Yoga and Travel Quotes
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” – Mark Twain
“There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – St. Augustine
“All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.” – Paul Fussell
“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller
“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain
“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
“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” – Martin Buber
“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.”
– Jawaharial Nehru
“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 my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” – Bill Bryson
“A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill
“Not all those who wander are lost.” – J. R. R. Tolkien
“I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within.” – Lillian Smith
“The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.” – G. K. Chesterton
“Adventure is a path. Real adventure – self-determined, self-motivated, often risky – forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind – and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white.” – Mark Jenkins
The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes "sight-seeing." – Daniel J. Boorstin
"I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine." – Caskie Stinnett
“What if our religion was each other
If our practice was our life
If prayer, our words
What if the temple was the Earth
If forests were our church
If holy water- the rivers, lakes, and ocean
What if meditation was our relationships
If the teacher was life
If wisdom was self-knowledge
If love was the center of our being.”
- Ganga White
"There was nothing more to conquer: and ocean of peace lay before me. To be free, as I then knew myself to be, is to realize that all conquest is vain, even the conquest of self, which is the last act of egotism. To be joyous is to carry the ego to its last summit and to deliver it triumphantly. To know peace is total: it is the moment after, when the surrender is complete, when there is no longer even the consciousness of surrender. Peace is at the center and when it is attained the voice issues forth in praise and benediction. Then the voice carries far and wide, to the outermost limits of the universe. Then it heals, because it brings light and the warmth of compassion."
-Henry Miller
“It takes a lot of effort to be effortless.” -Hartranft
“Anyone can breathe, so anyone can practice yoga.” -TKV Desikachar
“Yoga is not meant to be a religion or a dogma for any one culture… it is meant as a universal path, a way open to all regardless of their birth and background”
-BKS Iyengar
“Yoga brings gifts from the very first day. These benefits can be experienced even by raw beginners.” -BKS Iyengar
“This is what yoga teaches. When you and I meet together, we forget ourselves- our cultures and classes. There are no divisions, and we talk mind to mind, soul to soul. We are no different in our deepest needs. We are all human.” -BKS Iyengar
“There is strength in being still.” -Dan Bos
“To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.” -Chief Chiliton Pearce
"A human being is part of a whole, called by us the 'Universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to do this completely, but the striving for such achievements is in itself part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security.” -Albert Einstein
“... Those who are motivated only by desire for the fruits of action are miserable, for they are constantly anxious about the results of what they do.” -Krishna, Bhagavad-Gita
"Before you've practiced, the theory is useless. After you've practiced, the theory is obvious." -David Williams
"Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured." -BKS Iyengar
"Yoga is the practice of quieting the mind." -Patanjali, translated from Sanskrit