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
If you come to a fork in the road, take it. —Yogi Berra More about this quote Tags: humor travel Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art. —Freya Stark More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It was on that road and at that hour that I first became aware of my own self, experienced an inexpressible state of grace, and felt at one with the first breath of air that stirred, the first bird, and the sun so newly born that it still looked not quite round. —Colette More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You can fall in love at first sight with a place as with a person. —Alec Waugh More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Wandering reestablishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe. —Anatole France More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It was kind of solemn drifting down the big still river laying on our backs looking up at stars and we didn't even feel like talking aloud. —Mark Twain More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine. —Caskie Stinnett More about this quote Tags: life travel routine Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There are homes you run from, and homes you run to. —Laura Cunningham More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right. —Maya Angelou More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you cannot be a poet, be the poem. —David Carradine More about this quote Tags: life advice poetry Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our lives are made. Destiny is made known silently. —Agnes de Mille More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Einstein discovered a law of physical change: the way to convert a single particle of matter into enormous physical energy. Might there not also be, as Gandhi suggested, an equally incredible and (as yet) undiscovered law of spiritual change, whereby a single person or small community of persons could be converted into an enormous spiritual energy capable of transforming a society and a world? I believe that there is, that there must be, a spiritual reality corresponding to E = mc squared, because . . . from the standpoint of moral freedom, humankind is sentenced to extinction without it. —James W. Douglass More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment — the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is. —Jorge Luis Borges More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email