"Go not knowing where. Bring not knowing what. The path is long, the way unknown."
"I was always coming here. The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once wrote, 'God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly around the spot where you are standing right now.' I was never not coming here. This was never not going to happen."
"You can live your life drawing lines or you can live your life crossing them. Here's what I know. If you are willing to take the chance, the view from the other side...is spectacular."
"I go... because I want to live deliberately, to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to put to rout all that is not life and not when I come to die discover that I had not lived." - Henry David Thoreau
"A traveller is to be reverenced as such. His profession is the best symbol of our life. Going from - toward; it is the history of every one of us. It is a great art to saunter." - Henry David Thoreau
“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
"Italy, and the spring, and first love all together should suffice to make a person truly happy." - Bertrand Russell
“Not all those who wander are lost.” – J. R. R. Tolkien
"If I had my life to live over I'd like to make more mistakes next time. I'd relax. I would limber up. I would be sillier than I have been this trip. I would take fewer things seriously. I would take more chances. I would climb more mountains and swim more rivers. I would eat more ice cream and less beans. I would perhaps have more actual trouble, but I'd have fewer imaginary ones. You see, I'm one of those people who live sensibly and sanely hour after hour, day after day. Oh, I've had my moments, and if I had to do it over again, I'd have more of them. In fact, I'd try to have nothing else. Just moments, one after another, instead of living so many years ahead of each day. I've been one of those persons who never goes anywhere without a thermometer, a hot water bottle, a raincoat, and a parachute. If I had to do it again, I would travel lighter than I have. If I had my life to live over, I would start barefoot earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall. I would go to more dances. I would ride more merry-go-rounds. I'd pick more daisies."
~Nadine Stair
Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it."Talmud"
“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
Nothing, above all is comparable to the new life that a reflective person experiences when he observes a new country. Though I am still always myself, I believe I have been changed to the very marrow of my bones."-Goethe"
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."Henry David Thoreau"
Go forth on your path, as it exists only through your walking."Saint Augustine"
Go not knowing where. Bring not knowing what. The path is long, the way unknown. Russian Proverb
"I was always coming here. The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once wrote, 'God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly around the spot where you are standing right now.' I was never not coming here. This was never not going to happen."
"You can live your life drawing lines or you can live your life crossing them. Here's what I know. If you are willing to take the chance, the view from the other side...is spectacular."
"I go... because I want to live deliberately, to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to put to rout all that is not life and not when I come to die discover that I had not lived." - Henry David Thoreau
"A traveller is to be reverenced as such. His profession is the best symbol of our life. Going from - toward; it is the history of every one of us. It is a great art to saunter." - Henry David Thoreau
“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
"Italy, and the spring, and first love all together should suffice to make a person truly happy." - Bertrand Russell
“Not all those who wander are lost.” – J. R. R. Tolkien
"If I had my life to live over I'd like to make more mistakes next time. I'd relax. I would limber up. I would be sillier than I have been this trip. I would take fewer things seriously. I would take more chances. I would climb more mountains and swim more rivers. I would eat more ice cream and less beans. I would perhaps have more actual trouble, but I'd have fewer imaginary ones. You see, I'm one of those people who live sensibly and sanely hour after hour, day after day. Oh, I've had my moments, and if I had to do it over again, I'd have more of them. In fact, I'd try to have nothing else. Just moments, one after another, instead of living so many years ahead of each day. I've been one of those persons who never goes anywhere without a thermometer, a hot water bottle, a raincoat, and a parachute. If I had to do it again, I would travel lighter than I have. If I had my life to live over, I would start barefoot earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall. I would go to more dances. I would ride more merry-go-rounds. I'd pick more daisies."
~Nadine Stair
Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it."Talmud"
“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
Nothing, above all is comparable to the new life that a reflective person experiences when he observes a new country. Though I am still always myself, I believe I have been changed to the very marrow of my bones."-Goethe"
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."Henry David Thoreau"
Go forth on your path, as it exists only through your walking."Saint Augustine"
Go not knowing where. Bring not knowing what. The path is long, the way unknown. Russian Proverb