Happy Birthday Amelia!

~ “The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s apprecation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.”

~ “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tanacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.”

~ “The most effecitve way to do it, is to do it.”

~ “Courage is the price that life exacts from granting peace.”

~ “Adventure is wothwile in itself.”

Travel Quotes

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” Mark Twain

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” St. Augustine

“Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” Jack Kerouac 

“He who does not travel does not know the value of men.” Moorish Proverb

“People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.” – Dagobert D. Runes

“No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” – Lin Yutang

“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

“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

“Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things – air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” – Cesare Pavese

“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller

″A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.” – Moslih Eddin Saadi

“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

“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

“Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” – Miriam Beard

“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” – Jawaharial Nehru

“Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux

“To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” – Bill Bryson

“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.” – Robert Frost

“A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” – Lao Tzu

“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu

“The journey not the arrival matters.” – T. S. Eliot

“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

“Not all those who wander are lost.” – J. R. R. Tolkien

“Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” – Benjamin Disraeli

“Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe” – Anatole France

“Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca

“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

“I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within.” – Lillian Smith

“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley

“Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.” – Freya Stark

“Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.” – Alan Keightley

“Bizarre travel plans are dancing lessons from God.” – Kurt Vonnegut

“I love to travel, but hate to arrive.” – Albert Einstein

“When you are everywhere, you are nowhere / When you are somewhere, you are everywhere.” – Rumi

Words of Wisdom

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that 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
 
Would that life were like the shadow cast by a wall or a tree, but it is like the shadow of a bird in flight.” -~ Haggadah
 
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” ~ Lao-Tzu
 
If you want to be happy, be.” ~ Leo Tolstoy
 
“We have to understand that the world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is more important that the eye…The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.” ~ Jacob Bronowski
 
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.” ~ Paul Valery
 
Great belief, great doubt, great determination.” ~ Hakuin Zenji’s Three Essential Elements
 
“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be one’s own self..” ~ Montaigne
 
“If you are trying to aim for it, you are turning away from it.” ~ Zen Saying
 
“1. Out of clutter, find simplicity. 2. From discord, find harmony. 3. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” ~ Albert Einstein, Three Rules of Work
 
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.” ~ Ludwig Borne
 
“To know that you know, and to know that you don’t know-that is real wisdom.” ~ Confucius
 
“Meditate on knowing and not knowing, on existing and not existing. Then leave both aside so that you may be.” ~ Shiva
 
“One who is content with what one has is always happy.” ~ Chinese Proverb
 
“Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
 
“May all your heart and soul’s desires come true and may your inner child always be nurtured” ~ Melissa Myers
 
“One can travel all around the world and never find anyone more worthy of compassion than oneself.” ~Buddha 
 
“If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.” ~Mary Engelbreit
 
“When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.” ~Lao Tzu.
 
“Every day brings a choice: to practice stress or to practice peace.” ~Joan Borysenko