Alain de Botton Quotes About Travel

Quotes about: Travel

• Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others.

  Alain de Botton

  Friendship, Travel, Company We Keep

• The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.

  Alain de Botton

  Travel, Journey, Mindset

  "The Art of Travel". Book by Alain de Botton, 2002.

• A dominant impulse on encountering beauty is to wish to hold on to it, to possess it and give it weight in one’s life. There is an urge to say, ‘I was here, I saw this and it mattered to me.

  Alain de Botton

  Travel, Giving, Wish

• Instead of bringing back 1600 plants, we might return from our journeys with a collection of small unfêted but life-enhancing thoughts.

  Alain de Botton

  Travel, Journey, Might

  Alain de Botton (2003). “The Art of Travel”, p.66, Penguin UK

• A danger of travel is that we see things at the wrong time, before we have had a chance to build up the necessary receptivity and when new information is therefore as useless and fugitive as necklace beads without a connecting chain.

  Alain de Botton

  Travel, Information, Useless

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