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Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

Until 1914 I loved to travel; I often went to Italy and once spent a few months in India. Since then I have almost entirely abandoned travelling, and I have not been outside of Switzerland for over ten years.

Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the work-driven feel about not working when they are on vacation and supposed to be having fun. They have something to do that is like a friendly imitation of work: they can take pictures.

Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.

Voyage, travel, and change of place impart vigor

Wake up and ponder the future

Walking is a virtue, tourism is a deadly sin.

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

We all know we have a problem, a broad problem. Ninety-eight percent of the fuel that is used by our vehicles, our autos and trucks for personal and commercial purposes, for highway and air travel operates on oil. The world has the same problem.

We are going to sign a treaty with Mexico. We are competing internationally. We need another international airport for international cargo, international travel, international businesses.

we are just as apt to meet the grandmothers as the wolves when we go traveling.

We don't take a trip. A trip takes us.

we can't know a road until we travel it. Hearing about it is not enough. We are obliged to travel over it.

We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one's life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.

We in middle age require adventure.

We have built our State on the freedom of personal adventure.

Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English.

We perfectly agreed in our ideas of traveling; we hurried from place to place as fast as horses and wheels, and curses and guineas, could carry us.

We'll never be as young as we are tonight.

We love old travelers: we love to hear them prate, drivel and lie; we love them for their asinine vanity, their ability to bore, their luxuriant fertility of imagination, their startling, brilliant, overwhelming mendacity.

We of the third sphere are unable to look at Europe or at Asia as they may survey each other. Wherever we go, across Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre.' Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else.

We're constantly buying airplane tickets; we travel on the Concorde.

We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.

We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.

We're Americans! Do you know what that means? It means our forefathers were kicked out of every decent country in the world.

We sack, we ransack to the utmost sands Of native kingdoms, and of foreign lands: We travel sea and soil; we pry, and prowl, We progress, and we prog from pole to pole.

We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate.

We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.

We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic.

We travel because we do not know. We know that we do not know the best before we start. That is why we start. But we forget that we do not know the worst either. That is why we come back.

We travel, in essence, to become young fools again - to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.

We travel to learn; and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own.

Whatever trips you make, you must still have nature in your eye.

What am I doing here?

Whatever course you have chosen for yourself, it will not be a chore but an adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving.

What I discovered I liked best about striking out on my bicycle was that the farther I got from home, the more interesting and unusual my thoughts became.

What I love most about this crazy life is the adventure of it.

What is it about maps? I could look at them all day, earnestly studying the names of towns and villages I have never heard of and will never visit.

"What place would you advise me to visit now?" he asked. "The planet Earth," replied the geographer. "It has a good reputation.

What is the use of going right over the old track again? There is an adder in the path which your own feet have worn. You must make tracks into the Unknown.

What makes a nation in the beginning is a good piece of geography.

What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.

When a traveler returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath traveled altogether behind him.

What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money.

When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take, as how you take it.

When it comes time to die, make sure that all you have to do is die.

Whenever I travel I like to keep the seat next to me empty. I found a great way to do it. When someone walks down the aisle and says to you, "Is someone sitting there?" just say, "No one except the Lord.

When I thought I was retired, I wanted to travel around the world and watch soccer games.

When I travel, I draw and paint sketches which is great fun. And as long as you are fully aware that it has nothing to do with actual art, I think that's all right.

When I travel, I like to take advantage of room service. I'm really into eggs Benedict in the morning.