Words have a wonderful way of
communicating one’s thoughts and feelings. Some nail it. Some get close. Here are
a few pithy quotes by some well known names. Simple words put together to
convey a profound truth.
“There are no foreign lands. It
is the traveler only who is foreign” – Robert Louis Stevenson
“The use of travel is to regulate
imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them
as they are” - Samuel Johnson
“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’ - William Least
Heat Moon.
“One’s destination is never a place,
but a new way of seeing things”- Henry Miller
“Traveling is a brutality. It
forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of
home & friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the
essential things-air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky- all things tending
towards the eternal or what we imagine of it” – Cesare Pavese.
“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”- Maya Angelou
“Twenty years from now you will
be more disappointed by the things 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.” – Mark Twain.
“Travel is more than the seeing
of sights; it is a change that goes deep and permanent, in the ideas of living”
– Martin Buber.
“For my part, I travel not to go
anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move” –
Robert Louis Stevenson
“A journey is best measured in
friends, rather than in miles” – Tim Cahil
