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“Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.”

“Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions.”

“It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.”

“One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.”

“See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream.”

“Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out.”

“So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future.”

“One of the gladdest moments of human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of habit, the leaden weight of routine, the cloak of many cares and the slavery of home, man feels once more happy.”

“I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.”

“A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.”

“Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.”

“The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.”

“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.”

“All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.”

“The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure.”

“What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.”

“Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.”

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”

“If you come to a fork in the road, take it.”

“I will appoint captains to rule my cities, for it is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.”

“Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.”

“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.”

“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”

“The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.”

“Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.”

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

“Traveling is like flirting with life. It's like saying, 'I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.”

“Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.”

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”

“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”

“Travel brings power and love back into your life.”

“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!”

“I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.”

“I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.”

“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”

“Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.”

“...there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.”

“It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.”

“If you're not living on the edge you're taking up too much space.”