Enjoy the journey as much as the destination.” – Marshall Sylver

23. “Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame.” – Benedict Cumberbatch

24. “Enjoy the journey and try to get better everyday. And don’t lose the passion and the love for what you do.” – Nadia Comaneci

25. “Enjoy the journey, the destination will come.” – Verghese

26. “Don’t wait for everything to be perfect before you decide to enjoy your life.” – Joyce Meyer

27. “Dream big, stay positive, work hard, and enjoy the journey.” – Urijah Faber

28. “The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance, and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning.” – Oprah Winfrey

29. “Aim for the sky, but move slowly, enjoying every step along the way. It is all those little steps that make the journey complete.” – Chanda Kochar

30. “Enjoy the journey, enjoy every moment, and quit worrying about winning and losing.” – Matt Biondi

31. “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey.” – Babs Hoffman

32. “I haven’t been everywhere but its on my list.” – Susan Sontag

33. “You must remain focused on your journey to greatness.” – Les Brown

Inspirational journey quotes

34. “You can never regret anything you do in life. You kind of have to learn the lesson from whatever the experience is and take it with you on your journey forward.” – Aubrey O’Day

35. “Life is a journey. When we stop, things don’t go right.” – Pope Francis

36. “There’s no map for you to follow and take your journey. You are Lewis and Clark. You are the mapmaker.” – Phillipa Soo

37. “I’m different than most people. When I cross the finish line of a big race, I see that people are ecstatic, but I’m thinking about what I’m going to do tomorrow. It’s as if my journey is everlasting, and there is no finish line.” – David Goggins

38. “We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.” – Marcel Proust

39. “Though the road’s been rocky it sure feels good to me.” – Bob Marley

40. “We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we’ve established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.” – Earl Nightingale

41. “Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.” – Steve Jobs

42. “If my ship sails from sight, it doesn’t mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.” – Enoch Powell

Motivational journey quotes 

43. “Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.” – Tennessee Williams

44. “Gotta take that adventure in order to understand your journey.” – Jennifer Pierre

45. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt

46. “The beauty of my journey is that it’s always been pretty unpredictable, so stay tuned.” – Andreja Pejic

47. “The journey not the arrival matters.” – T.S. Eliot

48. “The future depends on what you do today.” – Mahatma Gandhi

49. “The goal is to die with memories, not dreams.” – Unknown

50. “Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.” – Theodore Roosevelt

51. “The harder you work from something, the greater you’ll feel when you achieve it.” – Sudhashree Acharya

52. “Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.” – Pat Conroy

53. “The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.” – ILHQ

54. “When setting out on a journey do not seek advice from someone who never left home.” – Rumi

Positive journey quotes

55. “You may only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” – Mae West

56. “Every day you got a chance to make your journey more beautiful than yesterday.” – Nitin Namdeo

57. “Stay positive. Better days are on their way.” – Unknown

58. “Your destiny is to fulfill those things upon which you focus most intently. So choose to keep your focus on that which is truly magnificent, beautiful, uplifting and joyful. Your life is always moving toward something.” – Ralph Marston

59. “You make a life out of what you have, not what you’re missing.” – Kate Morton

60. “Every sunset is an opportunity to reset. Every sunrise begins with new eyes.” – Richie Norton

61. “Life is very interesting. In the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.” – Drew Barrymore

62. “Your journey has molded you for your greater good, and it was exactly what it needed to be. Don’t think you’ve lost time. There is no short-cutting life. It took each and every situation you have encountered to bring you to the now. And now is right on time.” – Asha Tyson

63. “And suddenty you know…It’s time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.” – Meister Eckhart

64. “Find out who you are and do it on purpose.” – Dolly Parton

65. “Your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.” – Michelle Obama

66. “Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.” – Oscar Wilde

67. “If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” – Wayne Dyer

Journey of life quotes

68. “The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.” – Tony Robbins

69. “When you have a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let go.” – Carol Burnett

70. “Life is 10% of what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.” – Charles R. Swindoll

71. “You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame.” – Erica Jong

72. “If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.” – Dan Rather

73. “It’s your reaction to adversity, not adversity itself that determines how your life’s story will develop.” – Dieter F. Uchtdorf

74. “Your Monday morning thoughts set the tone for your whole week. See yourself getting stronger, and living a fulfilling, happier & healthier life.” – Germany Kent

75. “Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.” – Lou Holtz

76. “Our lives are the journey we take to find our true selves!” – Alyssa Gonzalez

77. “Your braver than you believe, stronger that you seem, and smarter than you think.” – A.A. Milne

Which of these journey quotes were your favorites?

We all have the potential within us to be great.

But greatness isn’t about luck. It’s a choice.

We must choose to succeed and take steps towards it.

Remember, the path to success is a journey, not a quick leap.

Let these quotes inspire you to stay focused on your goals and dreams, no matter what obstacles get in your way along the path.

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a six-day journey across the desert.

Synonyms: tour , jaunt , excursion

a desert journey.

a week's journey.

the journey to success.

verb (used without object)

Synonyms: peregrinate , rove , roam

/ ˈdʒɜːnɪ /

• a travelling from one place to another; trip or voyage
• the distance travelled in a journey
• the time taken to make a journey
• intr to make a journey

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Derived forms.

• ˈjourneyer , noun

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Example sentences.

If either is selected, it would not launch until 2026 at the earliest, and would take at least a few months to make the journey.

The job is a cherry on top, but the journey and the experience of being able to audition and leave your heart in the room and feel good about it, no matter what happens, that’s rare and that was amazing.

Cross-device measurement helps connect the dots of your customer’s journey and ensures you know how effective your campaigns are at driving user behavior.

You are somewhat of a new grandmother and you’ve been enjoying that journey.

Instead of having numerous articles addressing each of these particular questions, brands and publishers could consolidate this information as it is all pertinent to the same stage of the journey that the user is in.

The brokers then scout out potential “crew members” who can earn substantial discounts for working the journey.

The next day, after driving to Putney on the outskirts of London, we start the end of our journey.

The NYPD Emerald Society pipes and drums struck up a slow march and the procession began the journey to the cemetery.

We began a journey with Koenig in the first episode of Serial.

But the sunlight is threatening to fade and a three-and-a-half-hour river journey back to Kisangani looms.

With a hammer the boy knocked off some of the slats of the small box in which Squinty had made his journey.

Then summoning a smart young jemadar with whom he had talked a good deal during the journey, he asked him to read the chit.

But dismissing them from our thoughts for the time being, as we did then from our presence, let us continue our journey.

If the journey is now distasteful to her, she has but her own rashness to blame in having sought it herself.

It was past sundown when they left San Bernardino, but a full moon made the night as good as day for their journey.

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What Is The Plural Of Journey?

Plural word for  journey.

The plural form of journey is journeys (not journies ). Words that end with a – y preceded by a vowel ( a, e, i, o, u ) are made plural by adding an -s at the end, as in chimney / chimneys and monkey / monkeys . 

This can be confusing, because the plural form of words that end with a – y and are preceded by a consonant is made by changing the ending to -ies , as in party / parties , candy / candies , and duty / duties .

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What does  journey mean.

A journey is a trip, especially one to a faraway place that takes place over a long period of time.

The word trip can refer to any instance of traveling from one place to another, no matter how long or short it is. The word journey , though, typically implies a long trip—one that’s at least several hours, and perhaps several months or even years. It also often implies adventure—a journey might even be a quest . A journey may or may not have a planned destination other than whatever lies ahead.

The word is also commonly used in a figurative way to liken any lengthy process or progress to such a trip, as in Life is a journey, with many interesting detours. 

Journey can also be used as a verb meaning to make a long trip, as in We must journey to the land beyond the mountains.

Example: My favorite books are about people who make epic journeys around the world.

Where does  journey come from?

The first records of the word journey come from around the 1200s. It comes from the Middle English word journee , meaning “day,” ultimately from unattested Vulgar Latin diurnāta , meaning “a day’s time” or “a day’s work.” In English, the meaning of the word journey originally meant something like “a day’s travel,” but eventually came to mean “a long trip.”

A journey can last a day but the word usually refers to longer trips. The word is sometimes preceded with the mode of transportation that’s used, as in The city is reachable only by a long train journey. Discussion of journeys often involves their destination or purpose. When people say, “It’s the journey , not the destination,” they mean that the significance and value of a journey is what happens along the way, from moment to moment, as opposed to the achievement of its ultimate goal.

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How is  journey used in real life?

Journey is very commonly used in a figurative way.

I ask you to accompany me on my journey to Chile and Peru in your prayers. — Pope Francis (@Pontifex) January 15, 2018

Life is indeed a journey. Successful is he who can navigate the ups and downs without losing his balance. Don’t dwell on your past, don’t wallow in self-pity, don’t repeat your mistakes, don’t focus on negativity, help others along the way, spread kindness wherever you go! — Mufti Menk (@muftimenk) August 17, 2020

Some people around us will not understand our journey. They don’t need to; it’s not for them — Paulo Coelho (@paulocoelho) May 4, 2019

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“Happiness is a direction, not a place.” ~Sydney J Harris

Being happy is for most of us one of the key aims in life. But where we often go wrong is in figuring out which path to take to achieve that happiness.

My own path has been a somewhat unconventional one. In my last year at college, most of my peers were busy applying for full-time jobs with large companies, but I knew that wasn’t what I wanted to do.  

I wanted to see the world, which (long before gap years became so common) was met with disapproval by many. But excited, and somewhat scared, I set off alone on my travels.

I didn’t return for good until over seven years later, traveling around the world twice over, working as an English teacher in Istanbul and Barcelona, as a fruit picker on a kibbutz in Israel, in a ski resort, on a campsite in France, and in a fairground in Australia.

I drove across the US, rode the Trans-Siberian railway across Asia, and took precarious bus journeys through the Himalayas and the Andes.

It was a fantastically exciting time and left me with some amazing memories that will last forever. I knew that by doing this I’d probably be sacrificing any chance of reaching the upper echelons of the corporate tree, but that didn’t hold any appeal to me anyway.

Of more concern was the pressure I felt from family, friends, and society to settle down and find a “proper” job. But I’m really glad that I resisted that pressure and didn’t stop traveling and working abroad until I’d seen and experienced all that I wanted to.

I felt that there was plenty of time to have a conventional job after my traveling days were over, and this has proved correct.

The traveling taught me so much about myself, and life, and made me think about what I wanted from this short time on earth. I realized that I wanted to acquire experiences rather than money, and in my subsequent career that is what I have done.

I’ve done a variety of jobs: I’ve been a musician, graphic designer, novelist, and journalist. Much of the time, these have been precarious freelance jobs and not well paid, but they’ve all been fantastically interesting and given me a wealth of life experience.

I always wanted to have no regrets with the way I spent my life, and so far I haven’t. I know that if I’d spent my whole life trying to climb the corporate ladder I wouldn’t have been happy and would now have been lamenting what I hadn’t done in my life.

I’ve always found it really important to enjoy each step of the journey that I’ve been on and not just hoping to be happier at some point later in my life.

The path I’ve chosen may not be for everyone, but it is an example of the importance of choosing your own path in life, and ignoring the pressure from family, friends, and society. 

I’ve seen how some people are pressured into certain jobs, often because they are considered prestigious, but hate the path they have chosen. Others may be pushed to get further up the career ladder, but then find out they hate the managerial responsibility that this generally brings.

