I haven’t been everywhere, but it is on my list.” - Susan Sontag
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home. - James Michener
We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfilment. - Hilaire Belloc
I see my path, but I do not know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it. - Rosalla de Castro
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. - Marcel Proust
The traveller sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see. - G. K. Chesterton
Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen. - Louis L’Amour
Make voyages! Attempt them…there’s nothing else. - Tennessee Williams
Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living. - Mary Ritter Beard
Travellers never think that they are the foreigners. - Mason Cooley
Travel makes you modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. - Gustave Flaubert
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness. -Mark Twain
One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things. - Henry Miller
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
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 David 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
Do not tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you travelled. - Mohamed
The journey not the arrival matters. - T. S. Eliot
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 harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. - Mark Twain
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train. - Oscar Wilde
Travel and change of place impart new vigour to the mind. -Seneca
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 do not know where they’ve been, travellers do not know where they’re going. - Paul Theroux
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
Travelling is like flirting with life. It is like saying, ‘I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.’ - Lisa St. Aubin de Teran
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears. - Cesare Pavese
People do not take trips…trips take people. - John Steinbeck
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
It is not down in any map; true places never are. - Herman Melville
Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation. - Elizabeth Drew
Not all those who wander are lost. - 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 David 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. - G. K. Chesterton
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Travel teaches toleration. - Benjamin Disraeli
One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. - Andre Gide
A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles. - Tim Cahill
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe. - Anatole France
Half the fun of the travel is the aesthetic of lostness. - Ray Bradbury
The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. - St. Augustine
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 is 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
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. - Lao Tzu
Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow. - Anita Desai
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
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move. - Robert Louis Stevenson
It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end. - Ernest Hemingway
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
Travel brings power and love back into your life. - Rumi
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 travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls. - Anais Nin
Travel far enough, you meet yourself. - David Mitchell
Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you have never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground. - Judith Thurman
I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world. - Mary Anne Radmacher
To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice. - Elizabeth Gilbert
It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, ‘As pretty as an airport.’ - Douglas Adams
To travel is to live. - Hans Christian Anderson
I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there. - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
There ain’t no journey what do not change you some. - David Mitchell
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 Anderson
I read; I travel; I become. - Derek Walcott
Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone? - Erma Bombeck
When one is travelling, 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
I travel light but not at the same speed. - Jarod Kintz
Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever. - Joe Abercrombie
Do not let your luggage define your travels, each life unravels differently. - Shane Koyczan
Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. - Neil Gaiman
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. - Cesare Pavese
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
My dream is to walk around the world. A smallish backpack, all essentials neatly in place. A camera. A notebook. A travelling paint set. A hat. Good shoes. A nice pleated (green?) skirt for the occasional seaside hotel afternoon dance. - Maira Kalman
Men read maps better than women because only men can understand the concept of an inch equaling a hundred miles. -Roseanne Barr
The farther you go, however, the harder it is to return. The world has many edges, and it is easy to fall off. - Anderson Cooper
The journey itself is my home. - Matsuo Basho
If life is a journey then let my soul travel and share your path. -Santosh Kalwar
Travel is glamorous only in retrospect. -Paul Theroux
If you are 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
I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more. - Thomas Jefferson
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
Cities were always like people, showing their varying personalities to the traveller. Depending on the city and on the traveller, there might begin a mutual love, or dislike, friendship, or enmity. Where one city will rise a certain individual to glory, it will destroy another who is not suited to its personality. Only through travel can we know where we belong or not, where we are loved and where we are rejected. - Roman Payne
Every one of a hundred thousand cities around the world had its own special sunset and it was worth going there, just once, if only to see the sun go down. - Ryu Murakami
Personally I like going places where I do not speak the language, do not know anybody, do not know my way around and do not 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 didn’t know that the world could be so mind-glowingly beautiful. - Justina Chen
No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow. - Lin Yutang
The journey is part of the experience - an expression of the seriousness of one's intent. One doesn't take the A train to Mecca. - Anthony Bourdain
The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life. -Agnes Repplier
There are two kinds of travel: first class and with children. -Robert Benchley
Every hundred feet the world changes. - Roberto Bolano
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
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