I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within. —Lillian Smith More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Traveling is a fool's paradise. . . . I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. —Ralph Waldo Emerson More about this quote Tags: identity self travel paradise Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We borrow the light of an observant and imaginative traveler and see the foreign land bright with his aura; and we think it is the country which shines. —H. M. Tomlinson More about this quote Tags: light travel Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am. There is no mystery about why this should be so. Stripped of your ordinary surroundings, your friends, your daily routines, your refrigerator full of your food, your closet full of your clothes — with all this taken away, you are forced into direct experience. Such direct experience inevitably makes you aware of who it is that is having the experience. That's not always comfortable, but it is always invigorating. —Michael Crichton More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Thanks to the interstate highway system, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything. —Charles Kuralt More about this quote Tags: change seeing travel efficiency Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
. . . who drove cross-country seventy-two hours to find out if I had a vision or you / had a vision or he had a vision to find out Eternity. —Allen Ginsberg More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When you're traveling, you are what you are, right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road. —William Least Heat Moon More about this quote Tags: now past present travel yesterday Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In old age, wandering on a trail of beauty, lively may I walk. It is finished in beauty. —Navajo nightway chant More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-three today, and we don't know where the hell she is. —Ellen DeGeneres More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is nothing like walking to get the feel of a country. A fine landscape is like a piece of music; it must be taken at the right tempo. Even a bicycle goes too fast. —Paul Scott Mowrer More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake. —Wallace Stevens More about this quote Tags: truth perspective walking Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Death twitches my ear. "Live," he says. "I am coming. —Virgil More about this quote Tags: life fear death Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To change one's life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. No exceptions. —William James More about this quote Tags: life change effort Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two-week vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days. —Dorothy Canfield Fisher More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight. —Josh Billings More about this quote Tags: fighting fitness adversity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email