Paul Theroux Quotes About Journey

• Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

  Paul Theroux

  Inspiración, Divertido, Viajes

  Observer, October 07, 1979.

• Los turistas no saben dónde han estado, los viajeros no saben adónde van.

  Paul Theroux

  Travel, Adventure, Journey

  Paul Theroux (2011). “The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by the food. So you are grateful.

  Paul Theroux

  Funny, Travel, Grateful

  Paul Theroux (2011). “To the Ends of the Earth: The Selected Travels of Paul Theroux”, p.85, Ivy Books

• There is an intense but simple thrill in setting off in the morning on a mountain trail, knowing that everything you need is on your back. It is a confidence in having left the inessentials behind and of entering a world of natural beauty that has not been violated, where money has no value, and possessions are a dead weight. The person with the fewest possessions is the freest. Thoreau was right.

  Paul Theroux

  Morning, Simple, Journey

• La conversación, como muchas otras que mantuve con gente en los trenes, derivó de la franqueza del viaje compartido, la comodidad del vagón restaurante y la certeza de que ninguno de los dos volveríamos a vernos.

  Paul Theroux

  Journey, People, Car

• The journey, not the arrival, matters; the voyage, not the landing.

  Paul Theroux

  Journey, Matter, Voyages

  Paul Theroux (2014). “The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Travel is about failure or overcoming obstacles, overcoming failures. When a traveler is having lots of good luck, that is not a happy book. That's a book you say, well, I don't need that. I want a life lesson. I want to find out - I want a journey that reflects my life.

  Paul Theroux

  Life Lesson, Book, Good Luck

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

• Reading is also a journey. It's a process of discovery.

  Paul Theroux

  Reading, Journey, Discovery

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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