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To travel is a deep human urge

• The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown… Paul Theroux
• I think that travel comes from some deep urge to see the world, like the urge that brings up a worm in an Irish bog to see the moon when it is full. Lord Dunsany
• Exploration,  Discovery,  Adventure,  Embrace new experiences,  Experience

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Travel is one of life’s greatest delights

• To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. Freya Stark
• No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow. Lin Yutang
• There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it. Charles Dudley Warner
• Of journeying the benefits are many: the freshness it bringeth to the heart, the seeing and hearing of marvelous things, the delight of beholding new cities, the meeting of unknown friends, and the learning of high manners. Muslih- uddin Sadi
• When one is traveling, everything looks brighter and lovelier. That does not mean it IS brighter and lovelier; it just means that sweet, kindly home suffers in comparison to tarted-up foreign places with all their jewels on. Catherynne M. Valente
• 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. Bill Bryson
• We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls. Anaïs Nin

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Travel is a source of great aliveness and fulfilment …

• I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. Hilaire Belloc
• To travel is to live. Hans Christian Andersen
• Travel brings power and love back into your life. Rumi
• Travel is like love, mostly because it’s a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, undimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end. Pico Lyer
• There is no happiness for the person who does not travel. For Indra is the friend of the traveler, therefore wander! Brähmann
• Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions. Peter Hoeg
• Voyage, travel, and change of place impart vigor Seneca
• One of the gladdest moments of human life, me thinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of habit, the leaden weight of routine, the cloak of many cares and the slavery of home, man feels once more happy. Sir Richard Burton
• When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego and when we escape like the squirrels in the cage of our personality and get into the forest again, we shall shiver with cold and fright. But things will happen to us so that we don’t know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in. H. Lawrence
• Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe. Anatole France
• Being fully alive,  Fulfilment

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… and a great source of adventure…

• We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open. Jawaharal Nehru
• The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. Christopher McCandless
• Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure. Irving Wallace
• Remember what Bilbo used to say: 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. JRR Tolkien
• 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. Mark Twain
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… especially places that are totally different from home

• Personally, I like going places where I don’t speak the language, don’t know anybody, don’t know my way around and don’t have any delusions that I’m in control. Disoriented, even frightened, I feel alive, awake in ways I never am at home. Michael Mewshaw
• 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.  Bill Bryson
• One thing that I love about traveling is feeling disoriented and removed from my comfort zone. Sarah Glidden
• I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.  George Bernard Shaw
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Travel can be wonderfully addictive

• 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. Michael Palin
• The Wanderlust has got me… by the belly-aching fire. Robert W. Service
• Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere. Isabelle Eberhardt
• The farther you go, however, the harder it is to return. The world has many edges, and it’s easy to fall off. Anderson Cooper

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Travel allows us to lose ourselves …

• Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.  Ray Bradbury
• We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next, to find ourselves. Pico Iyer

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… in order to discover ourselves…

• Sometimes in your life you will go on a journey. It will be the longest journey you have ever taken. It is the journey to find yourself. Katherine Sharp
• Trips do not end when you return home–usually this is the time when in a sense they really begin. Agnes E. Benedict and Adele Franklin
• The wise man travels to discover himself. James Russell Lowell
• To travel is to take a journey into yourself. Danny Kaye
• You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself. Ella Maillart
• I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.   James Baldwin
• 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. Eudora Welty
• Traveling has less to do with seeing things, as it does with experiencing them. It has less to do with discovering something, as it does with discovering yourself.  In your travels you won’t find all the answers, you will find lots of questions you would otherwise have never thought to ask.  Marc and Angel Chernoff
• If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror- glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection. Patrick Rothfuss
• It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves. Andre Gide
• Discovery,  Self-knowledge

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…and in so doing, transforms us

• Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living. Miriam Beard
• I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world. Mary Anne Radmacher
• …there ain’t no journey what don’t change you some. David Mitchell
• Traveling outgrows its motives. It soon proves sufficient in itself. You think you are making a trip, but soon it is making you – or unmaking you. Nicolas Bouvier
• There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed. Kate Douglas Wiggin
• Nothing can be compared to the new life that the discovery of another country provides for a thoughtful person. Although I am still the same I believe to have changed to the bones. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.  Anita Desai
• Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living. Miriam Beard
• We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character. Henry David Thoreau
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Travel is an education …

• Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. Francis Bacon
• Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you traveled. Mohammed
• Travelling thousands of miles around the world is better than reading thousands of books.
• I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education. David Rockefeller
• When overseas you learn more about your own country, than you do the place you’re visiting. Clint Borgen
• In travelling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge. Samuel Johnson
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… that enriches and invigorates the mind

• 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. Pat Conroy
• Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind. Seneca
• 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. Pico Iyer
• One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things. Henry Miller
• A traveller! By my faith, you have great reason to be sad: I fear you have sold your own lands to see other men’s; then, to have seen much, and to have nothing, is to have rich eyes and poor hands. Rosalind, in Shakespeare’s “As You Like It”
• Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.
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Travel broadens and opens the mind…

• Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime. Mark Twain
• Travel teaches toleration. Benjamin Disraeli
• At its best, travel should challenge our preconceptions and most cherished views, cause us to rethink our assumptions, shake us a bit, make us broader minded and more understanding. Arthur Frommer
• Travel has a way of stretching the mind. The stretch comes not from travel’s immediate rewards, the inevitable myriad new sights, smells and sounds, but with experiencing firsthand how others do differently what we believed to be the right and only way. Ralph Crawshaw
• Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. Scott Cameron
• When you travel, do it like Ghandi, with simple clothes, open eyes and an open mind.
• People who don’t travel cannot have a global view, all they see is what’s in front of them. Those people cannot accept new things because all they know is where they live. Martin Yan
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… but not always

• Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation. Elizabeth Drew
• Travelling makes an intelligent person more intelligent and a stupid person more stupid.
• If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the relgion and avoid the people, you might better stay home. James A. Michener
• Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever. Joe Abercrombie
• Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse. Thomas Fuller
• Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther. Thomas Hood
• If an ass goes a-traveling he’ll not come home a horse. African proverb

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Travel awakens the capacity to observe

• Travel is the only context in which some people ever look around. If we spent half the energy looking at our own neighborhoods, we’d probably learn twice as much. Lucy R. Lippard
• A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.  Moslih Eddin Saadi
• Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen. Benjamin Disraeli
• The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. Samuel Johnson
• One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things. Henry Miller
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Travel allows us to see home in a different light

• 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. Terry Pratchett
• We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and to know the place for the first time. T. S. Eliot
• 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. Samuel Johnson
• A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. George Moore
• I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Maybe you had to leave in order to miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was. Jodi Picoult
• I had a desire to see something besides my own shores, if only to be content to return to them someday. If I wish to live in my native land and love her, it should not be out of ignorance. Margaret George
• The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land. K. Chesterton
• When overseas you learn more about your own country, than you do the place you’re visiting. Clint Borgen
• Keep things on your trip in perspective, and you’ll be amazed at the perspective you gain on things back home while you’re away…One’s little world is put into perspective by the bigger world out there. Gail Rubin Bereny
• A wise traveler never despises his own country.  Carlo Goldoni
• I’ve travelled all around the world to see the rivers and the mountains, and I’ve spent a lot of money. I have gone to great lengths, I have seen everything, but I forgot to see just outside my house a dewdrop on a little blade of grass, a dewdrop which reflects in its convexity the whole universe around you. Rabindranath Tagore

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Travel is pure freedom

• We go on a journey to be free of all impediments; to leave ourselves behind much more than to get rid of others. William Hazlitt
• The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases. William Hazlitt
• Your true traveler 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. Aldous Huxley
• Walking is the perfect way of moving if you want to see into the life of things. It is the one way of freedom. If you go to a place on anything but your own feet you are taken there too fast, and miss a thousand delicate joys that were waiting for you by the wayside. Elizabeth von Arnim
• Freedom

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Travel puts us off balance in order to balance us out

• 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, the sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it. Cesare Pavese
• You lose sight of things… and when you travel, everything balances out. Daranna Gidel
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Therefore, travel widely and explore

• The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page. Saint Augustine
• A traveller without knowledge is like a bird without wings. Gulistan
• “It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door,” he used to say. “You step into the Road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.” R. R. Tolkien
• He who is outside his door already has the hard part of his journey behind him. Dutch proverb
• The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life. Agnes Repplier
• Make voyages. Attempt them. There is nothing else. Tennessee Williams
• Not all those who wander are lost. R.R. Tolkien
• We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey. John Hope Franklin
• Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
• Become a tourist for a day in your own hometown. Take a tour. See the sights. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
• 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. Anthony Bourdain

