Ella Maillart

“You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.”

“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.”

“What I was looking for was a way of life that would not be a substitute for living.”

“Adventure is the discovery of the unknown, not the conquest of the known.”

“It is not the mountains we conquer, but ourselves.”

“If you want to know a country, you must walk, you must live with its people.”

“The journey, not the arrival, matters.”

“Life should be a constant process of becoming.”

“In every voyage, be it long or short, there is a moment of fear.”

“One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.”