Words of Wisdom

Life is either a great adventure or nothing at all.

Helen Keller

Strangers are just friends you haven't met yet.

Collect memories, not things.

If it's important to you, you'll find a way. If not, you'll find an excuse.

One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.

Thomas Jefferson

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

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.
Gilbert K. Chesterton 

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education;
in the elder, a part of experience.
Francis Bacon 

A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
George Edward Moore 

You know more of a road by having traveled it
than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.
William Hazlitt 

When you feel like quitting, think about why you started. 

Why, I'd like nothing better than
to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
Aristophanes 

Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.
Paul Theroux 

We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.
Hilaire Belloc 

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

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.
Liberty Hyde Bailey 

The hardest part is to travel, and to be away from your family.
Glenn Tipton 

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Charles Spurgeon 

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths,
rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
John D. Rockefeller 

If not now, when?

I'm not sure what I'll do,  but - well,  I want to go places and see people.
I want my mind to grow.
I want to live where things happen on a big scale.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

When was the last time you did something for the first time?

Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth
because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Don't be scared to walk alone. Don't be scared to like it.

Sometimes it's not only the bad memories that make you sad,
but it's the happy ones you know will never happen again. 
 

Not all who wander are lost.

 J.R.R.Tolkein
 

Everyday holds a new adventure
 

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step .

Lao Tzu
 

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you
where there were only walls.

 Joseph Campbell
 

 Adventure is a path. Real adventure – self-determined, self-motivated, often risky – forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind – and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white.

Mark Jenkins