“The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is; and this we…”— Marcel Proust, amazon.com
“I'm just saying why can't black men explore their sexuality without being labeled as gay or bi or whatever?”— Amy Aniobi, Issa Dee, Issa Rae, imdb.com
“And I shall grow young again in the storm and drift of the foam and the dark wild waves! Yes — a wandering life suits me — and I am not sorry to have a taste of it once more. There's nothing like it — nothing like a broad ocean and sweeping wind!”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“To travel is to enter someone else’s home Seek new experiences Make new friends Try everything Treat your surroundings with respect Leave the hotel Engage with locals Travel is a luxury most can’t afford But if and when you can, do not waste a single moment Fill them with wonder”— Eugene Lee Yang, twitter.com
“Columbus did neatly check his emulators, by rearing an egg without assistance. Let the slighter of this voyage apply.”— Francis Drake, international.loc.gov
“I was as curious as the devil. Couldn't have been older than sixteen months when I started wandering out of the house by myself. I was a handful. Had to be kept on a short leash.”— Etta James, amazon.com
“Walk It's good for you Maybe you'll smile at a stranger Or shed a few tears you've been choking down A mischievous spark may light”— Quiara Alegría Hudes, twitter.com
“Wandering’s the most addictive drug there is, I think, and every hidden road leads on to a dozen more.”— Stephen King, amazon.com
“What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense, to fear no longer the terror that flieth by night, yet to feel truly and understand a little, a very little, of the story of life.”— Beatrix Potter, amazon.com
“Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There’s more to life than you know and it’s all happening out there. Discover what part you can play and then go for it.”— Ian McKellen, azquotes.com
“The human race has a yearning to explore. That’s part of our biological and psychological makeup.”— Kip Thorne, theguardian.com
“The universe created you for a reason, now go out there and find out what it is.”— Nikita Gill, collective.world
“I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul dive deep into your soul and explore it.”— Tori Amos, wattpad.com
“I really would like to stop working forever–never work again, never do anything like the kind of work I’m doing now–and do nothing but write poetry and have leisure to spend the day outdoors and go to museums and see friends. And I’d like to keep living with someone — maybe even a man — and explore…”— Allen Ginsberg, writing.upenn.edu
“The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I was in a dream.”— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com
“What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.”— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com