T. S. Eliot Quotes

Life is a journey, you know; and a lot of journeys, you go out, you come back.

It is after we get home that we really go over the mountain, if ever.

He traveled in order to come home.

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

If you can’t decide what to do, get on the road. You won’t find the answer. It will find you.

As surely as there is a voyage away, there is a journey home.

... the grand tour is just the inspired man's way of heading home.

A wise man travels to discover himself.

When you’re young you just run, but you come back to what you need.

To travel is to take a journey into yourself.

Taking time to sit back and watch and think about what you've seen is important. Traveling did a great deal to me. I found that when I travel and just sit in the corner and watch, a million ideas come to me.

I've backpacked to countries like Italy and Turkey and observed beautiful scenery, but then I realized that beauty was always very close to me. It is here in Belitung Island, where the rivers, beaches and the terrain captivate my attention most.

In general, when you travel, you get into a different reality and are able to more accurately reflect on your ordinary life. Hiking does that for me.

I think that it's really important to go away and come back.

When I'm in a place like Iceland, I allow myself to take a little more time to divert off onto other paths creatively for a while and see what comes to me.

When we've finished the current tour I'm going to go back to Italy and see if I can do some more writing.

I've been a traveller, but I don't travel so much now. I'm trying to do it vicariously through my writing. I'm trying to write books that will draw readers away from their lives but send them back in a more awakened way.

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.

From 1991 to 2000, I was totally nomadic. I was travelling 300 days a year and building out my research. These were a bit like my learning and migrating years, so to say.

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.

The travel book is a convenient metaphor for life, with its optimistic beginning or departure, its determined striving, and its reflective conclusion. Journeys change travellers just as a good travel book can change readers.

We spent a year touring the world and it wasn't until it was over that we truly appreciated the upside and downside of our success.

I always take D.C. with me. And I always come back home.

My natural state is a state of an explorer - a performer, but someone who wants to explore their experience and reflect on their experience more than just lie on the beach. Even when I go on vacations, I get stressed out if I'm at the beach for, like, two days. I'm like, 'Can't we do something? I can't just sit there.'

The longest journey begins with a single step, not with the turn of an ignition key. That’s the best thing about walking, the journey itself. It doesn’t much matter whether you get where you’re going or not. You’ll get there anyway. Every good hike brings you eventually back home. Right where you started.