Apr
1
Holmes on Experience
April 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment
A mind stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
– Oliver Wendell Holmes
Mar
29
Frost on Travel
March 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
– Robert Frost
Jan
7
Keyserling on self
January 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment
The shortest path to oneself leads around the world.
– Count Hermann Keyserling
Jan
5
Rothke on Going
January 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment
I learn by going where I have to go.
– Theodore Roethke
Thanks to Amy Tsaykel for this quotation.
Jan
5
Nye on finding one’s way
January 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment
“To live without roads seemed one way not to get lost. To make maps
of stone and grass, to rub stars together, find a spark.”
– Naomi Shihab Nye
Thanks to Amy Tsaykel for this quotation.
May
28
Cash on Packing
May 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment
I ain’t takin’ nothin’ that’ll slow down my travelin’…
– Johnny Cash
May
17
Emerson on travel
May 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Do not go where the path may lead,
Go instead where there is no path
And leave a trail.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mar
1
Miller on Travel
March 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Thanks to Gayle Keck for forwarding this quotation:
“One’s destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things.”
– Henry Miller
Jan
24
Unnamed Mentor, on Freelancing
January 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Thanks to Connie Hale for sending this along: Paul Theroux, early in his career, was plagued by writers block and solicited advice from an older, established novelist. That mentor wrote:
“The essence of the freelance life is freedom. Idleness is part of freedom and should not alarm you: you will find soon enough that you have more than enough on your plate. Relish these periods of rest. To be a freelance it is also necessary to believe, to know, to know profoundly that one is going to be all right-however unlikely it seems at any particular distressing moment. This faith your friends cannot give you; it is something you will have to discover for yourself.”
Dec
11
Socrates on language
December 11, 2006 | Leave a Comment
The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.
– Socrates
Oct
19
Angelou on travel
October 19, 2006 | Comments Off
“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.”
– Maya Angelou
Oct
19
Tolkien on travel
October 19, 2006 | Comments Off
“Remember what Bilbo used to say: It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.”
– J.R.R. Tolkien
Oct
14
Sontag on travel
October 14, 2006 | Comments Off
“I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.”
– Susan Sontag
Oct
4
Stevenson on Travel
October 4, 2006 | Comments Off
For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
– Robert Louis Stevenson
Oct
3
Kessler on writing
October 3, 2006 | Comments Off
“To be the author of your own life, you have to keep on writing the book.”
– Lauren Kessler
Thanks to Jan Burak Schwert for sending this quotation.
Sep
10
Bumper sticker on travel
September 10, 2006 | Comments Off
Thanks to Andrew Dean Nystrom for sending this travel quotation:
“If it’s called tourist season, why can’t we shoot ‘em?”
– Bumper sticker outside a bar in Gardiner, Montana
Aug
19
Beard on travel
August 19, 2006 | Comments Off
“Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.”
– Miriam Beard
Aug
19
Machado on travel
August 19, 2006 | Comments Off
“Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking”
– Antonio Machado
Aug
19
Shakespeare on travel
August 19, 2006 | Comments Off
“Journeys end in lovers meeting.”
– William Shakespeare
Aug
19
Williams on travel
August 19, 2006 | Comments Off
“Make voyages! Attempt them… there’s nothing else.”
– Tennessee Williams
Aug
19
Hemingway on travel
August 19, 2006 | Comments Off
“Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.”
– Ernest Hemingway
Aug
19
Buber on travel
August 19, 2006 | Comments Off
“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.”
– Martin Buber
Aug
19
Lao Tzu on travel
August 19, 2006 | Comments Off
“A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.”
– Lao Tzu
Aug
19
Tolkien on travel
August 19, 2006 | Comments Off
“Not all those who wander are lost.”
– J.R.R. Tolkien
Aug
19
Stevenson on travel
August 19, 2006 | Comments Off
Wealth I ask not, hope nor love,
Nor a friend to know me;
All I seek the heaven above
And the road below me.
– Robert Louis Stevenson