We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
What gives value to travel is fear. It is a fact that, at a certain moment, when we are so far from our own country, we are seized by a vague fear and an instinctive desire to go back to the protection of old habits. I look upon it more as an occasion for testing.
An adventure may be worn as a muddy spot or it may be worn as a proud insignia. It is the woman wearing it who makes it the one thing or the other.
It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.
Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.
When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.
Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.
I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.
Please be a traveler, not a tourist. Try new things, meet new people, and look beyond what's right in front of you. Those are the keys to understanding this amazing world we live in.
I will appoint captains to rule my cities, for it is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.
A subject to which few intellectuals ever give a thought is the right to be a vagrant, the freedom to wander. Yet vagrancy is a deliverance, and life on the open road is the essence of freedom. To have the courage to smash the chains with which modern life has weighted us (under the pretext that it was offering us more liberty), then to take up the symbolic stick and bundle and get out.
A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.
If you come to a fork in the road, take it.
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.
Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it.
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.
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.
Traveling is like flirting with life. It's like saying, 'I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.
A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
Your true traveller 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.
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