"Throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the tradewinds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

Praia, Cape Verde

"Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold."

Kathmandu, Nepal

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.”

New Delhi, India

“The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is knowledge of our own ignorance.”

Lamjung, Nepal

"Though the road you’re walking may be well traveled, that does not necessarily mean it is leading to your destination."

Bangkok, Thailand

“Traveling is not just seeing the new; it is also leaving behind. Not just opening doors; also closing them behind you, never to return."

Cape Town, South Africa

You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you give.”

Venice, Italy

“We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.”

Parewadanda, Nepal

“Study without reflection is a waste of time; reflection without study is dangerous."

Suzhou, China

"Remember all things are possible for those who believe.”

Kathmandu, Nepal

“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”

Sagutar, Nepal

"Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours."

Venice, Italy

"Seek and you will find. Don’t be willing to accept an ordinary life."

Somewhere between 2,000 and 8,000 feet above 

Cape Town, South Africa

“Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are."

Parewadanda, Nepal

"Everybody is a genius. But, if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing that it is stupid."

Barcelona, Spain

"The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself."

Lamjung, Nepal

"The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in."

Cape Town, South Africa

“In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.”

Suzhou, China

“Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.”

Lamjung, Nepal

"Chase down your passion like it's the last bus of the night."

Bandipur, Nepal

“Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.”

Praia, Cape Verde

“There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same.”

Gorkha, Nepal

"May you always find new roads to travel; new horizons to explore; new dreams to call your own."

Parewadanda, Nepal

“While we try to teach children all about life, children teach us what life is all about.”

Chiang Mai, Thailand

"There are two kinds of light - the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures."

Shanghai, China

“We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.”

Cedarburg, Wisconsin

“Our thoughts create our reality -- where we put our focus is the direction we tend to go.”

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

“For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it."

Lamjung, Nepal

“Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?”

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

"To know the height of a mountain, one must climb it."

Tuhure Pasal, Nepal

"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought."

Winona, Minnesota

“Even when opportunity knocks a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door.”

Krakow, Poland

"Friendship isn't a big thing - it's a million little things."

Parewadanda, Nepal

“Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.”

Westfield, Wisconsin

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. "

Parewadanda, Nepal

"Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag."

Hong Kong

"You cannot step into the same river twice."

Lamjung, Nepal

"Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures."

Victoria, Seychelles

"When two elephants fight, it is the grass that gets trampled."

Chiang Mai, Thailand

“Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”

Parewadanda, Nepal

“In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.”

Barcelona, Spain

"Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.”

Istanbul, Turkey

"Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress."

Parewadanda, Nepal

"That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest."

Mequon, Wisconsin

"All people want is someone to listen."

Cape Town, South Africa

“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”

Venice, Italy

"Nonviolence doesn't always work - but violence never does."

Agra, India

“The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.”

Chiang Mai, Thailand

"Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect."

Parewadanda, Nepal

“Chaos in the world brings uneasiness, but it also allows the opportunity for creativity and growth.”

Delhi, India