People also often think that when they have more material goods or money they will be happier . But while it may be hard to be happy in the western world with no money (although some people achieve it) making lots of money and buying lots of things may not necessarily make you content.

Buying a new car or yacht is often only a short-term happiness boost and it seems that after a while, each upgrade to the car, house, or yacht gives less and less extra happiness.

Surveys have shown again and again that once people reach a certain wage—around the average wage in western countries—happiness levels do not increase much.

With relationships, it’s also important to find the right path for ourselves, and to be as sure as we can that we have chosen the right partner. And when we’ve hopefully found them, it’s so important to enjoy each moment of that relationship, not always be looking to the future.

We might think that having children will make us happy, but then when we have them we realize all the responsibilities and difficulties that brings, and may look back on our days without children with fondness. Or if we have young children we might wish they were older, but then they become teenagers!

The common pattern in all this is choosing the right road for the type of person we are and finding happiness at as many places along that route as we can.

So it’s important to look at all the good things in our lives and to enjoy them to the full right now. That is much more likely to bring happiness than waiting for it to appear around the corner.

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Alex is a writer and life coach. He writes regularly for websites including The Happy Hut , and is the author of the book How to be Happy .

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Last Updated: January 23, 2024

115 Super Happy Journey Wishes [Plus Happy Journey Quotes!]

Want some happy journey wishes to send someone who’s going travelling? Check out this long list of wishes for a happy journey and happy journey quotes!

Danny Newman

Looking for some happy journey wishes? I hope this post helps!

Most of us didn’t get to travel much (…or at all!) during the pandemic.

But now that almost everything has finally opened up again, it seems like everyone’s jetting off somewhere exciting!

Is your friend, family member, or significant other about to embark on a new journey?

Whether their journey involves travel, a big move, a career change, or something else, they deserve more than a standard “happy journey wish.”

That’s where I hope this list of happy journey wishes and quotes for you to choose from.

Keep reading below for 115 classic, funny, romantic, and unusual ways to send wishes for a happy journey!

Let’s dive into 115 options for anyone who’s hunting for a happy journey wish!

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Short & Sweet Happy Journey Wishes

Let’s start with some traditional ways to send someone a happy journey wish.

These bite-sized happy journey messages are perfect for a text message or a handwritten note.

1. Have a safe trip!

2. Bon voyage and safe travels.

3. Enjoy the journey and call me when you get there.

4. Don’t worry — you’ll get there safe and sound.

5. Wishing you a very safe and happy journey!

6. I hope your journey is a happy, stress-free one. Enjoy the ride!

7. Travel safely and have a wonderful holiday.

8. Wishing you a happy journey and lots of relaxation once you get there.

9. Have a safe flight and don’t forget to text me when you land.

“All the best for your new adventure!”

11. No worries — you got this.

12. Have a safe and happy journey and know that we’re all rooting for you.

13. Get out there and make a difference in the world!

14. Wishing you all the best on your exciting new journey.

15. Good luck with your upcoming adventure.

16. Remember, it’s not the destination — it’s the journey that counts.

17. I’ll miss you while you’re away but I hope you have a wonderful time.

18. Your journey has just begun — good luck in everything you do!

19. Wishing you the best of luck and nothing but success in the future.

20. I’m so happy that you’re finally taking this journey. All the best!

Next up: some happy journey messages that should put a smile on the recipient’s face.

Funny Happy Journey Messages

Want to make your friend laugh when they read your message? These funny happy journey wishes are guaranteed to make them giggle!

21. I know you hate flying, but it sure beats swimming. Have a safe trip!

22. If you leave without saying goodbye, I will hunt you down… And I will hug you. Can’t wait to hear all about your adventures.

23. Every time you feel lonely, just close your eyes and think about all the amazing gifts you’ll bring for me when you come back. Have an epic holiday!

24. I’m not wishing that you fail, but I’m just saying that if you do, remember that you can always come back.

“There’s no deeper pain than watching a friend leave, especially when it’s a friend who pays for my meals! Have a safe journey back home.”

26. Go crazy in the duty-free store, that’s what it’s there for. (And don’t forget to buy something for me too!)

27. No one ever accomplished anything great from their comfort zone. So get outside of yours, embrace this journey, and live a little!

28. They say that you should fill your life with experiences, not things. Well, you already have enough stuff, so go out there and create some unforgettable memories on this journey.

29. “So long, and thanks for all the fish!” — Douglas Adams

Want some romantic travelling wishes to send someone? Check out this next section:

Romantic Wishes for a Happy Journey

Do you want to reassure your partner that you’ll miss them while they’re away?

Bring a smile to their face with one of these thoughtful, romantic best journey wishes.

30. There’s so much I want to say when you return. For now, let me just say, “I love you” and I can’t wait ‘til you get home!

31. I hope this journey is as meaningful as you’ve hoped it would be. Have a safe trip and enjoy every moment.

32. The world is a book and those who don’t travel read only one page. Time to write your own amazing stories, my love.

33. You haven’t even left yet, but I already miss you so much. Have a wonderful journey and hurry home to me soon.

34. Have a wonderful trip, make lots of amazing memories, and stay safe until we meet again.

35. You’ve been waiting for this day for a long day, and I’m so glad it’s finally here. Enjoy every second, my darling.

“Enjoy the beauty of the sunset and nature’s farewell kiss for the night. I’ll miss you while you’re away!”

37. Have a wonderful time on your journey, sweetheart, and then hurry home. I miss you already!

38. I always miss you when you’re away, but I know how much this journey means to you. Have a wonderful time and think of me every day!

39. I’ll be counting down the days until I see you again. Until then, have an amazing journey and make unforgettable memories.

40. I hope you learn so much about yourself on this journey and, when you return home, that you share your new self with me.

41. “The journey between what you once were and who you are now becoming is where the dance of life really takes place.” — Barbara De Angelis

A memorable happy journey wish always goes down a treat.

Memorable Best Journey Wishes

Still haven’t found the perfect words to share? Consider one of these unique and memorable ways to express safe travelling wishes.

42. If you feel nervous about the journey, think about what awaits you at the destination. Have a safe and wonderful holiday!

43. Let your joy be in your journey, not some distant destination.

44. May the air be clear, your flight be smooth, your plane be safe, and the skies be blue.

45. I wish you didn’t have to leave so soon, but I’ll always remember the time we spent together. Wishing you nothing but the best in the journey ahead.

46. I hope this journey brings joy to your heart and peace to your mind.

“Good friends never say goodbye, they simply say “see you soon.””

48. I know you’ve had this goal for a long time, and I’m so happy you’re finally taking this journey. I hope you find everything you’ve been searching for.

49. It was always your dream to explore the world, so go out there and do it! Stay safe but don’t be afraid to take a few chances too.

50. Take care of yourself on this epic journey. I can’t wait to hear all about it when you return!

51. Everything you want is on the other side of your fears. Embrace this journey and conquer your fears!

52. “Friends are companions on a journey who ought to aid each other to persevere on the road to a happier life.” — Pythagoras

Next up: a long list of happy journey quotes that you could include in a message.

Famous Happy Journey Quotes

How many famous quotes, poems, and one-liners can you think of that involve going on a journey? Check out the list below and see which ones resonate with you.

53. “Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” — Confucius

54. “To finish the moment, to find the journey’s end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

55. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” — Lao Tzu

56. “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey.” — Babs Hoffman

57. “Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.” — Samuel Smiles

58. “Life is a journey, and if you fall in love with the journey, you will be in love forever.” — Peter Hagerty

59. “A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike.” — John Steinbeck

60. “Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown.” — Anthony Bourdain

61. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” — Andre Gide

62. “Life is not a project, but a journey to be enjoyed.” — Catherine Pulsifer

63. “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware.” — Martin Buber

64. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” — Helen Keller

65. “The journey is the reward.” — Tao Proverb

66. “Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.” — Lyndon B. Johnson

“The only journey is the one within.”

68. “A ship in a harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” — John A. Shedd

69. “The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance, and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning.” — Oprah Winfrey

70. “Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.” — Matsuo Basho

71. “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” — Tim Cahill

72. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds that you plant.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

73. “Life is a journey. When we stop, things don’t go right.” — Pope Francis

74. “Sometimes the longest journey we make is the sixteen inches from our heads to our hearts.” — Elena Avila

75. “Sometimes it’s your journey that teaches you about your destination.” — Drake

76. “A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.” — George Augustus Moore

77. “Life is about waking up. It is a journey of discovery and you’ve already bought the ticket and are sitting on the train.” — Michael Sheridan

78. “The world is waiting for you. Good Luck. Travel Safe. Go!” — Phil Keoghan

79. “How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” — Winnie The Pooh

80. “It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” — Ursula K. LeGuin

81. “Take care of yourself. No one else knows what your soul needs.” – Aston G.

82. “When you set out on a journey and night covers the road, that’s when you discover the stars.” — Nancy Willard

Some of the best journey wishes can be found in other languages…

Wishes for Bon Voyage (& Other Languages)

Is your friend moving abroad? Do you have a family member taking off on a gap year or an extended volunteer opportunity?

Whatever the case, wish them well with one of these beautiful foreign phrases about journeys, good luck, and achieving goals.

83. Afrikaans: Beste wense

84. Albanian: Urimet më të mira

85. Bahasa Indonesian: Semoga sukses

86. Basque: Desio onenak

87. Bosnian: Sve najbolje

88. Catalan: Els meus millors desitjos

89. Cebuano: Labing maayo nga mga pangandoy

90. Croatian: Najbolje želje

91. Czech: Všechno nejlepší

92. Danish: Bedste ønsker

93. Dutch: Beste wensen

94. French: Meilleurs vœux

95. German: Die besten Wünsche

96. Haitian Creole: Nou voye meyè souwè

97. Hindi: Namaste

98. Hmong: Qhov zoo tshaj plaws xav

99. Hungarian: Legjobbakat kívánom

100. Icelandic: Bestu óskir

101. Italian: Auguri

102. Lithuanian: Geriausi linkėjimai

103. Mandarin Chinese: Nǐ hǎo má

104. Polish: Wszystkiego najlepszego

105. Portuguese: Muitas felicidades

106. Romanian: Cele mai bune gânduri

107. Slovenian: Najboljše želje

108. Spanish: Los mejores deseos

109. Sudanese: Salam

110. Swahili: Kila la heri

111. Swedish: Med vänliga hälsningar

112. Tagalog: Maligayang pagbati

113. Turkish: En iyi dileklerimle

114. Vietnamese: Lời chúc tốt nhất

115. Xhosa: Ngeminqweno emihle

Use These Travelling Wishes for Every Occasion

Did this list of happy journey wishes get your creative juices flowing?

Whether you choose a message that’s funny, heartwarming, poetic, or short and sweet, your loved one is sure to be touched by your thoughtfulness!

Bookmark this list and refer back to it the next time someone you know is setting off on a new adventure.

That way, you’ll always have something positive and inspiring to share.

Speaking of positivity and inspiration, could you use more of both in your life?

Check out these tips on how to grow through what you go through.

