Travel 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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  Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Happiness, Graduation

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• 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 Andersen

  Inspirational, Moving, Carpe Diem

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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, Peace

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• In life, it's not where you go, it's who you travel with.

  Charles M. Schulz

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• Life is beautiful if you are on the road to somewhere

  Orhan Pamuk

  Beautiful, Life Is, Ifs

  Orhan Pamuk (2014). “The New Life”, p.80, Macmillan

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• ... life is short and the world is wide

  Simon Raven

  Life Is Short, World, Wide

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• Adventure is worthwhile.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Adventure, Adversity

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• When you are everywhere, you are nowhere. When you are somewhere, you are everywhere.

  Rumi

  Inspiring Travel

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• The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality.

  Samuel Johnson

  Reality, Imagination, Use

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana; or supplement to Boswell; being Anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Johnson, etc”, p.104

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• People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.

  Saint Augustine

  Inspirational, Life, Faith

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book X, (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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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

  Home, Memorable, Journey

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

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• My favorite thing is to go where I've never been.

  Diane Arbus

  Life, Photography, Nature

  Diane Arbus (2003). “Diane Arbus: revelations”, Random House (NY)

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• Travel is the art form available to Everyman. You sit in the coffee shop in a strange city and nobody knows who you are, or cares, and so you shed your checkered past and your motley credentials and you face the day unarmed ... And onward we go and some day in the distant future, we will stop and turn around in astonishment to see all the places we've been and the heroes we were.

  Garrison Keillor

  Art, Hero, Coffee

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• You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go.

  Dr. Seuss

  Life, Graduation, Confidence

  Theodor Seuss Geisel, “Oh, The Places You'll Go”

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

  Hilaire Belloc

  Carpe Diem, Journey, Next Adventure

  Hilaire Belloc (1942). “Places”

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

  Justina Chen

  Beautiful, Mind, World

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• The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

  Wallace Stevens

  Inspirational, Beautiful, World

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose”, p.249, Vintage

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

  Mark Twain

  Fun, Adventure, Journey

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

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• We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.

  Ray Bradbury

  Inspirational, Romance, Architecture

  Ray Bradbury, Steven L. Aggelis (2004). “Conversations with Ray Bradbury”, p.134, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it's 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

  Inspirational, Best Love, Like Love

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• I love to travel, but hate to arrive.

  Albert Einstein

  Hate, Journey, Time Travel

  "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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• 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, Silly

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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, Laughter, Adventure

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

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• 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

  Change, Life Changing, Eye

  Terry Pratchett (2016). “Seriously Funny: The Endlessly Quotable Terry Pratchett”, p.68, Random House

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