The Traveler's Gift Quotes

#1. If, in fact, it is what's inside us that makes all the difference, then the difference is made when we choose what goes inside." ~ The Traveler's Gift

Andy Andrews

#2. Before I had my child, I thought I knew all the boundaries of myself, that I understood the limits of my heart. It's extraordinary to have all those limits thrown out, to realize your love is inexhaustible.

Uma Thurman

#3. General Grant seriously remarked to a particularly bright young woman that Venice would be a fine city if it were drained.

Henry Adams

#4. Our Constitution was not intended to be used by ... any group to foist its personal religious beliefs on the rest of us.

Katharine Hepburn

#5. A national crisis, a political convulsion, is an opportunity, a gift to the traveler. Nothing is more revealing of a place to a stranger than trouble. Even if a crisis is incomprehensible, as it usually is, it lends drama to the day and transforms the traveler into an eye witness.

Paul Theroux

#6. The good traveler has the gift of surprise.

W. Somerset Maugham

#7. I do not apologize for advertising. I think it is as vital to the preservation of freedom in my country as the free exercise of publishing a newspaper or the free exercise of building a church or the free exercise of the right of trial by jury.

Thomas Dillon

#8. I'd watched them in all their beautiful courage. I'd watched them as they struggled through their hurts and their wounds.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#9. Information may be free, but an education is priceless.

Marie Forleo

#10. The people need poetry that will be their own secret
To keep them awake forever,
And bathe them in the bright-haired wave of its breathing.

Osip Mandelstam

#11. Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one. The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#12. Don't imitate. Find your own writing voice and hone it until it is yours alone.

Christopher Holliday