Quote by John Eckhardt

The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to…

— Daniel J. Boorstin

Visiting is a pleasure; being visited is usually a mixed or ambivalent joy. ... The visitor can always go home; the visitee is already…

— Barbara Holland

Pilgrimage is a powerful metaphor for any journey with the purpose of finding something that matters deeply to the traveler.

— Phil Cousineau

There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Seeing' as you travel is somewhat of a spiritual exercise: a process not of seeking interesting surroundings, but of being continually interested in whatever…

— Rolf Potts

There were momentary visitations. I was a visitor, not an inhabitant. I think I say that at the beginning of the book: "I have…

— Eve Ensler

We see in these swift and skillful travelers a symbol of our life, which seeks to be a pilgrimage and a passage on this…

— Pope Paul VI

Pilgrimage means being alert to the times when all that's needed is a trip to a remote place to simply lose yourself, and to…

— Phil Cousineau

“We are inundated with advice on where to travel to, but we hear little of why and how we should go, even though the…

— Alain de Botton

It were a journey like the path to heaven, To help you find them.

— John Milton

The Greeks said the artist doesn't actually have to travel and look around. You stay where God has put you, and you dig as…

— Gian Carlo Menotti

The [travel] writer, looking back at the journey from a distance of a year or two (or three), is a different character from the…

— Jonathan Raban