"Thoughtful Traveling" ~ January 30, 2016
Channel: Stan McGahey
Date: 2016-01-26

URL: https://youtu.be/snUOlM7jDfM

Hello Again Thoughtful Travelers!  Welcome to today’s thought for January 30, 2016. 

It’s by William Hazlitt, an English philosopher and writer best known for his humanistic essays.  Hazlitt lived from 1778 to 1830.

 “I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home.”

So what are your thoughts on today’s quote? Here’s mine:

“This is the traveler’s paradox.  You want to travel forever, but you also enjoy your life at home.  Unfortunately, you can’t be in two places at once.  So what can you do?  Stay at home and miss all the excitement of visiting new places and meeting new people all over the world?  Or, travel all the time, and miss your family and friends as they go through life covering one milestone after another.  And even though you’re having incredible experiences, you’re missing everything that goes with settling down and being part of a community.  So, no matter which one you’re doing, you’re always missing the other one.”

Now…here’s the list of all the sources quoted in January.  I hope you’ll stop by each day to enjoy all the interesting and insightful things they have to say.  And leave a comment.  I’d like to hear your thoughts too.  Thanks, and see you tomorrow!

January 1-31, 2016 (entries listed by date and source):
01 Seneca the Younger 
02 Chinese Proverb
03 Democritus
04 Agnes Repplier
05 Paul Theroux
06 Ralph Waldo Emerson
07 Mark Twain
08 Zhuang Zhou
09 Albert Einstein
10 William Shakespeare
11 Ban Ki-moon
12 Turkish Proverb
13 Gertrude Stein
14 (Advertisement)
15 Carl Sandburg
16 Stan McGahey
17 Buddha
18 Michael Palin
19 Shunryu Suzuki
20 Ernest Hemingway
21 Kabir
22 Freya Stark
23 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
24 Nils Kjaer
25 Ed Buryn
26 (Unknown)
27 Henry David Thoreau
28 Jan Myrdal
29 Louis L’Amour
30 William Hazlitt
31 Roy Goodman

Presented by Dr. Stan McGahey.  Want to learn how the tourism industry works? View my free series of short, narrated PPTs on a variety of important topics, entitled “Demystifying Tourism” on YouTube.