Traveling Quotes

“I need the sky's colored threads to tangle inside me, pull me somewhere new.”
― Megan Harlan, Mobile Home: A Memoir in Essays

“Might the safest space be this:

Safe from having to wear your armor.
Safe from having to laugh off your pain.
Safe to laugh at your pain, at yourself.
Safe to know your truth...
Safe to feel...
Safe to disagree...
Not safe from struggling with the conundrums of life, Safe to struggle with them
To sit in the dis-comfort of no-extremes...
Safe to spin through all the chaos...
And feel the shoulder of another traveler...
And know you are not alone.

You are not alone.”
― Shellen Lubin

“Might the safest space be this:

Safe from having to wear your armor.
Safe from having to laugh off your pain.
Safe to laugh at your pain, at yourself.
Safe to know your truth...
Safe to feel...
Safe to disagree...
Not safe from struggling with the conundrums of life Safe to struggle with them...
To sit in the dis-comfort of no-extremes...
Safe to spin through all the chaos...
And feel the shoulder of another traveler...
And know you are not alone.

You are not alone.”
― Shellen Lubin

“Might the safest space be this:

Safe from having to wear your armor.
Safe from having to laugh off your pain.
Safe to laugh at your pain, at yourself.
Safe to know your truth...
Safe to feel...
Safe to disagree...
Not safe from struggling with the conundrums of life, safe to struggle with them...
To sit in the dis-comfort of no-extremes...
Safe to spin through all the chaos...
And feel the shoulder of another traveler...
And know you are not alone.

You are not alone.”
― Shellen Lubin

“Nature is a companion that never lets you down”
― Steve Vasiliou, Geotravel: Tips and Stories

“Feeling close to Jack Kerouac as I am back to traveling again. The road and the sky feel full of life.

Vis ta vie!”
― Avijeet Das

“Love is a practice, a trail you carve out by traveling the same path over and over and over until it becomes familiar, until it lights the way home.”
― Elamin Abdelmahmoud, Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces

“Solitude makes me feel calm. The rain affects me differently. Books never make me feel lonely. I love hugging trees, and sleeping on grass. Can't help being addicted to coffee and writing.
What about you?”
― Avijeet Das, Why the Silhouette?

“Traveling to me is like forgetting all the nonsense that my mind assumed over the years.”
― Sumit Tak

“A train is a poem that will take you anywhere you want to go.”
― Dale Maharidge, The Last Great American Hobo

“Praise (The Sonnet)

In praising myself,
I only insult myself.
In pleasing myself,
I bring misery upon myself.
Lots of things I bought,
Plenty places I travelled.
Nothing gave me the bliss I seek,
No matter how much I groveled.
Then I stopped wanting things,
I ceased craving for gratification.
I placed my heart at your feet,
Finally I found my absolution.
Long was I lost in the sleep of pride.
Erasing the self I found my light.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live

“Perhaps counterintuitively, monotasking getting there can also help improve our social relationships. We think we should respond to messages from friends and family as quickly as possible—but strong friendships are generally based on qualities deeper than response time. Overall responsiveness is important, but good friends should be patient, appreciate your full attention when you have it to give, and value your safety and that of others around you.”
― Thatcher Wine, The Twelve Monotasks: Do One Thing at a Time to Do Everything Better

“I will go outside, wander about aimlessly, and see what happens.”
― Pete McCarthy, McCarthy's Bar: A Journey of Discovery In Ireland

“And something about the rawness of life with the baby was like the rawness of travel, the way it laid you open to the clear blue nerves. You were the five senses pouring down an unknown street; you were the slap of your shoes and hot paper of your palms, streaming past statues of regional Madonnas. The indelibility of a certain thrift shop in Helsinki, the smell of foreign decades in the lining of one leather coat. The loop of "Desert Island Disk" in a certain coffee shop in Cleveland, where the owner warned her not to have a second detoxifying charcoal latte because it would "flush the pills out of her system and get her pregnant". The bridges of other cities, where she would watch their drab green rivers buoy up their rainbow-necked ducks, where she would drink espresso until there was a free and frightening exchange between her and the day--- she was open, flung open, anything could rush in.”
― Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This

