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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”

Source: She: A Celebration of Greatness in Every Woman

“Traveling - it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.”

“Once the travel bug bites, there is no known antidote.”

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

Source: Jawaharlal Nehru's speeches

“Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.”

Ifs Writing Mind Travel Standing Ass Funny Travel Travel Writing Great Travel Road Trip Standing Alone Travel And Tourism

Book:Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961

Source: Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961

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

Author:Aldous Huxley

“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.”

Source: Complete Essays: 1920-1925

“Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.”

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

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes

“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.”

Source: The beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: consisting of maxims and observations, moral, critical, and miscellaneous: to which are now added biographical anecdotes of the doctor, selected from the works of Mrs. Piozzi;--his Life, recently published by Mr. Boswell, and other authentic testimonies; also his will, and the sermon he wrote for the late Doctor Dodd

“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.”

“It is not down in any map; true places never are.”

Source: Moby Dick

“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.”

Book:Aug. 1949-Feb. 1953

Source: Aug. 1949-Feb. 1953

“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.”

Source: Places

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”

Author:Marcel Proust

“I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.”

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“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.”

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

Source: The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road

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

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest

“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

“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.”

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything.”

“But that's the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don't want to know what people are talking about. I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can't read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can't even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.”

Source: Neither here nor there: travels in Europe

“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.”

“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.”

Source: The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays

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

Source: Stories: Collected Stories

“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.”

Source: The Journey's Echo: Selections

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

Source: Hasidism and modern man

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

Source: The Innocents Abroad

“Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life”

“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.”

“It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”

Source: The Left Hand of Darkness

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

“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.”

“Let your memory be your travel bag.”

“People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.”

Source: Treasury of Thought

“There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.”

Source: Baddeck, and that Sort of Thing