Ryū Murakami
Every one of a hundred thousand cities around the world had its own special sunset and it was worth going there, just once, if only to see the sun go down.
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Every one of a hundred thousand cities around the world had its own special sunset and it was worth going there, just once, if only to see the sun go down.
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No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.
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He who does not travel does not know the value of men.
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A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
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If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears.
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Experience, travel – these are as education in themselves.
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Sometimes, it’s only in walking the path that we discover why we are walking at all.
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The United States has never been as good as its billing and is—thankfully—almost always better than its government.
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We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.
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Had you told me connection would make all the difference when I left to travel, I would have bought what you were selling. It makes sense. And it makes sense that travel is the ideal way to practice radical connection — travel friendships are intense and fast. It’s completely normal to meet a new friend and spend the next week eating three meals a day … [ Read more ]
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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.
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I’m an observer, not a conqueror. I have no interest in changing other worlds to suit me. I choose the lighter touch: changing myself to suit them.
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The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway.
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Most journeys have a clear beginning, but on some the ending is less well-defined. The question is, at what point do you bite your lip and head for home?
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The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.
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Travel is like the high drama of youth. It’s the best and worst at the same time. One minute you are flung to the depths of despair, the next, you feel the giddy, exaggerated joy of an adolescent. For me, it had been a chance to make rash decisions, to take wild risks, to lose everything knowing I’d still have plenty of time to earn … [ Read more ]
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I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.
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The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
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When overseas you learn more about your own country than you do the place you re visiting.
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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.
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