Travel Bug Quotes

• 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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• 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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• Once the travel bug bites, there is no known antidote.

  Michael Palin

  Travel, Bugs, Wander

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• We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Inspirational, Life, Beauty

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1967). “Aug. 1949-Feb. 1953”

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• I see my path, but I don't know where it leads.

  Rosalia de Castro

  Travel, Adventure, Hiking

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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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• 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

  Life, Travel, Contentment

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  A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Inspirational, Wise, Travel

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• I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it.

  Rosalia de Castro

  Travel, Adventure, Hiking

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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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• 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 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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• No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.

  Lin Yutang

  Beautiful, Travel, Home

  Lin Yutang (1940). “With Love and Irony”

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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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• I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world. Mary

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Travel, Adventure, Moon

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2014). “She: A Celebration of Greatness in Every Woman”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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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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• To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

  Aldous Huxley

  Inspirational, Country, Travel

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

  Hilaire Belloc

  Travel, Carpe Diem, Journey

  Hilaire Belloc (1942). “Places”

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• Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.

  Jack Kerouac

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Travel

  Jack Kerouac (1991). “On the road”, Penguin USA

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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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• To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.

  Bill Bryson

  Life, Summer, Travel

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• We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

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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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• We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Travel, Adventure, Soul Beauty

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1983). “Jawaharlal Nehru's speeches”

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