Browsing Topic Best Roads Traveled Quotes

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.

You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go.

Let your memory be your travel bag.

There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.

So too, monks, I saw the ancient path, the ancient road traveled by the Perfectly Enlightened Ones of the past. And what is that ancient path, that ancient road? It is just this Noble Eightfold Path; that is, right view, right intention, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration.

To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.

One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

Your true traveller 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.

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

Success is not determined by the amount of accomplishments, but by the road traveled & how you handled the recovery of each failed attempt.

Take only memories, leave only footprints.

Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.

When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego … things will happen to us so that we don’t know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in.

Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.

Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversations.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go.

To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote, To travel is to live.

There ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. – Mark Twain, author Making the team is one thing, becoming a team is another.

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

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

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.

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

Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.

I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.

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.

The road goes ever on and on

Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.

Happiness is a road traveled, not a destination.

Afoot and lighthearted I take to the open road, healthy, free, the world before me.