Gayle Forman Quotes

Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.

We travel because we do not know. We know that we do not know the best before we start. That is why we start. But we forget that we do not know the worst either. That is why we come back.

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

When we are on tour we also take chances.

You travel with the hope that something unexpected will happen. It has to do with enjoying being lost and figuring it out and the satisfaction. I always get a little disappointed when I know too well where I'm going, or when I've lived in a place so long that there's no chance I could possibly get lost.

It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.

I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it.

A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from.

Where we are going, I don't know. It doesn't seem to be the place that is important but the steps in between.

When you don't know where you're headed, you find places no one else would ever explore.

If you want to know the world, sometimes you have to get out and roll around.

I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you.

Adventure is allowing the unexpected to happen to you. Exploration is experiencing what you have not experienced before. How can there be any adventure, any exploration, if you let somebody else - above all, a travel bureau - arrange everything before-hand?

If travel has taught me nothing more, and it certainly has, it's this: you never know when some trifling incident, utterly without significance, may pitchfork you into adventure or, by the same token, may not.

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

Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.

I've always loved life, and I've never known what's ahead. I love not knowing what might be round the corner. I love serendipity.

I just like seeing the world, and it doesn't matter where.

Expose yourself to as much randomness as possible.

Hitchhiking was such a pure form of existence. You'd wake up in the morning, and you'd have no idea what your day was going to be. And that's something I've never been able to shake. I loved that.

I love adventures.

I like adventure.

You can't stumble upon something new and wonderful if you don't have time to stumble.

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.

'Gonzo' means taking an unknown thing to an unknown place for a known purpose. But sometimes we're lost in an unknown place for no known purpose.