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journey noun [C] ( TRIP )

• She gave the children some sweets to chew on during the long car journey.
• The journey was quite quick because the road was clear .
• I expect you'd like to rest after your long journey.
• We did the journey to Wales in five hours .
• The train journey took us through a valley past rolling hills .
• break-journey
• circumnavigation

journey noun [C] ( EXPERIENCES )

• advance the cause
• advancement
• formatively
• from A to B idiom
• progressive
• progressively
• punctuated equilibrium

journey noun [C] ( BOOK )

• absorptive capacity
• acquisition
• hit the books idiom
• mug (something) up
• non-academic
• recognition
• subspecialty
• swot up (something)
• uncredentialed
• around Robin Hood's barn idiom
• communication
• super-commuting
• transoceanic
• well travelled

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The Roots Of Best Of Luck (And 51 Multicultural Ways To Wish Someone Luck!)

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What’s behind the saying ‘best of luck’? It’s a phrase we’ve all used, but its implications stretch beyond mere words. Here, we explore its historical roots, its impact on behavior and the nuances of expressing luck across cultures. But, we also dig into some of the best ways to actually wish your friends, family, and colleagues best of luck.

Key Takeaways

The origins and evolution of “best of luck”, using “best of luck” in everyday life, crafting personalized well-wishes: tips and tricks, 10 best of luck messages: “wishing you success”, 12 more best of luck messages: “good fortune” and “all the best”, 9 best of luck messages: “break a leg” and “godspeed”, 4 famous quotes and sayings about luck, cultural variations: 8 ways different cultures express good wishes, why you should wish someone good fortune, when not to wish someone “best of luck”, how handwrytten can help you wish people best of luck, frequently asked questions.

• The phrase ‘best of luck’ has been a mainstay in the English language since around 1859, representing our hopes and good wishes for others’ success and signifying our shared human connections.
• Wishing someone ‘best of luck’ isn’t only about the wish itself; it’s a psychological booster that can inspire confidence, optimism, and a sense of control in them, potentially influencing their actions.
• While ‘best of luck’ is versatile and widely accepted, it’s important to consider the context in which it’s used, as it can be perceived as undermining effort or skill, or as inappropriate in serious or solemn situations.

Like a seasoned traveler, the phrase “best of luck” has journeyed through time, making its debut in the English language around 1859. Its origins remain shrouded in the mists of time, yet it has remained a constant companion in our everyday discourse, encapsulating our hopes and good wishes in four simple words.

This phrase has evolved along with our language, adapting to the ebbs and flows of societal change. It has been woven into the fabric of our conversations, a thread of goodwill that connects us all. Indeed, the evolution of “best of luck” tells a story of human connection, a testament to our collective longing for good fortune and the triumph over adversity.

The next time you extend the “best of luck” to someone, keep in mind the significant history and meaning this phrase carries. It represents centuries of hopes and wishes for good fortune, echoing countless voices throughout time. It’s not just a saying; it’s a dedication, a supportive pat on the back, a way to lend a leg up in a world where a little bit of luck can make all the difference.

The power of luck: understanding the concept

Luck is a fascinating concept, isn’t it? A force that supposedly causes good or bad things to happen to someone, often tied to religious or cultural beliefs. Some view it as the universe’s surprise gift, a moment of good fortune that leaps out of the page of life to bring joy and success.

Across the world, symbols representing luck have been deeply rooted in cultures from an early age. Whether it’s a four-leaf clover, a lucky penny, or a rabbit’s foot, these charms are tangible representations of an intangible phenomenon. Yet, they serve as a reminder that we are capable of attracting good fortune.

By wishing someone the “best of luck”, we express our hope for their encounter with the most favorable fortune. This wish, this air of optimism, can have a profound psychological impact, fostering feelings of hope and creating a perceived sense of control that can influence an individual’s decisions and willingness to take risks. In essence, to wish someone “best of luck” is to give them a shot of confidence, a boost of self-belief, a dash of hope in their abilities.

The role of superstitions in wishing good luck

Superstitions have played a significant role in shaping our understanding of luck. Many societies utilize luck symbols, such as horseshoes and four-leaf clovers, with the protective aim of warding off bad luck. These good luck charms can be items, colors, or even animals, believed to bestow protection, prosperity, or fertility.

In various cultures, charms and symbols predict good fortune, playing a crucial role in superstitions surrounding luck. These objects serve as physical manifestations of our hopes and dreams, a way to tangibly interact with the abstract concept of luck.

Remember the strength these symbols carry when you next see a horseshoe adorning a doorway or a four-leaf clover preserved in a book. They’re not just objects; they’re bridges between our world and the world of luck, connecting us to the invisible forces that shape our lives.

The phrase “best of luck” is like a chameleon, adapting to fit into various life scenarios. Whether you’re wishing your best friend good luck for a new job or hoping your colleague can find success in a job interview, it’s a phrase that fits like a glove. It’s a wish for recognition for hard work, a beacon of hope in the face of a challenging task. And when you say “best wishes,” it adds an extra layer of warmth and sincerity to your message.

But did you know you can play around with this phrase? Throw in a dash of humor, add a personal touch, and voila! You’ve got a creative expression that lightens the mood in daunting situations like these examples, which you might have heard of:

• job interviews
• public speaking
• first dates
• important presentations

And the best part? It’s universally understood and appreciated, making it a versatile gesture of goodwill and support.

Remember the impact of this phrase when you find yourself wanting to wish someone good luck next time. It’s more than just words; it’s an expression of empathy, a wish for good fortune, a testament to the human spirit’s resilience and perseverance.

When it comes to wishing someone good luck, personalization can make all the difference. A good luck message tailored to the recipient’s traits, preferences, and current situation can resonate deeply, especially when it’s specific to occasions such as exams or job transitions.

It’s not just about what you say, but how you say it. Sincerity is key. Use words of affirmation to highlight the recipient’s talents and efforts, include sincere compliments, and share personal anecdotes for a personal touch. And remember, brevity is the soul of wit. Short, sweet, and powerful messages leave a more memorable impression than lengthy ones.

Finally, don’t forget to choose an impactful medium for your message. Whether it’s a greeting card, digital message, or handwritten note, think about the person you’re sending your card to and consider what would be the most impactful message.

That being said – let’s dig into some various ways to wish someone luck.

1. I’m cheering you on!

Hey [Recipient Name],

Just wanted to say I’m here cheering you on! Wishing you success in everything you set your mind to. Remember to savor the journey and embrace every step of the way. You’ve totally got this, and I can’t wait to see all the great things you’ll accomplish. Go for it!

[Your Name]

2. To infinity and beyond!

Just a quick note to send you all my positive vibes. No matter the challenge, I know your strength and dedication will lead you to find success. Keep pushing boundaries and strive for the stars. Wishing you success every step of the way!

3. Keep shining bright!

Dear [Recipient Name],

Your hard work and perseverance are about to pay off! I have every faith that you’ll find success in your endeavors. Keep shining bright and never lose sight of your goals. Wishing you all the success in the world!

Warm regards,

4. Success is within reach!

Hello [Recipient Name],

Just a note to say I believe in you. Your determination is inspiring, and it’s clear that success is within reach. Keep up the great work, and know that I’m here cheering you on. Wishing you every success!

5. Dream it. Believe it. Achieve it!

Hi [Recipient Name],

Remember, success starts with believing in yourself. I have no doubt that with your talent and drive, you’re going to achieve amazing things. Dream big, because great success awaits you. Wishing you all the best on your path to success!

6. On the brink of greatness!

You are on the brink of something truly great. There’s a world of success out there waiting for you, and I can’t wait to watch you conquer it. Keep pushing forward, and never stop believing in yourself. Here’s to your future success!

All my best,

7. Seize your success!

Every step you take brings you closer to success. Remember, opportunities don’t happen, you create them. Go out there, seize your success, and make your dreams a reality. You have all it takes to succeed!

Kind regards,

8. Unleash your potential!

It’s your time to shine and show the world what you’re made of. Your potential is limitless, and I’m excited to see you find success in all that you pursue. Go ahead and unleash your greatness—success is yours for the taking!

9. A toast to your success!

Here’s to facing challenges head-on and coming out victorious. Your resilience is admirable, and I have every confidence that you’ll find immense success. Keep going strong—I’m toasting to your future achievements!

10. Blaze your trail!

The path to success is uniquely yours to blaze. With your passion and determination, I know you’re going to make an incredible impact. Remember, success is a journey, not a destination. Enjoy every moment, and keep blazing your trail. Wishing you all the success you deserve!

Best wishes ,

11. A wave of good fortune!

Just dropping in to wish you a wave of good fortune on your latest venture! May luck and success follow you in every step you take. I’m here rooting for you to catch every opportunity that comes your way. Ride the wave and enjoy the success that’s sure to come!

All the best,

12. May good fortune smile upon you!

I wanted to take a moment to wish you all the luck in the world as you pursue your dreams. May good fortune smile upon you and lead you to the successes you so richly deserve. You have all my support and belief in your abilities!

Warm wishes,

13. Sprinkles of good fortune!

Imagine I’m sprinkling a little dust of good fortune upon you as you embark on this new endeavor. May it bring you joy, success, and everything you’ve hoped for. Remember, I’m always here cheering you on from the sidelines!

Best of luck,

14. A basket of well-wishes!

Sending you a basket overflowing with well-wishes and good fortune as you start this next chapter. Your determination is inspiring, and I know it will lead you to amazing places. Here’s to the wonderful adventure ahead!

15. Prosperity and good fortune!

Prosperity and good fortune are just around the corner, waiting for you to seize them. I believe in you and your vision for the future. Go out there and show the world what you’re capable of. Couldn’t be prouder and more excited for you!

Wishing you the best,

16. Sailing towards success!

May you set sail on the ocean of your dreams with good fortune as your compass. Remember, every wave and wind is guiding you towards success. Stay brave, stay bold, and never lose sight of the horizon.

17. Flourish with good fortune!

Here’s to you flourishing in every aspect of your life! May good fortune nurture your dreams and help them grow beyond your wildest expectations. You’re meant for great things, so keep reaching for the stars.

Wishing you all the best,

18. Bask in good fortune!

May you bask in the light of good fortune as you chase your goals. Remember, every endeavor you undertake is a step closer to realizing your dreams. I’m here to support you every step of the way!

Warmest wishes,

19. A shower of good fortune!

Imagine a shower of good fortune raining down on you, making every path you choose bloom with success. You’re destined for great things, and I’m excited to see your hard work pay off. Here’s to you and your bright future!

Cheers to good luck,

20. May the winds of fortune favor you!

As you move forward, may the winds of fortune favor your sails, guiding you to new heights and victories. You have the strength, passion, and determination to make a difference. Here’s to your success and the amazing impact you’ll make!

21. Good fortune in every step!

Wishing you good fortune in every step you take towards achieving your dreams. Go forward with confidence, knowing that I’m here cheering for you. Your future is as bright as your aspirations!

Best wishes for your success,

22. To a future filled with success!

Here’s to a future filled with boundless good fortune and success. Each day brings you closer to your goals, and I’m excited to watch your progress. Remember, the best is yet to come, and I believe in your ability to make it all happen!

All the best on your journey,

23. Break a leg out there!

Just wanted to shout out a big ‘break a leg’ for your upcoming endeavor! This phrase might historically hail from the theatre, but I know its essence of good luck and stellar performance perfectly matches the show you’re about to run in your own life. Can’t wait to see you shine!

Cheers to your success,

24. Godspeed on your journey!

As you set out on this new adventure, I wish you godspeed. May this old-fashioned blessing carry the weight of my contemporary hopes for your swift and sound success. Here’s to the swift achievement of your goals and the joy in the journey!

25. Break a leg in your new venture!

The stage is set, and the spotlight is all yours. I’m sending you all the ‘break a leg’ vibes I can muster as you prepare to dazzle in your new venture. Remember, every great performance started with a mix of nerves and excitement. I know you’re going to be amazing!

26. Wishing you godspeed in your endeavors!

May your path be smooth and your progress swift—wishing you godspeed as you move forward in your endeavors. Trust in your abilities, and know that I’m here, rooting for your swift and sure success. May you reach your destination with joy and pride!

27. Break a leg with your latest project!

I’m so excited about your latest project! Knowing the hard work and passion you’re pouring into this, I’ve no doubt you’re going to absolutely kill it. So, here’s me saying, ‘break a leg!’—literally the best way I know how. Your success is inevitable!

28. Godspeed in achieving your dreams!

Sending a note to wish you godspeed as you chase after your dreams. May your efforts bring you closer each day to the future you envision. Know that I admire your courage and determination, and I’m cheering you on every step of the way!

Best wishes,

29. Break a leg on your opening night!

Your opening night is almost here, and I can hardly contain my excitement for you! Wishing you all the luck in the world and a big ‘break a leg’ as you step onto that stage. Your talent and dedication are truly inspiring, and I know you’re going to do wonderfully!

You got this,

30. Godspeed as you sail new seas!

As you’re about to sail new seas and explore unknown territories, I wish you godspeed. May the winds be always at your back, and the sun shine warm upon your face. Your adventurous spirit deserves all the success that’s sure to come your way!

Happy sailing,

31. Break a leg in your upcoming challenge!

With your upcoming challenge, I just want to say—break a leg! You’ve got the talent, the guts, and the determination to make this a roaring success. Remember, nerves just mean you care, and caring means you’re halfway there.

Now that we’ve given you some basic templates, let’s take a look at some best wishes messages across time.

Luck and success are often entwined in the public imagination, and numerous famous personalities have offered their own reflections on this relationship.

32. Benjamin Franklin’s musings

“ Diligence is the mother of good luck ,” which suggests that hard work is integral to becoming fortunate.

33. Bruce Springsteen’s encouraging words

“ When it comes to luck, make your own ”.

Some celebrities have acknowledged the role that fortune plays after initial success.

34. Zac Efron stated

“ I know I’ve been lucky. But it’s what you do with that luck afterwards that really defines whether you stick around ”.

35. Larry King pointed out humility in the face of accomplishment with

“ Those who have succeeded at anything and don’t mention luck are kidding themselves ”.

These quotes and sayings about luck remind us of the delicate balance between luck, hard work, and humility. They provide a fresh perspective on the concept of luck, allowing us to appreciate it in a new light, especially for those who have worked hard.

It’s fascinating how different cultures express good wishes. Each country has its unique ways of wishing luck, with diverse symbols and traditions associated with good fortune. For instance, consider:

36. The Portuguese Rooster of Barcelos

The Portuguese Rooster of Barcelos is a popular emblem of good luck in Portugal, symbolizing honesty, integrity, trust, and honor in its vibrant and colorful design.

37. The elephant in Brazil

The elephant is considered a good luck talisman in Brazil , assuming it has it’s trunk up, and bottom facing the front door of a house, casting negative energy away.

38. The Japanese Daruma Doll

In Japan, the Daruma doll is a traditional symbol of perseverance, determination, and good luck. It’s often given as a gift for someone embarking on a new endeavor or achieving a goal.

39. The Chinese Red Envelope

In China, it’s customary to give red envelopes containing money on special occasions like weddings, birthdays, and the Lunar New Year. The color red symbolizes good luck and prosperity in Chinese culture.

40. The Irish Shamrock

In Ireland, the shamrock is a traditional symbol of good luck and a national emblem. Legend has it that Saint Patrick used the three-leafed clover to explain the Holy Trinity, making it a symbol of good fortune and protection.

41. Rock salt as part of Vastu Shastra and Feng Shui

In traditional Hindu culture, it’s believed that placing rock salt in a corner of a room can ward off negative energy and bring good luck to the household.

42. The Turkish Nazar Boncugu, or “evil eye” charm

The Nazar Boncugu is a popular amulet in Turkey used to protect against evil and bad luck. It’s often worn as jewelry or hung in homes and businesses for protection.

43. The Ecuadorian Tigua Paintings

In Ecuador, Tigua paintings are believed to bring good luck and prosperity to households. These intricate paintings depict scenes from daily life, nature, and mythology and are considered a symbol of good fortune for the home they hang in.

Each culture has its own unique customs and traditions associated with good luck, reflecting the diversity of our world and the importance of wishing well to others.

But it’s not just about physical symbols. Certain practices and rituals are ingrained in these cultures to attract good luck.

44. The Greek good luck: pomegranate smashing

In Greece, on New Year’s Day, families smash a pomegranate on their front door to bring good luck and prosperity in the upcoming year.

45. The Italian practice of throwing coins in a fountain

In Italy, it’s believed that tossing a coin into the Trevi Fountain in Rome will ensure your return to the city one day. It also symbolizes good luck and prosperity.

46. The Thai practice of tying sacred strings

In Thailand, monks often tie sacred strings around people’s wrists as a blessing for good luck and protection from harm.

47. The Indian practice of breaking coconuts

In India, breaking a coconut during important events or Hindu ceremonies is believed to bring good luck and ward off evil spirits.

48. The Mexican tradition of eating grapes at midnight

In Mexico, it’s customary to eat twelve grapes at midnight on New Year’s Eve, with each grape representing a month of the upcoming year and bringing good luck for that month.

49. The Russian custom of breaking bread

In Russia, it’s believed that when two people break bread together, it brings good luck and strengthens their friendship.

50. The African tradition of spitting on the bride

In certain African cultures like the Maasai communities , it’s customary for the bride’s mother to spit on her daughter’s hands before a wedding ceremony as a way to ward off evil spirits and bring good luck.

51. The Spanish tradition of eating twelve grapes at midnight

In Spain, eating twelve grapes at midnight on New Year’s Eve is believed to bring good luck and prosperity for the upcoming year.

It’s worth mentioning that in some cultures, directly wishing someone good luck could paradoxically be seen as an invitation for bad luck. This just goes to show the rich tapestry of cultural nuances around the world when it comes to expressing good wishes.

Positive thinking and encouragement can have a profound impact on our lives. Encouraging phrases such as ‘best of luck’ positively influence the recipient by affirming their abilities, expressing confidence in their journey, and wishing for successful outcomes. This provides immediate boosts to confidence and motivation, helping individuals step forward into their future with optimism.

Nonverbal gestures, like smiles and nods, when combined with verbal encouragement like ‘best of luck’, can enhance the emotional connection and reinforce the supportive message. Praise that utilizes precise language and is linked to specific behaviors or achievements heightens the effect of encouragement and guides individuals towards replicating their success in the future.

In essence, the phrase “best of luck” contributes to a culture of encouragement that emphasizes potential and accomplishment. It nurtures an environment where individuals feel valued and motivated to achieve their goals. As such, it’s more than just a wish for good fortune; it’s a powerful tool for positive change and personal growth.

While “best of luck” is generally a well-received phrase, there are times when it may not be the most appropriate thing to say. For instance, it can be considered rude or dismissive in contexts where success is due to efforts and not luck, such as bereavement or serious illness, where it might imply the situation is hopeless without luck.

In professional contexts where achievements are due to skills and hard work, “best of luck” can come off as undermining individual effort. Formal or professional communications call for expressions that convey professionalism and respect, rather than relying on the concept of luck.

During solemn or serious occasions such as memorial services or court proceedings, using ‘best of luck’ could be viewed as out of place or disrespectful. Before you wish someone “best of luck” next time, pause to reflect on the context. Sometimes, a simple “I believe in you” or “You’ve got this” can be much more powerful.

From exploring the origins and evolution of “best of luck”, delving into the concept of luck and its cultural variations, to understanding its use in everyday life and the role of superstitions, we’ve taken a deep dive into this common well-wishing phrase. We’ve discovered the impact of positive thinking and encouragement, learned when not to use “best of luck”, and even seen how celebrities use it. So the next time you wish someone ‘best of luck’, remember its rich significance. After all, it’s more than just a phrase; it’s a conduit of goodwill, a testament to our shared hopes and dreams, and a powerful tool for positive change.

Handwrytten is a unique platform that allows you to send personalized handwritten notes and cards to your friends and loved ones. This can be a perfect way to wish someone “best of luck” in a more meaningful and thoughtful way.

With Handwrytten, you can choose from various designs, write your own message, or even request a custom design. Your handwritten note will then be transcribed and sent out to your recipient, bringing a personal touch to their well wishes. So the next time you want to wish someone “best of luck”, consider using Handwrytten for a more personal and heartfelt message.

After all, nothing says good luck like a handwritten note!

Is it proper to say best of luck?

Yes, it is proper to say “best of luck” as it conveys a strong and sincere wish for success. Good luck is a more common, less intense alternative. So, feel free to use “best of luck” when you really want to emphasize your well-wishes.

What does best of luck mean?

Best of luck means expressing hope for someone’s success in what they are trying to do. It’s a way of wishing someone well in their endeavors.

What is another way of saying best of luck?

You can say “Fingers crossed!” as another way of saying best of luck. Good luck!

When did the phrase ‘best of luck’ first appear?

The phrase ‘best of luck’ first appeared around 1859.

How is the phrase ‘best of luck’ used in everyday life?

In everyday life, “best of luck” is used to convey goodwill and support to someone facing a challenge or starting something new. It’s a way to encourage and show solidarity with others.

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Exploring the Essence of Journeys: Well Wishes, Musical Expressions, Quotes, and Interpretations

Introduction to journeys.

Journeys signify various transitions in life, from physical travels to personal endeavors. Delving into the notions conveyed by well wishes, songs, quotes, and interpretations provides insight into the diverse meanings of journeys.

Best Wishes for New Journeys: Messages of Encouragement

Significance of well wishes.

Discussing the importance of well wishes for new journeys, elucidating their role in motivating and supporting individuals.

Expressions of Support

Exploring different ways to convey best wishes for new journeys, expressing encouragement and optimism.

Journey Songs: Melodies of Exploration

Meaning in musical lyrics.

Analyzing the meanings embedded in journey-themed songs, highlighting their symbolic representation of life’s odyssey.

Emotions and Themes

Exploring the emotions, themes, and messages conveyed through popular journey songs across different genres.

Train Journey Quotes: Reflections on Travel

Essence of train journeys.

Exploring the unique experiences associated with train travel, as portrayed through quotes and anecdotes.

Inspirational Quotations

Showcasing inspirational and evocative train journey quotes that encapsulate the essence of travel and movement.

Happy Journey Meaning: Interpretations and Context

Connotations of “happy journey”.

Examining the contextual and interpretational dimensions of the phrase “Happy Journey,” discussing its cultural significance and implications.

Emotional Connotations

Exploring the emotional connotations associated with wishing someone a “Happy Journey,” considering diverse perspectives.

Comparative Insights and Interpretations

Comparative analysis.

Comparing the sentiments conveyed through well wishes, journey songs, train journey quotes, and interpretations of “Happy Journey,” highlighting their unique expressions.

