Travel Writing Quotes
And so we went. And so it went. And, slowly, I began to learn: speaking in the same language does not equal communication, especially when there is a cultural divide.
I looked out again at the rising moon and I let the weight of my day, my week, lift away with the rushing wind as I was blown into the depths of myself.
My professional life had started and here I was at a professional dinner full of uninhibited drinking.
There were signs everywhere but none that I could read or even hope to decipher. These multi-lined symbols unhinged my familiar world.
Sicily is paradise. I live in paradise. Now pass the pasta please.
We had found nothing, and had been lost several times already in one morning, so this was shaping up into a top travel experience.
All that old road of the past unreeling dizzily as if the cup of life had been overturned and everything gone mad. My eyes ached in nightmare day (235).
When you travel, appreciate the culture of the people in the land.
The most amazing journey on earth is the journey of oneself.
Choose to live life.Choose your own career paths.Choose your own destiny.
A person does not grow from the ground like a vine or a tree, one is not part of a plot of land. Mankind has legs so it can wander.
One does not travel, any more than one falls in love, to collect material. It is simply part of one's life...
There is of course a deep spiritual need which the pilgrimage seems to satisfy, particularly for those hardy enough to tackle the journey on foot.
Seuls les poissons morts suivent le courant' - Only dead fish follow the current
I travel to know the life of great souls in the pages of a book.
With my pen I have engraved warrants of citizenship in the most remote corners, for truly the world has been my home.
What is a miracle if not the manifestation of light where darkness is expected?
...how many of us have a moved heart that shies away to a different angle, a millimetre or even less from the place where it first existed, some repositioning unknown to us.
a Nepali outlook, pace and philosophy had prevented us being swamped by our problems. In Nepal it was easier to take life day by day.
Almost astride the Equator, night fell like a portcullis. The sun dropped below the horizon and suddenly all was dark.
a good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving" Taoist dictum quoted by Sam Miller