“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things 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
“Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux
“To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” – Bill Bryson
“A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” – Lao Tzu
“Not all those who wander are lost.” – J. R. R. Tolkien
“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” – Maya Angelou
“Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” – Roy M. Goodman
“Too often. . .I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.” – Louis L’Amour
“The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.” – G. K. Chesterton
“It is solved by walking.” – Algerian proverb
“He who would travel happily must travel light.” – Antoine de Saint ExupĂ©ry
What are your favorite quotes?
“Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty-his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.” – Aldous Huxley
ReplyDeletewhether at home or on the road boredom seems to always be present,not that that is a bad thing.
“Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.” – Paul Theroux
“The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.” – G. K. Chesterton
not only do foreign lands provide prospective, but when you travel to your own land you see it anew.
a few i found just now.