Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes

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.

I try to travel as much as I can... I'm always looking for a reason to.

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

The thing about travelling is that you work hard and play hard, but you can do all those things without your parents knowing.

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.

It's kind of good to do things while you're young.

You only live one time, and I'm not going to be the type of person to say, 'I wish I did this' or 'I wish I tried that.'

Why not travel, why not see the rest of the world, why not experience life? It's beautiful! Phenomenal!

I just want to show other young kids growing up that it is not about just staying in England, getting loans. Explore.

I cannot rest from travel: I will drink Life to the lees: all times I have enjoyed Greatly, have suffered greatly, both with those That loved me, and alone.

I urge you to travel - as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to.

If you want to know the world, sometimes you have to get out and roll around.

I wanted to go and explore the world, I guess. And I suddenly thought well, I'll just do it.

Those who would see wonderful things must often be ready to travel alone.

The point is, when you have a chance to have a big adventure, especially if, like in your case, it doesn't hurt anyone, it's just plain foolish not to take it.

I wish I was more adventurous.

I quit my job. I bought myself a real cheap, like, around-the-world flight ticket, and I went to 16 countries for six months just backpacking, living in cheap hostels, looking for stories with a camera and my ex-girlfriend.

I just like seeing the world, and it doesn't matter where.

I think one reason, obviously, that I spend so much time in one place is that I've been lucky enough to travel a lot, and now there are other different, invisible trains that are more interesting to me.

Traveling is the only passion that doesn't need to feel shy in front of intellect.

Imagine - four years you could have spent travelling around Europe meeting people, or going to the Far East of Africa or India, meeting people, exchanging ideas, reading all you wanted to anyway, and instead I wasted it at Roosevelt.

Especially for me, growing up in such a small town in the middle of nowhere, the desire to be away was incredible. I wanted to see new lands, meet new people from the city, and meet people that were in much less fortunate situations than I was, so that I could be more appreciative of my present. At least I had food on the table.

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

Since I was 19, I've always gone where there was a reason to be. Maybe I'll be lucky and there'll be a reason to go somewhere tropical for a while.

I really like to just jump in a truck with your backpack and just drive and go somewhere.