Louis L’Amour
Too often… I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.
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Too often… I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.
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The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast and you miss all you are traveling for.
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Ultimately, the experienced traveler concludes that people are the highlight of any vacation trip. With maturity, with the personal humility that comes with years, I now want to know what other inhabitants of this planet are thinking, and I value the chance to meet them as a supreme travel goal.
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Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling.
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You must go on adventures to find out where you belong.
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It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures, new directions to grow in, and new lessons to learn, which is what life is all about.
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It seemed an advantage to be traveling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially molded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others.
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Traveling is a lesson in being uncomfortable, a perpetual exercise in humility. Every moment is a battle to improve and push back against the fear of failure, full of small victories, countless mortifying opportunities to laugh at yourself.
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Afraid of living a life dictated by my fear of failure, I wanted to push myself out of my shell, experience everything, speak multiple languages, open my eyes to the geographic and cultural wonders of the world. I was in search of something I was certain I could never find at home.
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Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.
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Who lives sees much. Who travels sees more.
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It is not the road ahead that wears you out – It is the grain of sand in your shoe.
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Give the face of earth around
And the road before me.
Wealth I seek not, hope nor love,
Nor a friend to know me;
All I seek, the heaven above
And the road below me.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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For my part, I travel not to go anywhere. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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The road is cruel sometimes; it’s a constant reminder of what you don’t have, or what you could have.
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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 all … [ Read more ]
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There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.
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The best of travel seems to exist outside of time, as though the years of travel are not deducted from your life.
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