Varied Symbolisms and Cultural Aspects

Discussing the diverse symbolisms and cultural connotations associated with journeys across different expressions.

Personal Narratives and Reactions

Personal experiences.

Sharing personal narratives and experiences related to well wishes for journeys, favorite journey songs, impactful train journeys, and the context of “Happy Journey.”

Audience Reflections

Presenting reflections and interpretations from the audience regarding the significance of journey-related expressions.

Conclusion: Multifaceted Perspectives of Journeys

Journeys, whether expressed through well wishes, musical melodies, poignant quotes, or contextual interpretations, encompass a spectrum of emotions and meanings, symbolizing transitions and growth.

Journeys encompass a multitude of emotions and meanings. From well wishes for new journeys to the melodies of journey songs, reflective train journey quotes, and the nuanced interpretations of “Happy Journey,” each expression embodies the essence of transitions and transformations in life.

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Journey Have Revealed The True Meaning Behind Their Hit “Faithfully,” And It’s Not What You’d Expect!

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Back in 1983,  Journey released one of their most popular, and emotional songs to date:  “Faithfully.”  The song is a power ballad that is commonly played as a slow dance song at weddings, proms and other celebrations. It showcases lead vocalist  Steve Perry’s amazing voice, and is one of the band’s best songs!

Not many people know the true meaning of this classic tune. The song is a love song, and most people think that it’s about a guy who is just expressing his love to a woman he loves. This is true, however songwriter and keyboardist  Jonathan Cain revealed the true meaning behind this amazing song!

Cain wrote this song about the challenges of being a married man on the road in a rock band. He said: “God gave me that song. I started it on the bus heading to Saratoga Springs. I woke up the next day with a napkin on the side of my nightstand and I looked at the lyrics, ‘Highway run into the midnight sun.’ Then I got this supernatural download: This is the rest of the song. I wrote rest of it down, almost frantically. I’d never had a song come to me so quickly that it was anointed, supernatural. Literally, in 30 minutes I had written that song. I had the napkin in my pocket and I put it on the piano. I had a big grand piano there by the orchestra. I played through it and I thought, ‘Man, this is good.’ The Lord gave me permission to finish it. Normally I would go to Steve Perry or somebody and say, ‘Help me finish this song.’ No. God gave me the mind to finish it, and the rest is history. That would be a love song to God, absolutely.”

That’s a pretty inspiring story of how this wonderful song was written! I bet you’ll never listen to it the same way again! Check out the song down below and enjoy!

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Taylor Swift releases ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ double album ahead of Record Store Day: Highlights

Catch up on all things 'The Tortured Poets Department':

• Fans celebrated Swift's midnight release of "The Tortured Poets Department" with listening parties and themed gatherings . Many critics praised Swift in their reviews.
• Swift surprised fans at 2 a.m. ET with news of 15 extra songs.
• The album features collaborations with Post Malone and Florence + the Machine. Swift described writing the album as deeply personal. "Once we have spoken our saddest story, we can be free of it," she said.
• NBC News' resident Swifties stayed up to blog the biggest takeaways after the album's release.

Vinyl industry rep says pandemic-era manufacturing bottlenecks have eased

"The Tortured Poets Department" is set to be released in special-edition "ghost"-colored vinyl, available both directly through Swift's website and exclusively at Target.

During the pandemic, that might have alarmed vinyl record buyers. As vinyl plants shuttered and employees were sidelined, vinyl production ground to a halt, causing reports of weekslong backlogs and orders going unfulfilled outright.

But in an interview with NBC News on Friday, Dustin Blocker, president of the Vinyl Records Manufacturing Association, said those issues have been resolved and that suppliers now have more than enough capacity to handle any orders coming their way, including massive ones like Swift's.

"In Q3 2023, we saw the [production] timeline start to go back to normal," Blocker said. "And in Q4 it really got back to normal. Now, everyone, including the huge plants, takes only 8-12 weeks [to produce] ... so it's very good news for everyone."

Blocker said any price increases on the supply side sparked by the bottlenecks have essentially reversed.

So, the $40 price tag on the Target edition of "TTPD" is most likely the result of choices made by Swift, her label and the retailer, he said.

Jack Antonoff is sharing BTS pics

Saba Hamedy

Jack Antonoff is giving Swifties what they want: more content.

The Bleachers frontman, who is also Swift’s longtime collaborator and friend, shared pictures of Swift and collaborators on the album, including Florence Welch .

The acting U.S. secretary of labor has a question for Taylor

Acting U.S. Labor Department Secretary Julie Su has a key question for Taylor Swift and her "Tortured Poets Department":

"Is this department unionized?" she wrote in a post on X .

Su, 55, has served as acting secretary since March 2023; she has faced stumbling blocks to being confirmed full time for the role over her perceived pro-union bias .

Destin celebrates Swift shoutout

Nicole Duarte

The city of Destin, Florida, is here for the Swiftie boost.

Google searches for the beach town shot up minutes after Swift’s “The Tortured Poets Department” was released. The album mentions Destin in the song “Florida!!!” featuring Florence + The Machine.

The city is celebrating the shoutout:

As is Destin's mayor:

Trump gets a question on Taylor

Vaughn Hillyard

A reporter who is part of the pool following Donald Trump on Friday at his hush money trial was able to get in a question to the former president about the new albums.

Trump didn't engage.

Taylor Swift reveals ‘Dateline’ as an inspiration for ‘Florida!!!’

Maddie Ellis, TODAY

Taylor Swift has taken over radio stations, from Channel 13 on SiriusXM to iHeartRadio briefly renaming itself to iHeartTaylor and sharing messages from the songwriter.

Swift revealed in a soundbite played on iHeartRadio that “Florida!!!” — the eighth track of the album and featuring Florence + the Machine — was inspired by “Dateline.”

“I’m always watching, like ‘Dateline,’” Swift said with a laugh. “People, you know, have these crimes that they commit where they immediately skip town and go to Florida. They try to reinvent themselves, have a new identity, blend in.”

It’s the same with heartbreak, she said.

“I think when you go through a heartbreak, there’s a part of you that thinks, ‘I want a new name. I want a new life,’” she said.

Or perhaps in Swift’s case — a new era?

Read more at TODAY.com.

The double album appeared to avoid leaks

Kaetlyn Liddy

The standard edition of "The Tortured Poets Department" is said to have been leaked ahead the album's release. The origin of the apparent leaks is unclear, but none of the songs on the extended "anthology" version of the album seem to have been compromised.

Leaks of major artists' work sometimes occur when physical copies of the album arrive prematurely at record stores or department stores, before the tracks are released on streaming platforms. Fans suspect the surprise drop of the double album was a factor in the 15 extra tracks avoiding leaks.

The extra content was so unexpected that the lyrics of the anthology version have yet to be uploaded to Spotify .

‘The Tortured Poets Department’ broke a Spotify record in 12 hours

"The Tortured Poets Department" is already Spotify’s most-streamed album in a single day this year, edging out Beyoncé's "Cowboy Carter" in less than 12 hours, Spotify confirmed to NBC News.

Swift currently holds the all-time record for most streams in a day by album and by artist for 2022's "Midnights."

Who are The Blue Nile? About the Scottish band named by Swift

In the album's ninth track — "Guilty as Sin?" — Swift name-drops a beloved '80s Scottish band, The Blue Nile.

"Drowning in The Blue Nile. He sent me 'Downtown Lights.' I hadn’t heard it in a while," Swift says in the song.

"Downtown Lights," released in 1989, was the peak of The Blue Nile's commercial success in the U.S., with the song reaching No. 10 on the Billboard American Modern Rock Tracks chart. 1989 is also Swift's birth year and the title of her fifth studio album.

Known for their avoidance of publicity, The Blue Nile has released just four albums since forming in 1981.

Fans share their theories and joy on social media

It wouldn't be a new Taylor Swift album without fans wondering who it's about or decoding the names mentioned in each song. (Who is Cassandra , Taylor?)

That speculation will surely continue, but now that the album is out, fans can't believe their luck. Reactions on social media praised the sonic and lyrical range of the album, saying that "everybody gets everything," whether you listen to Swift for her synth-pop hits or her intimate folk songs.

Author and creator John Green couldn't wait to wake up his daughter to tell her she gets 31 new Taylor Swift songs today.

By the numbers: Will Taylor Swift break her own album sales marks?

Dania Kalaji

“The Tortured Poets Department” blasted to No. 1 on the U.S. iTunes album sales chart following its release. But will it live up to the success of her previous discography?

Here are all of Swift’s bestselling albums in the U.S. ranked to date, according to data from the Recording Industry Association of America.

“Fearless” (2008): 10 million units

“1989” (2014): 9 million units

“Red” (2012): 7 million units

“Taylor Swift” (2006): 7 million units

“Speak Now” (2010): 6 million units

“Reputation” (2017): 3 million units

“Lover” (2019): 3 million units

“Midnights” (2022): 2 million units

“Folklore” (2020): 2 million units

“The Taylor Swift Holiday Collection” (2008): 1 million units

“Evermore” (2020): 1 million units

TikTok rolls out new features to celebrate new album

Daysia Tolentino

As Swifties show their love for "The Tortured Poets Department" on TikTok, they have the chance to be featured in a "Fan Spotlight" carousel that highlights videos with the #TORTUREDPOETSDEPARTMENT hashtag.

TikTok released a "Taylor Swift In-App Experience" that serves as a landing page for all things "TTPD." Fans can complete challenges in exchange for limited-edition "TTPD" profile frames and some Taylor-related searches unlock animations inspired by the album. Searches for "Taylor Swift," "Taylor Nation," and "The Tortured Poets Department" lead fans to the landing page.

The features are particularly notable because Swift's music was pulled off the platform earlier this year as part of a disput between TikTok and Universal Music Group, though many of her tracks returned earlier this month .

Fans on TikTok have already been loving "TTPD," sharing numerous theories , tears and rankings .

Swift's song 'Fortnight' with Post Malone hits No. 1 on Apple

Jason Abbruzzese

That didn't take long.

The song "Fornight" off Swift's new album quickly hit No. 1 on Apple's top song chart. It features rapper and singer Post Malone.

Swift also took the next four spots with "The Tortured Poets Department," "So Long, London," "My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toy," and "Down Bad."

The National's Aaron Dessner on working with Swift: 'some of the most lyrically acute, intricate, vulnerable and cathartic' songs

Aaron Dessner, a musician who is part of the rock band The National, posted to Instagram about working with Swift on the album along with a pic of her in a studio.

He said that he has now worked with swift on more than 60 songs, including 17 across her newest release.

"I am forever grateful to Taylor for sharing her insane talents with and trusting me with her music. I believe these songs are some of the most lyrically acute, intricate, vulnerable and cathartic Taylor has ever written and I am continually astonished by her skills as a songwriter and performer," he wrote, adding in thanks to a long list of other artists and producers.

Will Swift break her own streaming records?

The October 2022 release of Swift's 10th studio album, "Midnights" shattered records on Spotify and Apple Music.

"Midnights" became Spotify's most-streamed album in a single day with 184.6 million streams when it debuted. Swift also broke the record for most-streamed artist in a single day on Spotify with 228 million streams.

The album also become the biggest album of all time by a female artist in Apple Music history by first-day and first-week streams worldwide.

Can Swift outdo herself?

Will Swift's album inspire a new college course?

As Swift became increasingly synonymous with American pop culture, universities around the country started creating entire courses dedicated to studying her lyricism and impact.

