16 Jun 16 Quotes That Will Inspire You to Travel to India
You hear about the vibrant color, spicy tastes, potent smells, chaotic streets, rich culture and ancient history of India. But the country is more than that. It has an energy and spirit that is difficult for me to explain. So instead I’ll let these 16 India travel quotes speak for me and inspire you to visit India.
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"If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India."
- Romain Rolland
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"To me, India’s always represented ‘everything’; it represents ‘all.’ Everything is here. You can stay here forever, and you’ll never feel like you’ve missed out on life."
- Chris Martin
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"If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions, I should point to India."
- Max Muller
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"Indians are the Italians of Asia and vice cersa. Every man in both countries is a singer when he is happy, and every woman is a dancer when she walks to the shop at the corner. For them, food is the music inside the body and music is the food inside the heart. ‘Amore’ or ‘Pyar’ makes every man a poet, a princess of peasant girl if only for second eyes of man and woman meets."
- Gregory David Roberts
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"In India, I found a race of mortals living upon the Earth, but not adhering to it, inhabiting cities, but not being fixed to them, possessing everything, but possessed by nothing."
- Apollonius Tyanaeus
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"India will teach us the tolerance and gentleness of mature mind, understanding spirit and a unifying, pacifying love for all human beings."
- Will Durant
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"To other countries, I may go as a tourist, but to India, I come as a pilgrim."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living."
- James Cameron
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"India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. Our most valuable and most artistic materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only!"
- Mark Twain
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"I noted that people are happy here in India. When I went back home, people had everything in the materialistic sense and were surrounded with abundance, but they were not happy."
- Goldie Hawn
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"There are some parts of the world that, once visited, get into your heart and won't go. For me, India is such a place. When I first visited, I was stunned by the richness of the land, by its lush beauty and exotic architecture, by its ability to overload the senses with the pure, concentrated intensity of its colors, smells, tastes, and sounds. It was as if all my life I had been seeing the world in black and white and, when brought face-to-face with India, experienced everything re-rendered in brilliant technicolor."
- Keith Bellow
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"India teaches me again and again, that the categories into which I try to divide things don’t hold up."
- Dena Moes
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“Time spent in India has an extraordinary effect on one. It acts as a barrier that makes the rest of the world seem unreal.”
- Tahir Shah
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“India is a place where color is doubly bright. Pinks that scald your eyes, blues you could drown in.”
- Kiran Millwood Hargrave
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"There are three trips you take to India: the one you think you’re going to have – that you plan for; the one you actually have; and the one you live through once you go back home."
- Erin Reese
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“[India is] the One land that all men desire to see, and having seen once, by even a glimpse, would not give that glimpse for all the shows of all the rest of the globe combined.”
- Mark Twain
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