i·tin·er·ar·y
īˈtinəˌrerē/noun
a planned route or journey.
a travel document recording these.
synonyms:
travel plan, schedule, timetable, agenda, program, tour;
(planned) rout
"A Tourist is someone,
that when the Journey is over,
they have a home to go home to -
a Traveler is someone for whom
the Journey is never over -
They have no place to return to
They do not have a home --
They are Travelers"
~ The Sheltering Sky
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Hopefully the wider, the deeper, the Greater Purpose here gets awakened - and somewhat achieved by my recalling and narrating my own peculiar, individual, life story - full of singular resources - all in the greater service of getting you interested - or better, or best - to get you interested almost on your very own, as if the whole idea to go on a pilgrimage was all yours all along. It got you this far - or to get you re-interested once again - see, you never really pushed it aside after all -- and now these words born of experiencing gets you even closer to even just ‘Considering’. Big time CONSIDERING being the primary operating principal where it's now reached being 'on the table'. Just 'Consider' and just leave it at that for awhile. You don't have to work at it. It's already here crudely yet wondrously awakened in you. It's now right out there for you to look at and to consciously 'consider' -- that's all. Keeping you interested is your bid'nis not mine. How refined are your capacities ? Hopefully, you're probably a natural.
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Going out on the ‘Outer’ or ‘Inner’ road less traveled. Doing some serious sacred 'searching' here in the USA - or for the really skillful, courageous, brave and earthy Seeker - taking the risk to actually go abroad. It ain't no vacation. It is a search, a 'pilgrimage' of finding your particular higher purpose in the higher realm of available consciousness specific to you. Which is actually all of 'It'. There is only One. Just what you’re heart’s always wanted. You get to mindfully see and eat and shit and live and serve somehow in these raw cultural contexts that these unbelievable ancient indigenous spiritual practices that we are just now becoming global heirs to - originate from.
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They originate from the uncorrupted 'purity' of Identity with Roots - core indigenous Roots - no matter what material state of dilapidation or destruction they may be in until no more than a precious petroglyph. It's purely That. Pure, because the tradition itself required their priestly-caste to write them down early on, or at most/least to chant them all the time. Or design them as a secret teaching. Preservation of the cultural identity lineage is the most relevant, revered of behavioral actions sustained. It always is, cultures embedded with identity can’t help it. It's their mental Root Identity, hand in hand with family genetic Roots. Deeply cultural and racial. That’s the basic Nature of Living Conscious Things. Identity with Roots. Always go back and look for the Roots of things. Always look for the indigenous origins ! Notice the totally natural, awesome, sacred similarities that exist everywhere !
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Keep reading here… then find a good anthropology for dummies resource, a book, or video on the human condition. Search. Love your fellow human by offering the use of your Compassion. Wherever you go: Do No Harm. See and live how others live for awhile -- especially their spiritual participants, leaders to laypeople...
Hopefully the wider, the deeper, the Greater Purpose here gets awakened - and somewhat achieved by my recalling and narrating my own peculiar, individual, life story - full of singular resources - all in the greater service of getting you interested - or better, or best - to get you interested almost on your very own, as if the whole idea to go on a pilgrimage was all yours all along. It got you this far - or to get you re-interested once again - see, you never really pushed it aside after all -- and now these words born of experiencing gets you even closer to even just ‘Considering’. Big time CONSIDERING being the primary operating principal where it's now reached being 'on the table'. Just 'Consider' and just leave it at that for awhile. You don't have to work at it. It's already here crudely yet wondrously awakened in you. It's now right out there for you to look at and to consciously 'consider' -- that's all. Keeping you interested is your bid'nis not mine. How refined are your capacities ? Hopefully, you're probably a natural.
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Going out on the ‘Outer’ or ‘Inner’ road less traveled. Doing some serious sacred 'searching' here in the USA - or for the really skillful, courageous, brave and earthy Seeker - taking the risk to actually go abroad. It ain't no vacation. It is a search, a 'pilgrimage' of finding your particular higher purpose in the higher realm of available consciousness specific to you. Which is actually all of 'It'. There is only One. Just what you’re heart’s always wanted. You get to mindfully see and eat and shit and live and serve somehow in these raw cultural contexts that these unbelievable ancient indigenous spiritual practices that we are just now becoming global heirs to - originate from.
