"People may hate you for being different and not living by society's standards but deep down, they wish they had the courage to do the same."
-Unknown
"So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.”
-Chris McCandless
"If you don't have a plan, you will become a part of someone else's plan."
-Terence McKenna
"The trouble is, you think you have time."
-Buddha
"Sometimes, it's a little better to travel than to arrive."
-Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
"The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page."
-St. Augustine
"An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory."
-Engels
In the end, you won't remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain."
-Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
The Dalai Lama, when asked what surprised him most about humanity, answered "Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived."
"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."
-Khalil Gibran
"Learn the flowers, travel light, & stay together."
-Terrence McKenna
"Most people will choose unhappiness over uncertainty."
-Tim Ferriss
"Discovering uncomfortable truths about the narrow focus of your own life is unsettling, but that is what travel is supposed to be."
-Dan Kieran, The Idle Traveler
“Life is too short to wake up with regrets. So love the people who treat you right. Forget about those who don’t. Believe everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said life would be easy, they just promised it would most likely be worth it.” -Harvey McKay
"All of my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name."
-Hunter S. Thompson
"The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago, the second best time is now."
-African Proverb
"There are certainly no more compelling travelling companions than the inescapable thoughts and feelings of your own soul. Travel with a friend and his or her presence secludes you from the way your brain delves into itself when you are in an unfamiliar place and wholly alone. When you travel alone your identity slips away, especially if you do it slowly and go a long way. You speak very little, which in itself is quite meditative. Your thoughts are free to roam into the often-neglected parts of yourself. The transition can be uneasy at first, but soon there is great comfort in what is lost."
-Dan Kieran, The Idle Traveler
"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and is punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."
-Oscar Wilde
"Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer." -Unknown
"There are no conditions of life to which a man cannot get accustomed, especially if he sees them accepted by everyone around him."
-Leo Tolstoy
"All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer."
-Machiavelli
"Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose."
-Steve Jobs
"I believe in my heart of hearts that it is better to have your ship sunk at sea than to have it rot in the harbor."
-Corey Booker
"I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on earth. Then I ask myself the same question."
-Harun Yahya
"The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it."
-Jordan Belfort
“…People seem to ‘find themselves’ when they are travelling, because they are more conscious of the experience of being alive when they are journeying in new and exciting ways. Being in alien places and cultures will inevitably result in an increased connection with yourself, because it’s in these new situations that your consciousness wakes up. You’ve turned off the unconscious autopilot that runs your normal life and started to take conscious control. Of course there’s less need to bother your conscious mind if you deliberately travel in a way that is familiar, safe, and routine.”
-Dan Kieran, The Idle Traveler
"Not all those who wander are lost."
-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
"I'd rather have a life of 'oh wells' than a life of 'what ifs'."
-Unknown
"You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore."
-Unknown
"You don't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there."
-Edwin Louis Cole
"Somewhere along the line, we seem to have confused comfort with happiness."
-Dean Karnazes
“The most dangerous risk of all [is] 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
"Peculiar Travel Suggestions are Dancing Lessons From God."
-Kurt Vonnegut