Sunday, July 18, 2010

QUOTES FOR THE EVE OF A JOURNEY


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


When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money.  Then take half the clothes and twice the money.  ~Susan Heller


A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.  ~Lao Tzu


Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.  ~Anatole France


It is not down in any map; true places never are.  ~Herman Melville

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


To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.  ~Charles Horton Cooley


Most travel is best of all in the anticipation or the remembering; the reality has more to do with losing your luggage.  ~Regina Nadelson


Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.  ~Ray Bradbury

The traveler sees what he sees.  The tourist sees what he has come to see.  ~G.K. Chesterton

We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.  ~Hilaire Belloc


Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.  ~Benjamin Disraeli

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