One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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.
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.
The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.
Life is either a great adventure or nothing.
I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it.
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.
A man practices the art of adventure when he breaks the chain of routine.
I see my path, but I don't know where it leads.
Adventure is a path. Real adventure - self-determined, self-motivated, often risky - forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind - and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white.
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