Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one. —E. B. White More about this quote Tags: genius completeness wholeness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns. —Thomas Moore More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Choose your love, Love your choice. —Thomas S. Monson More about this quote Tags: love choice Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you lived in your heart, you'd be home by now. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: heart home Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I have written much about many good places. But the best places of all, I have never mentioned. —Edward Abbey More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
People say you have to travel to see the world. Sometimes I think that if you just stay in one place and keep your eyes open, you're going to see just about all that you can handle. —Paul Auster More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself. —James Baldwin More about this quote Tags: self-knowledge travel Europe Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A certain businessman, renowned for his ruthlessness, once made a vow in Mark Twain's presence. "Before I die," he declared, "I mean to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. I will climb Mount Sinai and read the Ten Commandments aloud at the top." "I have a better idea," Twain replied. "You could stay home in Boston and keep them. —Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes More about this quote Tags: business home travel Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If an ass goes traveling, he will not come home a horse. —Thomas Fuller More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Why do you wonder that globe-trotting does not help you, seeing that you always take yourself with you? The reason which set you wandering is ever at your heels. —Socrates More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
People travel to faraway places to watch in fascination the kind of people they ignore at home. —Dagobert D. Runes More about this quote Tags: ignorance people perception curiosity distance travel Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Remember: no matter where you go, there you are. —Earl Mac Rauch More about this quote Tags: presence avoidance tautologies Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation. —Elizabeth Drew More about this quote Tags: experience conversation travel broad-mindedness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes "sightseeing. —Daniel J. Boorstin More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To explain why we become attached to our birthplaces, we pretend that we are trees and speak of "roots." Look under your feet. You will not find gnarled growths sprouting through the soles. Roots, I sometimes think, are a conservative myth, designed to keep us in our places. —Salman Rushdie More about this quote Tags: myth home conservative place roots Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email