Rupert Friend Quotes

Life is just a journey and how you traverse it is what matters.

Why make life so dull when you can make it exciting and meet amazing people and go to countries and see things? You make life the way you want it to be. A lot of people don't realize that at the end of the day, the ultimate control of what you do and your destiny, it lies in the way you want to direct yourself.

We have two lives the one we learn with and the life we live after that.

I am happy to continue with my journey through time.

Learning what you don't want to do is pretty valuable, it may be as valuable as figuring out what it is you do want to do.

Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path.

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.

To be able to experience a thousand different lives within my lifetime is something that always appealed to me. I wasn't content with just being one person for the rest of my life.

Traveling is magical, inspiring, and life - changing.

When I left school, I went backpacking around the world for two years.

Especially on unexpected journeys, you have time; you can figure certain deeper things out, like who you are and what you want. That's why I enjoy journeys.

It is better to travel well than to arrive.

I changed the course of my life, from the rigidity of mathematics and the corporate rhythm to a more bohemian world.

There's a certain road in life most people walk on, because it's familiar, and they can jostle to get in front place. I prefer to take a different road that's less crowded, with many forks, where you get a wider view of life. I call it 'the road less travelled'. That's where I want to be.

Throughout my life my greatest benefactors have been my dreams and my travels; very few men, living or dead, have helped me in my struggle.

I have a lot of stories to tell because I've been down a lot of roads people haven't been.

It was strange to go off the path that everyone takes and not finish college, but it's been a great adventure.

It is important to experience everything. If you haven't travelled in life, if you haven't had friends, if you haven't been a Chhichhora, then you haven't done anything in life.

Well, once you get the groove of your life and you sort out the aspects of your life that you prefer, and you’ve performed all your responsibilities as a father and as a partner. And just discovery and the great adventure of having eyes wide open. There’s so much of this beautiful planet that is still actually spectacular and stimulating. There are so many amazing people that you meet along the way. By using my career as the wind in the sails of my adventures, I could see so many things and so many people that I might have missed had my career gone a different direction.

Another year is fast approaching. Go be that starving artist you’re afraid to be. Open up that journal and get poetic finally. Volunteer. Suck it up and travel. You were not born here to work and pay taxes. You were put here to be part of a vast organism to explore and create. Stop putting it off. The world has much more to offer than what’s on 15 televisions at TGI Fridays. Take pictures. Scare people. Shake up the scene. Be the change you want to see in the world.

All my days I have longed equally to travel the right road and to take my own errant path.

Travel is never a matter of money but of courage. I spent a large part of my youth traveling the world as a hippie. And what money did I have then? None. I barely had enough to pay for my fare. But I still consider those to have been the best years of my youth. The great lessons I learned has been precisely those that my journeys had taught me.

You don't reach points in life at which everything is sorted out for us. I believe in endings that should suggest our stories always continue.

When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.

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