Shane Watson’s Favorite Travel Quotes
“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.”
–Robert Louis Stevenson, 19th century Scottish novelist, poet & travel writer
“The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.”
–Saint Augustine, 4th century theologian, philosopher & bishop
“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.”
– Lao Tzu, 6th-century BC writer & founder of philosophical Taoism
“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.”
– Henry Miller, 20th century American writer & artist
“Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again;
we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.”
– Jack Kerouac, 20th century American novelist & pioneer of the Beat Generation.
Born right up the road from Shane in Lowell, Massachusetts
“The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.”
– Rudyard Kipling, 20th century English journalist, short-story writer, poet & novelist
“The journey not the arrival matters.”
– T. S. Eliot, 20th century poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic & editor
“The trouble with travelling back later on is that you can never repeat the same experience.”
– Michael Palin, contemporary English actor, comedian & member of Monty Python
“There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson, 19th century Scottish novelist, poet & travel writer
“Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.”
– Lawrence Durrell, 20th century British novelist, poet, dramatist & travel writer
“You don’t have to be rich to travel well.”
– Eugene Fodor, 20th century Hungarian-American writer of travel literature
“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful,
we must carry it with us or we find it not.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, 19th century American essayist, philosopher, abolitionist & poet
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.”
– Mark Twain, 19th century American writer, humorist & lecturer
“Tourists don’t know where they’ve been,
travelers don’t know where they’re going.”
– Paul Theroux, contemporary American travel writer & novelist
“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, 19th century American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher & lecturer
“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, contemporary American travel writer & historian
“Not all those who wander are lost.”
– J. R. R. Tolkien, 20th century English writer, poet & academic
“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, 20th century English writer & philosopher
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
– Oscar Wilde, 19th century Irish poet & playwright
“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”
– Neale Donald Walsch, contemporary American author, actor, screenwriter & speaker
“Two roads diverged in a wood and I took the one less traveled by.”
– Robert Frost, 20th century poet born in the same city as Shane: Lawrence, MA
“Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.”
– Leonard Bernstein, 20th century American composer, conductor, pianist, music educator, author & lifelong humanitarian, born in the same city as Shane: Lawrence, MA
“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost,
to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt, 20th century American political figure, diplomat & activist.
“And then there is the most dangerous risk of all — the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.”
– Randy Komisar, contemporary American technology attorney, executive & author
“Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world”
– Gustave Flaubert, 19th century French novelist
“A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.”
– John A. Shedd, 20th century American author & professor
“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.”
— Aldous Huxley, 20th century English writer & philosopher