Some courses focus on Swift as a business and marketing mastermind, while others analyze her storytelling techniques with all the detail and skill of poetry analysis.

Time will tell whether this new album will inspire yet another college course. Our guess is with all the literary references, it's sure to be on some professors minds.

Read more in NBC News' article here .

Saturday is Record Store Day

The release of "The Tortured Poets Department" will come just in time for a notable day in the music industry calendar: Record Store Day on April 20. The annual event has been observed since 2007 to celebrate independent record stores and is often accompanied by exclusive drops by major artists.

Swift has yet to announce a special event, but the date is marked in the TTPD Timetable on her Instagram, suggesting she might have something up her sleeve.

Swift describes new album: 'Once we have spoken our saddest story, we can be free of it.'

Patrick Smith

Taylor Swift has offered fans a glimpse into the creative process behind "The Tortured Poets Society" and the emotions that inspired it.

In a press release Friday morning to accompany the new release, the artist said:

"The Tortured Poets Department. An anthology of new works that reflect events, opinions and sentiments from a fleeting and fatalistic moment in time — one that was both sensational and sorrowful in equal measure.

"This period of the author’s life is now over, the chapter closed and boarded up. There is nothing to avenge, no scores to settle once wounds have healed. And upon further reflection, a good number of them turned out to be self-inflicted.

"This writer is of the firm belief that our tears become holy in the form of ink on a page. Once we have spoken our saddest story, we can be free of it.

"And then all that’s left behind is the tortured poetry."

To sleep or stream? Swifties question staying up even later

Can you wait until the morning to listen to the 15 extra songs on Swift's anthology?

If you answered no, you're not alone. Online, fans joked that they didn't expect to get this little shut eye.

Among the fans: Gen Z Rep. Maxwell Frost, D-Fla.

"I got votes in the morning. Do I sleep or listen" he wrote .

Others had similar thoughts.

"TAYLOR I HAVE A JOB OH MY GOD" wrote one fan, tagging the artist on X .

"lol Taylor I have to get up early to run errands before work please" wrote another X user.

Leave it to Swift to give us adrenaline to keep us all up a little longer.

'The Tortured Poets Department' becomes Swift's longest album

With the surprise release of 15 additional songs, "The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology" has 31 tracks.

That now makes it Swift's longest album, edging ahead of "Red (Taylor's Version)" by just one track.

A list of all 15 of the extra 'Anthology' songs

• “The Black Dog”
• “imgonnagetyouback”
• “The Albatross”
• “Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus”
• “How Did It End?”
• “So High School”
• “I Hate It Here”
• “thanK you aiMee”
• “I Look in People’s Windows”
• “The Prophecy”
• “Cassandra”
• “The Bolter”
• “The Manuscript”

Surprise: a double album!

"The Tortured Poets Department" is a secret DOUBLE album.

In a 2 a.m. ET surprise, Swift announced an extra 15 songs.

"I’d written so much tortured poetry in the past 2 years and wanted to share it all with you, so here’s the second installment of TTPD: The Anthology," she wrote on X . "15 extra songs. And now the story isn’t mine anymore… it’s all yours."

It's 2 a.m.

Now what, Taylor?

ICYMI: Swift's powerhouse publicist Tree Paine gets profiled by WSJ

Swift's longtime publicist, Tree Paine, whom many fans know by name, was the subject of a lengthy Wall Street Journal article published Thursday ahead of the new album's release.

While she declined to be interviewed for the story, it delves into how she became one of the most powerful people in the entertainment industry since she joined Swift's camp in 2014.

“There isn’t a publicist in NY, LA or Nashville that wouldn’t jump at an opportunity to work with someone as talented as Taylor Swift and her management team,” Paine said at the time, according to the New York Post .

Read the full story here.

Couples are now wary of Swift's 'Lover' as a love song

Elena Nicolaou, TODAY

“Lover” — at least until recently — was widely received as one of Swift’s classic love songs. When the album of the same name came out in 2019, its title single was declared  first dance song material , or even a “ wedding waltz .”

In the song, Swift paints a portrait of quiet intimacy. Her wild “Red” days, of thrilling romances with highs and lows and uncertainties in between, had settled into something steadier with one person, captured by a simple chorus: “You’re my, my, my, my lover.”

But that interpretation is now in question, as Swift recasts some of her songs in a different light. Ahead of the release of “The Tortured Poets Department,”  she released five playlists on Apple Music , sorting old songs into groups inspired by the five stages of grief, or “heartbreak.”

Aaron Dessner is credited as a songwriter on five of 16 tracks

Dessner, who is a member of the bands The National and Big Red Machine, is one of two producers who worked on "The Tortured Poets Department."

He's credited as a songwriter on five of the 16 tracks on the standard album.

Dessner first collaborated with Swift on her eighth studio album, “Folklore,” for which he shared in the Grammy win for album of the year. He made several guest appearances with Swift on the U.S. leg of the Eras Tour, joining her onstage during the acoustic set for performances of songs they wrote together.

Here's what some critics are saying in their reviews

Angela Yang

The critics have spoken. Here's a roundup of some of their takeaways on "The Tortured Poets Department."

Billboard ’s Jason Lipshutz praised Swift’s boldness for releasing a “knowingly messy, wildly unguarded breakup album” at what’s arguably the peak of her career. It's more mature than her past heartbreak albums, he writes, and “not everyone will love it, but the ones who get it will adore it fiercely.”

Variety ’s Chris Willman wrote that the album can serve as an “unapologetically dramatic” soundtrack to listeners’ own heartbreaks.

Labeling it Swift’s most personal album yet, Rolling Stone ’s Rob Sheffield described it as “the cathartic confession of a woman who thought she had adulthood — and adult romance — all figured out, only to find herself realizing she knows nothing.”

And unlike on past albums, Swift doesn’t portray herself as a victim in this one, wrote the Los Angeles Times ’ Mikael Wood. Instead, the album emanates “a proudly villainous energy as Swift embraces her messiest and most chaotic tendencies.”

Jack Antonoff, Swift's longtime collaborator, posts love for album

Antonoff, Swift’s longtime collaborator and friend, shared his love for the new album on X .

"Love this album more than I can say," wrote Antonoff, who worked on “The Tortured Poets Department” as a producer.

Antonoff also co-wrote eight of the album's tracks.

Swifties are starting to post reax on X

In typical fashion after a Swift album drops, reactions from fans are pouring in online, and they TEND TO COME IN ALL CAPS.

As any Swiftie will tell you, listening to new music from the artist always proves to be a collective emotional experience.

Spotify appears to be holding it together (so far)

The last time Swift debuted a brand-new album, Spotify crashed. No major issues so far this time around.

Shoutout to the engineers and people behind the scenes who are probably working overtime to make sure Swifties don't panic.

We have a new countdown

Don’t go to bed yet! Taylor Swift’s Instagram page is displaying a new countdown to 2 a.m. ET. This wasn't on the timetable ...

Swift releases statement after album drop

In her first social media post after “The Tortured Poets Department” was released, Swift shared a statement about the album online.

These songs reflect her experiences from a moment in time that was equally “sensational and sorrowful,” she wrote, adding that it is a chapter now closed.

“Once we have spoken our saddest story, we can be free of it,” Swift wrote. “And then all that’s left behind is the tortured poetry.”

Who is Clara Bow?

Daniel Arkin

The 16th and final track on the album is named for Clara Bow, one of the leading lights of Hollywood’s silent era.

Bow, unlike a lot of stars from the 1920s, managed to successfully pivot to roles in talkies by the end of the decade. She co-starred in “Wings” (1927), which today is probably best known as the first movie to win the Oscar for best picture.

I’m not a Swiftie, so I don’t have much insight into how Taylor’s music connects to Bow’s acting career — but I’m curious how this track will be interpreted by the die-hards.

The album is here

BRB, we’re busy listening with the rest of y’all.

You can now choose a Swift-themed chat for your Instagram DMs

Instagram users can now set their direct message conversations to a new chat theme inspired by “The Tortured Poets Department.”

Bars, venues hold special Swift parties

On the eve of Swift’s album drop, event venues across the country (and around the world) hosted release parties so Swifties could get their first listen of the “The Tortured Poets Department” on the dance floor.

At Pianos in New York, music from across Swift’s discography will play until the new album drops at midnight. Attendees are encouraged to come in themed outfits and friendship bracelets, and the bar will be serving Swift-inspired cocktails.

In Los Angeles, El Cid is hosting a listening party complete with fan-made merch, giveaways and a themed wall for photos. Attendees can also expect performances from drag queen Jade Jolie, who appeared in Swift’s “You Need to Calm Down” music video.

Several Swiftie-themed events are also being held across the Washington, D.C., area, according to The Washington Post, which compiled a list .

A Swiftie mom and daughter are hosting their own album party

Kristie Gilmore, 36, is ready to celebrate with her daughter, who was born shortly after Swift's “1989” album and has been a Swiftie ever since.

Gilmore decorated her Boston-area apartment with balloons, signs and stickers in the color palette of “The Tortured Poets Department.” She sprinkled the table with handmade confetti of the album’s logo and made TTPD-themed “membership cards” for themselves and each of her daughter’s friends.

“They’ve been counting down since Taylor announced this album,” Gilmore said, adding, “They’re just hanging out, having a dance party. They’re gonna try to stay up till midnight and listen to it.”

What are the track lengths?

The average track length on “The Tortured Poets Department” is 4 minutes and 4 seconds, making it the third longest album across Swift’s discography.

The longest song is “But Daddy I Love Him,” which clocks in at 5 minutes and 40 seconds.

“I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)” is the shortest song, at 2 minutes and 36 seconds.

Travis Kelce shared his early thoughts about the album

Ahead of the Super Bowl, Swift's boyfriend, Travis Kelce, the star tight end for the Kansas City Chiefs, weighed in on the new album.

“I have heard some of it, yes. It is unbelievable,”  Kelce said . “I can’t wait for her to shake up the world when it finally drops.”

The couple , who have become the internet's favorite love story , were most recently spotted at Coachella 's first weekend.

Taylor Swift beat reporter speaks to NBC's Hallie Jackson

USA Today’s Taylor Swift reporter , Bryan West, spoke with NBC News about the album drop and all the Easter eggs being spotted by fans.

Swift's music is back on TikTok despite UMG dispute

Kalhan Rosenblatt

Some songs that Swift fans know “All Too Well” returned to TikTok this month, months after they were removed.

The songs were among the many tracks Universal Music Group pulled off TikTok after the label and the platform  failed to reach an agreement  this year. (UMG has no relationship to NBCUniversal, the parent company of NBC News.)

UMG, known as one of the “Big Three” global music companies, cleared its music from TikTok in late January, saying it was doing so because of a lack of compensation for artists and songwriters. TikTok previously fired back at UMG, accusing the company of putting “their own greed above the interests of artists and songwriters.”

The economics of 'The Tortured Poets Department'

Doha Madani

Die-hard Taylor Swift fans will be spending a pretty penny on her latest album release as she releases four variants of the album with one exclusive track each.

Each variant of “The Tortured Poets Department” is named after the bonus song found at the end of the album: “The Manuscript,” “The Bolter,” “The Albatross” and “The Black Dog.” If a fan wanted to collect them all, the minimum for $13.99 CDs at a store would cost at least $55.96 before taxes.

