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A Good Reason to Travel

Maria — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 23:22:57 +0000

I wonder if one of the most important steps on our journey is the one in which we throw away the map.

- unknown -

A Good Reason to Travel

Maria — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 23:21:00 +0000

He who does not travel does not know the value of men.

- Moorish proverb -

A Good Reason to Travel

Maria — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 23:18:32 +0000

Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.

- Sigmund Freud -

A Good Reason to Travel

Maria — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 23:36:46 +0000

A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.

- Tim Cahill -

A Good Reason to Travel

Maria — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 23:50:06 +0000

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

- Robert Louis Stevenson -

A Good Reason to Travel

Maria — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 23:47:49 +0000

A person needs at intervals to separate from family and companions and go to new places. One must go without familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.

- Katharine Butler Hathaway -

A Good Reason to Travel

Maria — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 23:45:36 +0000

Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to – except heaven and hell.

I have only a vague curiosity about one of those.

- Mark Twain -

A Good Reason to Travel

Maria — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 23:43:30 +0000

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 -

A Good Reason to Travel

Maria — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 23:40:37 +0000

You may wonder, ‘How can I leave it all behind if I am just coming back to it? How can I make a new beginning if I simply return to the old?’ The answer lies in the return.

You will not come back to the ‘same old thing.’ What you return to has changed because you have changed. Your perceptions will be altered. You will not incorporate into the same body, status, or world you left behind. The river has been flowing while you were gone. Now it does not look like the same river (The Book of the Vision Quest).

- Steven Foster -

A Good Reason to Travel

Maria — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 23:42:26 +0000

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.

- Lawrence Durrell -