524 Quotations Found

Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.

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A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.

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I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand […] Adventure is a state of mind – and spirit.

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I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth, then I ask myself the same question.

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A person needs at intervals to separate from family and companions and go to new places. One must go without familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.

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Travel has a way of stretching the mind. The stretch comes not from travel’s immediate rewards, the inevitable myriad new sights, smells and sounds, but with experiencing firsthand how others do differently what we believed to be the right and only way.

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The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one’s self to be acquainted with it.

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Only own what you can carry with you; let your memory be your travel bag.

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The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.

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Travel humanizes the rest of the world. It makes people we see on the evening news our friends. It turns sanitized, carefully edited documentaries into hot, sticky, spicy, tasty, uncomfortable, beautiful, noisy, colorful realities with complexities that aren’t summed up nicely between commercial breaks. It also allows us to see ourselves differently, through the eyes of the people on the other side of that border … [ Read more ]

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If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

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You can’t love a city if you have no memories buried there.

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The one thing to remember about an adventure is that if it turns out the way you expect it to, it has not been an adventure at all.

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If you actually go and experience someone else’s culture […] you can’t help but connect to the humanity within them […] People have to get out and interact.

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Tell me with whom you travel, and I’ll tell you who you are.

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To travel is to possess the world.

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The intensity of the experience of foreign places has been diluted. The real adventure of travel is mental. It is about total immersion in a place, because nobody from any other place can contact you. Thus your life is narrowed to what is immediately before your eyes, making the experience of it that much more vivid. It isn’t just the landscapes that are overpowering, but … [ Read more ]

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There is no entry for a traveler as dramatic as one by sea.

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The world is the traveler’s inn.

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If you want to know a man, the proverb goes, travel with him. If you want to know yourself, travel alone. If you want to know your own home, your own country, go make a home in another country. Stay long enough to truly be there.

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