golfkat Travel Blog

I enjoy compiling this list, whenever I find a good one, I add it.  Last year, I expanded it to other quotes that I find amusing or beneficial.  Three of my inspiration are pictured above.

“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong abut other countries” – Aldous Huxley

“The actions of men are the best interpreters of thought” – James Joyce

“The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep”- Robert Frost

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go” – T.S. Eliot

Interjecting a couple from my friends:

G says his favorite is:  “He not busy being born is busy dying” – Bob Dylan, Nobel Laureate now!

D says her favorite is:  “Travelers never think that they are the foreigners” – Mason Cooley

 

“He who is outside his door already has the hardest part of his journey behind him.” — Dutch proverb

 

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

“Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value” Albert Einstein

“I can’t be contented with yesterday’s glory
I can’t live on promises winter to spring (winter to spring)
Today is my moment and now is my story” – Randy Sparks, New Christy Minstrels

“If it doesn’t challenge you, it won’t change you” – Fred DeVito

“Don’t stop when you’re tired, stop when you are done” – Unknown

“Most people never run far enough on their first wind, to find out if they have a second wind” – William James

“Make sure your worst enemy does not live between your own two ears” – Laird Hamilton

“Be somebody nobody thought you could be” – Unknown

“I never knew of a morning in Africa when I woke up and was not happy” – Ernest Hemingway

“Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of riding a bike.” – John F Kennedy

“The one who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd.  The one who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one else has ever been before” – Albert Einstein

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the things that you did do. So throw off the bow lines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
– Mark Twain

Life is very short, try everything you’ve dreamed about (within the perimeters of sanity and the law) and regret nothing. Oh, and don’t forget the sunscreen.” ~Amber Benson

“America is a poem in our eyes” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Take me home, country roads, to a place, I belong” – John Henry Deutschendorf

“For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”-Nelson Mandela