Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.
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Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.
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.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
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.
Believe there is good in the world.
We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.
Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.
I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand... Adventure is a state of mind and spirit.
Adventure is a path. Real adventure - self-determined, self-motivated, often risky - forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind - and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white.
We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.
The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.
Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.
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