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“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.”

“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.”

“We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.”

“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.”

“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.'”

“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.”

“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.”

“And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.”

“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.”

“What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-by. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.”

“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.”

“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!”

“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.”

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.”

“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.”

“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.”