Travel

"Traveling - it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller."

"The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes "sightseeing.""

"Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life - and travel - leaves marks on you. Most of the time, those marks - on your body or on your heart - are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt."

"If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go."

"Travellers like poets are mostly an angry race."

"I depart, Whither I know not; but the hour's gone by When Albion's lessening shores could grieve or glad mine eye."

"The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land."

"They say travel broadens the mind; but you must have the mind."

"The traveller sees what he sees, the tripper sees what he has come to see."

"After 1870, sending a family member across the ocean to work became a possibility open to all save the very poorest of European households. ...The production and trade globalization of the late 1800s was fueled by one hundred million people leaving their continent of origin to live and work elsewhere. Never before or since have we seen such a rapid proportional redistribution of humanity around the globe."

"Travelling can hardly be without a continual current of disappointment, if the main object is not the enlargement of one’s general life, so as to make even weariness and annoyances enter into the sum of benefit."

"In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools' pleasure."

"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not."

"I have been a stranger in a strange land."

"One of the best ways to build up a global citizenship identity is through travel. …The more you can travel, the more global you are becoming as a human being. …Rather than relying on second-hand accounts or media representations, travellers can engage directly with people from different backgrounds, fostering mutual respect. …Travel provides individuals with opportunities to develop and strengthen global networks. International travel often results in lasting friendships and connections that span continents."

"It is not enough to simply visit a country, for that does not mean successful travelling, nor imply that one has seen the land. The aim of the traveller should be to be at the right time at the right place. Spring is apt to be cold and dreary in Japan. There are many days of mist and rain, yet the wanderer who can control his steps makes a big mistake in losing the joys of the cherry season."

"Go far—too far you cannot, still the farther The more experience finds you: And go sparing;— One meal a week will serve you, and one suit, Through all your travels; for you'll find it certain, The poorer and the baser you appear, The more you look through still."

"Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof."

"Five hours' New York jet lag and Cayce Pollard wakes in Camden Town to the dire and ever-circling wolves of disrupted circadian rhythm…She knows, now, absolutely, hearing the white noise that is London, that Damien's theory of jet lag is correct: that her mortal soul is leagues behind her, being reeled in on some ghostly umbilical down the vanished wake of the plane that brought her here, hundreds of thousands of feet above the Atlantic. Souls can't move that quickly, and are left behind, and must be awaited, upon arrival, like lost luggage."

"Un viaggiatore prudente non disprezza mai il suo paese."

"The soul of the journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases."

"The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are."

"Let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil where he is known."

"As the Spanish proverb says, "He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him." So it is in travelling: a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge."

"That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet."

"I stared at this earnest young black man for a moment. Suddenly my hair became very political. Waves of horror washed over me. How many forms of religious persecution are we now going to visit upon one another as black people in the name of our public safety? And suppose I was a Rastafarian? What then? Why did that automatically mean I could not vacation in Virgin Gorda? Did it make my tourist dollars unusable?"

"The true delight of travel, the one that is going to print itself unaccountably and indelibly on you, seems to prefer to come as a thief in the night, and not at the hours you specially fix for its entertainment."

"Though they carry nothing forth with them, yet in all their journey they lack nothing. For wheresoever they come, they be at home."

"A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not: but a man of superior talent (which I cannot deny myself to be without being impious) will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place..."

"This ambiance of candlelight reminds of nights that traveled its way, in entangled embrace of yours and mine."

"I was feeling like mad by the melody of birds singing out of tune in the settlements where travels lose their own destinations"

"Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home."

"Say, (O Muhammad), "Travel through the land and observe how He began creation. Then God will produce the final creation. Indeed Allah, over all things, is competent.""

"Why do you wonder that globe-trotting does not help you, seeing that you always take yourself with you? The reason which set you wandering is ever at your heels."

"When I was at home, I was in a better place; but travellers must be content."

"And in his brain, Which is as dry as the remainder biscuit After a voyage, he hath strange places cramm'd With observation, the which he vents In mangled forms."

"The sundry contemplation of my travels, in which my often rumination wraps me in a most humorous sadness."

"Farewell, Monsieur Traveller: look you lisp and wear strange suits, disable all the benefits of your own country."

"Travell'd gallants, That fill the court with quarrels, talk, and tailors."

"I spake of most disastr'us chances, * * * * Of being taken by the insolent foe And sold to slavery; of my redemption thence And portance in my travellers' history; Wherein of antres vast, and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak—such was the process;— And of the cannibals that each other eat."

"In your journey, be prepared to encounter an array of obstacles – some steep, some flat – for that's the nature of the path."

"After reaching an easy path, the walking stick should not be discarded."

"Travel has always served to inspire me, as it has many writers, as it apparently did my alter ego; yet the farther we proceeded down the Mekong, the more I came to realize that there was a blighted sameness to the world and its various cultures. Strip away their trappings and you found that every tribe was moved by the same passions, and this was true not only in the present but also, I suspected, in ages past. Erase from your mind the images of the kings and exotic courtesans and maniacal monks that people the legends of Southeast Asia, and look to a patch of ground away from the temples and palaces of Angkor Wat—there you will find the average planetary citizen, a child eating the Khmer equivalent of a Happy Meal and longing for the invention of television."

"All journeys end in disappointment if for no other reason than that they end."

"To travel hopefully is better than to arrive."

"I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land or by water."

"A rolling stone gathers no moss."

"Not all those who wander are lost."

"Some people feel more alive when they travel and visit unfamiliar places or foreign countries because at those times sense perception – experiencing – takes up more of heir consciousness than thinking. They become more present. Others remain completely possessed by the voice in the head even then. Their perceptions and experiences are distorted by instant judgments. They haven't really gone anywhere. Only their body is traveling, while they remain where they have always been: in their head. p. 144"

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness."