Quotes on Road Life

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.

The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

If you come to a fork in the road, take it.

Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary talk. Not courting talk - real straight talk about souls, for life is holy and every moment is precious.

Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.

I wasn't scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost.

If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.

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.

There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love.

Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.

..and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didnt know who I was