Travel Quotes - Page 12

The past is buried deep within the ground in Rabat, although the ancient walls in the old city are still standing, painted in electrifying variations of royal blue that make the winding roads look like streamlets or shallow ocean water.

Je pense, donc je suis...Descartes

The best thing about flying first class....was that you could be as nutty as a fruitcake and were still treated like the Queen of Sheba.

If life is a journey then let my soul travel and share your pain.

I am enduring temporary sufferings to fulfill my dearest dreams.

Empathy comes from the Greek empatheia - em (into) and pathos (feeling) - a penetration, a kind of travel. It suggests you enter another person's pain as you'd enter another country, through immigration and customs, border crossing by way of query: What grows where you are? What are the laws? What animals graze there?

You wanted to see the world.
And yet, all I want is to see you.

Travel is the discovery of truth; an affirmation of the promise that human kind is far more beautiful than it is flawed. With each trip comes a new optimism that where there is despair and hardship, there are ideas and people just waiting to be energized, to be empowered, to make a difference for good.

Waking up in India is like waking up to life itself.

I was so done with looking at life through the eyes of beer-drinking cheese-heads. I wanted to go on that mission trip and look through the eyes of someone from a different culture and see what they saw. I wanted to meet people who didn’t crush the can of what they just drank on their forehead.-Rebecca Meyer, Crooked Lines

My need to parent is so much bigger, sometimes, than my children’s need for parenting.

The vast distances that separate the stars are providential. Beings and worlds are quarantined from one another. The quarantine is lifted only for those with sufficient self-knowledge and judgment to have safely traveled from star to star.

The measure of civilized behavior is compassion.

Travel is fatal to narrowmindedness, prejudice and bigotry.

As a traveler, I've often found that the more a culture differs from my own, the more I am struck by its essential humanity.

Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling.

A good traveller is one who knows how to travel with the mind.

Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent.

If traveling was free, you'd never see me again.

Every journey has its own traveler. Every dream has its own dreamer. We are all belonged to a specific journey and dream. Some people are currently looking for it, some people are just figuring it out, some people are still lost, and to some they have finally found it.