Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes

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

You don't have to travel, but I find extended travel to be a helpful tool for reexamining yourself and the constraints you've artificially placed on your life. It's easy to believe everything has to be done one way if you're always in one place around the same people.

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.

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

Alabama will always be home and have a special place in my heart, but I want my life to be more than just living there. I want to see more of the world and, through that, find out more about myself.

At the beginning we learn to travel, then we travel to learn.

Nothing is as boundary dissolving, except for psychedelic compounds, as travel. Travel is up there.

We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves.

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

Travel spins us round in two ways at once: It shows us the sights and values and issues that we might ordinarily ignore; but it also, and more deeply, shows us all the parts of ourselves that might otherwise grow rusty.

I travel because I like to move from place to place, I enjoy the sense of freedom it gives me, it pleases me to be rid of ties, responsibilities, duties, I like the unknown; I meet odd people who amuse me for a moment and sometimes suggest a theme for a composition; I am often tired of myself and I have a notion that by travel I can add to my personality and so change myself a little. I do not bring back from the journey quite the same self that I took

When you #‎ travel , you experience, in a very practical way, the act of #‎ rebirth .

Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.

A person susceptible to "wanderlust" is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.

In both business and personal life, I've always found that travel inspires me more than anything else I do.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

Travel for me is all about transformation, and I'm fascinated by those people who really do come back from a trip unrecognizable to themselves and perhaps open to the same possibilities they'd have written off not a month before.

To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.

I enjoy very much being in a foreign country, in a new country, new place. And I enjoy also beginning a new book. It's like being someone else.

If you're in a small town somewhere and you can go and visit Paris, you can go to the top of Everest, that's just cool. It's worth it because you become more educated in something.

Traveling changes you as a person. If you buy something, it's so different than if you put your money into traveling.

When I went to Sweden, I sort of found out who I was.

Journey is my life now.

Being in a new country, you learn a lot about yourself.

I've already done things I never believed I would. Even stepping out of Northampton and being in London - London always seemed like the big city I might go to for Carnival, go for a party and a chill and then head home.