Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships, or trains. There is an almost quaint correlation between what is before our eyes and the thoughts we are able to have in our heads: large thoughts at time requiring large views, and new thoughts, new places. Introspective reflections that might otherwise be liable to stall are helped along by the flow of the landscape.
[Alain de Botton, The Art of Travel]
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
[Mark Twain]
The World is like a book and those who do not travel read only the
first page.
[St. Augustinus of Hippo, 354-430]
Don't tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have traveled.
[Mohammed, ca. 570 - 632]
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your
envies, jalousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
[Cesare Pavese]
Travel has a way of stretching the mind. The strech comes not from
travel's immediate rewards, the inevitable myriad og new sights,
smells and sounds, but with experiencing firsthand how others do
differently what we believed to be the right and only way.
[Ralph Crawshaw]
Go to Tibet and see as much as you can. Then tell the world.
[Dalai Lama]
When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.
[Susan Heller]
For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for
travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
[Robert Louis Stevensen, 1879]
Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.
[Seneca, c. 4 BC - AD 65]
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.
[Mark Twain]
If you actually look like your passport photo, you aren't well
enough to travel.
[Sir Vivian Fuchs]
He who would travel happily must travel light.
[Antoine de St. Exupery]
Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.
[Peter Høg]
The strength of the Taiga lies neither in its great trees nor its
silence, but alone in the fact that only the migratory birds knows its
end.
[Anton Chekhov]
Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.
[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]
A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
[George Moore]
Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.
[Miriam Beard]
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a
superstition. It does not exist in Nature.
[Helen Keller]
India is a vast and complex place. The phones seldom work, the mail
is unreliable, the electricity is liable to sudden toppages. There are
numerous natural disasters and there are 800 million people. It is
almost inconceivable that the country is still viable.
Towards the end of my Indian journey I decided that India runs
primarily because of the railway. It is impossible to imagine India
without the railway, or to think what could possibly replace it.
[Paul Theroux, The Imperial Way (1983)]
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