Travel And Culture Quotes

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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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  The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

  Marcel Proust

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• 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

  Inspirational, Funny, Country

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• We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate.

  Pico Iyer

  Travel, Heart, Eye

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• 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.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

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• Traveling - it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.

  Ibn Battuta

  Inspirational, Travel, Adventurous

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• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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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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• 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

  Life, Travel, Laughter

  Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.8, Bantam

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• Please be a traveler, not a tourist. Try new things, meet new people, and look beyond what's right in front of you. Those are the keys to understanding this amazing world we live in.

  Andrew Zimmern

  Travel, Keys, Food Culture

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• We travel, initially, to lose ourselves, and we travel, next, to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again—to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.

  Ray Bradbury

  Falling In Love, Travel, Taken

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• Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends.

  Pat Conroy

  Travel, Adventure, Vacation

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Prince of Tides: A Novel”, p.110, Open Road Media

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• If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.

  James A. Michener

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

  "Good Advice". Book by William Safire and Leonard Safir, 1982.

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• Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

  Mark Twain

  Travel, Fun, Adventure

  Mark Twain (2008). “The Innocents Abroad”, p.650, Velvet Element Books

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• Once a year go someplace you've never been.

  Dalai Lama

  Travel, Vacation, Years

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• I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Travel, Inspirational Life, Moving

  Travels with a Donkey "Cheylard and Luc" (1879)

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• We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Travel, Carpe Diem, Journey

  Hilaire Belloc (1942). “Places”

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• I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.

  Susan Sontag

  Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

  Susan Sontag (2017). “Stories: Collected Stories”, p.114, Penguin UK

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• 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

  Falling In Love, Time, Travel

  FaceBook post by Pico Iyer from Dec 01, 2012

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• Travel brings power and love back into your life.

  Rumi

  Travel, Adventure, Optimistic

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• Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Beauty, Beautiful

  1841 Essays: First Series,'Art'.

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• Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, 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

  Beautiful, Travel, Hurt

  Anthony Bourdain (2010). “The Nasty Bits: Collected Cuts, Useable Trim, Scraps and Bones”, p.6, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves.

  Pico Iyer

  Travel, Next, This World

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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 journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.

  Alton Brown

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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