You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.
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You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.
I do not remember very many things from the inside out. I do not remember what it felt like to touch things, or how bathwater traveled over my skin. I did not like to be touched, but it was a strange dislike. I did not like to be touched because I craved it too much. I wanted to be held very tight so I would not break. Even now, when people lean down to touch me, or hug me, or put a hand on my shoulder, I hold my breath. I turn my face. I want to cry.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
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.
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
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.
She explained that the bullet had entered through the side of my left eye where there was a scar, traveled eighteen inches down to my left shoulder and stopped there. It could have taken out my eye or gone into my brain. It was a miracle I was alive.
The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.
Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.
A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace & gratitude.
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.
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.
Recently I danced in a video spoof of the song 'Gangnam Style,' and it was quickly banned across multiple Chinese online video platforms. But the story still traveled all over the world, carried in hundreds of international media reports.
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!
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.
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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