Anthony Bourdain Quotes

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.

Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.

In life's journey, we all meet strange people and undergo many experiences that touch us and sometimes even change us.

As you move through this life...you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life - and travel - leaves marks on you.

There is no man more complete than the one who travelled a lot, who changed the shape of his thoughts and his life twenty times.

If you knew me in the past, please do not think that I am the same person that you are meeting today. I have experienced more of life, I have encountered new depths in those I love, I have suffered and prayed and I am different.

A lot of my world-view is formed by the places I've been.

You try things on in life. You wear them for a while, and you see what's next.

When you have a traumatic event in your life, you change. You're not the same person you were, and you have to discover who you've become.

You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn't play that way. It's about recognizing that instance of change and embracing it.

And then a great thing in my life was going to India.

Change makes you find your calling, your legacy, and God's divine plan for your life. Don't run from it.

I've been things and seen places.

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.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

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

The result of my life is no more than three words: I was raw, I became cooked, I was burnt.

Things take the time they take. don't worry. How many roads did St. Augustine follow before he became St. Augustine?

The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.

Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am. There is no mystery about why this should be so. Stripped of your ordinary surroundings, your friends, your daily routines, your refrigerator full of your food, your closet full of your clothes -- with all this taken away, you are forced into direct experience. Such direct experience inevitably makes you aware of who it is that is having the experience. That's not always comfortable, but it is always invigorating.

He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.

Looking back at my younger self, that I'm not so different than I am now. I was always a seeker. I wanted very ambitiously to be a writer and what happened between now and then is that I continually threw myself in the way of those things that would help me become that, of doing and finding and learning from things that altered me along the way.

Self-realization is a process of permanent auto-creation, an elaboration of the new man at the expense of the old.

Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.

Development involves giving up a smaller story in order to wake up to a larger story.