“When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford”
- Samuel Johnson
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
"One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things." – Henry Miller
"Let your memory be your travel bag." - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page." - St. Augustine
"We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open." - Jawaharal Nehru
"Don't tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have traveled." — Mohammed
"Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else."
— Lawrence Block
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
- Samuel Johnson
If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
-Henry Miller
"...I see skies of blue and clouds of white
The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night
And I think to myself, what a wonderful world..."
-Made famous by Louis Armstrong
"because the world is greater - far greater - than what we can ever see, than what we can ever know."
-Michael Crichton
This is my favorite quote of the bunch:
ReplyDelete"One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things." – Henry Miller
Something I have to keep reminding myself :)
Amber, I love quotes. Put them together with travel and it gets even better!
ReplyDeleteHow did I know the first quote would have something to do with London?
ReplyDeleteHow appropriate is this one?
The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. ~St. Augustine
Well of course Adrienne. :)
ReplyDeleteI love that quote too. I used it in a scrapbook a few years ago.
Great quotes. This is one of my favorites This is so true. It's how we looks at things.
ReplyDeleteWe live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open
"One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things." – Henry Miller
ReplyDeletegreat quote! :]
I hope to have a new way of seeing when I travel to Chile in 141 days.
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