Quotes Page
This is a page of all of my favourite quotes!! If you’ve got any to add - Feel Free!!
“Don’t be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends” – Robert Bach (Chris)
“It is a terrible thing to strive all your life for success, in something that doesn’t matter”
“Be the change you want to see in the world!” - Mahatma Gandhi
“He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep, to gain what he cannot lose.” Jim Elliott, Martyr
“Two roads diverged in a woods, and I — I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.” - Robert Frost
“I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine. ” - Caskie Stinnet
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime” - Mark Twain.
“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 harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” - Mark Twain
“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” - St Augustine
“I have wandered all my life, and I also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” - Hillaire Belloc
“I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them, and of the bitter effects of staying at home with all the narrow prejudices of an Islander, that I think there should be a law amongst us to set our young men abroad for a term among the few allies our wars have left us.” - Lord Byron
“Travel has a way of stretching the mind. The stretch comes not from travel’s immediate rewards, the inevitable myriad new sights, smells and sounds, but with experiencing firsthand how others do differently what we believed to be the right and only way.” - Ralph Crawshaw
“Stripped of your ordinary surroundings, your friends, your daily routines, your refrigerator full of food, your closet full of clothes - with all this taken away, you are forced into direct experience. Such direct experience inevitably makes you aware of who it is that is having the experience. That’s not always comfortable, but it is always invigorating.” - Michael Crichton
“When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.” - Edward Dahlberg
“The sea is dangerous and its storms terrible, but these obstacles have never been sufficient reason to remain ashore… unlike the mediocre, intrepid spirits seek victory over those things that seem impossible… it is with an iron will that they embark on the most daring of all endeavors… to meet the shadowy future without fear and conquer the unknown.” - Ferdinand Magellan
“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it.” - George Moore (I fancy you’ll like that one Dad!)
“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…” - Mozart
“Travelling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and 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 Pevase
“Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.” - Alexander Solzenhitsyn
“We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.” - Robert Louise Stevenson
“Travel like Ghandi, with simple clothes, open eyes and an uncluttered mind.” - Rick Steves
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” - Henry David Thoreau
“No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” - Lin Yutang
“To see once is worth more than hearing a hundred times.” - African Proverb
“Walking ten thousand miles of world is better than reading ten thousand scrolls of books.” - Chinese Proverb
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” - Marcel Proust
“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” - Aldous Huxley
“…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
“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” - Martin Buber
“One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.” - Andre Gide
“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
“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.” - G.K. Chesterton
“Remember what Bilbo used to say: It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.” - JRR Tolkien
“We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.” - T. S. Eliot