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Be a traveller more than a tourist

• The traveller sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see. G.K. Chesterton
• 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.” Daniel J. Boorstin
• Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going. Paul Theroux
• Do we really want to travel in hermetically sealed popemobiles through the rural provinces of France, Mexico and the Far East, eating only in Hard Rock Cafes and McDonalds? Or do we want to eat without fear, tearing into the local stew, the humble taqueria’s mystery meat, the sincerely offered gift of a lightly grilled fish head? I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.  Anthony Bourdain
• The value of your travels does not hinge on how many stamps you have in your passport when you get home — and the slow nuanced experience of a single country is always better than the hurried, superficial experience of forty countries. Rolf Potts
• The saddest journey in the world is the one that follows a precise itinerary. Then you’re not a traveler. You’re a f@@king tourist. Guillermo del Toro
• Anyone who needs more than one suitcase is a tourist, not a traveler. Ira Levin
• Tourists went on holidays while travellers did something else. They travelled. Alex Garland
• London on your own actually seems more exotic than Egypt on a tour. Laura Fraser
• Don’t be a tourist. Plan less. Go slowly. Andrew Evans
• A tourist is a fellow who drives thousands of miles so he can be photographed standing in front of his car. Emile Ganest
• Too often. . .I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen. Louis L’Amour

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Go where you’ve never been …

• My favourite thing is to go where I’ve never been. Drane Arbus
• I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it. Rosalia de Castro
• Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am. Voltaire
• You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself. Ella Maillart
• All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time. Paul Fussell
• Once a year go somewhere you have never been before. The Dalai Lama

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… but also see the familiar with new eyes

• The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust
• He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all. Sinclair Lewis
• Explore the familiar with new eyes

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Get off the beaten track

• Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less travelled by, And that has made all the difference. Robert Frost
• Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• I’m afraid of taking steps that are not on the map, but by taking those steps despite my fears, I have a much more interesting life. Paulo Coelho
• Take … the path that runs along the cliff–that one, the one without any guardrails. Take that path, and know the exhilaration of the ride and the pride you feel when you reach the end will inspire you to take that path again and again. And that experience … every day, will make you more fulfilled, more complete, and more alive. Harry Beckwith
• It is not down in any map; true places never are.  Herman Melville
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Get out of the cities

• Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter. John Muir
• I’d rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth. Steve McQueen

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Welcome detours and the unexpected

• The more side roads you stop to explore, the less likely that life will pass you by. Robert Brault
• Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else. Lawrence Block
• How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else. Buckminster Fuller
• The best journeys we make do not always go in a straight line.

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Travel light

• Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag. Alexander Solzhenitsyn
• He who would travel happily must travel light. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money. Susan Heller
• Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.
• Let your memory be your travel bag.  Alexander Solzhenitsyn
• If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears. Cesare Pavese

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At times, share travel with a travel companion …

• An agreeable companion on a journey is as good as a carriage. Publilius Syrus
• 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. Mark Twain
• Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh. Quentin Crisp
• Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. Izaak Walton
• It’s easier to find a traveling companion than to get rid of one. Art Buchwald
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… and at other times, travel alone

• He travels fastest who travels alone.
• I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more. Thomas Jefferson
• The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. Henry David Thoreau

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Meet people and make friends along the way

• A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles. Tim Cahill
• It’s not so much the journey that’s important; as is the way that we treat those we encounter and those around us, along the way. Jeremy Aldana
• Of journeying the benefits are many: the freshness it bringeth to the heart, the seeing and hearing of marvelous things, the delight of beholding new cities, the meeting of unknown friends, and the learning of high manners. Muslih- uddin Sadi
• One of the great things about travel is that you find out how many good, kind people there are. Edith Wharton
• Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends. Maya Angelou
• The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them. Amelia E. Barr
• The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown… Paul Theroux
• To know a person in his home is not to know him at all: to meet him on a country road with only his baggage is to at last contact the core, the inner cell of his personality. John Tibbetts

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Appreciate that when you travel to foreign lands, it is you who is foreign

• When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable. Clifton Fadiman
• There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign. Robert Louis Stevenson
• No matter where you are, you’re always a bit on your own, always an outsider. Banana Yoshimoto
• Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someone’s home and backyard. Vera Nazarian
• Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.  Mason Cooley

