Elif Safak Quotes

Get out and find ...the country. And ourselves.

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

I love traveling. I love just going about on my own, feeling I have no roots.

But do not ask me where I am going, As I travel in this limitless world, Where every step I take is my home.

It wasn't the New World that mattered... Columbus died almost without seeing it; and not really knowing what he had discovered. It's life that matters, nothing but life - the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all.

For me, childhood roaming was what developed self-reliance, a sense of direction and adventure, imagination, a will to explore, to be able to get a little lost and then figure out the way back.

Travel makes all men countrymen, makes people noblemen and kings, every man tasting of liberty and dominion.

I have built my life to pursue the new. I don't have family, don't know many people and I am usually ready to leave within an hour.

Those who would see wonderful things must often be ready to travel alone.

Sendak's 1963 classic 'Where The Wild Things Are' has long been a favorite of mine because of the creative imagery, fantastic adventures and, most of all, because of how this timeless story shows us that children need to be free to roam, explore and invent in order to understand their place in the world that surrounds them.

By not going to school I learned that the world is a beautiful place and needs to be discovered.

I longed from a tiny child to get away on my own. When I was five, I walked out along the sands from Redcar, nearly all the way to Hartlepool.

I want simply to learn about the world and live freely.

The thing about travelling is that you work hard and play hard, but you can do all those things without your parents knowing.

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.

If you think about America, it is about getting your backpack on and heading out.

I am living out my adolescent dream of travel and adventure.

All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of different countries and continents, 'looking for something'.

From 1991 to 2000, I was totally nomadic. I was travelling 300 days a year and building out my research. These were a bit like my learning and migrating years, so to say.

Traveling is magical, inspiring, and life - changing.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

I think the best way is to forget about racing people and just find territory that's fresh.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.