Traveling outgrows its motives. It soon proves sufficient in itself. You think you are making a trip, but soon it is making you – or unmaking you.
– Nicolas Bouvier
Related Quotes:
- After all, one travels in order for things to happen and change; otherwise you might as well stay at home. – Nicolas Bouvier
- Everything you see is in the process of making or unmaking or dying or living. Everything is in a state of change. – Kelly Barnhill
- Plucking a rose only proves you desire it, but nurturing it proves you love it. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Embellishing a story for whatever reason proves you’re a liar. Doing it in front of someone who knows the truth proves your stupidity. – DS Mixell
- I have an income nearly sufficient for my wants (no one’s income is ever quite sufficient, you know). – Anthony Hope
- I was its skin, its movement, its shape, its god, its creator, its destroyer. And you thought Dexter was bad. The Bridgeman arrives soon. – Catherine Astolfo
- Modern traveling is not traveling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel. – John Ruskin
- Traveling can get kind of lonely sometimes, er-¦ no, not traveling. What is the word? Life. Life can get kind of lonely. – John Mulaney
- Haste and panic were poor traveling companions, and this trip he’d reaped the consequences in spades. – Laura Frantz
- You leave home, I have learned, counting the trip day by day. If you ever get to return, you count the trip miracle by miracle. – Gregory Maguire
- In unremarkable texts we soon trip on phrases that penetrate into us, as if a sword has thrust up to its hilt inside us. – Nicols Gmez Dvila
- It is not always the motives behind an action that make it noble. Sometimes it is as simple as the action itself. – Jocelyn Murray
- Any clock that can track this sideral schedule proves itself as perfect as God’s magnificent clockwork.Dava Sobel – Dava Sobel
- To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent. – Nelson Algren
- To be mindful entails examining the path we are traveling & making choices that alleviate suffering & bring happiness to ourselves & those around us. – Allan Lokos
- It’s not about making the right choice. It’s about making a choice and making it right. – JR Rim
- We all are manufacturers in a way – making good, making trouble or making excuses. – H V Adolt
- That’s one benefit of travelling to your own future, and making the trip part of your past. – James A Owen
- Its never the miles of traveling that counts,its what you have done along the way – Narjit Singh
- The meaning of life is life itself. The reward of love is love itself. The joy of the journey is not in the destination but in the journey itself. – Debasish Mridha
- If the sun shone for itself, it would be blinded by its own light; if a river flowed for itself, it would be drowned by its own weight. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- In strength the body only knows itself, is full of itself, its movements, its words, but in weakness is the invisible and the whisperings. – Lene Fogelberg
- It is the transience of life which proves its inestimable worth. – DB Harrop
- Revenge proves its own executioner. – John Ford
- Trouble is you never knew her. Died too soon. It’s always a pity when they die too soon, but maybe it’s worse when they live too long. – Florence Stevenson
- Then I have some bad news for you, because humans are going to destroy each other as soon as it becomes easy enough to, which will be very soon. – Jonathan Safran Foer
- You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- My thoughts, I think, will soon be sound.My mind, I hope, will soon be found. – Tahereh Mafi
- Soon never comes soon enough to a young child. – Jacqueline Carey
- You soon know the difference between a real newspaper and an electronic one as soon as a fly won’t leave you alone. – Jeremy Lee
- there is no class that cannot be wiped out if a sufficient number of its members are murdered. – Hannah Arendt
- Public opinion is the worst of all opinions. – Nicolas Chamfort
- Beautiful is what we see, More Beautiful is what we know, most Beautiful by far is what we don’t – Nicolas Steno
- Where would we be in this soulless universe if there weren’t a few people who hold on to memories, their hearts yearning for long-lost feelings? – Nicolas Barreau
- Years don’t mean anything, only what happens in them. – Nicolas Barreau
- Greasy burgers and fries are so much more delicious than swallowing a cow whole. – Sarah Nicolas
- I was still sitting there, too unsure of myself to say anything, when Nicolas kissed me.’Let’s go to bed,’ he said softly. – Anne Rice
- When you look at me, tease my desire with a mere gaze, it shreds the edges of my soul-¦ ~ Ripp Collins – Yvonne Nicolas
- Does he know you’re with me? Does he know about me? Does he know we ???? each other in our dreams every night? ~ Ripp Collins – Yvonne Nicolas
- When you look at me, tease my desire with a mere gaze, it shreds the edges of my soul-¦ – Yvonne Nicolas