"one must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself" (Proust)
I confess: I am a quote junkie. I collect them as avidly as others collect shoes! This page is as much for you, the reader, as it is for me, as I need my inspiration to be available in one place while we're on the road. I'll continue to add to this Quote Page often and it's my hope that you find it to be as insightful & encouraging as I do....
Anthropologists say you must immerse yourself in an unfamiliar world in order to truly understand your own.
- The Nanny Diaries
Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.
- Alan Keightley
There’s fear that keeps you alive. And there’s fear that keeps you from living. Wisdom is knowing the difference.
-David Swenson
Adapt to the pace of nature, her secret is patience.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
One of the gladdest moments of human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of habit, the leaden weight of routine, the cloak of many cares and the slavery of home, man feels once more happy.
- Sir Richard Burton
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
Home is not where you live, but where they understand you.
-Christian Morgenstern
What is traveling? Changing your place? By no means! Traveling is changing your opinions and your prejudices.
-Anatole France
You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself any direction you choose.
You’re on your own.
And you know what you know.
And YOU are the guy who’ll decide where to go.
-Dr. Seuss
Make voyages! Attempt them! There is nothing else.
-T. Williams
That’s what I like about traveling — you can sit down, maybe talk to someone interesting, see something beautiful, read a good book, and that’s enough to qualify as a good day. You do that at home and everyone thinks you’re a bum.
–Richard Linklater and Kim Krizan, Before Sunrise screenplay (1995)
Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.
-Ayn Rand
I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
- Albert Einstein
Do not ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
–Howard Thurman
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
-Edward Abbey
Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
-E. L. Doctorow
Beyond myself
somewhere
I wait for my arrival.
–Octavio Paz
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
-Charles Kingsley
To a worm in horseradish, the whole world is horseradish.
-Yiddish proverb
The purpose of life, after all,
is to live it,
to taste experience to the utmost,
to reach out eagerly and without fear
for newer and richer experience.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
The writer’s job is to get the reader to see the world as a question
—Milan Kundera
Don’t ever live vicariously. This is your life. Live.
-Lavinia Spalding
Go beyond what makes you comfortable. Open yourself to ideas, events, relationships that make you uncomfortable. Travel places where you know no one. Learn another language. Create art, even though you’re not an artist. Argue with people. Fall down. Get up. Read books, all sorts of books.
— Juan Williams of NPR during his commencement speech at Whitman College
The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk, and by not quite knowing what you are doing. What you will discover will be wonderful. What you discover will be yourself.
-Alan Alda