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If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
Glenn ClarkWe shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started… and know the place for the first time.
T. S. Eliot

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
Aldous Huxley

The modern American tourist now fills his experience with pseudo-events. He has come to expect both more strangeness and more familiarity than the world naturally offers. He has come to believe that he can have a lifetime of adventure in two weeks and all the thrills of risking his life without any real risk at all.
Daniel J. Boorstin,

The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence.
Max Lerner

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist see what he has come to see.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Every year it takes less time to fly across the Atlantic and more time to drive to the office.
Unknown Source

“There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.”
Marlene Dietrich

are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other. —Douglas EverettFrom this hour I ordain myself loos’d of limits and imaginary lines, Going where I list, my own master total and absolute, Listening to others, considering well what they say, Pausing, searching, receiving, contemplating, Gently, but with undeniable will divesting myself of the holds that would hold me. — WALT WHITMAN, “SONG OF THE OPEN ROAD”

you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. — HENRY DAVID THOREAU, WALDEN

Bruce Lee said: “Research your own experiences for the truth. . . . Absorb what is useful. . . . Add what is specifically your own. . . . The creating individual is more than any style or system.”

What it means to be an entrepreneur J. B. Say in 1800—one who shifts economic resources out of an area of lower and into an area of higher yield.

I mark as my own you shall offset it with your own, Else it were time lost listening to me.
— WALT WHITMAN, “SONG OF MYSELF”

“Two roads diverge in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.”
Robert Frost

“If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.”
Jim Rohn

The end is never as satisfying as the journey. To have achieved everything but to have done so without integrity and excitement is to have achieved nothing.
Unknown Source

Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.
Elbert Hubbard

“You’re not your job. You’re not how much money you have in the bank. You’re not the car you drive. You’re not the contents of your wallet. You’re not your fucking khakis.”
Fight Club

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
Henry David Thoreau

He who would travel happily must travel light
Antoine de saint Exupery

To simplify complications is the first essential of success.
George Earle Buckle

It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
Bruce Lee

Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries.
John L. Motley

We must travel in the direction of our fear.
Berryman, John

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

- Maclaine, Shirley

“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.”
John Steinbeck

“In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but plan- ning is indispensable.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower

“The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values him- self upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it.”
Lord Chesterfield

“If men can run the world, why can’t they stop wearing neckties? How intel- ligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?”
Linda Ellerbee

Not all who wander are lost
J. R. Tolkien

“This ‘telephone’ has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.”
Western Union Internal Memo

If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One’s destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
Henry Miller

No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby-so helpless and so ridiculous.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I swims in the Tagus all across at once, and I rides on an ass or a mule, and swears Portuguese, and have got a diarrhea and bites from the mosquitoes. But what of that? Comfort must not be expected by folks that go a pleasuring.
Lord Byron

Notes to myself:

In order to advance in any subject, one must first walk the path of his ancestors.

“all current theories and circumstances have progressed upon a previous foundation. In order for someone to become a “new” convert to a theory or religion they must first come to a deeper understanding than those who previously called themselves converts. One man built a theory that is built upon by three men, and on and on and on. This is the realism of life and belief. It is always a perversion of the original idea, an expansion on an initial idea must always be paired with a perversion of the original idea. It’s the ratio of perversion to expansion that determines whether a theory is believed to be good.”

Moderation & consistency truly are the best means for efficient production and apparent / actual advantage over those who do not practice it. Aristotle understood this but because of the difference in social / philosophical mindsets (perhaps more accurately, it could be described as different metaphysical social norms / ethical belief systems) he pointed out the advantage of moderation on ethical psyche. Using moderation & consistency truly is the best practice if you are continually doing the  right things. Focus on the 20% of things that are most beneficial and pursue them 80% of the time. This is the recipe for creating disproportionate results. Too often, I focus on the right things but with a fervor of 100% (a lack of balance) and receive only adequate results.