Travel far enough, you meet yourself.
You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.
Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.
Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.
As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.
To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.
Once a year go somewhere you have never been before.
Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.
I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.
Without travel I would have wound up a little ignorant white Southern female, which was not my idea of a good life.
I always wonder why birds stay in the same place.
The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure.
The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.
When was the last time you did something for the first time?
And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it's a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, undimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.
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.
...there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.
Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.
All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel
Adventure is a path...Real adventure - self-determined , self-motivated, often risky - forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world.
It is not down in any map; true places never are.
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.
What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people's minds. 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.
I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.
Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.
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