“If you want to save money while traveling, always delete your browser cookies or use incognito mode before you book airline tickets online. The reason is, ticket prices go up when you visit travel websites multiple times because of collected browsing history data.”
― Olawale Daniel

“Some cities are pretty at night, others only during the day but a handful truly great places can be both pretty at nighttime and at daytime. Venice is one of them.”
― Ryan Gelpke, Nietzsche’s Birthday Party: A Short Story Collection

“All lonely, beautifully silent and so very enchanting the city seems at night when every tourist, hotelier and tour guide have gone to bed, almost like a ghost town if it weren’t for the one or other lit window and a few lonely insomniac people walking the alleys here and there.”
― Ryan Gelpke, Nietzsche’s Birthday Party: A Short Story Collection

“When you stay too long in a place, you forget just how big an expanse the world is. You get no sense of the length of those longitudes and latitudes.

But once you sense that vastness, once something reveals it, hope emerges, whether you want it to or not, and it clings to you as stubbornly as lichen clings to rock”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“We’ll need to think more carefully about the broader ethics of identity, difference, and the global dynamics of power that have made it so that hundreds and thousands of Westerners jet-set around the globe to Ghana, Nicaragua, or Haiti to help, heal, and remedy what needs to be fixed, while hundreds and thousands of Ghanaians, Nicaraguans, or Haitians are similarly not coming to our countries to do the same”
― Anu Taranath, Beyond Guilt Trips: Mindful Travel in an Unequal World

“The cobblestones are a bad match for the wagon, making it feel like she’s sitting atop her own personal earthquake.”
― Shawn P. McCarthy

“If you think that you are rusting and rotting where you are, go to a place you have never known before, speak in languages you have never spoken before and try to get to know souls you have never met before!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“If you keep seeing the same landscape, there’s a good chance that you’re standing at the same place on the same road. And when that happens, we soon forget that roads were meant for traveling, not standing.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“A lot of people spend all of their lives sorting through maps. And while that might make them an expert regarding the route, they never set foot on the road.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life."

― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

Feeling close to Jack Kerouac as I am back to traveling again. The road and the sky feel full of life.

Vis ta vie!”
― Avijeet Das

“Soon the whole fading plain is covered with them and on the other side of the street lie nothing but graves, and dark, veiled women who bustle amongst the dead in shapes of grief.”
― Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Morte na Pérsia

“Traveling around the island had revealed I was being affected by altitude changes. I had noticed on days out from the campsite that I would be fatigued the following day. Altitude testing showed this fatigue reaction would occur whenever I spent time above one thousand feet. The longer I was above one thousand feet, the more fatigued I would be the next day and it would often increase forgetfulness and confusion. Once I started avoiding traveling past several hundred feet in altitude, I was much healthier! I call this sickness “Altitude Hypersensitivity”, as it was previously thought that altitude sickness only occurred above 4,900 feet.”
― Steven Magee, Magee’s Disease

“I’m one walker that’s stood way up and looked way down acrost aplenty of pretty sights in all their veiled and nakedest season. Thumbing it. Hitching it. Walking and talking it. Chalking it. Marking it. Sighting it and hearing it. Seeing and feeling and breathing and smelling it in, sucking down me, rubbing it all in the pores of my skin, and the wind between my eyes knocking honey in my comb….”
― Woody Guthrie

“I can finally name the creeping feeling that I felt over the past 48 hours since the R&R phase began. It is simply the realisation that this incredible trip is slowly coming to an end and that I have been dreading the return to Lima because once we end up setting foot here it means that the hardships, the challenges and the learning experiences are over.”
― Ryan Gelpke, Peruvian Days

“Like a never ending circle these French kids arrived the day before we leave, and probably before they leave another group will replace them forming this endless cycle of never-ending Peruvian days.”
― Ryan Gelpke, Peruvian Days

“If your travel has made a significant impact on you, how nice; but if your travel has made a significant impact on where you went, then how extraordinary!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan