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

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

“Do not follow where the path may lead.”

“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.”

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

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

“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 use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.”

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

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

“We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again- to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.”

“Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

“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.”

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

“To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.”