what matters most ?

What an awful day today ! It's raining cats and dogs in Boston. Just when you are ready to forgive the six months of bitter cold, the weather gods of New England unleash the rains to show who's the boss. Never a predictable moment here.

I stopped to get some coffee at the neighborhood bakery and they have a blackboard where the weather and daily specials are written along with a quote. Today's, by Ursula K. LeGuin made me stop in my tracks. It captured in 20 words what I spent many days trying to convey through my Stanford essay 1 :

It is good to have an end to journey toward;
but it is the journey that matters, in the end.