Ella Maillart Quotes

Outside your door, the world is waiting. Inside your heart, a voice is calling. The four corners of the world are watching. So travel, daughter, travel. Go get it, girl.

It's just such a freeing thing to set these great challenges for yourself, to travel, to learn more about the world, to just go out there and get crazy and get free and get strong.

It was the first time I traveled alone, but I was not scared.

Getting on a plane is hard for me, but I do it, because travel is vital to me.

Anybody that wants to walk out that door and leave home for a few months and rely on themselves instead of fate might have some interesting stories to tell.

Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

My rite of passage into my brave new world, life on the road.

I have to have the wheel. It's given me an opportunity to experience and explore things.

It's been great to travel because I really enjoyed being 'Elektra', so it's not a problem talking about it.

It's such a liberating feeling to go out of your comfort zone, to be independent and strike out on my own without my parents.

Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars. Learn how to drive a stick shift. Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back. Say no when you don’t want to do something. Say yes if your instincts are strong, even if everyone around you disagrees. Decide whether you want to be liked or admired. Decide if fitting in is more important than finding out what you’re doing here. Believe in kissing.

Some journeys take us far from home. Some adventures lead us to our destiny.

Travel is never a matter of money but of courage. I spent a large part of my youth traveling the world as a hippie. And what money did I have then? None. I barely had enough to pay for my fare. But I still consider those to have been the best years of my youth. The great lessons I learned has been precisely those that my journeys had taught me.

There is nothing more thrilling than arriving in a new place on your own and feeling the sense of possibility and excitement that brings with it.

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

I was trying to learn how to deal with the freedom that I had away from home for the first time. 'Long Black Train,' the song and the album, are very special to me. It was just one of those things that I felt like God gave to me for a purpose, and I've been out here promoting that purpose.

I am happy to continue with my journey through time.

He traveled in order to come home.

As I traveled from one country to another, no one knew anything about me. So I could be anybody, I could speak as I wished, act as I wished, dress as I wished.

I rode 300 miles through the forest and ate all sorts of strange food. And every time 'Torak' did something new, like swimming with killer whales or kayaking, I thought I'd better go and do it.

Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.

What draws me in is that a trip is a leap in the dark. It's like a metaphor for life. You set off from home, and in the classic travel book, you go to an unknown place. You discover a different world, and you discover yourself.

Jurgen loved London because he could get lost here. He said that it was the first time he could do that in eight years. No one knew him or bothered him. It is great for a person to be able to get lost.

I don't know about relationships. Maybe I'm supposed to travel and make films and meet people and have adventures instead.