Quotes & Sayings About Travel Paulo Coelho

Travel is never a matter of money but of courage — Paulo Coelho

Traveling is sacred; mankind has traveled ever since the dawn of time, in search of hunting and grazing ground, or milder climates. Very few men manage to understand the world without leaving their home towns. When you travel - and I am not speaking of tourism, but of the solitary experience of a journey - four important things occur in your life: — Paulo Coelho

I simply believe that a book has a journey to make, and should not be condemned to being stuck on a shelf ... Let's leave our books free to travel, then, to be touched by other hands, and enjoyed by other eyes. — Paulo Coelho

Do not try to make the road shorter, but travel it in such a way that every action leaves the land more fertile and the landscape more beautiful. — Paulo Coelho

When you travel, you experience, in a very practical way, the act of rebirth. You confront completely new situations, the day passes more slowly, and on most journeys you don't even understand the language the people speak. — Paulo Coelho

Men think more about returning home than about leaving. — Paulo Coelho

Life is a journey. How we travel is really up to us.
We can just flow with the tide or follow our own dreams. — Paulo Coelho

I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads. — Paulo Coelho

One day, I am going to write a travel guide containing only maps and addresses of hotels, and with the rest of the pages blank. That way, people will have to make their own initery, to discover themselves restaurants, monuments and all the magnificent things that every city has, but which are never mentioned because ' the history we have been taught' does not include them in the list of things you must see. — Paulo Coelho

distinguish the friend from the manipulator? The answer is simple: the true teacher is not the one who teaches us the ideal path, but the one who shows us the many ways of reaching the path that we need to travel if we are to find our destiny. Once we have found that path, the teacher cannot help us anymore, because its challenges are unique. This applies to neither love nor war, but unless we understand it, we will never get anywhere. — Paulo Coelho

Whenever he could, he sought out a new road to travel — Paulo Coelho

This candy merchant isn't making candy so that later he can travel or marry a shopkeeper's daughter. He's doing it because it's what he wants to do, thought the boy. He realized that he could do the same thing the old man had done - sense whether a person was near to or far from his Personal Legend. Just by looking at them. It's easy, and yet I've never done it before, he thought. — Paulo Coelho

Travel is not about money, it's about courage. — Paulo Coelho

Love can take us to heaven or hell, but it always takes us somewhere. Therefore, be prepared to travel ... — Paulo Coelho

Whenever he could he sort out a new road to travel — Paulo Coelho

To travel is the experience of ceasing to be the person you are trying to be, and becoming the person you really are. — Paulo Coelho

None of us is in a hurry; as we travel on, we are constantly destroying and rebuilding ourselves and who we are. — Paulo Coelho

We must struggle for our dreams, but when certain paths prove impossible, it would be best to save our energies in order to travel other roads. — Paulo Coelho

A shepherd may like to travel, but he should never forget his sheep. — Paulo Coelho

Sometimes you have to travel a long way to find what is near — Paulo Coelho

To say "we're happy" might not be entirely true. Everyone is happy apart from me, as I travel to work wondering what's wrong. — Paulo Coelho

The boy could see in his father's gaze a desire to be able, himself, to travel the world - a desire that was still alive, despite his father's having had to bury it, over dozens of years, under the burden of struggling for water to drink, food to eat, and the same place to sleep every night of his life. — Paulo Coelho

After weeks on the road, listening to a language you don't understand, using a currency whose value you don't comprehend, walking down streets you've never walked down before, you discover that your old "I," along with everything you ever learned, is absolutely no use at all in the face of those new challenges, and you begin to realize that buried deep in your unconscious mind there is someone much more interesting and adventurous and more open to the world and to new experiences. — Paulo Coelho

...true death, my friend and counselor, who was never again going to allow me to act like such a coward...He was not going to allow me to put off until tomorrow what I should be enjoying today. He was not going to let me flee from life's battles, and he was going to help me fight the good fight. Never again, ever, was I going to feel ridiculous about doing anything. Because he was there, saying that when he took me in hand to travel with me to other worlds, I should leave behind the greatest sin of all: regret. With the certainty of his presence and the gentleness of his face, I was sure that I was going to be able to drink from the fountain of life. — Paulo Coelho

Up until then, travel and the idea of going far away had just been a dream, and dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice. That way, we avoid all the risks, frustrations and difficulties, and when we are old, we can always blame other people
preferably our parents, our spouses or our children
for our failure to realize our dreams. — Paulo Coelho

Try and travel alone, or - if you are married - with your spouse. It will be harder work, no one will be looking after you, but this is the only way of truly leaving your country. Group travel is just a disguised way of pretending to go abroad, where you speak your own language, obey the leader of the pack, and concern yourself more with the internal gossip of the group than with the place you are visiting. — Paulo Coelho