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They originate from the uncorrupted 'purity' of Identity with Roots - core indigenous Roots - no matter what material state of dilapidation or destruction they may be in until no more than a precious petroglyph. It's purely That. Pure, because the tradition itself required their priestly-caste to write them down early on, or at most/least to chant them all the time. Or design them as a secret teaching. Preservation of the cultural identity lineage is the most relevant, revered of behavioral actions sustained. It always is, cultures embedded with identity can’t help it. It's their mental Root Identity, hand in hand with family genetic Roots. Deeply cultural and racial. That’s the basic Nature of Living Conscious Things. Identity with Roots. Always go back and look for the Roots of things. Always look for the indigenous origins ! Notice the totally natural, awesome, sacred similarities that exist everywhere !
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Keep reading here… then find a good anthropology for dummies resource, a book, or video on the human condition. Search. Love your fellow human by offering the use of your Compassion. Wherever you go: Do No Harm. See and live how others live for awhile -- especially their spiritual participants, leaders to laypeople...
CONSIDER
The Greater Purpose of Pilgrimage
"A Tourist is someone, that when the Journey is over, they have a home to go home to - a Traveler is someone for whom the Journey is never over - They have no place to return to. They do not have a home. They are Travelers" ~ The Sheltering Sky.
If you thinking of traveling
or need some encouragement,
I have compiled here the
ultimate list of inspirational,
ageless travel wisdom.
“The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.” – G.K. Chesterton
“Remember what Bilbo used to say: It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.” – JRR Tolkien“
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust
“A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu
“The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.” – G.K. Chesterton
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” – Robert Frost
“I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it.” – Rosalia de Castro
“The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes “sight-seeing.” – Daniel J. Boorstin
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“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.” – William Least Heat Moon
“Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.” – Ray Bradbury
“I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” – Mark Twain
“To travel is to take a journey into yourself.” – Danny Kaye
The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have.” – Anna Quindlen
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” – Steve Jobs
“Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.” – John Muir
“Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you traveled.” – Mohammed
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” – Helen Keller
“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” – John Steinbeck
“Hitler didn’t travel. Stalin didn’t travel. Saddam Hussein never traveled. They didn’t want to have their orthodoxy challenged.” — Howard Gardner
“To awaken alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” —Freya Stark
“You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.” – Ella Maillart
“One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.” – Andre Gide
“The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” – Rudyard Kipling
“You got to be careful if you don’t know where you’re going, because you might not get there”. – Yogi Berra
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A tourist is a fellow who drives thousands of miles so he can be photographed standing in front of his car.” – Emile Ganest
“It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.” – Andre Gide“Adventure is worthwhile.” – Aristotle
“A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place….” – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
“I’d rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth.” – Steve McQueen
“A wise traveler never despises his own country.” – Pamela Goldoni
“Adventure without risk is Disneyland.” – Doug Coupland
“Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux
“No matter where you go, there you are.” – Buckaroo Banzi
“The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” – Shirley MacLaine
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“People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering.” – St. Augustine
“There is one voyage, the first, the last, the only one.” – Thomas Wolfe
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NOT I – NOT ANYONE else, can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself.” – Walt Whitman
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3. “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
4. “The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.” – Samuel Johnson
5. “All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.” – Paul Fussell
6. “Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” – Jack Kerouac
“People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.” – Dagobert D. Runes
11. “Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty-his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.” – Aldous Huxley
12. “All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.” – Samuel Johnson
14. “Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things – air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” – Cesare Pavese
15. “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller
17. “When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego and when we escape like the squirrels in the cage of our personality and get into the forest again, we shall shiver with cold and fright. But things will happen to us so that we don’t know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in.” – D. H. Lawrence
18. “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark
21. “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” – Martin Buber
23. “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux
24. “To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” – Bill Bryson
25. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
