Dogen Zenji Quotes

The journey is my home.

I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

He traveled in order to come home.

Not all those who wander are lost.

I want to travel the world. I want to go everywhere. Everywhere.

Man's real home is not a house, but the Road, and that life itself is a journey to be walked on foot.

The great home of the soul is the open road.

Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.

Life on the open road is liberty... to be alone, to have few needs, to be unknown, everywhere a foreigner and at home, and to walk grandly and solitarily in conquest of the world.

I am convinced that to live is to travel towards the world's end.

If travel is searching and home what's been found, I'm not stopping. I'm going hunting.

One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey; I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me. I am then never less alone than when alone.

You must go on a long journey before you can really find out how wonderful home is.

The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself.

All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world's wildernesses I first should wander.

One of the gladdest moments of human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of habit, the leaden weight of routine, the cloak of many cares and the slavery of home, man feels once more happy.

For years I drove cross-country, back and forth a dozen times, sometimes on book tour, sometimes just to get lost and found.

I try to travel as much as I can... I'm always looking for a reason to.

Ah! Young people, travel if you can, and if you cannot - travel all the same!

The story of 'Highway' is completely about travel. It is about the fascination of travel to an extent that I don't want to even reach the destination and also being away from society gives you a certain view of the society, so that was the intention of the film.

I am a voyager - and the voyage cannot mean that I stay at home.

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.