Paradise was always over there, a day’s sail away. But it’s a funny thing, escapism. You can go far and wide and you can keep moving on and on through places and years, but you never escape your own life. I, finally, knew where my life belonged. Home.
J. Maarten TroostTags: happiness contentment travel paradise escapism wanderlust
I tramp a perpetual journey.
Walt WhitmanTags: journey travel tramp perpetual
I have no nostalgia for the patriarchy, please believe me. But what I have come to realize is that, when that patriarchic system was (rightfully) dismantled, it was not necessarily replaced by another form of protection. What I mean is--I never thought to ask a suitor the same challenging questions my father might have asked him, in a different age.
Elizabeth GilbertTags: self-esteem feminism travel
No one likes a straight road but the man who pays for it, or who, when he travels, is brute enough to wish to get to his journey's end.
J. Sheridan Le FanuTags: travel
We would oppose the turning of the planet and refuse the setting of the sun.
Dave EggersTags: travel
I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
Herman MelvilleTags: adventure travel just-do-it sailing travels adventuresome adventurous
A young gratuitous smile; trust and distrust;
Promiscuities of bed and board and road;
The one assured treasure
A life, in recollection, truly possessed.
Tags: life poetry travel treasure value pillar
No matter where you are, you're always a bit on your own, always an outsider.
Banana YoshimotoAll of us,' he said, 'have hopes of being poet, artist, discoverer, philospoher, scientist; of possessing the attributes of all these simultaneously. Few are permitted to achieve any of them in daily life. But in travel we attain them all. Then we have our day of glory, when all our dreams come true, when we can be anything we like, as long as we like, and, when we are tired of it, pull up stakes and move on. Travel -- the solitude of the mountains, the emptiness of the desert, the delicacy of the minaret; eternal change, limitless contrast, unending variety.' (Eric Lang)
Robert Edison Fulton Jr.Tags: travel artist glory poet travels move-on traveling hopes scientist daily-life discovere eternal-change philopher what-we-want
No doubt you are wondering what you will find, out there.' The Commandant said it for me.
'Well, it would be useless for me to try and tell you. The desert tells a different story every time one ventures on it...
Tags: story travel desert traveling out-there
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