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• As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.

  Margaret Mead

  Travel, Home, Memorable

  "Coming of Age in Samoa". Book by Margaret Mead, 1928.

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• A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Life, Summer

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

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• We don't take a trip. A trip takes us.

  John Steinbeck

  Travel, Struggle, Journey

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.8, Penguin

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• Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

  Francis Bacon

  Travel, School, Journey

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Travel'

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• Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.

  Lawrence Block

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

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• 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

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.

  Tennessee Williams

  Inspirational, Courage, Travel

  Camino Real block 8 (1953)

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  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.

  Lisa St. Aubin de Terán

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.

  Louis L'Amour

  Travel, Adventure, Journey

  Louis L'Amour (2015). “The Rider of Lost Creek: The Classic Novel of Range War”, p.4, Renaissance EBooks

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• We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

  John Steinbeck

  Travel, Struggle, Journey

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.8, Penguin

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• I love to travel, but hate to arrive.

  Albert Einstein

  Travel, Hate, Journey

  "Albert Einstein: His Influence on Physics, Philosophy and Politics". Book edited by Peter C. Aichelburg, Roman Ulrich Sexl, and Peter Gabriel Bergmann, p. 202, 1979.

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• One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

  Andre Gide

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Andre Gide (2012). “The Counterfeiters: A Novel”, p.353, Vintage

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• One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

  Andre Gide

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "The Counterfeiters". Book by Andre Gide, 1925.

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• Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. 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

  Life, Change, Travel

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• The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.

  Agnes Repplier

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

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• When one is traveling, everything looks brighter and lovelier.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Travel, Looks, Brighter

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making”, p.50, Macmillan

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• It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent.

  Dave Barry

  Travel, Rain, Opportunity

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.158, Ballantine Books

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• I didn't know that the world could be so mind-blowingly beautiful.

  Justina Chen

  Beautiful, Travel, Mind

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• 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

  Travel, Home, Land

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• The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure.

  Christopher McCandless

  Adventure, Passion, Men

  In a letter to Russell Fritz (as known as Ron Franz), April 1992 in "Back to the Wild" by Chris McCandless and Mary Ellen Barnes, (2nd ed.), Twin Star Press, (pp. 135-137), 2013.

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• Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Travel, Journey, Form

  Lawrence Durrell (2011). “Bitter Lemons of Cyprus”, p.6, Faber & Faber

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• Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

  George Eliot

  Travel, Integrity, Journey

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.765, Booklassic

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• Travel is very subjective. What one person loves, another loathes.

  Robin Leach

  Travel, Bangkok, Persons

  "Rish & Famous". Interview with AskMen, www.askmen.com.

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  We are homesick most for the places we have never known.

  Carson McCullers

  Jukebox, Homesick, Nostalgia

  Carson McCullers (2017). “Carson McCullers: Stories, Plays & Other Writings”, p.408, Library of America

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