#ravel

I want my life to be the greatest story. My very existence will be the greatest poem. Watch me burn. Love always, Charlotte ↗

— Charlotte Eriksson

#dreams #existence #goals #growing-up #inspiration

And what is liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the union of all liberties - liberty of conscience, of education, of association, of the press, of travel, or labor, or trade? ↗

— Frederic Bastiat

#beat #conscience #education #faster #heart

You can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#entire #entire world #expect #new #new york

The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes "sight-seeing." ↗

— Daniel J. Boorstin

#active #adventure #expects #experience #goes

The traveller has reached the end of the journey! ↗

— Edmund Burke

#journey #reached #traveller

I don't believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It's a mean thing, life. ↗

— George Clooney

#because #believe #die #endings #enough

I suspected, however, that I wasn't homesick for anything I would find at home when I returned. The longing was for what I wouldn't find: the past and all the people and places there were lost to me. ↗

— Alice Steinbach

#travel #independence

While we are looking for the antidote or the medicine to cure us, that is, the 'new', which can only be found by plunging deep into the Unknown, we have to go on exploring sex, books, and travel, although we know that they lead us to the abyss, which, as it happens, is the only place where the antidote can be found. ↗

— Roberto Bolaño

#bolano #books #literature-and-illness #sex #travel

There are two kinds of travel: first class and with children. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#travel #luck

Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey. ↗

— Pat Conroy

#travel #journey