“Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.”
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“It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.”
“I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.”
“Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.”
“I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.”
“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.”
“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.”
“Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.”
“Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.”
“Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.”
“I love short trips to New York; to me it is the finest three-day town on earth.”
“Writing and travel broaden your a-s if not your mind and I like to write standing up.”
“All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.”
“Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.”
“It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent.”
“The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.”
“Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.”
“In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.”
“When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.”
“I've had a very interesting career. I get to do amazing things and work with amazing people and travel and learn languages - things most people don't get the opportunity to do.”
“I never travel without my Stetson, but the more I wear it the more I realise that no one wears hats any more. When I was a kid everybody wore hats, especially in Texas, but I get off the plane in Dallas now and I'm the only guy with a hat. It's amazing.”
“For 'Around the World in 80 Plates' we got to travel all over, having what was like a cross between a culinary competition and races. And in each country we had a chef Ambassador. We went to London, Barcelona, Bologna, Hong Kong, Thailand, Morocco... It was amazing.”
“After I finished high school I went to Hong Kong and Thailand and spent some time there. Just to get that whole experience of being out of the bubble that I was in from high school in Vancouver, to be able to travel around and be on your own was an amazing experience.”
“My public image is so low-key, but I get to travel the world and still have an audience and it's really amazing. I don't take that for granted.”