Paul Theroux – Friendship Quotes – a large collection of famous and inspirational quotes

Vagabonding and Travel Quotes

Posted on November 1, 2011 by

Dont take life too seriously…no one comes out alive – Elbert Hubbard

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving – Lao Tzu

He who knows that he has enough, will always have enough – Lao Tzu

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth. – Buddha

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. – Lao Tzu

We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope – Edward Abbey

My greatest skill has been to want little – Henry David Thoreau

Always do what you are afraid to do – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.
The fearful are caught as often as the bold. – Helen Keller

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. – Helen Keller

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

Travel is not really about leaving our homes, but leaving our habits. – Pico Iyer

Not all those who wander are lost – JRR Tolkien

If you don’t know where you are going, any road will lead you there – Unknown

A journey is best measured in friends, not in miles. – Tim Cahill

Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention to arrive safely in a pretty & well preserved body; but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming ‘Wow! What a ride!’ – Hunter S. Thompson

Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living. – Miriam Beard

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste it, to experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience. – Eleanor Roosevelt

All things considered, there are only two kinds of men in the world: those that stay at home and those that do not. – Rudyard Kipling

Wherever you go, go with all your heart. – Confucius

Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going. – Paul Theroux

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. – Aldous Huxley

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it. – Rudyard Kipling

And forget not that the Earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. – Kahlil Gibran

Feeling Lonely Quotes

Posted on January 23, 2011 by

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company. – George Washington

Language… has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word “solitude” to express the glory of being alone. – Paul Tillich

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. – Mother Teresa

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets. – Paul Tournier

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust? – George Eliot

At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one’s lost self. – Brendan Francis Behan

The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn’t subdue you and make you feel abject. It’s stimulating loneliness. – Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy. – Jim Rohn

The lonely become either thoughtful or empty. – Mason Cooley

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. – Henry David Thoreau

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness. – Albert Schweitzer

We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone. – Orson Welles

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love. – George Eliot

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

Those we love don’t go away,
They walk beside us every day,
Unseen, unheard, but always near,
Still loved, still missed and very dear. – Anonymous

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely. – Albert Einstein

If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely? – Judy Garland

If you’re feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can. – Martha Beck

The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. – Doug Coupland

If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company. – Jean-Paul Sartre

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with. – Wayne Dyer

If you tell the truth about how you’re feeling, it becomes funny. – Larry David

It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled. – Paul Theroux

If you are afraid of being lonely, don’t try to be right. – Jules Renard

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be. – Anne Frank

Silence is a source of great strength. – Lao Tzu

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. – Confucius

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world. – Helen Keller

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Every wall is a door. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courage doesn’t always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day saying,
“I will try again tomorrow.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. – Mark Twain

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. – Mark Twain