Travel Quotes

Might as well start off with a couple travel quotes to get this blog off to the right start:

“El barco está seguro en el puerto. Pero no fue para eso que los barcos fueron construidos” Paulo Coelho, El Alquimista

"Of the gladdest moments, me thinks, in human life, is the departing upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one effort the fetters of Habit - the leaden weight of Routine - the cloak of Care, and the slavery of Home - man feels once more happy."

“The future isn't what it used to be.” Yogi Berra

"My richness consists not in the extent of my possessions; but in the fewness of my wants." J. Brotherton

"Do not be attached to the past or wait for the future. Be grateful for each day, that is enough. I do not believe in a future world, I deny the past. I believe entirely in the present. Employ your entire body and mind in the eternal now." Santoka Taneda

“Life is like a more complicated version of a Chinese menu. You can have one item from column A and one from column B and one from C, but if you get the smoked salmon in column C then you cannot have the rice noodles in column B......... Oh, you had egg drop soup for lunch? Well, then, you cannot now have Fried Ice cream for desert.....”

“Aún tenía que caminar mucho para llegar a las Pirámides, y algún día aquella mañana no sería más que un recuerdo. Para ahora era el momento presente, la fiesta que había descrito el camellero, y el estaba procurando vivirlo con las lecciones de su pasado y sus sueños de su futuro. Un día, aquella visión de millares de palmeras sería solo un recuerdo. Pero para él, en este momento, significaba sombra, agua y un refugio para la guerra. De la misma manera que un relincho de camello podía transformarse en peligro, una hilera de palmeras podía significar un milagro. ‘El mundo habla muchos lenguajes,’ pensó el muchacho.” Paulo Coelho

“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."
Martin Luther King

“The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.” Theodore Roosevelt