The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back.
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The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back.
It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, 'As pretty as an airport.
The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.
Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.
Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.
The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality.
When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seeing the time on Mars as observed from Earth now? It's like time travel problems in science fiction. When is now; when was then?
We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
Every exit is an entry somewhere else.
A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.
I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!
For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure.
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.
I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.
Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, you will find nothing (no true religion) anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here (i .e . in one 's own heart.)
The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.
We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.
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