quintessential quotes

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls. Joseph Campbell


“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” 
St. Augustine


“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” 
 Martin Buber


A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
Lao Tzu




"Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together.All things connect." 
 ~Chief Seattle, 1885


A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.” – Moslih Eddin Saadi




"The first condition of understanding a
foreign country is to smell it."
-Rudyard Kipling