Inspiration for the Road

It is better to travel well than to arrive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

Confucius

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The mountains are calling and I must go.

John Muir

Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.

Mason Cooley

The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

Saint Augustine

Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

Benjamin Disraeli

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.

Paul Theroux

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

Susan Sontag

We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

Hilaire Belloc

It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

William Hazlitt

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.

William Shakespeare

Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts.

Seneca

The desert, when the sun comes up...I couldn't tell where heaven stopped and the Earth began.

Tom Hanks

In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.

Rachel Carson

The fact that a cloud from a minor volcanic eruption in Iceland—a small disturbance in the complex mechanism of life on the Earth—can bring to a standstill the aerial traffic over an entire continent is a reminder of how, with all its power to transform nature, humankind remains just another species on the planet Earth.

Slavoj Žižek

Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean.

Percy Ross

Think of your life as a waterfall; it may come crashing down at some point, it may have it's ups and downs, but in the end, it will continue to flow.

Unknown

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

Dale Carnegie

Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.

Anatole France

I don't know what London's coming to — the higher the buildings the lower the morals.

Noel Howard

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Albert Camus

What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

William Shakespeare

Many men go fishing all of their lives without realizing that it is not fish that they are after.

Henry David Thoreau

I own things I like, but nothing inanimate that I treasure in a deeply consuming way.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.

Albert Einstein

Happiness is only real when shared.

Christopher McCandless

There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.

Abraham Lincoln

By not going to school I learned that the world is a beautiful place and needs to be discovered.

Rutger Hauer

Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness.

Indra Devi

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

Ansel Adams

The biggest risk of all - the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.

Randy Komisar

You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Christopher Columbus

One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.

Thomas Jefferson

Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you ought to set up a life you don't need to escape from.

Seth Godin

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

Marcel Proust

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness.

Mark Twain

To travel is to take a journey into yourself.

Danny Kaye

Not all those who wander are lost.

J.R.R. Tolkien