Quotes on Adventure And Travel

It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

What gives value to travel is fear. It is a fact that, at a certain moment, when we are so far from our own country, we are seized by a vague fear and an instinctive desire to go back to the protection of old habits. I look upon it more as an occasion for testing.

Adventure is a path...Real adventure - self-determined , self-motivated, often risky - forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world.

We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate.

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.

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.

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

We travel, initially, to lose ourselves, and we travel, next, to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again—to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.

I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.

Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.

to travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.

And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it's a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, undimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.

Go at least once a year to a place you've never been before.

The most dangerous risk of all - the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.

We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends

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