Longtime Swifties are already familiar with her tendency to provide deluxe editions, as anyone who was around for her original “1989” release can recall the Target exclusive that included three bonus tracks and three voice memos recorded by Swift. 

Her “Midnights” release included a Target exclusive track that was added to streaming only months later, and in May she released a new song on “Midnights (The Late Night Edition).” But this is the first time Swift has put an exclusive song on each individual variant, with no clear timeline for when they might be added to streaming. 

2024: The year of Post Malone and the pop girlies

Rebecca Cohen

Fresh off of a collab with Beyoncé on "LEVII'S JEANS" from her now-famed "Cowboy Carter," Post Malone finds himself on another major release of 2024: Swift's "The Tortured Poets Department."

He joins Swift on the album's first song, "Fortnight." Swift announced that "Fortnight" would be the album's lead single and the song for which she is releasing a music video 8 o'clock tomorrow night.

"I’ve been such a huge fan of Post because of the writer he is, his musical experimentation and those melodies he creates that just stick in your head forever," Swift wrote on social media. "I got to witness that magic come to life firsthand when we worked together on Fortnight."

While best known for more rap-focused songs, Post Malone is clearly making the rounds in the pop music scene, having also recently collaborated with Noah Kahan on "Dial Drunk." But his back-to-back appearances on arguably two of the biggest albums from pop artists this year raise the questions: Is Post Malone becoming a pop girlie? Is he just having a moment? Or is it all of the above?

There's a book about Swift's impact headed to bookshelves

Rolling Stone writer and music historian Rob Sheffield's book "Heartbreak Is the National Anthem: How Taylor Swift Reinvented Pop Music" will debut Nov. 12.

He's expected to dive further into Swift’s music and fan connection.

Swifties are celebrating with their own listening parties

Many Swifties are sharing their elaborate party setups online as they prepare to celebrate the album release at home.

Karen Rothdeutsch, 25, has decked out her bedroom in upstate New York with “The Tortured Poets Department”-themed decorations, complete with a platter of homemade cupcakes decorated to match Swift’s various vinyl variants.

“I just made my space a little more immersive for my first listen,” Rothdeutsch told NBC News. “I’ll be sitting in my bed with a box of tissues and a notebook, writing down my thoughts and probably checking into Twitter every so often to see what everybody’s thinking about it.”

She said she procured the decorations over the course of several weeks, but the whole setup cost her less than $100. While she decorates on a budget, she said she did splash out on the vinyl variants and collector’s edition CDs.

Swift's new album is already breaking a Spotify record

Spotify said on X that the “The Tortured Poets Department” became the most pre-saved album countdown page in the streaming service’s history.

Since its launch on March 28, TTPD's countdown page has ticked down to the album’s drop, now just hours away.

Was Swift's Grammys dress a 'Fortnight' Easter egg?

The white gown Swift wore to the 2024 Grammys, where she announced "The Tortured Poets Department," appears to have been an Easter egg.

Swift appears to be wearing a very similar dress in the teaser for the "Fortnight (feat. Post Malone)" music video, which will debut 8 p.m. ET tomorrow.

Swift was also pictured hugging Post Malone at the ceremony. Some fans online pointed out a similar shot of the two singers that appears in the teaser for the music video.

Swift drops 'Fortnight' music video teaser

Swift blessed fans with a teaser for “Fortnight (feat. Post Malone)," the album's first single.

"At this hearing, I stand before my fellow members of The Tortured Poets Department with a summary of my findings. Album tonight. Fortnight music video tomorrow at 8pm et," Swift wrote in a post on X , which was accompanied by a short video clip.

The black-and-white teaser gave a sneak peak of the visuals for the music video. It's a combination of dramatic period gowns and a bleak medical setting in this supercut that is reminiscent of "Poor Things," which Swift's longtime friend Emma Stone recently won the best actress Oscar for.

Swift had announced she'd be dropping a music video at 8 p.m. ET tomorrow by sharing a “TTPD Timetable” on her Instagram page this week.

Merch is here — and already selling out

Hours before the album’s release, themed merchandise for “The Tortured Poets Department” is now available to order online.

The merch drop includes hoodies, crewnecks and gold jewelry branded with the album’s logo. A display case for the album vinyls seemingly sold out within minutes.

ICYMI: The Eras Tour concert film is on Disney+

In case you need something to do as you count down to the new album, “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour” is on Disney+. Swift announced the film would be available for streaming in February.

The film features all songs from the three Los Angeles tour dates during which it was filmed at SoFi Stadium. They include “cardigan,” as well as four additional acoustic surprise songs from the tour: “I Can See You,” “Maroon,” “You Are in Love” and “Death by a Thousand Cuts.”

Swifties online are freaking out over purported ‘leaks’

The internet was at it again this week, with some online circulating what they said were leaks of Swift's new album. It is unclear from where and when the apparent leaks originated, but one Reddit thread is already filled with commentary.

As early as Tuesday, "taylor swift leak" appeared to be blocked from searches on X. Instead, when a user tried to search the phrase, a blank page popped up with the message, "Something went wrong. Try reloading."

The secret message has been decoded

The sixth and final word of the secret message, “mortem,” was revealed today, hidden in the lyrics of the song “Begin Again.”

The complete secret message is: “We hereby conduct this post mortem.”

In a collaboration with Apple Music, Swift sorted some of her existing songs into thematic playlists , along with audio messages from her.

The messages seemed to confirm some fans’ theories that the playlists mirrored the five stages of grief — denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance — indicating that the new album may grapple with grief or loss. Swift later used a song from each playlist to reveal a hidden word on Apple Music every day leading up to the release of “The Tortured Poets Department.”

Swift sets fans loose on an international puzzle

Swifties had a big day yesterday after murals with QR codes were unveiled in cities around the world, including Mexico City, Paris and Chicago.

Fans stumbled upon the murals, which Swift had not announced, and scanned them to find a link to a YouTube Shorts video. Every mural had a unique code that led to a different video, each revealing a new letter as part of a word puzzle.

Fans came together online to help decode the puzzle, which seemed to hint at the new album's first track, because it spelled out "for a fortnight."

Swifties in Los Angeles flock to Spotify pop-up library

Many Los Angeles Swifties celebrated the new album with a pop-up library installation in partnership with Spotify.

The three-day event, which runs through today at The Grove, featured a sneak peek at some of the album's lyrics.

Fans posted videos of themselves lined up for hours to get a glimpse at the installation.

A manuscript was front and center at the installation, revealing new lyrics periodically as the pages were turned over the course of three days.

Many fans online tried to identify other potential Easter eggs in the pop-up library, such as a bust of a peace sign, quill and fountain pens and a globe that appeared to be pointing to Florida, the name of a track on the album.

Why is the album called 'The Tortured Poets Department'?

Fans were quick to note that “The Tortured Poets Department” is the longest title for a Taylor Swift album by a large margin, a distinction previously held by her third album, "Speak Now." Before "TTPD," "Speak Now" was her only album title consisting of more than one word.

Speculation surrounding the new album and its uncharacteristic title has primarily revolved around Swift’s  2023 breakup  with British actor Joe Alwyn after their six-year relationship.

After the album announcement, a  2022 Variety interview  between Alwyn and Paul Mescal resurfaced on X. The pair revealed in the interview that they were both members of a WhatsApp group chat titled the Tortured Man Club, prompting some fans to  draw parallels  between Alwyn and Swift’s upcoming album.

The true meaning of “The Tortured Poets Department” remains to be seen, but the album's rollout has featured references to famous poems like Charles Baudelaire’s “The Albatross,” among other literary references.

Clues keep coming

Speculation continues to grow over clues for lyrics, song titles and the album’s first music video.

Not much from Miss Swift so far

It's been a notably quiet rollout for "The Tortured Poets Department."

No themed Instagram grid overhaul, no lead singles, not even a cryptic calendar leading Swifties on wild goose chases for potential Easter eggs.

A week before the release, Taylor Swift was rocking out at Coachella instead of feeding her fans who are desperate for a hint of what's to come.

Aside from a hand-painted QR code on the side of a building in Chicago, a planned exhibit at The Grove in Los Angeles in partnership with Spotify and a quick video released Tuesday that appears to leave the "Midnights" era in the dust as viewers tour The Tortured Poets Department, Swift has been silent on what we can expect.

In the video , posted to her Instagram account, we did get a glimpse of a schedule that only showed release day, and on it, the promise of a music video on Friday at 8 p.m. ET. Fourteen tick marks beneath led some to think the music video could be for the 14th track on the album, or for the leading song, "Fortnight," since a fortnight is 14 days.

Swifties believing in the latter theory proved to be correct. Swift announced that the music video would be for "Fortnight" in a Thursday afternoon social media post.

Swifties online continue to grasp for any details to try to figure out what this mastermind might have in store for her beloved fan base.

What songs are on the new album?

Here's what songs are on the track list.

• "Fortnight (feat. Post Malone)"
• "The Tortured Poets Department"
• "My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys"
• "So Long, London"
• "But Daddy I Love Him"
• "Fresh Out the Slammer"
• "Florida!!! (Florence + the Machine)"
• "Guilty as Sin?"
• "Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?"
• "I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)"
• "I Can Do It With a Broken Heart"
• "The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived"
• "The Alchemy"
• "Clara Bow"

Swift has also announced four bonus tracks: "The Manuscript," “The Bolter,” “The Albatross” and “The Black Dog.” Each bonus track will be available on a separate vinyl variant and won't be on the streaming version of the album.

When does 'The Tortured Poets Department' drop?

Swift's 11th studio album, "The Tortured Poets Department," will be released Friday at 12 a.m. ET, or 9 p.m. PT.

It will be available for purchase on vinyl, on cassette, as a digital album and in CD form. It will also be on several streaming services, including Spotify and Apple Music.

But if you plan to stream “The Tortured Poets Department” right after its release, be prepared for potential delays. When Swift’s most recent brand-new album, “Midnights,” was released, Spotify  briefly crashed  because of intense demand.

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Clickstream Data: Definition, Use Cases, and More

• April 15, 2024

Gaining a deeper understanding of user behaviour — customers’ different paths, digital footprints, and engagement patterns — is crucial for providing a personalised experience and making informed marketing decisions. 

In that sense, clickstream data, or a comprehensive record of a user’s online activities, is one of the most valuable sources of actionable insights into users’ behavioural patterns. 

This article will cover everything marketing teams need to know about clickstream data, from the basic definition and examples to benefits, use cases, and best practices. 

What is clickstream data? 

As a form of web analytics, clickstream data focuses on tracking and analysing a user’s online activity. These digital breadcrumbs offer insights into the websites the user has visited, the pages they viewed, how much time they spent on a page, and where they went next.

Your clickstream pipeline can be viewed as a “roadmap” that can help you recognise consistent patterns in how users navigate your website. 

With that said, you won’t be able to learn much by analysing clickstream data collected from one user’s session. However, a proper analysis of large clickstream datasets can provide a wealth of information about consumers’ online behaviours and trends — which marketing teams can use to make informed decisions and optimise their digital marketing strategy. 

Clickstream data collection can serve numerous purposes, but the main goal remains the same — gaining valuable insights into visitors’ behaviours and online activities to deliver a better user experience and improve conversion likelihood. 

