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“Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.”

“Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.”

“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.”

“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure.”

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

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

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

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

“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.”

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

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

“If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.”

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

“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.”

“You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there.”

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

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

“Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.”

“Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it.”

“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.”

“The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing.'”

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”

“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.”

“Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”

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

“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity.”

“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.”

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

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.”

“The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.”

“Of the gladdest moments in 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 Civilization, man feels once more happy.”

“A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent (which I cannot deny myself to be without being impious) will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place.”

“I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it.”

“A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.”