Abba Kovner Quotes

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

We both have a lot of growing-up to do... A lot of the world to see & figure out on our own." -- Leo

One must in this lower world love many things to know finally what one loves the best.

You'll learn more about a road by traveling it than by consulting all the maps in the world.

The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.

I want to see and taste and experience it all, I am curious by nature. I would actually really love to go to New Zealand.

I just want to test out all that Kellan is and push him to the limits and create new Kellans.

Be who you are, not who the world wants you to be.

The traveler has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and one has to wander through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end.

Once we get out into a kind of an open world, we really do learn about ourselves and for me it's a lesson in discovering yourself, discovering your inner resources and then literally, in the movie, finding your voice.

Nobody smart knows what they want to do until they get into their twenties or thirties.

What should you do now? Find a new way. A better way. Your way. The unknown, uncharted path through this wild new world that allows you---yourself, in your uniqueness--to reclaim the full measure of your true nature.

It's not getting from A to B. It's not the beginning or the destination that counts. It's the ride in between...This train is alive with things that should be seen and heard. It's a living, breathing something -- you just have to want to learn its rhythm.

My manager said the next best inspiration to heartbreak is travel, and it's true.

Only the journey matters.

where the world ends is where you must begin

Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it's been.

I have been to the world's end and back and now I know what I would put in my bottom drawer .I would put my sisters.

Suddenly, I don't want to be this person anymore. I don't want to pretend I'm fooling the world when I'm not. I want someone else to have a plan for me, because I'm not doing a very good job myself.

CONVICTIONS are lessons learned from experiences we’d never want to go through again, but wouldn’t trade for anything in the world.

What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles; it was a miraculous world.

I really want my kids to feel, is that they can be themselves in the world.

The world is so much larger than I thought. I thought we went along paths--but it seems there are no paths. The going itself is the path.

I’ve had those relationships, and you have to make those mistakes to find out what we really want.

I travel because I want to know. Books and documentaries will only get you so far. If you want to know, you will have to go.