Patrick Rothfuss Quotes

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

There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past.

Colorado has always been a good place to find what you're made of.

We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.

A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection

Travel is the best and probably cheapest graduate school you can buy.

My experiences in life are getting bigger and better. The more stuff I do, the more stuff I talk about - having kids, traveling, going through relationship problems, dealing with things in my own family. All that stuff builds character.

Acting helped me as I was growing up. It helped me learn about myself, helped me travel, helped me understand life, express myself, all those wonderful things. So I'm very, very grateful; it's a fun job. It's a luxury.

If I were to ask you for example right now to go back with me and define those moments in your life that shaped you as a person and you began to reexamine them, something would happen.

To travel is to take a journey into yourself.

God already knows what we're made of, but perhaps He wants us to learn what we're made of. I think we would all agree that we learn more from our tough times than from our easy times.

I am happy to continue with my journey through time.

'On the Road' completely changed the way I looked at what you could do with your life.

Adversity has a way of introducing a man to himself.

Because travel has always been such a vital part of myself and so essential to who I am, I have made the decision to continue to put myself back out into the world. And that's not an easy decision to make.

But life is a great school. It thrashes and bangs and teaches you.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

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 can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

If you don't travel the world and see as much of it as you can - see different characters in different situations - then how are you going to learn? I figured the best way to do that was to explore as much as I could.

Travel teaches as much as books.

I wanted to do something far from my intellectual and physical home, so I went to live in Beijing for eight months and took Mandarin Chinese.

The best education I have ever received was through travel.

You're not fully you until life has booted you in the behind.