#trave

I'm living under water. Everything seems slow and far away. I know there's a world up there, a sunlit quick world where time runs like dry sand through an hourglass, but down here, where I am, air and sound and time and feeling are thick and dense. ↗

— Audrey Niffenegger

#travel

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#travel #travel

تبسمك في وجه أخيك صدقة، وأمرك بالمعروف صدقة ونهيك عن المنكر صدقة، وإرشادك الرجل في أرض الضلال لك صدقة، ونصرك الرجل الرديء البصر لك صدقة، وإماطتك الحجر والشوك العظم عن الطريق لك صدقة Smiling in your brother’s face is an act of charity. So is enjoining good and forbidding evil, giving directions to the lost traveller, aiding the blind and removing obstacles from the path. (Graded authentic by Ibn Hajar and al-Albani: Hidaayat-ur-Ruwaah, 2/293) ↗

— Muhammad

#compassion #giving-directions #islam #mohammed #muhammad

All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#journey #shine #tolkien #travel #wander

because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars... ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#wanderlust #travel

I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there. ↗

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#searching #travel #travel

One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things. ↗

— Henry Miller

#travel

I read; I travel; I become ↗

— Derek Walcott

#travel #travel

Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was. ↗