26. “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.” – Robert Frost
27. “A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” – Lao Tzu
28. “There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.” – Charles Dudley Warner
29. “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu
30. “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” – James Michener
31. “The journey not the arrival matters.” – T. S. Eliot
32. “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill
33. “I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” – Mark Twain
34. “Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quiestest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.” – Pat Conroy
35. “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J. R. R. Tolkien
37. “Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” – Maya Angelou
41. “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.” – William Least Heat Moon
49. “A wise traveler never despises his own country.” – Carlo Goldoni
50. “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.” – Mark Jenkins
http://www.travelblogs.com/articles/the-difference-between-tourists-and-travellers
Pretty Much All of My Favorite Travel Quotes
“Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, 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.” — Ray Bradbury
“The border means more than a customs house, a passport officer, a man with a gun. Over there everything is going to be different; life is never going to be quite the same again after your passport has been stamped.” — Graham Greene
“Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves.” — Robert Neelly Bellah
“Traveling — it gives you home in thousand strange places, then leaves you a stranger in your own land.” — Ibn Battuta
“The quality of life is in proportion, always, to the capacity for delight. The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.” — Julia Cameron
“A ship in harbor is safe — but that is not what ships are built for.” — John A. Shedd
“I spent four years prostrate to the higher mind, got my paper and I was free. … There’s more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line. The less I seek my source for some definitive, the closer I am to fine.” — Indigo Girls
ibn battuta travel quote inspiring george bernard shaw travel quote proust quote about discovery
“Learn to detach … Don’t cling to things, because everything is impermanent … But detachment doesn’t mean you don’t let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate fully.” — Mitch Albom
“Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment.” — Viktor Frankl
“My yearn for home is broadened
Patriotism expanded
By callings from beyond
So I pack my things
Nothing precious
All things sacred”
— Alanis Morissette
“It’s a magical world, Hobbes, ol’ buddy… Let’s go exploring!” — Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes
“Traveling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, ‘I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.” — Lisa St. Aubin de Teran
“For me, a place unvisited is like an unrequited love. A dull ache that—try as you might to think it away, to convince yourself that she really wasn’t the right country for you—just won’t leave you in peace.” — Eric Weiner
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Gorgeous travel quote themed wall decal, I’ll buy this one day for my house. :)
“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” — Robert Louis Stevenson
“Born originals, how comes it to pass that we die copies?” — Edward Young
“Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” — Miriam Beard
“When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.” — Susan Heller
“I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” — Susan Sontag
Travel quote from Gustave Flaubert
“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.” — Alan Alda
“Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.” — Paul Theroux
“Conventional wisdom tells us… we take our baggage with us. I’m not so sure. Travel, at its best, transforms us in ways that aren’t always apparent until we’re back home. Sometimes we do leave our baggage behind, or, even better, it’s misrouted to Cleveland and is never heard from again.” — Eric Weiner
“He won’t fly on the Balinese airline, Garuda, because he won’t fly on any airline where the pilots believe in reincarnation.” — Spalding Gray
“He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.” — Harry Emerson Fosdick
“Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.” — Alexander Solzhenitsyn
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” — Marcel Proust
“All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost.” — J. R. R. Tolkien
“All the above is, of course, a gross simplification. There are deeper reasons to travel – itches and tickles on the underbelly of the unconscious mind. We go where we need to go, and then try to figure out what we’re doing there.” — Jeff Greenwald
“Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.” — Georgia O’Keefe
“Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things – air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” — Cesare Pavese
Traveller, there is no path
The path is made by walking.
By walking you make a path
And turning, you look back
At a way you will never tread again
— Antonio Machado
“I travel light; as light, that is, as a man can travel who will still carry his body around because of its sentimental value.” — Christopher Fry
Ryu Murakami quote
“Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” — Jack Kerouac
“I think that wherever your journey takes you, there are new gods waiting there, with divine patience — and laughter.” — Susan M. Watkins
“Well I never lived the dreams of the prom kings
And the drama queens
I’d like to think the best of me
Is still hiding
Up my sleeve.
They love to tell you
Stay inside the lines
But something’s better
On the other side.”
— John Mayer
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.” — Mark Twain
“The commonsense rules of the “real world” are a fragile collection of socially reinforced illusions.” — Timothy Ferriss
“Would you please tell me, which way I ought to go from here?”
“That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the cat.
“I don’t much care where … ” said Alice.
“Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,” said the cat.”
