It seemed an advantage to be traveling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others...Being closely observed by a companion can also inhibit our observation of others; then, too, we may become caught up in adjusting ourselves to the companion's questions and remarks, or feel the need to make ourselves seem more normal than is good for our curiosity.
Alain de BottonTags: traveling-alone
It seemed an advantage to be traveling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by whom we are with, we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others...Being closely observed by a companion can inhibit us from observing others; we become taken up with adjusting ourselves to the companion's questions and remarks, we have to make ourselves seem more normal than is good for our curiosity.
Alain de BottonTags: traveling-alone
You can't understand a city without using its public transportation system.
Erol OzanTags: travel urban city urban-life transportation traveling-alone public-transit
A subject to which few intellectuals ever give a thought is the right to be a vagrant, the freedom to wander. Yet vagrancy is a deliverance, and life on the open road is the essence of freedom. To have the courage to smash the chains with which modern life has weighted us (under the pretext that it was offering us more liberty), then to take up the symbolic stick and bundle and get out.
Isabelle EberhardtTags: travel traveling-alone
It's a long ride home with nothing but me for company. I bore myself sometimes. Not often. Just now and again.
David HewsonTags: humor traveling traveling-alone
When I travel, people say ‘Yet another place in this world’. But I see ‘Another world inside every place I go
Vivek ThangaswamyTags: travel traveling-alone backpacking
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