Quotes About Openness

You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

Since life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better.

Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon.

I travel around the world in a way that tries to open my mind and give me empathy and inspire me to come home and make this world a better place.

Travel like Ghandi, with simple clothes, open eyes and an uncluttered mind.

Travel is not really about leaving our homes, but leaving our habits.

You will, if you're wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown and accept whatever comes in the spirit in which the gods may offer it.

I've opened up more by traveling outside Jamaica. It helps me to grow as a person to be outside of my element; to be on my own in a strange place meeting people.

Travel is an attitude, a state of mind. It is not residence, it is motion.

A man's mind grows narrow in a narrow place.

We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate.

The ideal is to feel at home anywhere, everywhere.

Replace fear of the unknown with curiosity.

Do you think it's so snobbish, to want to see something besides one's fellow citizens abroad?

The more side roads you stop to explore, the less likely that life will pass you by.

If we can stay open and embrace our insecurities, our vulnerability, only then will we find the person with whom we are meant to travel through this life.

Like love, travel makes you innocent again.

Turning your nose up at a genuine and sincere gesture of hospitality is no way to travel or to make friends around the world.

Getting lost is not fatal. Almost every time, it will make your world bigger.

The opportunity to think with another mind is my preferred mode of travel.

I love going into a country and just blending.

I'm not a big planner when I travel; I just feel it out.

The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.