Just imagine if you took all the money you’ve spent on these things and traveled around the world with it, instead, or bought books and read them. Think about how much you would know about...

One does not travel, any more than one falls in love, to collect material. It is simply part of one’s life…

Putting the dream in motion involved significant personal downsizing, moving three times to trim housing expenses and continuing to freelance. I sold one piece to The New York Times Magazine, many more to The Courant,...

You’d be surprised who will back down when you speak up.

I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.

Non si può vivere in questo mondo, ma non c’è nessun altro posto dove andare.

It was the inverse of an island in the sea.

The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.

Trains induce such terrible anxiety. They image the possibility of total and irrevocable failure. They are also dirty, rackety, packed with strangers, an object lesson in the foul contingency of life: the talkative fellow-traveller, the...

Gradually the magic of the island [Corfu] settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen.

Soon you catch your first glimpse of a vineyard basking in the sun, its broad leaves silently turning sunlight into sugar, ripening vitis vinifera, the European grapes that make the world’s finest wines. For a...

All times are connected. Treasure each moment.

The older I got the more I appreciated the role of travel as a stimulus to memories, and the way in which journeys even to new places were somehow always awakening memories of places seen...

The pursuit of your life purpose is a unique journey.

I love getting lost on purpose

…Our conversation with the supermarket manager had been about as helpful as a New Jersey road sign, and if you’ve ever been there, you know the signs don’t tell you the exit you’re coming up...

I like the idea that when I die, I will have a long sit-down chat withGod and get answers to all my questions. For example, those apple coresthat I threw out of car windows when...

I want to be like time. I want to travel through time.

Ibizal teatavasti on veidraid nähtusi ja inimesi küllaga, see saar lausa tõmbab mingi magnetina kiiksuga inimesi ligi. Mina aga armastan veidrusi, sest neis on nii palju avastamisrõõmu. Teiste kiikse jälgides on vahel ka ennast kergem...

Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.

I imagine the people whose lives are most intertwined with mine, and I realize life has gone on without me. The planet has not imploded because I, the girl who has always done what is...

..luxury is the enemy of observation, a costly indulgence that induces such a good feeling that you notice nothing. Luxury spoils and infantilizes you and prevents you from knowing the world. That is its purpose,...

Join the Rienish navy. See unusual sights. Never sleep with the lights out again.

In Chinese business culture, humility is a virtue.

In the boundaryless forests, there’re dancers of nude.Yet in the confines of pasture, there’s promise of food.On which is your side?Ô, but tarry and bide,ere you decide,in both do confide.

People add color to their story because they think it happened in black and white.

Whereas the tourist generally hurries back home at the end of a few weeks or months, the traveler belonging no more to one place than to the next, moves slowly over periods of years, from...

Home is where the backpack is

It is not the destination where you end up but the mishaps and memories you create along the way!

For my part, i travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move

Usually, there is nothing more pleasing that returning to a place where you have endured hardship.

I stood in the library admiring the huge book collection. There was something inherently calming about being surrounded by books, even their smell and texture was comforting.

She watched the gap between ship and shore grow to a huge gulf. Perhaps this was a little like dying, the departed no longer visible to the others, yet both still existed, only in different...

Running, you should know, is a kind of stillness.

To do is to be – AristotleTo be or not to be – ShakespeareTo be is to do – Jean-Paul SartreDo be do be do – Frank Sinatra

But that’s the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don’t want to know what people are talking about. I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike...

Why be seduced by something as small as a front door in another country? Why fall in love with a place because it has trams and its people seldom have curtains in their homes? However...

No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.

If you don’t know your history, you don’t know what you are talking about!

The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.

To inquire into the intricacies of a distant landscape, then, is to provoke thoughts about one’s own interior landscape, and the familiar landscapes of memory. The land urges us to come around to an understanding...

Pici passi. Un viagio in bici xe fato de pici passeti. I pici passi te permeti, co te entri int’un paeseto, de entrarghe veramente, de sentirlo tuo, de respirar a pieni polmoni la sua atmosfera,...

What I am in search of is not so much the gratification of a curiosity or a passion for worldly life, but something far less conditional. I do not wish to go out into the...

Well, at least this is what I told myself every day as I fell asleep with the fire still burning and the moon shining high up in the sky and my head spinning comforting from...

The man who seeks to educate himself must first read and then travel in order to correct what he has learned.

For me, boviscopophobia (=the morbid fear of being seen as bovine) is an even stronger motive than semi-agoraphobia for staying on the ship when we’re in port.

If we get 50 percent (of cars) off, travel times would be relatively the same. If we get 30 percent off, which is more realistic … travel times might increase by a third or double.

At chaos’ core lies the invitation.

Practice trust in small matters for huge returns in the large ones.

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.