#ravel

What is it about the American obsession with productivity and responsibility that makes it so difficult for us to allow ourselves a little time to solve the puzzle of our own lives, before it’s too late? ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#selfishness #travel #love

Sometimes you need to move away before you can see where you are ↗

— Benny Bellamacina

#love #philosophy #thinker #travel #wisdom

Everywhere we walked we got plenty of attention due to the camera and sound men. The locals love to get on camera. [...] I'd seen footage of Gandhi surrounded like this and always thought it was because he was very popular, but now I wonder if it was just because he had a camera crew with him. ↗

— Karl Pilkington

#humor #india #travel #humor

...all the disadvantages of good roads: high speed, and almost total lack of that inspiring factor in travel -- the welcoming hand of the interested stranger. ↗

— Robert Edison Fulton Jr.

#roads #strangers #travel #traveling #inspirational

What is more precious: a thousand answers derived from one question? Or, one answer…from a thousand questions? ↗

— G.F. Smith

#inspiration #literary #metaphysics #paranormal #religion

That day, I really believed that I had grasped something and that henceforth my life would be changed. But insights cannot be held for ever. Like water, the world ripples across you and for a while you take on its colours. Then it recedes, and leaves you face to face with the void you carry inside yourself, confronting that central inadequacy of soul which you must learn to rub shoulders with and to combat, and which, paradoxically, may be our surest impetus. ↗

— Nicolas Bouvier

#change

To travel beyond our world is to change this present one forever. ↗

— Steven J. Carroll

#life #life-and-living #life-changing #life-lessons #travel

Travel is glamorous only in retrospect. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#glamorous #only #retrospect

Recently, my personal advisors have been telling me to go to America. Actually, people have been walking up to me in the street and telling me to sod off, but that's the same thing, isn't it? ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#deranged #different #drapes #elevator #git

Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. ↗

— Aristophanes

#achieve #adventure #better #bold #i