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I will appoint captains to rule my cities, for it is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.
Sep 10, 2025
I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
Traveling is like flirting with life. It's like saying, 'I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.
There ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. - Mark Twain, author Making the team is one thing, becoming a team is another.
The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.
Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of Habit, the leaden weight of Routine, the cloak of many Cares and the slavery of Civilization, man feels once more happy.
If you're not living on the edge you're taking up too much space.
There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.
Traveling 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, sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.
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.
Live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds.
Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
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.
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.
I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it.
If you come to a fork in the road, take it.
Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.
One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
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.
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
Adventure is a path. Real adventure - self-determined, self-motivated, often risky - forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind - and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white.
Do not follow where the path may lead.
See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream.
Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body.
Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.
To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
Travel brings power and love back into your life.
One of the gladdest moments of human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of habit, the leaden weight of routine, the cloak of many cares and the slavery of home, man feels once more happy.
Stuff your eyes with wonder.
The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started.
Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends
Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?
I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life
Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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.
Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
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 harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Most of us abandoned the idea of a life full of adventure and travel sometime between puberty and our first job. Our dreams died under the dark weight of responsibility. Occasionally the old urge surfaces, and we label it with names that suggest psychological aberrations: the big chill, a midlife crisis.
If you don't know where you're going any road will do