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

“I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world. Mary”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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 dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.”

“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.”

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

“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.'”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“to travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.”

“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.”

“Remember that happiness is a way of travel, it's not a destination.”

“If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.”

“Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.”

“To travel is to take a journey into yourself.”

“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.”

“Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.”

“Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.”

“When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.”

“Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.”