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  • “The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” – W.B. Yeats. 
  • “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.” – Saint Augustine (4th-5th century)
  • “An té a bhíonn siúlach bíonn sé scéalach” (travellers have tales). – Old Irish proverb.
  • “‘Somewhere in la Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember.” – Miguel de Cervantes (opening line of Don Quixote).
  • “It is not down in any map; true places never are.” – Herman Melville, Moby-Dick.
  • “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” – Mark Twain
  • “Live your life by a compass not a clock.” – Stephen Covey.
  • “If I am murdered en route it will have been well worth while.’ – Dervla Murphy
  • “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller.
  • “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien.
  • “You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline.” – Frank Zappa
  • “I often don’t know where my luggage is, that’s what being a tourist is all about.” – Terry Pratchett.
  • “The only true voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust.
  • “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.” – Anthony Bourdain.
  • “Three things you cannot change. You can’t beat the phone company, you can’t make a waiter see you until he is ready to see you, and you can’t go home again.” – Bill Bryson. 
  • “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 believe to be the right and only way.” – Ralph Crawshaw.
  • “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust.
  • “Travelling—it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta.
  • “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.” – D.H. Lawrence
  • “The journey, not the arrival, matters.” – T.S. Eliot.
  • “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag.
  • “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert.
  • “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 impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.” – Agnes Repplier.
  • “Travel far, travel wide, and travel fearlessly.” – J.R. Rim.
  • “I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.” – George Bernard Shaw
  • “People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.” – Dagobert D Runes
  • “A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place.” – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • “Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.” – Henry Thoreau 
  • “For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim’s time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort.” – Aldous Huxley.
  • “Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” – Benjamin Disraeli
  • “Once you have travelled, 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. 
  • “Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you travelled.” – he Prophet Mohamed.
  • “Bizarre travel plans are dancing lessons from God.” – Kurt Vonnegut.
  • “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things 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.” – Mark Twain 
  • “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.” – Oscar Wilde.
  • “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust.
  • “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.
  • “We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.” – T. S. Eliot.
  • “Travel and change of place impart new vigour to the mind.”.Seneca the Younger
  • “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware.” – Martin Buber.
  • “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less travelled by.” – Robert Frost.
  • “If an ass goes travelling, he’ll not come home a horse.” – Thomas Fuller.
  • “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travellers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux.
  • “I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.” – Melody Truong.
  • ”A good traveller has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu.
  • “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveller only who is foreign.” – Robert Louis Stevenson.
  • “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.: – John Steinbeck.
  • “I love to travel, but hate to arrive.” – Albert Einstein “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley. 
  • “Travelling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.” – Lisa St Aubin de Terán.
  • “People don’t take trips… trips take people.” – John Steinbeck.
  • “May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.” – Trenton Lee Stewart.
  • “If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.” – Cesare Pavese 
  • “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” – Hilaire Belloc. 
  • “I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.” – Caskie Stinnett.
  • “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 “Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.” – Elizabeth Drew.
  • “Take nothing but memories, leave nothing but footprints!” –Chief Si’ahl.
  • “Still round the corner, there may wait, a new road or a secret gate.” – J. R. R. Tolkien.
  • “Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.” – Henry Thoreau
  • “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.” – GK Chesterton. 
  • “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Emerson.
  • “Travel teaches toleration. – Benjamin Disraeli.
  • “Wherever you go, go with all your heart!” – Confucius.
  • “Life – and travel – leaves marks on you. Most of the time, those marks – on your body or on your heart – are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt.” – Anthony Bourdain.
  • “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” – David Mitchell.
  • “One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.” André Gide.
  • “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill.
  • “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.
  • ““If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” – James Michener.
  • “Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.” Anatole France.
  • “Half of the fun of travel is the aesthetic of lostness.” – Ray Bradbury.
  • “There are no shortcuts to anywhere worth going.” – Beverly Sills.
  • “The traveller sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.” – G.K. Chesterton.
  • “Adventure is worthwhile.” – Aesop.
  • “Travelling tends to magnify all human emotions.” – Peter Hoeg.
  • “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert.
  • “So much of who we are is where we have been.” – William Langewiesche.
  • “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.” – Jawaharial Nehru.
  • “Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” – Jack Kerouac.
  • “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark.
  • “And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, 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 Iyer.
  • “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey.” – Babs Hoffman.
  • “Life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better.” – Simon Raven.
  • “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsch“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.”― Margaret Atwood
  • “A ship in harbour is safe, but that’s not why ships were built.” – John A. Shedd.
  • “Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.” – Mae West.
  • “There is freedom waiting for you, on the breezes of the sky. And you ask ‘What if I fall?’ Oh but my darling, what if you fly?” – Erin Hanson.
  • “If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine, it’s lethal.” – Paulo Coelho
  • “The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost.” – Henry Thoreau
  • “I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on earth. Then I ask myself the same question.” – Harun Yahya.
  • “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” – Helen Keller.
  • “Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.” – Paul Theroux.
  • “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu.
  • “Once a year go someplace you have never been before.” – Dalai Lama.
  • “I don’t know what travel does to the mind, but it certainly broadens the waistline.” ― Eoghan Corry.
  • “If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.” — Vincent Van Gogh
  • “My friend once asked me why I loved to travel so much. It’s about being elsewhere, I found myself saying.” – Rosita Boland.
  • “To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to find each other, and to feel. That is the purpose of life.” – James Thurber.
  • “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs.
  • Follow a map to its edges and keep going. Let curiosity be my guide. I want to change hemispheres, sleep with unfamiliar stars. Let the journey unfold before me.” – Iohan Gueorguiev.
  • Better to see something once than to hear about it a thousand times.” – Asian proverb.
  • “Let’s wander where the wifi is weak.” – Barcelover
  • “To move, to breathe, to fly, to float/ To gain all while you give,/ To roam the roads of lands remote: /To travel is to live.” – Hans Christian Andersen
  • “Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” – Roy M. Goodman
  • “I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery — air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, ‘This is what it is to be happy.’” ― Sylvia Plath
  • “We went on holiday by accident.” ― Withnail and I, 1987 film written by Bruce Robinson.

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