"If everybody's
thinking alike, somebody isn't thinking.--Unknown"
"When you do the
common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention
of the world. ---George Washington Carver "
"We go on a journey to
be free of all impediments. to leave ourselves behind much more than to
get rid of others. --William Hazlitt"
"I had always loved
beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had had a
very little chance of seeing any.--Emma Albani"
"To travel hopefully
is a better thing than to arrive. --Robert Louis Stevenson"
"I should like to
spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere
borrow another life to spend afterwards at home. - William Hazlitt"
"Put your hand on a
hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl
for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity. -- Einstein,
Albert"
"Life is what happens
while you are making other plans. --Lennon, John"
"There are two
distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in
ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into
the mind of their own accord. --Thomas Paine"
"Make voyages. Attempt
them. There is nothing else. --Tennessee Williams"
"Be careful going in
search of adventure -- it's ridiculously easy to find.--William Least Heat
Moon"
"You know more of a
road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures
and descriptions in
the world. --William Hazlitt"
"I haven't a clue as
to how my story will end. But that's all right.
When you set out on a
journey and night covers the road,
you don't conclude that
the road has
vanished... And how else could we discover the stars? --Unknown"
"I have discovered
that most of the beauties of travel are due to the strange hours we keep
to see them.... --William Carlos Williams, January Morning, from Al Que
Quiere! A Book of Poems"
"People only see what
they are prepared to see. --Ralph Waldo Emerson "
"There are two kinds
of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to
find adventure and those who
go secretly hoping they won't. --William Trogdon"
"Life's truest
happiness is found in friendships we make along the way.--Unknown "
"These high wild hills
and rough uneven waysDraw out our miles and make
them wearisome. --William
Shakespeare, Richard II"
"I traveled a good
deal all over the world, and I got along pretty good in all these foreign
countries, for I have a theory that it's their country and they got a
right to run it like they want to. --Will Rogers"
"Men travel faster
now, but I do not know if they go to better things. --Willa Cather"
"An adventure differs
from a mere feat in that it is tied to the externally unattainable. Only
one end of the rope is in the hand, the other is not visible, and neither
prayers, nor daring, nor reason can shake it free.--William Bolitho"
"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, Blue Highways"
"Life is either a
daring adventure or nothing. Security 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 exposure. --Helen Keller"
"Before he sets out,
the traveler must possess fixed interests and
facilities to be served by
travel. --George Santayana"
"Certainly, travel is
more than the seeing of sights it is a change that goes on, deep and
permanent, in the ideas of living. --Miriam Beard"
"The true traveler is
he who goes on foot, and even then, he
sits down a lot of the time.Colette,
--Paris From My Window, "
"Own only what you can
carry with you know language,
know countries, know people. Let your memory
be your travel bag. --Alexander Solzhenitsyn"
"Security is mostly a
superstition. It does not exist in nature....
Life is either a daring
adventure or nothing. --Helen Keller, The Open Door "
"Life is either a
daring adventure or nothing. Security 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 exposure. --Helen Keller"
"Nobody is ever met at
the airport when beginning a new adventure.
It's just not done.--Elizabeth
Warnock Fernea, A View of the Nile, "
"You are unlikely to
have a startling adventure if you never take a
more hazardous journey than
a tram ride from
your house to the office. It is the same
with the
soul.--W. Somerset Maugham, letter to AG Stephens, in Home"
"The winds and waves
are always on the side of the ablest navigators. --Edward Gibbon, The
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