I’m in the mood for quotes today. Lots of ’em.
This little gem is new to me:
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime. -Mark Twain
And there you go. When I say I’m leaving, to those who can’t figure out or understand WHY I’d want to be anywhere but here, there’s your answer.
More fun with quotes! …
My trademark quote as of late: “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things 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.” – Mark Twain
The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway. -Henry Boye
The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see. -G.K. Chesterton
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
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, Blue Highways
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
The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. -St. Augustine
As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own. – Margaret Mead
If you come to a fork in the road, take it. -Yogi Berra
I am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart. -Colette
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
Travelling 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