Travel Quotes - Page 5

• The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

  Annie Dillard

  Life, Wisdom, Time

  "The Writing Life". Tikkun magazine, Volume 3, Number 6, 1988.

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• Look at the stars lighting up the sky: no one of them stays in the same place.

  Seneca the Younger

  Stars, Sky, Looks

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• Instead of bringing back 1600 plants, we might return from our journeys with a collection of small unfêted but life-enhancing thoughts.

  Alain de Botton

  Journey, Might, Return

  Alain de Botton (2003). “The Art of Travel”, p.66, Penguin UK

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• They say travel broadens the mind, but you must have the mind.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mind

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

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.151, Penguin

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• There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed.

  Kate Douglas Wiggin

  Magic, Going Away, Lenses

  Kate Douglas Wiggin (2016). “REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FARM & NEW CHRONICLES OF REBECCA (Children’s Book Classics): Adventure Novels”, p.357, e-artnow

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• 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!

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Life, Death, Suicide

  FaceBook post by Hunter S. Thompson from Nov 01, 2015

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• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Adventure

  FaceBook post by Pat Conroy from Dec 19, 2013

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• Sometimes it's a little better to travel than to arrive

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Inspirational, Littles, Sometimes

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• Don't let your luggage define your travels, each life unravels differently.

  Shane Koyczan

  Luggage

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• Travel is never a matter of money but of courage

  Paulo Coelho

  Matter, Travel Bug, Traveler

  Paulo Coelho (2011). “Aleph”, p.10, HarperCollins UK

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• Travel far enough, you meet yourself.

  David Mitchell

  Inspirational, Funny, Inspiring

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.320, Random House

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• A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.

  J. B. Priestley

  Time, Holiday, People

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• I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals.

  David Attenborough

  Animal, Order, Important

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• Without travel I would have wound up a little ignorant white Southern female, which was not my idea of a good life.

  Lauren Hutton

  Good Life, Ideas, White

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• Adventure without risk is Disneyland.

  Douglas Coupland

  Adventure, Risk, Disneyland

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• The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself.

  William Least Heat-Moon

  Motivational, Journey, Men

  Edgar I. Ailor, William Least Heat-Moon (2012). “BLUE HIGHWAYS Revisited”, p.11, University of Missouri Press

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• He who strays discovers new paths.

  Nils Kjaer

  Path, New Paths, Exploring

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• The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.

  W. Eugene Smith

  Photography, Cameras, Doe

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• I travelled among unknown men,
  In lands beyond the sea;
  Nor England! did I know till then
  What love I bore to thee.

  William Wordsworth

  Love, Nature, Men

  'I travelled among unknown men' (1807)

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• The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad. I speak now, of course, in the supposition that the gentle reader has not been abroad, and therefore is not already a consummate ass. If the case be otherwise, I beg his pardon and extend to him the cordial hand of fellowship and call him brother.

  Mark Twain

  Brother, Hands, Fellowship

  Mark Twain (2008). “The Innocents Abroad”, p.233, Velvet Element Books

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• Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven & hell & I have only a vague curiosity about one of those.

  Mark Twain

  Country, Heaven, Curiosity

  Mark Twain, Michael Barry Frank, Robert Pack Browning, Lin Salamo, Frederick Anderson, Mark Twain (1980). “Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume III: (1883-1891)”, p.574, Univ of California Press

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• One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it's left behind.

  Charles Dickens

  Journey, Forgiving, Left Behind

  Charles Dickens (1868). “Little Dorrit”, p.21, Kartindo.com

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• We need affordable space travel to inspire our youth, to let them know that they can experience their dreams, can set significant goals and be in a position to lead all of us to future progress in exploration, discovery and fun. Thanks to the X Prize for the inspiration.

  Burt Rutan

  Dream, Fun, Inspiration

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