“The amount of force and violence necessary to board the train, for example was no less and no more than the amoount of politeness and consideration necessary to ensure that the cramped journey was as pleasant as possible afterwards. What is necessary? That was the unspoken but implied, and unavoidable question everywhere in India.” ForceViolenceJourneyExampleAmountIndiaTrainBoardsPleasantConsiderationPolitenessUnspokenImplied Author:Gregory David Roberts
“My journey began with a single pencil. While traveling through India in 2006, I asked a boy begging on the streets, 'If you could have anything in the world, what would you want?' and he answered me with two words: 'A pencil.' Luckily, I had one in my pocket, and in the second it took me to give it to him, a defining dream was born.” IfsWorldWantGivingTwoDreamBornBoysJourneyStreetsIndiaPocketsPencilsDefiningBeggingMy Journey Author:Adam Braun
“Let us together commence a journey of peace, harmony and progress in South Asia.” TogetherProgressJourneyIndiaHarmonySouthRepublicAsiaRepublic DaySouth AsiaPeace Harmony Author:Atal Bihari Vajpayee
“Elections should be about making the people a part of the development journey. That is when India will move ahead.” PeopleShouldMovingDemocracyJourneyDevelopmentIndiaElectionMoving Ahead Author:Narendra Modi
“The importance of a journey is not measured by the distance covered, but by the destination reached.” MotivationJourneyIndiaImportanceDistanceDestinationCovered Author:Narendra Modi
“Until 1914 I loved to travel; I often went to Italy and once spent a few months in India. Since then I have almost entirely abandoned travelling, and I have not been outside of Switzerland for over ten years.” YearsJourneyMonthsTenTravelIndiaAbandonedFunny TravelSwitzerland Author:Hermann Hesse
“When I came to Delhi first and said, "This is not India. And then I was taken to Varanasi and there I loved, loved the culture. It was a beautiful journey. The way the people dressed - even the poorest people, and the fabrics! With vegetable dyes, and I was fascinated by the color. But in the end I loved the men - all in white - so many shades of white. And I said, "What am I going to do? A color collection or a white collection?" I finally did a neutral white collection.” PeopleMenWayFirstsSaidEndsBeautifulCultureWhiteTakenJourneyColorHe ManIndiaCollectionsShadeVegetablesFascinatedFabricPoorestDelhiVaranasi Author:Donna Karan
“The idea of going on a spiritual journey is really part of the DNA of India itself.” IdeasSpiritualJourneyIndiaDnaSpiritual Journey Author:Diana L. Eck
“The journey to sacred places is the most common way that people travel in India. They are always going on pilgrimages to sacred places. They are always undertaking spiritual journeys to visit the great shrines in the Himalayan tier of pilgrimage places; these places are called tirthas, a word that means "crossing place," a place where you can cross the river to the far shore but also cross over into another dimension of life. Cross over to heaven, in one sense it's used.” PeopleWayMeanSpiritualUsedHeavenCommonJourneyRiversCrossesIndiaSacredDimensionsShoreCrossingsUndertakingsPilgrimageSpiritual JourneyShrinesSacred Places Author:Diana L. Eck
“The practice of leaving settled society to undertake a spiritual journey, or a spiritual life really, is something that is much more common in India. Common especially to a certain phase of life, to the end of life. But not so unusual for younger people as well.” PeopleWellsEndsSpiritualCertainCommonPracticeJourneyIndiaLeavingUnusualSpiritual LifePhasesEnd Of LifeSpiritual JourneyPhases Of Life Author:Diana L. Eck
“Imagine - four years you could have spent travelling around Europe meeting people, or going to the Far East of Africa or India, meeting people, exchanging ideas, reading all you wanted to anyway, and instead I wasted it at Roosevelt.” PeopleYearsIdeasWantedReadingFourImagineJourneyEuropeIndiaMeetingsEastFour YearsExchangingExchanging Ideas Author:Shel Silverstein
“Looking a dead insect in the sack of basmati that had come all the way from Dehra Dun, he almost wept with sorrow and marvel at its journey, which was tenderness for his own journey. In India almost nobody would be able to afford this rice, and you had to travel around the world to be able to eat such things where they were cheap enough that you could gobble them down without being rich; and when you got home to the place where they grew, you couldn't afford them anymore.” WorldWayEnoughHomeWould BeAbleRichJourneyGrewSorrowIndiaAround The WorldTendernessInsectsRiceBeing Rich Author:Kiran Desai
“I was like every other boy in India, with a dream of playing for my country. Yet I could never have imagined a journey so long and so fulfilling. No dream is ever chased alone.” LongCountryDreamBoysJourneyIndiaFulfilling Author:Rahul Dravid
“In 1972, George Harrison invited me to accompany him on a trip to India.” JourneyIndiaInvitedAccompany Author:Gary Wright