Quotes on Roads Traveled

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

The road to success is always under construction.

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.

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.

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.

But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.

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

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

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

You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go.

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

NOT I - NOT ANYONE else, can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself.

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

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

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.

Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.

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.

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