Travel Writing Quotes

...what I'm getting at is like the distinction between tourist and a traveler. The tourist experience is superficial and glancing. The traveler develops a deeper connection with her surroundings. She is more invested in them -- the traveler stays longer, makes her own plans, chooses her own destination, and usually travels alone: solo travel and solo participation, although the most difficult emotionally, seem the most likely to produce a good story.

As we travel to new places we gain new perspectives and renew our thinking.

Lailah Gifty Akita

May find the right road to travel on.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Want more fizz in your life? Shake things up.

Practice trust in small matters for huge returns in the large ones.

Nothing is lost in a stumble, only in the refusal to get up.

The alchemy of diamonds from the rough is to mine every moment.

Experiment with grounding yourself with who you are, not what you do.

Those who walk the talk get the work.

As long as you’re breathing, it’s never too late to reconnect with a long-held love.

If you’ve broken any promises you’ve made to yourself, now is the time to make up for it.

Whether by plane, bus or carpet, own the magic in your ride.

If you built the box, you can also break it down.

When life hands you lemons, why stop at lemonade? Create an entire product line.

If it’s true we only live once, then raise your red velvet curtain every chance you get.

Keep moving. Your next big thing may be just around the corner.

Till your inner garden and your outer landscape will flourish

Give full attention to life’s moments and the images you capture will be everlasting.

The adventures of a lifetime begin with “Yes.

Whether you need to make a call or answer one,don’t put your passions on hold.

Though I have not lived in New York City for more than two decades, these storytellers – from the United States, Britain and Canada – have touched my heart with their openness, inspired me with their joie de vivre and deepened my appreciation for my hometown as a worldwide phenomenon. Welcome to our New York.

Fear not your flame as you flood your caverns with firelight.

By necessity, we are direct and swift in speech and movement. This is the true dynamic that underlies our apocryphal rudeness. Also true: we do not make eye contact. Neither do we encourage it. Consider the number of humans a New Yorker will pass on a given day – on the subway, in a train or bus terminal, in an office or simply walking down the street. To facilitate speed and minimize drama, it’s productive to keep one’s eyes focused ahead.

You’d be surprised who will back down when you speak up.

For all the energy directed toward the stratagem of big city living, New Yorkers are never too distracted to respond to, and more often, proactively assist visitors. Tourists tracing the routes of subway maps with their fingers, squinting at street signs or staring at a slip of paper with confusion are typical recipients of our generosity. We know our city can be as challenging as it is fascinating, and we want visitors to have a good experience.

No map? No problem. Let commitment and determination lead the way.

I know when people think of New York, they think of theater, restaurants, cultural landmarks and shopping,” I told him. “But beyond the iconic skyline and the news from Wall Street, New York is a collection of villages. In our neighborhoods, we attend school, play Kick the Can, handball and ride our bikes. I grew up knowing the names and faces of the baker, the shoe repair family, the Knish man and the Good Humor man who sold me and the other kids in my neighborhood half a popsicle for a nickel. My father took me to the playground where he pushed me on the swing, helped balance me on the seesaw and watched as I hung upside down by my feet on the monkey bars. Yes,” I told the interviewer, “people actually grow up in New York.

At chaos’ core lies the invitation.

If you want it badly enough, it’s yours.

Our lives follow the stories we tell ourselves.

New insights from being present are a gift.

Stay open. You may find your tribe where you least expect it.

From the depths of your well, tap your will.

Increase the number of adventures you act on and you’ll lighten the weight of regret.

Those who receive the blessing are those who see beyond its disguise.

No matter how many strikes are hurled at you, only you decide when you’re out.

Endings are the embryos of new beginnings.

If “Been there, done that” isn’t your mantra,then make haste down your “bucket list.

An unlimited supply of wonder and trust, bolsters life lived as a process of discovery.

Diving in IS testing the water.

Go for it. It will make a great story.

Like flowers blooming through cement,we, too, can grow beyond our cracks.

Be who you are. You may not always please but you will never go wrong.

Be courageous: be still.

Sometimes we have to break down to break through.

a good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving" Taoist dictum quoted by Sam Miller

Almost astride the Equator, night fell like a portcullis. The sun dropped below the horizon and suddenly all was dark.

A person does not grow from the ground like a vine or a tree, one is not part of a plot of land. Mankind has legs so it can wander.

Look beyond now.The road ahead offers a good voyage.

Lailah Gifty Akita

a Nepali outlook, pace and philosophy had prevented us being swamped by our problems. In Nepal it was easier to take life day by day.

Jane Wilson-Howarth

Choose to live life.Choose your own career paths.Choose your own destiny.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Keep traveling, even if you don't know where the road will end.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The ride back to Kathmandu was comfortable and relaxing. There were more overturned trucks (the gas-powered ones seem to tip the most often, I’m surprised there weren’t more explosions), goats being herded across the highway by ancient women, children playing games in traffic, private cars and buses alike pulling over in the most inconvenient places for a picnic or public bath, and best of all the suicidal overtaking maneuvers (or what we would call ‘passing’) by our bus and others while going downhill at incredible speeds or around hairpin turns uphill with absolutely no power left to actually get around the other vehicle.

Jennifer S. Alderson

That is what War is, I thought: two ships pass each other, and nobody waves his hand.

Christopher Isherwood

Once, when I was about ten, we were approaching the ranch after veering north to look at some pasturage when we saw a small barefoot boy racing along the hot road with terror in his face. My father just managed to stop him. Though incoherent with fear, the boy managed to inform us that his little brother had just drowned in the horse trough. My father grabbed the boy and we went racing up to the farmhouse, where the anguished mother, the drowned child in her arms, was sobbing, crying out in German, and rocking in a rocking chair. Fortunately the boy was not quite dead. My father managed to get him away from his mother long enough to stretch him out on the porch and squeeze the water out of him. In a while the boy began to belch dirty fluids and then to breathe again. The crisis past, we went on home. The graceful German mother brought my father jars of her best sauerkraut for many, many years.

...how many of us have a moved heart that shies away to a different angle, a millimetre or even less from the place where it first existed, some repositioning unknown to us.

Michael Ondaatje

Instead of more consumerism – the buying of experiences, the accumulation of things, of eating the ‘other’ – perhaps writers should name their own environment. What is the shape of your watershed? How is your electricity produced? Where is your water treated? Where is your food produced and by whom and how does it travel to your local market? What are the names of the rocks under your feet and around you? What formed those geological features? Who were the first humans here? What flora and fauna live upon it and what are their habits and interfaces? What stars whirl above you and what names have they been given, what lore? How can one trace the relations, find the slippages between histories, the linkages, to find the complexities in naming and of the named? Travel as one’s carbon footprint; travel as a footstep, travel as a naming in a landscape in all its complexity. Homing as a way to place oneself in a constellation of process and being.

The most amazing journey on earth is the journey of oneself.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Wherever you travel to, appreciate the culture and beauty of the place.

Lailah Gifty Akita

When you travel, appreciate the culture of the people in the land.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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