I do not know where to go, but I have been on the road.
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Miyakahi Hayao
While she was in transit, being unattached was exhilarating, but the moment she stopped, so did the high.
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Whitney Otto
The natural tenderness and delicacy of our constitution, added to the many dangers we are subject to from your sex, renders it almost impossible for a single lady to travel without injury to her character. And those who have a protector in a husband have,...
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Abigail Adams
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
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Lao Tzu
Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.
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Anita Desai
More Quotes By A.E. Samaan
Travel does this: it creates space that allows thoughts and memories to intrude and assert themselves with impunity. Smells and sights, the quality of light, the honk of a horn -- can all act as touchstones when least expected.
There's something in the act of setting out that renews me, that fills me with a feeling of possibility. On the road, I'm forced to rely on instinct and intuition, on the kindness of strangers, in ways that illuminate who I am, ways that shed...
But in my clutching, it began to slip away. I softened my grasp and the sense of fluidity returned, I rode it like a wave....This paradox provoked in me a sense of freedom and relief-relief that what I was always aware of on a faint,...
As is often the case when I travel, my vulnerability -- like not knowing what the hell I'm going to do upon arrival -- makes me more open to outside interactions than I might be when I'm at home and think I know best what...
