The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.
Gilbert K. ChestertonRead
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The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.
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
If you come to a fork in the road, take it.
You know it's only 50 miles from Grand River to Canton, but it took me 67 years to travel that distance.
I think it's my adventure, my trip, my journey, and I guess my attitude is, let the chips fall where they may.
A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.
People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.
You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.
We travel to learn; and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own.
The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work.
We love because it's the only true adventure.
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.
People come back from flights and tell you a story like it's a horror story. That's how bad they make it sound. They're like, 'It was the worst day of my life. We didn't board for 20 minutes and they made us sit there on the runway for 40 minutes.' Oh really? What happened next? Did you fly in the air, incredibly, like a bird? Did you partake in the miracle of human flight you non-contributing zero?'
I've met the most interesting people while flying or on a boat. These methods of travel seem to attract the kind of people I want to be with.
It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook it, and to bring it in without unfair play and without too much subduing it.
We must travel in the direction of our fear.
I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding from the people I have met in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cutthroat, competitive world in which I spent my life.
Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.
The film of tomorrow will not be directed by civil servants of the camera, but by artists for whom shooting a film constitutes a wonderful and thrilling adventure.
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