— Lewis Carroll
“Then you’re trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.” — Chuck Palahniuk
“I see too plainly custom forms us all. Our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed belief, are consequences of our place of birth.” — Aaron Hill
“I’d rather die of thirst than drink from the cup of mediocrity.” — Stella
“Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over – it became a butterfly.” — Edward Teller
“We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“She’d have to propel herself into the future by whatever means possible or she’d be trapped forever in a place whose times had already passed.” — Kiran Desai
“Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.” — Quentin Crisp
“Take your time, think a lot,
Why, think of everything you’ve got.
For you will still be here tomorrow, but your dreams may not.
From the moment I could talk I was ordered to listen.
Now there’s a way and I know that I have to go away.
I know I have to go.”
— Cat Stevens
“Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively, unless you can choose a challenge instead of a competence.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
“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.” — William Least Heat Moon
“There’s roads, and there’s roads,
And they call. Can’t you hear it?
Roads of the earth
And roads of the spirit
“The best roads of all
Are the ones that aren’t certain.
One of those is where you’ll find me
‘Til they drop the big curtain.”
— Bruce Cockburn
“Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.” — Carl Sandburg
“Empty-handed I entered the world
Barefoot I leave it.
My coming, my going –
Two simple happenings
That got entangled.”
— Kozan Ichikyo
“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 has to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” — Thoreau
“Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.” — Kahlil Gibran
“Man is always inclined to be intolerant towards the thing, or person, he hasn’t taken the time adequately to understand.” — Robert R. Brown
“What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn’t come every day.” — George Bernard Shaw
“The ultimate sense of security will be when we come to recognize that we are all part of one human race. Our primary allegiance is to the human race and not to one particular color or border.”
— Mohamed El Baradei / International Atomic Energy Agency
“All you need to know is that it’s possible.” — Wolf, an Appalachian Trail Hiker
“Once in awhile it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.” — Alan Keightley
“There is little favorable to be said about poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship.”
— Nelson Mandela / Long Walk to Freedom
“The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.” — William Jones
“The lust for comfort murders the passions of the soul.” — Khalil Gibran / mystic, poet, and artist
“We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them.”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
“All men have the stars,” he answered, “but they are not the same things for different people. For some, who are travellers, the stars are guides. For others they are no more than little lights in the sky. For others, who are scholars, they are problems. For my businessman they were wealth. But all the stars are silent. You–you alone–will have the stars as no one else has them.”
— The Little Prince
“You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself any direction you choose.
You’re on your own.
And you know what you know.
And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go.”
— Dr. Seuss / Oh the Places You Will Go
“Every time you leave home,
Another road takes you
Into a world you were never in.
New strangers on other paths await.
New places that have never seen you
Will startle a little at your entry.
Old places that know you well
Will pretend nothing
Changed since your last visit.”
— John O’Donohue / To Bless the Space Between Us
“Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.” — Christopher Morley
“Every place is a goldmine. You have only to give yourself time, sit in a teahouse watching the passers-by, stand in a corner of the market, go for a haircut. You pick up a thread – a word, a meeting, a friend of a friend of someone you have just met – and soon the most insipid, most insignificant place becomes a mirror of the world, a window on life, a theatre of humanity.”
— Tiziano Terzani / A Fortune-Teller Told Me: Earthbound Travels in the Far East
“The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.” — Laurence Sterne
“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” — Anais Nin
“A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end … but not necessarily in that order.” — Jean-Luc Godard
“There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, ‘Yes, I’ve got dreams, of course I’ve got dreams.’ Then they put the box away and bring it out once in awhile to look in it, and yep, they’re still there.” — Emma Bombeck
“The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them.” — George Bernard Shaw
“Traveling makes one modest — you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”
— Gustave Flaubert / Flaubert in Egypt (1849)
“Most people think that shadows follow, precede, or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.” — Elie Wiesel
“I don’t want to own anything until I know I have found the place where me and things belong together. I’m not quite sure where that is just yet. But I know what it’s like.” — Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s
“The only unit of time that matters is heartbeats. Even if the world were totally silent, even in a dark room covered in five layers of foam, you’d be able to count your own heartbeats. When you get on a plane and travel you go 15 heartbeats per mile. That is, in the time it takes to travel a mile in flight your heart beats 15 times. On a train your heart might beat 250 times per mile. And we count this up and we make sense of it. We’re constantly switching accelerations; we’re jumping between time frames. That’s what we’re asking people to do every time we make something new, some new tool or product. We’re asking them to reset their understanding of time. To accept that the sequence we’re asking them to follow is the right way to do a thing. It’s like the farmer with the clock.”
— Paul Ford
“They thought that it would be a disgrace to go forth as a group. Each entered the forest at a point that he himself had chosen, where it was darkest and there was no path. If there is a path it is someone else’s path and you are not on the adventure.”
— Joseph Campbell / The Hero’s Journey
“True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice that produces beggars needs restructuring.” — Martin Luther King, Jr
“Among men, it seems, historically at any rate, that processes of co-ordination and disintegration follow each other with great regularity, and the index of the co-ordination is the measure of the disintegration which follows. There is no mob like a group of well-drilled soldiers when they have thrown off their discipline. And there is no lostness like that which comes to a man when a perfect and certain pattern has dissolved about him. There is no hater like one who has greatly loved.” — John Steinbeck
“Travel is like love, 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.” — Pico Iyer
“The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.” — Alden Nowlan
“I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.”
— Helen Adams Keller, lecturer and author
“Mankind’s true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.” — Milan Kundera
“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.” — Elie Wiesel
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” — Martin Luther King, Jr
“I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.” — Albert Schweitzer
“Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty-his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.” — Aldous Huxley
“All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.” — Samuel Johnson
“To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” — Bill Bryson
“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” — Maya Angelou
“Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.” — Freya Stark
“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.” — Mark Jenkins
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” — Steve Jobs
“A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place…” — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
“You don’t choose the day you enter the world and you don’t chose the day you leave. It’s what you do in between that makes all the difference.” — Anita Septimus
“I’m happy to be here, but still a little sad to be here too. Sometimes it’s better to travel than to arrive.” — Robert Pirsig
“Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.” — Neil Armstrong
“People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.” — Edmund Hillary
“If you are a dreamer, come in
If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar,
A hope-er. a pray-er, a magic bean buyer…
If you’re a pretender, come sit by the fire
For we have some flax-golden tales to spin.
Come in!
Come in!”
— Shel Silverstein
“There’s a race of men that don’t fit in,
A race that can’t stay still;
So they break the hearts of kith and kin,
And they roam the world at will.
They range the field and they rove the flood,
And they climb the mountain’s crest;
Theirs is the curse of the gypsy blood,
And they don’t know how to rest.”
— Robert W. Service
“It’s good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it’s good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven’t lost the things that money can’t buy.” — George H. Lorimer
“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” — Henry David Thoreau
“The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.” — Bruce Springsteen
“People always think happiness is a faraway thing,” thought Francie, “something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make it up; a place of shelter when it rains–a cup of strong hot coffee when you’re blue; for a man, a cigarette for contentment; a book to read when you’re alone–just to be with someone you love. Those things make happiness.” — From “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”
“My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.” — Thomas Paine
“Every man has his secret sorrows, which the world knows not; and oftentimes we call a man cold when he is only sad.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.” — Ben Hecht
“There are stars whose radiance is visible on Earth though they have long been extinct. There are people whose brilliance continues to light the world though they are no longer among the living. These lights are particularly bright when the night is dark. They light the way for humankind.” — Hannah Senesh
“Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.” — Walter Lippmann
“In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away.” — T.S. Eliot
“Imagine there’s no country, / It isn’t hard to do. / Nothing to kill or die for, / And no religion, too. / Imagine all the people / Living life in peace.” — John Lennon
“Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.” — Albert Camus
“One recognizes one’s course by discovering the paths that stray from it.” — Albert Camus
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.” — Desmond Tutu
“I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.” — Henry David Thoreau
“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.” — Zora Neale Hurston
“No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.” — Alan Watts
“Interdependence is a fundamental law of nature. Even tiny insects survive by cooperating with each other. Our own survival is so dependent on the help of others that a need for love lies at the very core of our existence. This is why we need to cultivate a genuine sense of responsibility and a sincere concern for the welfare of others.” — Dalai Lama
“Activism is the rent I pay for living on the planet.” — Alice Walker
“May I see what I do. May I do it differently. May I make this a way of life.” — Buddhist mantra
“Compassion is not weakness and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.” — Hubert Humphrey
“Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.” — Josh Billings
“Stories allow us to travel, time and again, outside the circumscribed spaces of what we believe and what we think possible. It is these journeys – sometimes tenuous, sometimes exhilarating – that inspire and steel us to navigate uncharted territories in real life.” — Elizabeth Svoboda
“If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you’ve got a problem. Everything else is an inconvenience. Life is inconvenient. Life is lumpy. A lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat, and a lump in the breast are not the same kind of lump. One needs to learn the difference.” — Robert Fulghum
“It’s like, at the end, there’s this surprise quiz: Am I proud of me? I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth what I paid?” — Richard Bach
“When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.” — Chinua Achebe
“How safe do we want to be? How much of ourselves are we willing to give up for it?” — Sarah Hepola
The Pilgrimage Quotes (showing 1-30 of 114)
“We must never stop dreaming. Dreams provide nourishment for the soul, just as a meal does for the body.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Pilgrimage
“We always have a tendency to see those things that do not exist and to be blind to the great lessons that are right there before our eyes.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Pilgrimage: A Contemporary Quest for Ancient Wisdom
“she wanted to dance with someone who would embrace her in the way she dreamed of since adolescence.”
“Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.”
“It's a good idea always to do something relaxing prior to making an important decision in your life.”
“The boat is safer anchored at the port; but that’s not the aim of boats.”
“The busiest people I have known in my life always have time enough to do everything. Those who do nothing are always tired and pay no attention to the little amount of work they are required to do. They complain constantly that the day is too short. The truth is, they are afraid to fight the good fight.”
“Death is our constant companion, and it is death that gives each person's life its true meaning.”
“We always know which is the best road to follow, but we follow only the road that we have become accustomed to.”
“Have pity on those who are fearful of taking up a pen, or a paintbrush, or an instrument, or a tool because they are afraid that someone has already done so better than they could…”
“When we both experienced the love that consumes, we shared in the Absolute. The Absolute shows each of us who we really are; it is an enormous web of cause and effect, where every small gesture made by one person affects the life of someone else. This morning, that slice of the Absolute was still very much alive in my soul. I was seeing not only you but everything there is in the world, unlimited by space or time.”
“I wept because I was re-experiencing the enthusiasm of my childhood; I was once again a child, and nothing in the world could cause me harm.”
“Once a problem is solved, its simplicity is amazing.”
“What people regard as vanity—leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one's name from being forgotten—I regard as the highest expression of human dignity.”
“It has been said that there is no such thing as coincidence in this world.”
“We are always trying to convert people to a belief in our own explanation of the universe. We think that the more people there are who believe as we do, the more certain it will be that what we believe is the truth. But it doesn't work that way at all.”
“We must never stop dreaming. Dreams provide nourishment for the soul, just as a meal does for the body. Many times in our lives we see our dreams shattered and our desires frustrated, but we have to continue dreaming. If we don't, our soul dies, and agape cannot reach it.”
“A disciple...can never imitate his guide's steps. You have your own way of living your life, of dealing with problems, and of winning. Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.”
“The ship is safest when it is in port, but that’s not what ships were built for.”
“The Good Fight is the one that we fight in the name of our dreams.”
“Human beings are the only ones in nature who are aware that they will die. For that reason and only for that reason, I have a profound respect for the human race, and I believe that its future is going to be much better than its present. Even knowing that their days are numbered and that everything will end when they least expect it, people make of their lives a battle that is worthy of a being with eternal life. What people regard as vanity-leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one's name from being forgotten- I regard as the highest expression of human dignity.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Pilgrimage
“Still, being fragile creatures, humans always try to hide from themselves the certainty that they will die. They do not see that it is death itself that motivates them to do the best things in their lives. They are afraid to step into the dark, afraid of the unknown, and their only way of conquering that fear is to ignore the fact that their days are numbered. They do not see that with an awareness of death, they would be able to be even more daring, to go much further in their daily conquests, because then they would have nothing to lose- for death itself is inevitable.”
“When in doubt, just take the next small step”
“When we want something, we have to have a clear purpose in mind for the thing that we want. The only reason for seeking a reward is to know what to do with that reward”
“When I asked you if you wanted to, I was not testing your courage. I was testing your wisdom.”
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