Random good quotes

"A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent (which I cannot deny myself to be without being impious) will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place." — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

 

"Don't tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have traveled." — Mohammed

 

The journey is my home." — Muriel Rukeyser

 

"Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions." — Peter Hoeg

 

"To awaken alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world." —Freya Stark

 

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home. ~James Michener

 

Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.- Anne Sophie Swetchine

A good traveller has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.

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

 

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. ...You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. - Jim Morrison

 

Dope will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no dope. - Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers

 

Better living through chemistry. - Dow Chemical advertisement

 

…see the whole thing is a world full of rucksack wanderers, Dharma Bums refusing to subscribe to the general demand that they consume production and therefore have to work for the privilege of consuming, all that crap they didn't really want anyway such as refrigerators, TV sets, cars,…and general junk you finally always see a week later in the garbage anyway, all of them imprisoned in a system of work, produce, consume, work, produce, consume, I see a vision of a great rucksack revolution thousands or even millions of young Americans wandering around with rucksacks, going up to mountains to pray, making children laugh and old men glad, making young girls happy and old girls happier, all of 'em Zen Lunatics who go about writing poems that happen to appear in their heads for no reason and also by being kind and also by strange unexpected acts keep giving visions of eternal freedom to everybody and to all living creatures. Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums, 1958

 

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.

 

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.

 

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

 

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams Live the life you've always imagined.- Henry David Thoreau

 

"The journey not the arrival matters." -- T. S. Eliot

 

Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. -Thomas Jefferson

 

"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me." Hunter S. Thompson

 

"Acid is not for every brain .... Only the healthy, happy, wholesome, handsome, hopeful, humorous, high-velocity should seek these experiences. This elitism is totally self-determined. Unless you are self-confident, self-directed, self-selected, please abstain. " Timothy Leary

 

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