“Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. The journey changes you; it should change you.”
"I wasn't that great a chef, and I don't think I'm that great a writer."
- Anthony Bourdain
Self-awareness
"If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it's the restaurant business."
- Anthony Bourdain
Self-awareness
"I learned a long time ago that trying to micromanage the perfect vacation is always a disaster. That leads to terrible times."
- Anthony Bourdain
Happiness
"Your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride."
- Anthony Bourdain
Happiness
"Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone... Bad food is fake food... food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people's ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives."
- Anthony Bourdain
Integrity
"Love has the power to transform even the most hideous of creatures."
- Beauty and the Beast
Transformation
"Old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new."
Transformation
"Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time."
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Transformation
"It is often the small steps, not the giant leaps, that bring about the most lasting change."
- Queen Elizabeth II
Transformation
"Today is not just Tuesday, it is Transformation Tuesday. That means that success does not just come to you, you have to go out and get it. So what are you waiting for?"
Transformation