November 26, 2007

expressing the traveler's feelings

I came through these quotes at thinkexist.com. It truly shares the feelings of a person who has been on the road for a long time. If you have spent some time traveling and being away from home, you would agree with me.
  • A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it” George Moore

  • Experience, travel - these are as education in themselves” Euripides

  • The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see” G. K. Chesterton

  • The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes” Marcel Proust

  • The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page” Saint Augustine

  • Only he that has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep” Chinese Proverbs

  • We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey” John Hope Franklin

  • Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends” Maya Angelou

  • All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware” Martin Buber

  • I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it” Rosalia de Castro

  • Never go on trips with anyone you do not love” Ernest Hemingway

  • We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lost sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way

  • My travels led me to where I am today. Sometimes these steps have felt painful, difficult, but led me to greater happiness and opportunities” Diana Ross

  • The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready” Henry David Thoreau

  • Journeys end in lovers meeting” William Shakespeare

It'd be interesting to know other traveler's feeling as well. How do you feel?

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