524 Quotations Found

For what gives value to travel is fear. It breaks down a kind of inner structure we have.

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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.

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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

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Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.

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Keep things on your trip in perspective, and you’ll be amazed at the perspective you gain on things back home while you’re away… One’s little world is put into perspective by the bigger world out there.

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Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty—his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

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The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday.

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We find ourselves after airplane doors close and wheels touch the heavens. We discover the maps to our hearts when we lose the maps to this world. Wander, and find home in the people you meet. Wander, and find home inside yourself.

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It is not the destination where you end up but the mishaps and memories you create along the way.

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The advantage of living abroad is that, coming in contact with the manners and customs of the people among whom you live, you observe them from the outside and see that they have not the necessity which those who practice them believe. You cannot fail to discover that the beliefs which to you are self-evident to the foreigner are absurd.

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Don’t settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon.

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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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The same old story is not the same old story when it’s told by someone else.

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It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.

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We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love… and then we return home.

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Traveling outgrows its motives. It soon proves sufficient in itself. You think you are making a trip, but soon it is making you – or unmaking you.

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Bizarre travel plans are dancing lessons from God.

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Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life.

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Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.

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