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NOT I - NOT ANYONE else, can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself.
Sep 10, 2025
All the pathos and irony of leaving one's youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveller learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.
All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel
The wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.
Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.
roads were made for journeys not destinations
Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversations.
To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote, To travel is to live.
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth.
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go.
People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.
People take different roads seeking fulfilment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.
We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.
When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego ... things will happen to us so that we don't know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in.
The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality.
A wise traveler never despises his own country.
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.
The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.
According to the ancient Chinese proverb, A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure.
When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.
I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.
Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.
A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
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.
Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Adventure is a path...Real adventure - self-determined , self-motivated, often risky - forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world.
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
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.
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'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.
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
All that is gold does not glitter.
Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere
Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
If you don't know where you're going any road will do