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Travel with a purpose or destination in mind…

• Just to travel is rather boring, but to travel with a purpose is educational and exciting. Sargent Shriver
• All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware. Martin Buber
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… or simply travel to enjoy the journey

• For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move. Robert Louis Stevenson
• I don’t know where i am going but I’m on my way. Carl Sagan
• It is better to travel well than to arrive. Buddha
• Sooner or later we must realize there is no station, no one place to arrive at once and for all. The true joy of life is the trip. Robert J. Hastings
• I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move. Robert Louis Stevenson
• A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving. Lao Tzu
• I love to travel, but I hate to arrive. Albert Einstein
• The journey not the arrival matters. S. Eliot
• We travel just to travel. Ernesto Che Guevara
• It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end. Ernest Hemingway
• It is not the destination where you end up but the mishaps and memories you create along the way! Penelope Riley
• But the beauty is in the walking — we are betrayed by destinations. Gwyn Thomas
• The journey is the destination. Dan Eldon
• The journey is the reward. Taoist saying
• I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it. Rosalia de Castro
• Every exit is an entry somewhere else. Tom Stoppard
• Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey. Fitzhugh Mullan
• Enjoyment,  Life is a journey,  Life is a process

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Travel with all your senses

• The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it. Rudyard Kipling
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Explore and enjoy the local food

• Do we really want to travel in hermetically sealed popemobiles through the rural provinces of France, Mexico and the Far East, eating only in Hard Rock Cafes and McDonalds? Or do we want to eat without fear, tearing into the local stew, the humble taqueria’s mystery meat, the sincerely offered gift of a lightly grilled fish head? I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.  Anthony Bourdain
• If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home. James A. Michener
• May you eat an unfamiliar dessert in a strange land at least once every three years… Rob Brezsny
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Through stillness, take a journey inwards into the realms and heart and soul

• The longest journey of any person is the journey inward. Agné Carl Hammarskjold
• I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within. Lillian Smith
• I think that I travelled not outwards but within… Imtiaz Dharker
• No one else can hold your hand or take this voyage of the soul for you, and yet at no time will you be alone, for you can never truly be alone. J.M. Harrison
• And I said to the man who stood at the gate to the year, “Give me a light that I might tread safely into the unknown.” And he replied, “Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God, that shall be to you better than the light and safer than a known way.” Minnie Louise Haskins
• The only journey is the journey within. Rainer Maria Rilke
• There is only one journey. Going inside yourself. Riner Maria Rilke
• And you? When will you begin your long journey into yourself? Rumi
• Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. Carl Jung
• The way to the shore is through the sea within you. Meeta Ahluwalia
• The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart. Julien Green
• Stillness,  The heart,  The soul,  Inner journey

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Explore new worlds within in order to discover yourself

• Your mind, this globe of awareness, is a starry universe. When you push off with your foot, a thousand new roads become clear. Rumi
• A traveler am I, and a navigator, and every day I discover a new region within my soul. Kahlil Gibran
• Within my body are all the sacred places of the world, and the most profound pilgrimage I can ever make is within my own body. Saraha
• There is a great deal of unmapped country within us. George Eliot
• Let your mind start a journey through a strange new world. Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before. Let your soul take you where you long to be. Close your eyes, let your spirit soar and you’ll live as you’ve never lived before. Erich Fromm
• Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You can’t get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you are doing. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be yourself. Alan Alda
• People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering. Augustine

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No matter where you travel, you cannot escape yourself

• Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. Neil Gaiman
• I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• To get away from one’s working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one’s self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change. Charles Horton Cooley

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Traveling somewhere and moving somewhere are very different

• Traveling-to-a-place energy and living-in-a-place energy are two fundamentally different energies. Elizabeth Gilbert
• Move to a new country and you quickly see that visiting a place as a tourist, and actually moving there for good, are two very different things. Tahir Shah
• The great glory of travel, to me, is not just what I see that’s new to me in countries visited, but that in almost every one of them I change from an outsider looking in to an insider looking out. Clara E. Laughlin

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Travel does not exist without home