Depending on the specific events you’re tracking, clickstream data can reveal the following: 

• How visitors reach your website 
• The terms they type into the search engine
• The first page they land on
• The most popular pages and sections of your website
• The amount of time they spend on a page 
• Which elements of the page they interact with, and in what sequence
• The click path they take 
• When they convert, cancel, or abandon their cart
• Where the user goes once they leave your website

As you can tell, once you start collecting this type of data, you’ll learn quite a bit about the user’s online journey and the different ways they engage with your website — all without including any personal details about your visitors.

Types of clickstream data 

While all clickstream data keeps a record of the interactions that occur while the user is navigating a website or a mobile application — or any other digital platform — it can be divided into two types: 

• Aggregated (web traffic) data provides comprehensive insights into the total number of visits and user interactions on a digital platform — such as your website — within a given timeframe 
• Unaggregated data is broken up into smaller segments, focusing on an individual user’s online behaviour and website interactions 

One thing to remember is that to gain valuable insights into user behaviour and uncover sequential patterns, you need a powerful tool and access to full clickstream datasets. Matomo’s Event Tracking can provide a comprehensive view of user interactions on your website or mobile app — everything from clicking a button and completing a form to adding (or removing) products from their cart. 

On that note, based on the specific events you’re tracking when a user visits your website, clickstream data can include: 

• Web navigation data: referring URL, visited pages, click path, and exit page
• User interaction data: mouse movements, click rate, scroll depth, and button clicks
• Conversion data: form submissions, sign-ups, and transactions 
• Temporal data: page load time, timestamps, and the date and time of day of the user’s last login 
• Session data: duration, start, and end times and number of pages viewed per session
• Error data: 404 errors and network or server response issues 

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Clickstream data benefits and use cases 

Given the actionable insights that clickstream data collection provides, it can serve a wide range of use cases — from identifying behavioural patterns and trends and examining competitors’ performance to helping marketing teams map out customer journeys and improve ROI.

According to the global Clickstream Analytics Market Report 2024 , some key applications of clickstream analytics include click-path optimisation, website and app optimisation, customer analysis, basket analysis, personalisation, and traffic analysis. 

The behavioural patterns and user preferences revealed by clickstream analytics data can have many applications — we’ve outlined the prominent use cases below. 

Customer journey mapping 

Clickstream data allows you to analyse the e-commerce customer’s online journey and provides insights into how they navigate your website. With such a comprehensive view of their click path, it becomes easier to understand user behaviour at each stage — from initial awareness to conversion — identify the most effective touchpoints and fine-tune that journey to improve their conversion likelihood. 

Identifying customer trends 

Clickstream data analytics can also help you identify trends and behavioural patterns — the most common sequences and similarities in how users reached your website and interacted with it — especially when you can access data from many website visitors. 

Think about it — there are many ways in which you can use these insights into the sequence of clicks and interactions and recurring patterns to your team’s advantage. 

Here’s an example: 

It can reveal that some pieces of content and CTAs are performing well in encouraging visitors to take action — which shows how you should optimise other pages and what you should strive to create in the future, too. 

Preventing site abandonment 

Cart abandonment remains a serious issue for online retailers: 

According to a recent report, the global cart abandonment rate in the fourth quarter of 2023 was at 83%. 

That means that roughly eight out of ten e-commerce customers will abandon their shopping carts — most commonly due to additional costs, slow website loading times and the requirement to create an account before purchasing. 

In addition to cart abandonment predictions, clickstream data analytics can reveal the pages where most visitors tend to leave your website. These drop-off points are clear indicators that something’s not working as it should — and once you can pinpoint them, you’ll be able to address the issue and increase conversion likelihood.

Improving marketing campaign ROI 

As previously mentioned, clickstream data analysis provides insights into the customer journey. Still, you may not realise that you can also use this data to keep track of your marketing effectiveness . 

Global digital ad spending continues to grow — and is expected to reach $836 billion by 2026 . It’s easy to see why relying on accurate data is crucial when deciding which marketing channels to invest in. 

You want to ensure you’re allocating your digital marketing and advertising budget to the channels — be it SEO, pay-per-click (PPC) ads, or social media campaigns — that impact driving conversions.  

When you combine clickstream e-commerce data with conversion rates, you’ll find the latter in Matomo’s goal reports and have a solid, data-driven foundation for making better marketing decisions.

Delivering a better user experience (UX) 

Clickstream data analysis allows you to identify specific “pain points” — areas of the website that are difficult to use and may cause customer frustration. 

It’s clear how this would be beneficial to your business: 

Once you’ve identified these pain points, you can make the necessary changes to your website’s layout and address any technical issues that users might face, improving usability and delivering a smoother experience to potential customers. 

Collecting clickstream data: Tools and legal implications 

Your team will need a powerful tool capable of handling clickstream analytics to reap the benefits we’ve discussed previously. But at the same time, you need to respect users’ online privacy throughout clickstream data collection.

Generally speaking, there are two ways to collect data about users’ online activity — web analytics tools and server log files.

Web analytics tools are the more commonly used solution. Specifically designed to collect and analyse website data, these tools rely on JavaScript tags that run in the browser, providing actionable insights about user behaviour. Server log files can be a gold mine of data, too — but that data is raw and unfiltered, making it much more challenging to interpret and analyse. 

That brings us to one of the major clickstream challenges to keep in mind as you move forward — compliance.

While Google remains a dominant player in the web analytics market, there’s one area where Matomo has a significant advantage — user privacy. 

Matomo operates according to privacy laws — including the General Data Protection Regulation ( GDPR ) and California Consumer Privacy Act ( CCPA ), making it an ethical alternative to Google Analytics. 

It should go without saying, but compliance with data privacy laws — the most talked-about one being the GDPR framework introduced by the EU — isn’t something you can afford to overlook. 

The GDPR was first implemented in the EU in 2018. Since then, several fines have been issued for non-compliance — including the record fine of €1.2 billion that Meta Platforms, Inc. received in 2023 for transferring personal data of EU-based users to the US.

Clickstream analytics data best practices 

As valuable as it might be, processing large amounts of clickstream analytics data can be a complex — and, at times, overwhelming — process. 

Here are some best practices to keep in mind when it comes to clickstream analysis: 

Define your goals 

It’s essential to take the time to define your goals and objectives. 

Once you have a clear idea of what you want to learn from a given clickstream dataset and the outcomes you hope to see, it’ll be easier to narrow down your scope — rather than trying to tackle everything at once — before moving further down the clickstream pipeline. 

Here are a few examples of goals and objectives you can set for clickstream analysis: 

• Understanding and predicting users’ behavioural patterns 
• Optimising marketing campaigns and ROI 
• Attributing conversions to specific marketing touchpoints and channels

Analyse your data 

Collecting clickstream analytics data is only part of the equation; what you do with raw data and how you analyse it matters. You can have the most comprehensive dataset at your disposal — but it’ll be practically worthless if you don’t have the skill set to analyse and interpret it. 

In short, this is the stage of your clickstream pipeline where you uncover common sequences and consistent patterns in user behaviour. 

Clickstream data analytics can extract actionable insights from large datasets using various approaches, models, and techniques. 

Here are a few examples: 

• If you’re working with clickstream e-commerce data, you should perform funnel or conversion analyses to track conversion rates as users move through your sales funnel. 
• If you want to group and analyse users based on shared characteristics, you can use Matomo for cohort analysis . 
• If your goal is to predict future trends and outcomes — conversion and cart abandonment prediction, for example — based on available data, prioritise predictive analytics.

Organise and visualise your data

As you reach the end of your clickstream pipeline, you need to start thinking about how you will present and communicate your data. And what better way to do that than to transform that data into easy-to-understand visualisations? 

Here are a few examples of easily digestible formats that facilitate quick decision-making: 

• User journey maps, which illustrate the exact sequence of interactions and user flow through your website 
• Heatmaps , which serve as graphical — and typically colour-coded — representations of a website visitor’s activity 
• Funnel analysis , which are broader at the top but get increasingly narrower towards the bottom as users flow through and drop off at different stages of the pipeline 

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Clickstream data is hard to beat when tracking the website visitor’s journey — from first to last interaction — and understanding user behaviour. By providing real-time insights, your clickstream pipeline can help you see the big picture, stay ahead of the curve and make informed decisions about your marketing efforts. 

Matomo accurate data and compliance with GDPR and other data privacy regulations — it’s an all-in-one, ethical platform that can meet all your web analytics needs. That’s why over 1 million websites use Matomo for their web analytics.

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‘A Journey’ Review – A Beautiful Yet Tragic Tale Of Death, Life, And Love

A Journey is a heartwrenching Filipino drama about a woman with cancer setting out to complete her bucket list together with her husband and childhood friend. It’s a beautiful and compelling piece of filmmaking about what truly matters. 

I must warn you though, this film will make you very sad. 

A Journey opens with cancer survivor Shane, her husband Bryan, and their best friend Kristoff, aka Tupe, celebrating her 39th birthday at a karaoke bar. Kristoff is a famous television actor and Bryan works as his manager while Shane runs a coffee shop. The three have been friends since childhood, while Bryan and Shane have been in love for just as long. 

Not long after her birthday, Shane notices some worrying symptoms and goes to her oncologist. The news is devastating, Shane’s cancer has returned. After having suffered through chemo once before, Shane doesn’t want treatment this time. Instead, she wants to spend whatever time she has left getting through her “magic list” with Bryan and Tupe’s help. The list includes some fun items like seeing penguins, going snorkeling, and recreating her first date with Bryan, but also emotionally heavy goals like reconnecting with her estranged father. 

A Journey (via Netflix)

A Journey is a heartfelt drama exploring themes of love, friendship, and the things that matter when faced with mortality. It may start with a bad karaoke scene, but this isn’t a feel-good romance where everything is honky dory in the end. The film offers an honest (and depressing) exploration of the often tragic reality of the human condition.

A devastated Bryan seems to accept his wife’s decision and even quits his job to spend time with her. He does, however, have an ulterior motive as he’s hoping Shane will agree to start her cancer treatments once the magic list is complete. Wanting to help, Tupe organizes an all-expenses paid trip to Tasmania for the trio. Shane is apprehensive about allowing her friend to pay for such an expensive trip, but she eventually relents. 

A Journey | Image via Netflix

As lighthearted as the trio tries to be during their trip, the finality of their actions is never far from our minds. One compelling scene is where Tupe and Bryan debate whether life is about the journey or the destination. For Tupe, it’s about the destination, but Bryan sees the journey as more important. Shane, however, is acutely aware of how important each moment is and wants to spend her time making the most of it. 

The premise of a cancer patient choosing to live to the fullest in their final months has been done before, most notably in the 2007 tearjerker The Bucket List starring Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson. However, a movie doesn’t need to have a never-before-seen synopsis to be good. And that’s precisely what A Journey is. It’s a touching story about three childhood friends finding meaning in their lives in the face of devastating adversity.

I also broke down A Journey’s ending if you wanted some emotional support after that crushing climax. You can also read more about Penguin, Tasmania , where the movie was filmed. And if you’re interested, here are 5 romantic Filipino movies like A Journey you should also check out.

Article by Lori Meek

Lori Meek has been a Ready Steady Cut contributing writer since September 2022 and has had over 400 published articles since. She studied Film and Television at Southampton Solent University, where she gained most of her knowledge and passion for the entertainment industry. Lori’s work is also featured on platforms such as TBreak Media and ShowFaves.

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