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“Absolute peace in our world is an unattainable goal. But it is one towards which we must continue to journey, our eyes fixed on it as a traveller in a desert fixes his eyes on the one guiding star that will lead him to salvation.”

World Eye Stars Peace Goal Journey Absolutes Salvation Desert Fixed His Eyes Our World Traveller Unattainable Guiding Stars

Author:Aung San Suu Kyi

“[Drawing should be] a journey of pleasure. Each step must present to the travellers' view objects that are eminently interesting, varied in their appearances, and attracting to such a degree as to excite in each individual thus happily employed the desire of knowing all respecting all he sees.”

Should Desire Individual Pleasure Interesting Views Steps Knowing Journey Objects Degrees Appearance Drawing Employed Traveller

Book:Writings and Drawings

Source: Writings and Drawings

“A wealthy traveller fears an ambush, while one with empty pockets journeys on in safety.”

Journey Empty Safety Pockets Wealthy Traveller Ambush Empty Pockets

Author:Ovid

“All amateur travellers have experienced horror journeys, long or short, sooner or later, one way or another. As a student of disaster, I note that we react alike to our tribulations: frayed and bitter at the time, proud afterwards. Nothing is better for self-esteem than survival.”

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Book:Travels with Myself and Another: A Memoir

Source: Travels with Myself and Another: A Memoir

“Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.”

Love Inspiring Journey Goes On Travel Traveled Traveller Great Travel Inspiring Travel Adventure And Travel Moveable Feast Travel And Love Lovers Meeting

Book:Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition

Source: Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition

“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.”

“A Sufi manual, the Kashf-al-Mahjub, says that, towards the end of his journey, the dervish becomes the Way not the wayfarer, i.e. a place over which something is passing, not a traveller following his own free will.”

Way Ends Journey Following Passing Passings Free Will Als Sufi Traveller Manuals

Author:Bruce Chatwin

“The real traveller is the one who continues his journey even when the road ends!”

Real Ends Journey Traveller

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.”

Author:Aldous Huxley

“Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.”

Source: On the Road

“The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.”

“The attention of a traveller, should be particularly turned, in the first place, to the various works of Nature, to mark the distinctions of the climates he may explore, and to offer such useful observations on the different productions as may occur.”

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Book:Travels Through North and South Carolina: Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges Or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws. ... Embellished with Copper-plates

Source: Travels Through North and South Carolina: Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges Or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws. ... Embellished with Copper-plates

“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.”

“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”

“We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.”

Source: Places

“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.”

Source: Travels with Charley in Search of America

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

“We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.”

“No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.”

Source: With Love and Irony

“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.”

“Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.”

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.”

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

Source: Stories: Collected Stories

“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.”

Source: Hasidism and modern man

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Watch your step.”

“The traveller has reached the end of the journey!”

Ends Journey Traveller Dhammapada

Author:Edmund Burke

“When the wind is right and the cloud is gone, you can see down this road as far as Darjeeling," I told her. "But it is a long and difficult road, full of perils, and if a traveller on foot were to look at the length of it, his spirit would be overcome and he would sit down and refuse to go any further. You must not look to the end of the road, Portia. Look only to the step in front of you. That you can do. Just one step. And you will not make the journey alone.”

Source: Dark Road to Darjeeling