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“Travelers find virtue in a seeming minority in all other countries, and forget that they have left it in a minority at home.”

Country Home Left Forget Virtue Travel Minorities Other Countries Traveler Seeming

Book:The Sympaty of Religions

Source: The Sympaty of Religions

“In the shortest sea voyage there is no sense of time. You have been down in the cabin for hours or days or years. Nobody knows or cares. You know all the people to the point of indifference. You do not believe in dry land any more - you are caught in the pendulum itself, and left there, idly swinging.”

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“One of the great natural phenomena is the way in which a tube of toothpaste suddenly empties itself when it hears that you are planning a trip, so that when you come to pack it is just a twisted shell of its former self, with not even a cubic millimeter left to be squeezed out.”

Way Self Left Natural Travel Planning Former Shells Packs Twisted Tubes Toothpaste Natural Phenomena

Book:20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Or, David Cooperfield

Source: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Or, David Cooperfield

“As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.”

“They say no land remains to be discovered, no continent is left unexplored. But the whole world is out there, waiting, just waiting for me. I want to do things-- I want to walk the rain-soaked streets of London, and drink mint tea in Casablanca. I want to wander the wastelands of the Gobi desert and see a yak. I think my life's ambition is to see a yak. I want to bargain for trinkets in an Arab market in some distant, dusty land. There's so much. But, most of all, I want to do things that will mean something.”

“I sat on a toilet watching the water run thinking what an odd thing tourism is. You fly off to a strange land, eagerly abandoning all the comforts of home and then expend vast quantities of time and money in a largely futile effort to recapture the comforts you wouldn’t have lost if you hadn’t left home in the first place.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Home Running Lost Left Water Effort Land Strange Comfort Travel Odd Sat Quantity Toilets Tourism Time And Money Odd Things Comfort Of Home Futile Efforts

Author:Bill Bryson

“One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it's left behind.”

Left Behinds Journey Travel Forgiving Left Behind Inspiring Travel

Book:LITTLE DORRIT

Source: LITTLE DORRIT

“Traveling is not just seeing the new; it is also leaving behind. Not just opening doors; also closing them behind you, never to return. But the place you have left forever is always there for you to see whenever you shut your eyes.”

Eye Left Behinds Forever Seeing Doors Return Travel Leaving Opening Vacation Closing Behind You Inspirational Vacation Opening Doors

Book:The Silk Road: A Journey from the High Pamirs and Ili Through Sinkiang and Kansu

Source: The Silk Road: A Journey from the High Pamirs and Ili Through Sinkiang and Kansu

“When we are high up, everything looks very small. Our glories and our sadnesses cease to be important. We have left whatever we won or lost down below. From the top of a mountain you can see how large the world is and how wide the horizon.”

World Life Looks Important Inspiration Lost Left Sadness Mountain Travel Glory Wide Cease Horizon

Author:Paulo Coelho

“Mutt enjoyed traveling by car, but he was an unquiet passenger. He suffered from the delusion, common to dogs and small boys, that when he was looking out the right-hand side, he was probably missing something far more interesting on the left-hand side.”

Hands Left Sides Interesting Common Boys Dog Car Missing Travel Enjoyed Delusion Passengers Left Hand Missing Something Mutts

Author:Farley Mowat

“Charley is a mind-reading dog. There have been many trips in his lifetime, and often he has to be left at home. He knows we are going long before the suitcase has come out, and he paces and worries and whines and goes into a state of mild hysteria.”

Knows Mind Long Has Beens States Home Reading Left Worry Dog Travel Lifetime Pace Hysteria Suitcases Mind Reading

Book:Travels with Charley in Search of America

Source: Travels with Charley in Search of America

“You've climbed the highest mountain in the world. What's left ? It's all downhill from there. You've got to set your sights on something higher than Everest.”

World Left Nature Higher Mountain Travel Highest Sight Climbs Climbing Everest Mount Everest Mountain Climbers Climbing Mount Everest Mt Everest

Author:Willi Unsoeld

“I left my heart in San Francisco, high on a hill, it calls to me. To be where little cable cars climb halfway to the stars, the morning fog may chill the air, I don't care. My love waits there in San Francisco, above the blue and windy sea, when I come home to you, San Francisco , your golden sun will shine for me.”

“How was your flight? Well, aeronautically it was a great success. Socially, it left quite a bit to be desired.”

Wells Left Bits Nature Travel Flight Great Success

Author:Noel Coward

“Behold then Septimus Dodge returning to Dodge-town victorious. Not crowned with laurel, it is true, but wreathed in lists of things he has seen and sucked dry. Seen and sucked dry, you know: Venus de Milo, the Rhine or the Coliseum: swallowed like so many clams, and left the shells.”

Knows Left Society Travel Towns Lists Dry Shells Tourism Venus Laurels Dodge Travel And Tourism Clams Coliseum Venus De Milo

Book:Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

“There’s something about arriving in new cities, wandering empty streets with no destination. I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I'm born to leave.”

Source: Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps