Jeffrey’s Journey

 “I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: Try to please everybody.”
–Bill Cosby

“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.

They’re not fond of rules and they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward.

And while some may see them as the crazy ones… We see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.” –Apple commercial

“Tourists never know where they are, but always know where they will sleep the next day, travelers always know where they are, but rarely know where they will sleep the next day.”

“If you tell me it tastes good, I want to know how good it actually tastes. If you tell me it tastes like shit, I want to taste exactly how bad shit tastes.” Translated from Uncle Guang Hua

“Vagabonding is not a lifestyle, nor is it a trend. It’s just an uncommon way of looking at life- a value adjustment from which action naturally follows. And, as much as anything, vagabonding is about time- our only real commodity- and how we choose to use it.” -Rolf Potts

 “If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him.” – Henry David Thoreau

“A lot of us first aspired to far-ranging travel and exotic adventure early in our teens; these ambitions are, in fact, adolescent in nature, which I find an inspiring idea… Thus, when we allow ourselves to imagine as we once did, we know, with a sudden jarring clarity, that if we don’t go right now, we’re never going to do it. And we’ll be haunted by our unrealized dreams and know that we have sinned against ourselves gravely.” -Tim Cahill

“Travel is fatal to prejudice.” -Mark Twain

“I am one of those who never knows the direction of my journey until I have almost arrived.” -Anna Louise Strong

“Travel has a way of stretching the mind. The stretch comes not from travel’s immediate rewards, the inevitable myriad of new sights, smells, and sounds, but with experiencing firsthand how others do differently what we believed to be the right and only way.”
 -Ralph Crenshaw

“You must take your chance.” -Shakespeare

“Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.” -Paul Theroux

“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.” -Oscar Wilde

“The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.” -St. Augustine

“… the difference between a criminal and an outlaw is that while criminals frequently are victims, outlaws never are. Indeed, the first step toward becoming a true outlaw is the refusal to be victimized…Poets remember our dreams, outlaws act them out.” – Tom Robbins

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that 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