524 Quotations Found

Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don’t talk in English and don’t even want to.

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When you’re safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you’re having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

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To know a person in his home is not to know him at all: to meet him on a country road with only his baggage is to at last contact the core, the inner cell of his personality.

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We travel to learn; and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own.

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Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it.

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Comfort has its place, but it seems rude to visit another country dressed as if you’ve come to mow its lawns.

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A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent (which I cannot deny myself to be without being impious) will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place.

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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 … [ Read more ]

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I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.

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Adventurous travel is like a virus for many people … Once they’ve been to some far-away destination completely on their own … it’s often as if a switch has been flipped. They’ve caught the travel bug, and from that moment on they are constantly thinking about their next trip.

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Please be a traveler, not a tourist. Try new things, meet new people, and look beyond what’s right in front of you. Those are the keys to understanding this amazing world we live in.

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Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You’ll find what you need to furnish it – memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey.

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There is a third dimension to traveling, the longing for what is beyond.

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A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.

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Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption, is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.

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The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.

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It’s a very powerful Eureka! moment when you’re traveling: to realize that people don’t have the American dream. They’ve got their own dream. And that’s not a bad thing. That’s a good thing.

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Travel doesn’t change you by itself; it shows you how un-special you are by giving you a spectrum of living to go by.

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A day of traveling will bring a basketful of learning.

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Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.

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