• All journeys eventually end in the same place, home. Chris Geiger
• Travel does not exist without home….If we never return to the place we started, we would just be wandering, lost. Home is a reflecting surface, a place to measure our growth and enrich us after being infused with the outside world. Josh Gates
• The journey itself is my home.  Bashō Matsuo
• Home is where the heart is, and my heart is wherever I am at the moment. Lily Leung
• A child on a farm sees a plane fly overhead and dreams of a faraway place. A traveler on the plane sees the farmhouse…and thinks of home.  Carl Burns
• Home

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Travel and art

• 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. Freya Stark
• Travel is like a giant blank canvas, and the painting on the canvas is only limited by one’s imagination. Ross Morley
• Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. H. Auden
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Some say modern travel is overrated

• Most travel is best of all in the anticipation or the remembering; the reality has more to do with losing your luggage.  Regina Nadelson
• Modern traveling is not traveling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel. John Ruskin
• Air Travel: Seeing less and less of more and more.
• Thanks to the Interstate Highway System it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything.  Charles Kuralt
• The saying “Getting there is half the fun” became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines. Henry J. Tillman
• Travel is glamorous only in retrospect. Paul Theroux

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• A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. John Steinbeck
• Airline travel is hours of boredom, interrupted by moments of stark terror. Al Boliska
• Detour: Something that lengthens your mileage, diminishes your gas, and strengthens your vocabulary.
• He did not seem to care which way he travelled as long as he was in the driver’s seat.  Max Aitken
• He travels fastest who travels alone… but he hasn’t anything to do when he gets there. Travel Axiom
• Homesick: Dead broke abroad.   Ambrose Bierce
• To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. Aldous Huxley
• How do you get off of a non-stop flight? Steven Wright
• I hate traveling, I guess ’cause my dad used to beat me with a globe. Dave Attell
• 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. Susan Sonrag
• If God had really intended men to fly, he’d make it easier to get to the airport. George Winters
• I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train. Oscar Wilde
• I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.  Caskie Stinnett
• I wanna hang a map of the world in my house – then I’m gonna put pins into all the locations that I’ve travelled to; but first I’m gonna have to travel to the top two corners of the map so that it will not fall off the wall.  Mitch Hedberg
• I was just vacationing in Amsterdam, where prostitution is legal; let me rephrase that – I was just vacationing in Amsterdam because prostitution is legal. David Feldman
• I’ve always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives. Billy Connolly
• If an ass goes a-traveling he’ll not come home a horse.  African proverb
• If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets. Mel Brooks
• If you look like your passport photo, in all probability, you need the journey.
• While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put. Anne Tyler
• Bizarre travel plans are dancing lessons from God. Kurt Vonnegut
• If you look like your passport photo, you’re too ill to travel. Will Kommen
• In America there are two classes of travel: first class and with children. Robert Benchley
• It always takes longer to get there than to get back.  First Law of Travel
• It’s easier to find a traveling companion than to get rid of one. Art Buchwald
• Join the army. Travel the world, meet interesting people and kill them.
• My dad is Irish and my mum is Iranian, which meant that we spent most of our family holidays in Customs. Patrick Monahan
• My mother is a travel agent for guilt trips.
• Of all the unbearable nuisances the ignoramus that has traveled is the worst.  Frank Kin’ Hubbard
• People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home. Runes
• Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.  Jerry Seinfeld
• Switzerland was frustrating. The mountains kept getting in the way of the scenery.
• It’s easier to find a traveling companion than to get rid of one. Art Buchwald
• The faster the plane, the narrower the seats. Durrell’s Parameter
• The journey of a thousand miles begins with a broken fan belt and a leaky tire. Proverb
• To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. Aldous Huxley
• The strength of the turbulence is directly proportional to the temperature of your coffee.  Gunter’s Law of Air Travel
• The time to enjoy a European tour is about three weeks after you unpack. Joseph Addison
• The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist. Russell Baker
• There are two kinds of travel: first class and with children. Robert Benchley
• There’s no future in time travel.
• They airplane oxygen masks don’t really help you… they’re just there to muffle the screams. Rita Rudner
• Travel Brochure: A trip teaser.
• Venice was a disaster. The whole place was flooded.
• We are all time travelers moving at the speed of exactly 60 minutes per hour
• We’re lost, but we’re making good time. ‘Yogi’ Berra
• What travels around the world but stays in one corner? A stamp.
• When you look like your passport photo, it’s time to go home. Erma Bombeck

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