524 Quotations Found

The masters of space and time awaken to find themselves slaves of distance and haste.

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Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail

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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.

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The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere.

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Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire that urged adventurers of old to set forth in their sailing-ships for foreign lands.

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Travel is like a good, challenging book: it demands presentness—the ability to live completely in the moment, absorbed in the words or vision of reality before you. And like serious reading itself, travel has become an act of resistance against the distractions of the electronic age, and against all the worries that weigh us down, thanks to that age. A good book deserves to be … [ Read more ]

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You lose sight of things […] and when you travel, everything balances out.

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On a long journey even a straw weighs heavy.

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I’m absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don’t care what I feel like, I will go to bed at half past eleven. If that means going to bed early or late, that’s what I live by. As soon as you get there, live by that time.

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Over seven years of travel, I have seen almost everyone who started out with us stop traveling. I have seen waves of them, in fact, just one group after another, friends that we made for a season, and then, predictably, they move back home or settle down or get “real” jobs. The online travel community can feel like a thousand friendships rolled into one, but … [ Read more ]

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To belong nowhere is a blessing and a curse, like any kind of freedom.

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The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

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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.

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Where is home? Where do we live? Most Americans have no idea. […] Most Americans stomp around in one or two small and bolted rooms believing they are home. Believing they know where they live when they’ve never left the doorway. Never examined the foundation. Never been upstairs, or to the kitchen, or to the den.

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At its best, travel should challenge our preconceptions and most cherished views, cause us to rethink our assumptions, shake us a bit, make us broader minded and more understanding.

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Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

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The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

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A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.

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The question is not what you look at but what you see.

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To travel is better than to arrive. […] If you choose … one path, it doesn’t mean you have to abandon all the other ones. […] It’s actually what happens along the way that counts. The stumbles and the falls and the friendships. It’s the journey, not the destination. You just gotta … trust that the future will work itself out like it’s supposed to. … [ Read more ]

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